Wish me luck...lol

[GAZ W]

Got to take the MKII out tomorrow for the first time since it thas been put back together , taking it to a place about 10 miles away from where i live to have the suspension and steering set up , the fron is sooooo low i think i might be scraping the tyres all the way there , probably get there and i will have no fronr tryres left...lol

Been working on it today to get everything ok so it will be drivable

Then on friday its going to a place in notts to have the carbs set up and a general look over to get it right (somewhere that frosticles recomended)

Then when my new vernier gets here along with a new cambelt( hopefully tomorrow) dingy and oli will be fitting me this , although he does'nt know this yet ....cheers dingy

so a bit of luck needed for tomoz to get there

[Chrisbo]

What about your large air con vent in the drivers floor Gaz ??????

[GAZ W]

The aircon vent is staying there for now , it will be done as soon as poss but its not on the priority list .

Got the car to the garage, took me just under an hour to go about 15 miles , the bloody car was bouncing like hell and scraping the arches .

its sorted now and the car is now back on the road , just got to have the carbs set up 2moro.

It must of been the powder coating that fecked up the springs , as when i put em on they seemed normal size , but when the chap showed em me today the overall length of them was about 4 inches , so word of warning...dont have springs powder coated

[Banishit]

it must have taken the spring tesion out of it so as the weight went on it just compressed it

[RS2000CUSTOM]

It must of been the powder coating that fecked up the springs"

Not one to say I told you so - but - I told you so - lol lol lol

Hope you get it all sorted.

[dasadrew]

still can't work out why your powder coater would be using Chernobyl Reactor meltdown temeratures to do powder coating. The springs must have been glowing red hot if they were at tempering temperature!

[arron]

Strange then that mine seem fine after the same treatment. Can only assume they didn't cook them for as long.

[Banishit]

the powered coaters that I went too said they bake the power on at 200 oC


whats the temp spring steel loses its springyness

[dasadrew]

dasadrew wrote under thread "why has my car got very low?": Powder coating temperatures are about 200°C, but to anneal steel you need about 700°C. Let's face it, you could get up to about 100°C in the desert on a black car roof, so 200°C isn't going to melt springs!

[GAZ W]

You can just about make out in the pics below that the springs are normal height , but when i put em on they went down but never sprang back up , and as i said they were about 4 inches in height when the garage took em off , so it must have been the powder coating the ****ed em .
So it seems the coaters must really have baked them

[dasadrew]

so, if that's the problem, your steering arms and anti roll bar and everything which holds the suspension together at 100 mph are all basically of a consistency like plasticine!

Tell me when you're going to be on the road, Gaz, and I'll make a point of avoiding the country.