Decided to abuse the coilies.......

[Coops]

...........and slam the turbo while am saving for the unit itself to be looked at!

keeping myself busy with free stuff so today set about gettin the rear torsion bars free! will then set up the back to the desired height and wind the coilies down at the front to match! after that its more free stuff, sealing and treating rear arches with hammerite /waxoyl and scraping all the sound deadening out the back! :twisted:

anyway heres what i faced the second i took the wheels off.....FFS! gotta love it, so much for free! thing is them bits that have broken off, could i not just balance them back in and the wheel and hub nut cover will hold them in situ when all bolted up? as otherwise its new rear disc time, which means new bearing and both sides, plus pads, which kinda sucks!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/coopahstar/Turbo/P8040001.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/coopahstar/Turbo/P8040002.jpg

on the plus side the shiny rear shockers are the correct FK coilover kit items, so thats good, and also it appears i have braided lines on the rear brakes aswell which i never knew, again cant be anything but a good thing! 8)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/coopahstar/Turbo/P8040005.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/coopahstar/Turbo/P8040004.jpg

Set to work then after removing shocker lower bolts, using the tried and tested big socket and bolt/nut combo method. 1st time i've used it and tbh works a treat, far less effort than slide hammer, altho upto now only got the passenger side bar out till i got bored and wondered inside for the night!

so, can we identify the torsion beams? heres a couple of snaps of the markings, std? and what other colour bands/marks and flavours of bar are there in terms of cup/uprated etc?

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/coopahstar/Turbo/P8040004.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/coopahstar/Turbo/P8040010.jpg

cheers

Coops

[Coops]

sorry, posted same pic of the braided lines twice, should of been this one of the bar markings:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/coopahstar/Turbo/P8040006.jpg

DAMN EDIT BUTTON WHERE IS IT?

[Daz.]

You've just remined me to sort out my rear lines - got bradied on the front and the rears are in the garage :D

Bugger about the disc, know what you mean about the bolts keeping it on - Can't make my mind up with that one... think I'd be changing it myself..

Coops be proud of me, I finally fixed my horns - I'm in gen ren two tone heaven now :lol: :lol:

[Coops]

8) always knew a good horn sorted your willy :shock:

[Daz.]

Honk Honk! :lol:

[drsmith1979]

the disc should be fine, the part broken is merely a 'locator' to get the wheels on, its the bolts that keep the wheel sorted and secure, besides, most of the centre ring is there, i woulnt bother unless it start to crack elsewhere.

[Coops]

i was mostly worried about balance tbh, if the bits arent back in there its gonna get a hell of a wobble on i would of thought?

[drsmith1979]

if its on the rear, i doubt it will make much difference that can be felt to be fair

[schakal]

superglue the bits on :idea:

:P


how the feck did you manage to brake them in the first place ?? :shock:

[arj256]

I would personally change the discs, as its not what you can see its the hidden cracks you cant.
Dont know how far gone the disc is..
Any new pics since you lowered it?

[Coops]

its not lowered yet, i got bored n wondered off! :lol: will be finished this week! :twisted:

the rear discs are pretty much new, so i really dont want to have to change them, i think it cracked as the locking nuts i use have a collar, that collar got stuck in the wheel and when i put the nuts back in i put a none locking nut through the collar at that position and it had worked loose as a result, guessin that could of been it?

i'll pop it together as is n set up the old aa speeddial again! :lol: