Rear traling arm/mount questions, racer-gurus, comment! |
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Rear traling arm/mount questions, racer-gurus, comment! |
Brando |
Jan 8 2006, 02:33 PM
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BUY MY SPARE KIDNEY!!! Group: Members Posts: 3,935 Joined: 29-August 04 From: Santa Ana, CA Member No.: 2,648 Region Association: Southern California |
Friday I dropped the teener off for new tiars and 4-wheel alignment. My rear-right is having issues matching the rear-left. At first I thought I may have a bent trailing arm, but Aaron and I think that the part where the trailing arm meets up to the ears/mounts may be ovaled out on the passenger's side, in-board towards the engine.
My understanding is that you just weld it up and drill a new hole that's the right size, then have it re-aligned... But I don't want it to oval out again. Is there some sort of extra bracing or support I can put in there to prevent this... without having to swap my rear traling arm or machine it. Does anyone have some small bent pieces of 1/8" or ΒΌ" steel that I could weld right in there for extra support? I plan on dropping the engine within the next month or two for a 1911cc conversion and I've got a shitlist a mile long for "while i'm in there"... But this might be a major issue if left un-attended, and I would like to prevent it from happening again. Any suggestions are apprecieated... except for cutting it out and going with a complete monoball/heim join setup with custom traling arms ... i plainly don't have the cash for that-- as enticing as it is. Thankyous! |
pek771 |
Jan 8 2006, 07:49 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 273 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Conover, NC Member No.: 5,175 Region Association: None |
Ok, here's some pix of the inside of the suspension console. You can see that the mating surfaces of the two pieces of sheet metal which form the ear are actually the shape of a two frustrums of cones (sorry to be geeky; approximately hourglass shaped). So, I suppose when the hole gets wallowed out a bit, you lose some structural integrity. Iwould also imagine that the hing would make a god-awful noise when you hit some bumps and unloaded the spring.
Brent, that rust is just a bit of minor oxidation which was made a bit worse by the 8 jillion patches the PO put in. I'll start a thread on this one soon. Pat Attached image(s) |
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