Hi All, looking for some advice.
TL
R : need new struts and coils, i think. I've measured the distance between holes and I am 85% confident I need the 54mm spaced struts and new coils. I've found an ebay item:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-P...851404?hash=item3f5cae120c:g:9JgAAOSw9N1ViouD
are the 172 Cup shocks the same as what would have been fitted to my 172 or are there non cup available? what's the difference?
what springs do i need? my budget is pretty low so any recommendations would be great.
Long Story:
have come back to doing some stuff on my 2002 172 project and the next thing to tackle was the suspension. reason I've decided to check out the suspension was because I changed the lower ball joints last summer and the N/S was easy mode to attach back to the wishbone but the O/S was an absolute ball-ache and took about 30 mins of jacking up the brake disk in the 100% correct angle to align up the lbj bolt holes correctly with the wishbone, this also meant that the CV boot was rubbing on the wishbone and split.
I've taken the suspension struts out of the car, N/S again was easy mode. the bolts came straight out but O/S took me about an hour of wacking it with a lump hammer, tried spring compressors which didn't help and I've compared both sides and was surprised. the O/S ,pictured on the left was much smaller then the N/S. didn't look like the spring has snapped just different tensions, can't imagine how it drove.
I still have no idea really why the bolts were so difficult on the O/S because the spring was smaller and they were compressed with spring compressor. only thing i can think it the shock absorber was pushing out further then it should. both front axles were off the ground so it wasn't the ARB. ideas?
TL
R : need new struts and coils, i think. I've measured the distance between holes and I am 85% confident I need the 54mm spaced struts and new coils. I've found an ebay item: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-P...851404?hash=item3f5cae120c:g:9JgAAOSw9N1ViouD
are the 172 Cup shocks the same as what would have been fitted to my 172 or are there non cup available? what's the difference?
what springs do i need? my budget is pretty low so any recommendations would be great.
Long Story:
have come back to doing some stuff on my 2002 172 project and the next thing to tackle was the suspension. reason I've decided to check out the suspension was because I changed the lower ball joints last summer and the N/S was easy mode to attach back to the wishbone but the O/S was an absolute ball-ache and took about 30 mins of jacking up the brake disk in the 100% correct angle to align up the lbj bolt holes correctly with the wishbone, this also meant that the CV boot was rubbing on the wishbone and split.
I've taken the suspension struts out of the car, N/S again was easy mode. the bolts came straight out but O/S took me about an hour of wacking it with a lump hammer, tried spring compressors which didn't help and I've compared both sides and was surprised. the O/S ,pictured on the left was much smaller then the N/S. didn't look like the spring has snapped just different tensions, can't imagine how it drove.
I still have no idea really why the bolts were so difficult on the O/S because the spring was smaller and they were compressed with spring compressor. only thing i can think it the shock absorber was pushing out further then it should. both front axles were off the ground so it wasn't the ARB. ideas?
