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Excellent news

for you......

could be bad news for me when I tell the missus I WANT these

I've amended my instructions to include my findings regarding the spacer and added information about lowering pins.

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! says it all, great news. you should never leave bits out !!!!!

bryan young wrote: wrote:

you should never leave bits out !!!!!

thats a bit harsh bryan every one likes to experiment

nice one just a pitty they are the price of an F

Excellent information David!
I have just spent the weekend fitting lowering pins to my F. Now I know to store my stock pins away for future Suplex use.
Just a couple of points.... If you are binning your old front shocks there is no need to remove the fuse box for clearance, Simply grasp the outer tube of the old shock with a pair of water pump pliers and use a ratchet to undo the top nut. I was also able to remove the rear shocks without moving the ECU. Awkward but do-able with some circus training!
My last point is to not be surprised if the plastic portion of the knuckles breaks when removing. Of my four, one came out as it should, two suffered some damage (one was able to be glued back together), and the right front was totally destroyed while being removed.
It was a nice touch using non-corrosive plastic for these but unfortunately the metal arm casting does rust and jam the plastic into place. My suspension, particularly the front looks like it came off the Titanic!
David, If your old front spheres are still serviceable would you be interested in selling them? They look 10X better than my rusted lumps!
If your suspension looks like this!

Your knuckles may come out like this!

MGF MARK wrote: wrote:

bryan young wrote: wrote:

you should never leave bits out !!!!!

thats a bit harsh bryan every one likes to experiment

nice one just a pitty they are the price of an F

David can take it !!!!!

The price of a scrapper yes, but David's car is so nice i would spend that sort of money to keep it going, and its love of the car too

OK, here's an admission, but don't tell Sheila.

When I got the hydragas off I found that the actual problem had been that the union where the pipe attaches to the nsr sphere was only finger tight.(Not me, I hasten to add)
So I could have saved £750 and used a spanner.

However, I had budgeted to do this eventually, so now it's done, and Sheila is very impressed with the ride...of the car!

So Rich, I have 4 spheres in pretty good nick, even got the short pipes with the valves - maybe MOWOG could bring you them over, as he's staying with us in July?
Make me an offer.

Luckily all four knuckles came out with no damage, but my suspension is considerably less rusty than yours, Rich. That's been sitting at the seaside if I'm any judge.

Good advice about removing/replacing the standard dampers, but the fusebox has to move to put the new one in anyway and it's only two bolts.

Why do they make the top of the rod like that anyway? Why not a nice hex nut you can get a socket onto instead of having to fanny about with a tiny 7mm open ended!

Incidentally I dropped my only 7mm open ended while tightening up the first damper(the fusebox one), and by the noise I knew it hadn't hit the ground, but could I find it? Could I Hell!

I had to buy another to finish the job. Just putting everything back together and tinkle tinkle, the spanner reappeared from somewhere and fell to the ground.

I could be persuaded to put four spheres into the luggage...for a price

Thanks for a really thorough how-to David, I'm sure I'll be doing the same procedure one day on my F.