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Old 02-12-2003, 12:50 AM
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Default IRS design problem

Hi Richard

Thanks for your advice, I am quite annoyed that I have spent a considerable amount of money for a rear end that was supposed to be an improvement over the older Jaguar type, it certainly is lighter as claimed!

I have looked at your upright mounting through the link in your post, but would appreciate looking at a couple of photos if you would like to email them to me:

ajnewton@xtra.co.nz

I see on the back of the bottom arm that you have a nice track arm for toe in adjustment and as pictured the top A arm does the camber adjustment, all this keeping the upright mounted as well as possible!

1. I could try and modify the bottom arm, which looks almost identical to yours apart, from urethane inners wider apart by making the back brace adjustable with rod end, and flange the lower bushings properly!

2. There aint a lot of room to fit a top A arm, he has make a strong single strut, with a very wide inner bush as mentioned in earlier post, that when I lever it there is hardly any detectable movement. I will have major difficulty doing the top!

I managed to get a digital camera from my wifes boss today, but it is a new fangled one without the floppy disc and only had a connection for PC Computers, so I cannot download it on to my old Macintosh G3!

One thing is for sure I am going to end up with peace of mind on this so when I go out to the classic meets 2 -3 times yearly I dont have to be conscious of a potential weakness, but having said that the car wont have BB power and I dont intend on running slicks - at this stage!

Kind regards Ant
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