Wishbone movement

[gwiddicombe]

Quick question about my build. How much should the upper and lower wishbones move when in place? Should I physically be able to move them up and down?

[Midnight]

It depends if you've attached the spring/dampers yet. If you have and you can still move the wishbones up and down easily by hand I wouldn't like to ever get into an argument with you!

Seriously though the wishbones are designed to move up and down easily its what they do, although they shouldn't really have any fore and aft play in them.

[gwiddicombe]

Thanks....on one side I have attached the dampers, on the other side I haven't as of yet. On the side I have attached the dampers, I can't move the wishbones by hand, but the build manual said keep them in a horizontal position, which I have been unable to do as they slope downwards after the damper has been fitted.

 

Looking at pictures of other builds, it seems them others aren't horizontal either, so presumably nothing to worry about....

 

Edited by - gwiddicombe on 3 Aug 2007 16:31:07

[Dickie Normuss]

Sounds ok to me. On mine if you jack the front up the spring/damper assembly pushes them down, if I pull upwards really hard I can make them move a little against the spring/damper. Yours seem normal

 

VX HPC - Loud and proud here

Watch out, whatever hits the fan will not be distributed evenly

[peterg]

Does the manual not mean they should be horizontal once the tyres are on the ground and the springs taking the weight of the car they will always droop downwards whilst the car is on stands....

[Grim Reaper]

I think the issue here is that you are still building the car right?

In that case, fit all the parts but don't tighten/torque up the nuts and bolts until it's all finished and sitting on the ground on it's wheels.

Then tighten them all up, this allows the rubber bushes to set in their normal working position before fixing them in place by torquing the bolts up on either side of them, if you tighten them up when on axle stands, with the parts in an unnatural position with respect to normal running, when you return it to the floor the bushes will have a permanent twist in their fabric which may not be desireable.

[Mick Day]

Torqueing the suspension fittings with the engine in is not easy. So I did mine minus the engine with a complient person standing on the cruciform inside the engine bay. Much easier.