DIY: Hopeless project.

[Rascal21]

(07-14-2014 07:19 PM)Bean Bandit Wrote:  if I see right you have an inverted damper setup. what I fail to see from the pic is how the strut fits to the bottom bracket. If it's screwed, please give us diameter and pitch of the thread.

PS: the top failing, apart from age, might have been also due to an overtightened top nut.

Bean Bandit Thank god!

The Top nut is a M24 nylon lock thread, and it wont BUDGE, so definitely overtightened by one of the previous owners (The suspension is the only stuff I have not touched on this car)

It fits to the bottom bracket (The spindle I presume) by getting slid on and bolted using two 16mm bolts.

Here is the spindle and strut with the bottom bracket (The strut the wrong way, as I quickly put it there to take the photo, but you know the idea anyway) to illustrate:


Doing it this way was NOT my idea, I was a toddler when this car was modified for rally, I have minimal suspension knowledge and experience but I knew this stuff wasnt optimal, but hoped it would last a 250m ride at idle in 2nd gear to and from the store when its stood up to 25 years of what you can probably guess by looking at this stuff