Hi there have just completed a front end rebuild as i had a cut and turned beam and was stupidly low , anyhow have sourced a stock beam complete with arms . i changed all the ball joints as they had seen better days ive also changed all the track rods,ends and drag link for new ones (as the old rods were bowing a bit ) the rear was lowered on horse shoe plates which i have removed so basically the entire bus is now totally stock include wheels and tyres .
Now i havent properly taken the bus out on the rd ( just backwards and forwards a few times on my drive ) as i want to set the tracking somewhere near before i do ( will get done properly ) and also havent got the front shocks fitted yet as i need to do this before a rd test ) i have noticed that the passenger side is lower than the drivers side both front and back by a good 3cms ( just over an inch ) and looks lopsided from the front . although my drive is perfectly flat i would say it was perfectly level slopes fractionally on the passenger side of the bus . i measured the gap between the trailing arms and the bump stop on the passenger side and it was just under 7cms and on the drivers side it was 3.5cms . hence makeing it lopsided ,
Now would this be likely to be a case of needs to settle properly after all the work under taken or do you recon it could be something more sinister like broken torsion leaves on the passenger side or weak torsion bar on the rear ( as it was orignally lowered by 2 splines before i fitted the the horse shoes and returning the spring plate to stock )
will have more of a chance to fettle with it next weekend but though i would ask to see if theres anything i may of missed or could check again .
Thanks
if anyone could measure the gap from the bumpstop plate ( not the rubber ) and the bottom of the upper trailing arm just so i can compare to see if mines anywhere near that would be great . or even measure say from the ground to the lip of the arch
Now i havent properly taken the bus out on the rd ( just backwards and forwards a few times on my drive ) as i want to set the tracking somewhere near before i do ( will get done properly ) and also havent got the front shocks fitted yet as i need to do this before a rd test ) i have noticed that the passenger side is lower than the drivers side both front and back by a good 3cms ( just over an inch ) and looks lopsided from the front . although my drive is perfectly flat i would say it was perfectly level slopes fractionally on the passenger side of the bus . i measured the gap between the trailing arms and the bump stop on the passenger side and it was just under 7cms and on the drivers side it was 3.5cms . hence makeing it lopsided ,
Now would this be likely to be a case of needs to settle properly after all the work under taken or do you recon it could be something more sinister like broken torsion leaves on the passenger side or weak torsion bar on the rear ( as it was orignally lowered by 2 splines before i fitted the the horse shoes and returning the spring plate to stock )
will have more of a chance to fettle with it next weekend but though i would ask to see if theres anything i may of missed or could check again .
Thanks
if anyone could measure the gap from the bumpstop plate ( not the rubber ) and the bottom of the upper trailing arm just so i can compare to see if mines anywhere near that would be great . or even measure say from the ground to the lip of the arch
