Front Lower Damper Brackets

[Spikehaus]

I received a shiny new set of dampers from Dampertech today, and in the excitement I decided to drive down to the workshop in my lunch hour to try one on the car. But.....The front lower wishbone brackets require reshaping to allow adequate clearance.

Has anyone else had to modify the shock brackets?? I believe I will also have a minor adjustment on the rear uprights.

[dogwood]

Yes, I had to mod mine to get the proppa clerance
Just looking, see if I got a pic of it


David

[Spikehaus]

Cheers David.

Did you adjust the springs or leave them as factory set?

[Bonzo]

Hi Nick

Yes, I too had to remove some of the radius on the lower shock mounts to prevent them from making contact with the body of the shock.

I don't think that this will in any way impair the safety of the bracket.

If I were going to make another set of wishbones, i'd probably square notch the corners & then put a small radius on the sharp edges.
After all, that part of the wishbone is not exactly contactable as far as the IVA is concerned

[HandyAndy]

yup me too, just took a file to them to round them off by a approx 2mm on the corner/edge.

andy

[dogwood]

Sorry crabby pic again


But as Ronnie said, you have to trim the inner radius down a bit on the bracket.

I'm still fiddling with my shox, but at the moment I've got them set at about 10mm up from their slackest setting. Ie screw collar just touching the spring with no weight on it. Seems to give me a good ride without bottoming out.

The rears I'm having some probs with, got them set hard, and they still bottom out at times..

David

[Spikehaus]

Ronnie,

If you got an odd call at 11am today, it was my stupid car that called you! Somehow the bluetooth satnav decided to dial your number when I was programming it whilst rushing to a meeting! - must add i was not driving at the time, promise!

Dogwood

Where did you get the plastic covers from? Is that part of the SVA requirement? I have not seen them for sale anywhere?

[Bonzo]

Originally Posted by Spikehaus

Ronnie,

If you got an odd call at 11am today, it was my stupid car that called you! Somehow the bluetooth satnav decided to dial your number when I was programming it whilst rushing to a meeting! - must add i was not driving at the time, promise

No worries Nick, I was out in the workshop & wouldn't have heard the phone

Don't you just hate it when technology decides it knows what you want to do
Even I don't know that most of the time.

[dogwood]

Originally Posted by Spikehaus

Dogwood

Where did you get the plastic covers from? Is that part of the SVA requirement? I have not seen them for sale anywhere?

Sorry mate, had a little smile at that one. (no offence.. )

The bottom part is a cut down motorbike fork gater. the top is a pushbike inner tube...
HTH...lol

David

[Bonzo]

Sorry to hijack this thread

Where did you get your headlamps from David ??

I will be looking to get some largish chrome / polished stainless ones for my build.