182 Touge/Tuner Build

[E30kev]

looking at that ball joint above its not been fully seated and someone has battered in the pinch bolt anyway, assume ripping the threads clean off the pinch bolt so it will have been moving up and down in the hub, as above probably damaging the hub.

With the above fixed if there's still issues swap out the rear dampers. (i chased an issue years ago, leading to a full front end rebuild and it still wouldn't drive properly, couldn't get to the bottom of it until one of the rear dampers started knocking, changed the pair and the problem was completely solved!

I remember when my rear shocks were properly toast on my 182, every drain cover or mild bump in the road shot me sideways like a f**king D1 drift king

 

[bvnditi]

looking at that ball joint above its not been fully seated and someone has battered in the pinch bolt anyway, assume ripping the threads clean off the pinch bolt so it will have been moving up and down in the hub, as above probably damaging the hub.

With the above fixed if there's still issues swap out the rear dampers. (i chased an issue years ago, leading to a full front end rebuild and it still wouldn't drive properly, couldn't get to the bottom of it until one of the rear dampers started knocking, changed the pair and the problem was completely solved!

That makes sense. I’ve been working through a fair bit of bodge from probably several of the 17 previous owners of this car, so it figures that whoever did the previous balljoint was smoothbrained.

I’ll get a fresh set of rear shocks on it and see if that alleviates things. Rear shocks don’t look to be too awful a job, so I’ll just get on it next time I send the Clio into air jail.

Thanks for the extra perspective, I’d’ve never even considered rear shocks to be a potential issue so I’d just be chasing my tail with a front end rebuild. Seriously appreciate that!

 

[bvnditi]

I remember when my rear shocks were properly toast on my 182, every drain cover or mild bump in the road shot me sideways like a f**king D1 drift king

Sounds exactly like what I’m having! Any imperfection, I’m getting pulled about and anything big I’m getting shot broadside

Loading the car up on anything other than a smooth roundabout feels like the thing wants to flip over

 

[Bowz]

That makes sense. I’ve been working through a fair bit of bodge from probably several of the 17 previous owners of this car, so it figures that whoever did the previous balljoint was smoothbrained.

Who you calling smoothbrained?!

As one of the previous owners, you can check my build thread on it? I don't recall doing the ball joints, could have been me to be fair...

Having had it on track it handled really well when I briefly owned it.

When you say turns left more than right, do you mean lock to lock? Is the rack centralised?