Help needed please

No idea all seamed to fit ok not got it now way to low


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i had another go at fitting mine with some new rubber bushes and original style clamps - no way that its going to happen. I don't know what i'm doing wrong but i tried it above and below the trailing arm - either way it's not possible to get the clamp thing to close up enough to get the slider on..

ended up re-using the t-bolt clamps but whilst it was off i gave it a proper coat of hammerite so at least it looks nice now.

i also did a little experiment; mounted above the arms (as Si has done above) with the kink pointing down, and mounted below the arm but with the kink pointing up. Both ways it is higher than the lowest part of the beam so no issue for clearance, when its under the arms kinked up it has a bit more clearance to the beam end plates so that's how i've left it.

 

Did you try using clamps to force the thin metal clamp together? I use a quick grip clamp in situ to begin to squash it side to side and then mole grips on the profiled bottom part to pull it together enough to get the slide started.

 

yep, tried with the various clamps i could find - i'll planning to have another go tonight

 

Please post some pictures up as you do it

 

You will have trouble with replacement clamps. Believe they're intended for Brazilian arms, which are a different profile. I sort-of reshaped mine in a vice, then eventually got them on using mole grips as clamps. I wouldn't want to do it again.

If the old ones are in good shape, reuse them.

 

ahh.. that'll be the problem then. i don't have original clamps, only these new ones

 

With sufficient profanity, they will go on...

 

I didn't find it too bad tbh with JK clamps of all things! If it doesn't fit, use a bigger clamp/hammer!

 

There used to be be two clamps available. One type was plated and the wrong shape/size. The other was black and fitted great.

 

Looks like there still is.
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Both above from VW Heritage. The black kit is more expensive.

 

Mine are the black ones, that explains it

 

That's quite a big press! I had an antiroll bar made in Sheffield for the Ford Pilot Woodie, by a company that I'll not name, and they made a complete **** of it. I've got a 6 tonne press and managed to turn it into the right shape. Long and painful experience of outsourcing stuff should have told me to make the thing myself...

 

I went for the heavy duty more expensive ones rubbish.....
2 clamps and a hammer

 

Well, i got the clamps on.. took the advice from here (profanity and bigger hammer) and got there in the end. I made up a tool from an old woodworking G-clamp, cut a couple of grooves in it and made myself a tool to pull the clamp together.


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Untitled by Rob E, on Flickr

 

Lots of pairs of mole grips and a G clamp for the win.

 

#blackclampsmatter