how blastarding flocking hard????!!!

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muddythelandy

muddythelandy

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Lovely refurbished front axle. Lovely galvanised chassis. Lovely HEAVY DUTY springs. Lovely yellow dampers.

Lovingly put together being very careful not to scratch anything.

Lovingly tightened up. Lovingly rolled towards raised chassis, ON CARPET just in case I dropped said axle and the two arms hit the ground. They didn't, such was my lovingness.

Stared to go wrong when the springs wouldn't seat if the arms were thru their holes in the chassis. NO MATTER HOW HARD I PULLED/PUSHED.

Then I pulled very hard, scraping paint of springs, then the chassis fell of the axle stands, fallling onto axle, chipping CHUNKS of paint. The dampers scraped along chassis.

THREE HOURS LATER. MUCH BREAKING OF BACKS, FINGERS, FEET, and removing dampers, get the springs to seat (although they are bent like basterd) and the bushes where the arms go thru the chassis are well compressed even though the nut is barely tight. And I stripped the thread on one of the M20s.

Is this just cos I've got HD springs? It looks like the chassis is well raised (they are standard height) but I suppose it will drop to normal when I'm able to haul the engine and box into place?

PLEASE tell me that it really can be such a bastarding hard job.:mad:
 
I wish mine was all clean and shiny. Every nut and bolt i try to undo it F**king snaps off ! :eek: It's sending me mad.
 
I've got the same problem but with the original springs got them to seat an all the holes full of bolts an tightened up, an the whole axle looks to be an inch or so too far forward. I thought at first the rear bushes in the dooberry arms where in wrong but they aren't. I'm trying to convince meself that they will bed in when everythings back on and I've driven it a few miles.

Where did you get yer chassis from?
 
Aye mines from them an all. I measured all the body mountings up to see if it was square an it seemed OK. Just the front suspension looks odd with the springs pointing forwards, It's probly less than an inch it just looks odd.
 
oint they all like that till they have the body and engine on . then bin driven for a bit?

i know me series wur a **** to do because of the lack of weight on it, so much so i resorted to using a 5 ton rachet strap to pull it all into shape.
 
I dunno dint reely look at the old un ..Just looking at the chassis alignment dimensions in the manual an it dunt even give a dimension for the position of the rear dewberry arm mountings.
 
well this morning I ratcheted the radius arms to the chassis to compress the springs a bit, ratcheted the axle backwards to the radius arm chassis mounting and tightened the end bushes to fek (on instruction from paddocks and deflex) and well it actually looks kinda ok, although the axle still looks about an inch too far forward...

..just need to get it built up no and bed it in I suppose.

The back axle can't be quite so hard?! Just got to build up me new axle case.
 
you do realise you dont tighten the panhard/trailing arm doobys to the chassis until the very last , when the body , engine , gearbox etc are all in place dont you?
i used ratchet straps on mine , i jacked the chassis up , rolled the axle underneath then dropped it down onto the springs , then ratchet straps were used so as to fit the dampers.
b'stard of a job it was n all.
 
sure yeah that's what I thought - but deflex says different. I'll loosen them off again as I don't like the look of unevenly compressed bushes sitting like that for (probably) months.
Hopefully getting a hand (with crane) to get the engine and box moved over at the weekend or next week..

THAT'll be a piece of **** yeah? (hah)
 
Thing is if you tighten em up without the full weight of the vehicle on em then when the vehicle is built up they'll always be under tension, though if they can't stand up to that they can't be up to much in the fost place.

Swapping the injun an stuff over is a piece of **** it's only four mountings, it's the rest of the bits an bobs that takes the time.
 
SO does this look right or wot

front suspension.JPG
 
Dyer reckon. Am not going to do owt about it don't think there is owt I can do about it except take the bushes out of the back of the radius arm, an that wun't be a good idea now would it. Any how I dint reely look at the set up on the owld chassis so ant got owt to compare it with, but it does look a bit odd dunt it.
 
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