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How hard is it to fit a backbox, is it a DIY job? No special tools but I could source a big bore steel backbox for £15.

Gave it some proper stick today for the first time in ages, the suspension is fine or it wouldn't have handled what I gave it, fingers crossed it's just the tracking which needs doing. Still can't see how though but I guess it could have altered as I did use some force to get parts off etc..

I'm dumbfounded as to how the tracking could have altered though as the track rods haven't been touched, maybe something happened when changing the suspension as I've had the hubs off as well and you've got to be quite brutal on some of the bolts. Also the car has been standing without a hub...

Thats what I was wondering but is there meant to be any play at the top of the strut i,e the bolt under the bonnet? It sort of moves about 1cm each way well it can do if i bounce it. But nah handling feels great, well I say great I'm running 13" inch wheels so it's not going to be anything...

Please, someone?

Bumpy bump Heres the work I've done, I took the old shocks and hubs off and replaced them with 54mm spacing ones. Now the steering wheel is pointing to the left slightly I was wondering have I knocked the tracking out or is the suspension wrong for my car or something like that. How...

Whats the rule of the thumb for testing shocks? I've had the front two replaced from breakers they look fine visually but just want to make sure as the steering wheel is now out to the left a little.

How hard is it to chage a hose, assumin it is that? if not how much would a garage charge.

I've got a problem somewhere, I had the pads and fluid changed about two weeks ago, We used Castrol Response Dot4 Brake Fluid. But now it's nearly black again, and the brakes have lost the byte they had when they were first bleed, there was excessive air coming from the front drivers side...

Cheers guys going to attempt it tommorow, do i need anything special to remove the strut, i have an impact wrench if that helps.

From a 1.2 to a 1.4 (To combat my 52mm hubs) knock my camber out or is it a straight swap?

Mine did this, remove the rubber seal, peel back the roof lining and tighten the bolts spread around the sunroof - problem solved.

Lol need someone whose prepaired to travel to Surrey tommrow and perform an operation on my Clio's. I need the front shocks and hubs from my 1.2 swapped over onto my 1.4 and the front shocks on my 1.4 and hu(b.) (otherone snapped) transfered over to my 1.2 Anyone intrested? Please drop me...

Bump; and happy new year everyone!

Not when your in the middle of a dodgy backstreet garage getting told by a tall fat polish bloke with a breakers bar in his hand that he's ruined your hub and your night out. Lol, oh well whats done is done. just hope I can find a new hub.

Nah mate it was one of then oi mate bang this in for us and i'll give ya £20... plus he was f**king tall

Bloody took it to a garage to get the bearing pressed in and old one old and he snapped the caliper mount, stupid grease monkey couldn't be bothered lubing it or using impact to help ease it out or anything just stuck it in the press - hope he don't treat his women like that lol. Oh well new...

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kk makes sence I suppose I was just thinking in an ideal world if I didn't have the speakers on there would hardly be any power consumed but my system is still taking power and the fact that the headunit will be drawing power as well. No probs will just bump start it once it decides it's had...

Come to think of it would the system drain the battery? Alright the system was left on for three hours but the volume was on zero, does that make a diffrence? It's got a 1000w sub and amp hooked up to it too.

If i cant get the 16v setup anyone know how much a complete hub and bearing would be, gsf dont seem to sell them.

Mines a MK1 Phase 2 1995 - 52mm Mk1 Phase 1 1991 - 54 " " " " 1993 - 54 MK1 Phase 2 96 - 54 ..Bloody random French, theres a guy breaking a 16v round my area, me thinks front suspension and hubs are in order, are the phase 1 16v shocks good?

Was thinking that but to be honest can't fault the handling even in the wet. What does get me? why does my old phase 1 have 54mm spacing along with the other three at the breakers and my Clio RT which was considered top range back in the day got smaller spacing. Does it represent anything to...

Okay the ruler was out, measured with a Stanley tape measure and it came back at 52mm Is this a rare sized hub?

Edit, it's actually coming back at 5cm which is 50mm

Hi Edde, thanks ever so much for that cleared it up fine for me. The measurment is returning back at just over 2inches which is about 51mm

Cheers, edde. This may sound silly but do I measure the space inside the two bolt holes or start just after the hole, if you get what I mean as it's coming back as 38mm.

Okay lads, as some of you may already know from my earlier topic. I'm left with a broken hub thanks to a trigger happy press welding polish grease monkey. I have the current hub with me now, I've been to the breakers and all the hubs I see on the clios are diffrent, they all look fatter...

I don't know to be honest, I've got the hub sitting here with me, can you come on MSN mate?

Cheers, no hurry as I'm expecting it to be sitting here on it's three wheels and three bricks for a while.