No Front Struts

[lez]

took the struts off the old car, tried to replace then with a piece of wood, lasted about 30 seconds....

any ideas?

i need to have something in so it can be pulled onto the back of the truck thats taking it away

[Citroenmad]

Im not sure what you could use, problem is once you turn the wheel its going to move and break or fall out.

[dean]

16mm threaded bar with a lock nut and a few big heavy washers at each end may do it, wouldnt drive obviously, but you would be able to steer it as she was dragged onto a beavertail without them falling out like the wood.

D

[UFO]

Had a similar challenge today. We parted my stepson's BX to get rid of it and keep bits for his BX estate. As he had only put a new hardy disc in the steering about 14 months ago he was keen to remove and keep it.

After the stripping of numerous bits it was time to haul the car out of the garage into the street ready for collection. Just one problem of course! No steering!!

Fortunately we had left the old rack in place so we could hand steer the wheels and we had put some near dead brake pads in and wound the piston out to take up slack so we had minimal brakes.

It sits forlorn in the street awaiting its fate. Still registered so there is "technically" nothing anyone can do about it...

[Andmcit]

Lez, do you mean the strut mounting or sphere bracket, or the whole strut top and leg has
been split of the pinch grip on the hub?

Any timber no matter how strong can't allow any steering as the tab for the anti roll droplink
will swivel and your brace will slip out.

If you're throwing away the strut leg couldn't the ram be fastened by it's top nut onto a strip of
angle iron that's bridged across the circular opening of the wheel arch - obviously it'd need to
be substantial but it would allow you to steer the car and you could even keep the brace for the
next car!! Thinking more about this mind, you'd need to either weld a rod onto the main piston
to stop it dropping down as a jubillee won't exactly help. The actual part Citroen shows in the
manual for holding the car up in a workshop whilst servicing is being carried out is a "clamp"
the rough size of a coke can with a central open bore but a slot to allow the strut through it
in the same way as a brake fastening ring spanner with a cut out the width of the pipe diameter.

Andrew

This post has been edited by Andmcit on January 17, 2009 04:27 pm