1600 Idler arm repairs

[Richard Clough]

I've just had a RWC report on a 1600 I am about to reregister.  It needs a new idler arm according to my friendly local Licensed Road Worthy Certificate garage.  My local Repco man says "no probs",  $100 plus for a newie or $16 for a pair of replacement bushes to rebuild the original.  What is the list recommendation, new idler arm or replacement bushes?  If bushes are the go, what is the trick to removing the old ones?   My RWC man is a very hard marker, one of the reasons I use him. He wants new lower ball joints (no discernable movement), replace the rear slave cylinders (which were new last year and have done NIL miles - so much for cheap imported brake parts), new uni joints ("they're just about to loosen up"), new rubbers through the anti sway bay (fair enough), then he says this 1600 is the best early 70's car he's seen for years! - so it should be as it only done 83000 miles from new! - I use him as he's always a hard tester and the cars are always totally trouble free for years after his RWC, plus our local Motor Reg takes one look at who did the roadworthy examination, then only checks the numbers.  I get away with no engineers cert. for replacement seats and runners, modified gearbox crossmembers, bigger brakes, L20 engine.    I'd forgotten what a prick of a job fitting stock rear brake slave cyls. is. Rear discs aren't far away for this car.  And having to pull the  exhaust off to drop the tailshaft! - What was Mr Datsun thinking when he designed the original auto exhaust system. I hope it corrodes soon so I can fit a proper one that allows the tailshaft to drop with out touching the exhaust.   Dont forget my question on the idler arm bushes. --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@datascribe.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------