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matthews



Member Since: 09 Aug 2016
Location: Leeds
Posts: 99

United Kingdom 2011 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Buckingham Blue
Rear toe arms

Just replaced both of mine (slight play in balljoint on OS an unable to adjust alignment), have to say it's not a job for the fainthearted (I run a small specialist garage !!), here's a list of the problems encountered and solutions .

First issue was the ride height sensor bolts , long T25 bolt into a brass insert in plastic sensor body , one side of car they unscrewed far enough to get a hacksaw blade in to cut the head off , other side insert started spinning straight away , small die grinder out and carefully grind off bolt heads . Once out of the car you can then knock the insert out of sensor and with a vice and pipe grips remove the bolts from inserts , carefully retap inserts (M5) , clean them and knock them back into the sensor with a bit of super glue , I used MTB disc rotor bolts to refit them (shorter and aluminium) with plenty of grease .

Ball joint end , 21mm spanner required for nut and 10mm to hold joint , use wall drive for both as the joint part (10mm) wil be rounded off with rust before you even get spanner on it whereas a 10mm/3/8af wall drive will hold .

Now for the real fun bit , if you are really lucky your main bolt will not be solid in the bush sleeve in which case it's an easy job , more likely it will be solid , access is pretty much non existant , on one side of mine I got the nut undone (1 flat at a time !!) but the other side the nut was solid , my solution was to drill a 5 mm hole through the nut then get the die grinder out to grind the nut till I could split it .
Once you have the nut off you are then stuck with a bolt solid in the sleeve (which will have probably delaminated from bush and spin in the rubber ) , careful use of a reciprocating saw with a 225mm long blade will allow you to cut through the bolt but it takes forever as you are having to cut through the sleeve and the bolt (approx 25mmthick ) and you have to cut it through at both sides of the bush .

Sticking it all back together is easy (new bolts n nuts).

As mentioned earlier I run a small garage so have the benefits of a 4 post ramp , compressor , die grinders, recip saw and various fancy spanners , it took me the best part of a day and a half to do and I really wouldn't like to tackle it on the drive with a jack and axle stands .

Good luck !!

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dhallworth



Member Since: 10 Oct 2011
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 3072

United Kingdom 2012 Range Rover Autobiography TDV8 Baltic Blue

You're not wrong, they seize horribly!

When I did mine I was grateful I had the subframe on the bench. Access still wasn't great so I'm glad I wasn't trying to do it whilst it was on the car!

As mine was on the bench I was able to cut the bolts using a thin cutting disc on the angle grinder to cut the bolt and remove the toe control arm with it still in the middle of the bush.

I really don't envy anyone trying to do this on the car!

David. 2002 4.6 Vogue SE - Alveston Red with Lightstone Leather
2007 Range Rover Supercharged in Java Black with Ivory Leather
2012 Range Rover 5.0 SC Autobiography in Indus Silver with Jet/Ivory Interior
2012 Range Rover 4.4 TDV8 Autobiography in Baltic Blue with Sand Interior

Post #642041 5th Sep 2022 10:43am
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