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Great repair indeed BUT...
Surely that repair cost as much as the rest of the car? I will possibly have to do something similar in the near future on my brother (same) car.

I'm not sure what this post is about as I don't have facebook thank god :lol: but congrats anyway Don Larry Same here, dont' have any social media and of course congrats Don, I'm closing on 9 year now myself. Hope we can meet up for a beer and Jag banter at some point when this is all over, I reall...

That's perfect, will work no problems at all, just make sure that you undo each nut similarly to all the other ones. Put some grease on the rods and nuts too, less chance to damage them and like I said much easier to do it with a ratchet spanner and thrust bearings if you have access to these ;) The...

Let me rephrase it then, I love the cottage, window and front work looks great, just definitely not a fan of that extension, for now it ruins the looks but each to their own I suppose and hopefully will look better when complete

Sorry to say it but what is this ugly extension thingy... Is it temporary housing while you finish the cottage?

6x30cm rods will work well. Getting a rod is not a problem, but getting a hole drilled into it in order to fit a dowel pin is rather the issue. Definitely nothing that I could achieve with my run-of-the-mill DIY drilling machine. So I rather go the safe way and try it with the 6 long bolts. I did mi...

Yes re thrust bearings, basically should be much easier to tighten either compressor or individual bolts than tightening them up against plain washer. I had my springs out maybe a month ago(4 front ones) and if I remember right it was closer to extra 30cm when fully decompressed so definitely go for...

40cm would probably be an overkill, but you'd need 30cm for sure which is about how far the spring will come out of the spring pan.

Forgot to mention, the individual bolts/threaded rods with nuts would have to be around 40 centimetres each to fully decompress spring. I think they are M8 size. Place jack under pan with them fitted, loosen nuts a couple centimeters. Lower jack to nuts then repeat. To put in new spring just do in r...