Help & advise needed Nick

[night.icon]

Hi after getting those 17" i am experiencing a little rubbing on full lock

Will i cause any problems buy removing any of the iner arches as i can see a belt going on to a pully on the drivers side

any advise would be a help

 

[16valver]

that pulley you are on about is your cambelt so i woulnnt mess about around there. i have 17s on my 16v and mine rubbed slightly on full left lock....this can be sorted by shortening your track rod ends slightly. you will get a liitle less lock , but it wont rub anymore...it sorted mine anyway

 

[Nick Read]

Best bet is to jack up the front and take the wheels off and then youll see exactly where theyre rubbing. Ive had to leave all my sh*tguards off and angle-grind a bit of the metal out of the inner arch, but on 17s you probably wont have to be as drastic. The top sh*tguards can come out safely, with the inner one what you can do is take it out, cut it so that it just covers the belts and then mount it back into the arch again.

Remember that the wiring for the side repeaters is usually protected by the upper sh*tguard and the brake wear sensor wire is protected by the inner one so cable tie these well out of the way.

 

[Nick Read]

How did you go about shortening your track rod ends? I need to reduce the lock slightly on mine.

 

[lofty]

im pretty sure the visable belt is the fan belt and the cam nelt is concealed,
might be wrong,

lofty

 

[Nick Read]

Youre right Lofty, the one you can see at the front of the arch is the auxiliary belt which spins the alternator although it does run off the bottom pulley on the cambelt. But the cambelt is totally covered up.

 

[night.icon]

How did you go about shortening your track rod ends? as this may be one option

 

[druddle]

I should hope the cambelt is totally concealed in the engine !! If not then you would get untold amounts of dirt in the engine and then BANG.

Dave