Spent a few hours taking the wheels off, winding up spring pans, putting wheels back on, measuring, taking wheels off, adjusting spring pans etc.. etc..
One thing I noticed was that the handbrake cable rested against the spring pan of one of the rear shocks..... I split some grommets, fixed them over the cable and secured each of them with a cable tie round the circumference to "nip" them onto the cable. This will keep the cable away from the spring and the grommets are too big to allow the cable to fall into the spring. Should be OK for SVA:
After a couple of hours of setting spring lengths, driving it a bit to settle the springs and re-checking I ended up with the front indicators at the correct height (350mm) from the floor.Oh well..... after all the waiting I suppose it's time for the money shots:
It is sitting quite high at the moment but will be lowered after SVA, also there are no spinners on either. I did fit one to see what it looked like but forgot to take a photo.
I had quite a few interruptions today from interested neighbours... funny how the sun brings them out!.... where were they through all those long winter nights freezing in the garage??
Now for the bad news...... the tyres foul the inner wings on full lock..... so that means fitting lock stops to the rack.
More on that tommorrow.... I've just wasted an hour or so with Plan A, but Plan B looks like a goer.
2 Comments:
It looks a little worrying that the handbrake cable falls so close to the spring position... can the outer sheath of the cable not be shortened to pull it away from the spring altogether?
Hi Andrew,
Can't shorten it now its fitted!
It just touches with the wheels off the ground, with the wheels on the ground it doesn't touch but is close. It is normal for it to end up this close. I could tie it up but that would have an effect on how it performs.
The suspension doesn't move much anyway!!
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