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Maybe try soaking them with some penentrating oil?

its been soaking since this morning, but its the inside of the sleeve inside the chassis so im guessing non of the oil is getting through.

Ive now taken the rear bumper off and im whacking the out of it with a copper drift and mallet. Still no movement.

It may be time to give up and get a fixed price for the Dealer to fit

I'll carry on until dark, or my flood light bulb blows, see ya later

zebadee wrote:

Guy wrote:

I ran out of daylight (and I could hear the kettle beckoning) before I could finish fitting the mechanical parts of the adjustable height towbar but one thing was puzzling me - do the bolts that hold the ends of the tie-bars to the chassis go all the way through that chassis member, or do they have threaded inserts? (The 18mm spanner I had to hand wasn't man enough to loosen them and my manly 18mm socket seemed to have gone walkies, so I decided to leave it for another day).

Right So…….

There is a threaded insert in the chassis rail, although it’s a slightly unusual, if not quirky set-up ! The insert actually passes through the chassis rail & is secured on the other side by a nut.

The LR instructions show that you take out the 18mm bolts, offer up the tie rods of the drawbar & thread back in the bolts to secure. However in my experience when you take out the bolts, the threaded insert, which is in tension in the rail, will spring off centre with the hole in the chassis rail, thereby making it virtually impossible, actually no, totally impossible to line up & rethread the bolts you took out !!

So what to do is…… slacken off the nut securing the insert a little, which will allow the insert to jiggle around in the chassis rail making it very easy to line up the bolt securing the tie rod. When you try to slacken off this nut, you may find that the insert is spinning in the chassis rail, but you’ll see that there is shaft protruding though the nut, which will fit either a 10 or 13mm spanner, can’t quite remember. So just hold the shaft as you slacken off the nut & hey presto !!

What I’d recommend is that you leave all the various nuts & bolts loose, until you have everything lined up & threaded in. Then snug up everything hand tight, check that you’re happy with the alignment & that you have the nuts & bolts where they should be. Then come along with the various sockets & spanners & “bury” everything !!

I hope this is of help & that I haven’t only succeeded in bamboozling you further ! Unfortunately I’m not always the best at putting into words a procedure that I can visualize in my head. Guess I’ll never make a teacher then……

Thanks DiscoStu... It sounds the sort of thing but a few bits dont stack up.

Is it one bolt that goes all the way through or is it actually two bolts that join in the sleeve.

Ive got the nuts off on the outside of the chassis, but when I turn the bolt head on the other side of the chassis the whole thing turns but doesnt come out. Looking up through a little hole in the bottom of the chassis I can see the sleeve, and it turns with the bolt.

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The insert actually passes through the chassis rail & is secured on the other side by a nut.

its this nut bit I dont understand. the bolt that goes through has a nut shaped end to it at the threaded end. I need to get the entire bolt out and refit to fit the towbar support arms.

Understand the bit about the sleeve under tension and will need to pass a smaller bolt through as I knock out the main bolt (if it ever comes out !!)

Ive given up for the day now, Ill ponder some more when my beer goggles are working

DiscoDunc wrote:

I dont know how I can hold the sleeve though as its inside the chassis and I cant get a spanner through the drain hole

zebadee wrote:

you’ll see that there is shaft protruding though the nut, which will fit either a 10 or 13mm spanner, can’t quite remember. So just hold the shaft as you slacken off the nut & hey presto !!