Hi all. can anyone tell me if the cure for this is to replace the rear torsion bar cone bushes? The furniture sits on the RH side of our bay, so it is heavier on the right. I am pretty sure that it wasn't this much lower. The arch lip on the right sits about 1 1/2 inches lower down the tyre than on the left. how much work is involved in changing the rubber cone bushes? cheers all
All going well I can do a side in a hour and a half... But bear in mind that you might need to adjust the tortion bar rotation to fine tune it...
I don't know if your bushes are shot but it's quite normal to adjust the level left and right just by turning the splines on the torsion bars. Using a combination of inner and outer splines you can adjust accurate to about 0.5 cm. We had a thread on this recently with a table explaining how many splines have to be turned. I did mine a while back and took the right hand side down by 1.5 cm to compensate for sag caused by the weight of the cabinets down the left hand side.
Brill guys. I had read that thread but it is a great table. Do I have to remove the whole brake assembly from the hub to do this?
No... you need to remove the driveshaft and the shock... then if you're careful you can remove the hub assembly from the spring plate with the brake pipes still attached... you'll also need to pull the horse shoe clip from the flexi hose on the A arm
Even better. Ordered a set of doughnuts and new end caps, might as well replace them. Cheers again, Paul.
You might need some longer bolts to get the covers back on... just 2 long cap heads to pull them down, then swap them out for the short ones when you can get them started... And talc for the rubbers
I wouldn't have thought so... Mot is more about the safety of a vehicle, than whether it's sitting 10mm lower on one side to the other!! But that said, there is always a first time
If you do one outer spline the RH side will be sitting half inch higher than the other side... you want to do 7 inners and 7 outers!! 7 inners anti 7 outers CW
