re-assembley of front.

[nicky4tl]

Hi All, Im a bit stuck. I cant get the shaft of the front top balljoint to line up with its corresponding hole in the hub. This is on a bare chassis so no engine up there but I had 4 bags of cement and 4 adult humans standing up front and car propped on its lower wishbones. This got the lower wishbone up. I got the shaft of the ball joint into the hole so that about 1 thread showed through the bottom but the angle is all wrong and I don't see it being able to keep going through due to the angle.
Do i just need more weight up there?
The lower wishbone and torsion bars were never removed so they are definately correct and Im pretty sure I have the upper wishbones on the correct sides
Any thoughts welcome.

 

[nicky4tl]

!! are my wishbones upside down and on wrong side??

 

[petak]

They are definitly up side down.
I am on phone so can not post pictures.
But in my topic you can find how they should stay.

I have put jack under lower wishbone and rase it to connect with upper ball joint

 

[malcolm]

They are upside down. Well spotted petak!

There are many photos on http://www.renault4.co.uk/forum/threads/1985-renault-r4-f6-restoration-project.3173/page-3

 

[nicky4tl]

Brilliant. All sorted now. Im getting evicted from the garage so its time to move the project to a friends place. Thanks all.