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| posted on December 6th, 2004 at 04:22 PM |
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Here`s the adjusters I made.
They are basically 5mm steel plate based on the swayaway idea. I cut a slot from the bottom grubscrew to the next dimple 90degrees around from the
grubscrew hole.
If I had more resources I would make the centre piece out of solid ally like swayaways and fit longer grubscrews.
It works though and I`ve done about 15,000K`s on them with no problems.
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| posted on December 6th, 2004 at 05:15 PM |
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57 that’s great for a home job, are you going to notch the spring plates?? or remove the rear bump stop?? do you have any probs with bump steer? I
have found with mine , the ride is great but still looks a little high in the front see picture he rear sits fine for me see picture, I’m looking at
dropped spindles with a bit of a tub job to get the front wheels just sitting under the front guard and i'm going with bigger diameter tiers ATM i
have 50 series I want to run 60's on the front. i don't want the front to be on the ground but want the illusion of it being low with the tiers
under the guard
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this is how high it used to sit
front as it sits now
rear height minus the motor
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| posted on December 7th, 2004 at 09:10 AM |
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I think notching the spring plates might compromise thier strength so I`ll grind off the stops.
I did have the idea of cutting and turning the whole end of the torsion bar tubes to gain some clearance. Big job though and a bitch to get in there
to weld it back on!
Plans for your bus sound cool, I want mine lower but then you get into the whole tubbing business, don`t really fancy sitting in the middle with the
steering wheel and pedals over to my right!
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| posted on December 7th, 2004 at 10:41 AM |
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I can't get over how hight it looked before the drop, go lower. Shell look sweet as then.
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| posted on December 7th, 2004 at 02:17 PM |
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You talking about mine or Wacked1`s Bus?? They both looked bloody rediculous anyway. Mine looked even worse in that first photo because I had just
fitted the low profile tyres.
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| posted on December 7th, 2004 at 03:22 PM |
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hey 57 i don't know much about metal strenght but i do know kimm at indian was selling notched spring plates and so did mike at cbb, so i guess they
could work but grinding the bumpstops off is the easier of the two
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| posted on December 8th, 2004 at 07:07 PM |
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yeah my kombi is fairly low bugger paying 800 bucks!, i just let the air out of my tires! and put about 20 bags of cement in the back!
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| posted on December 8th, 2004 at 10:24 PM |
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Hey wacked1, how many splines is yours dow at the back??
Dropped mine 2, would like to go to the magical 3!!
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| posted on December 9th, 2004 at 08:55 AM |
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from memory it's 2 splines but memory isn't all that good, but i have a v8 in the back of mine weighing it down a bit, i'm running 16 inch rims
which give the illusion of it being lower in the rear.
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