and with lowering you loose all 2cv strong points, like no problem with speedbumps, great off road capability, superb winter driving...etc
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| Author: | turbofiat124 [ October 10th, 2016, 3:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Adjusting ride height |
I was watching one of Burton's YouTube videos demonstrating how to adjust the ride height. So 4 turns will drop 1 CM or .3 inches? Two questions. How low can you go and does it screw up the camber after the fact? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7Tb2ZPfaM |
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| Author: | subarupete [ October 10th, 2016, 4:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adjusting ride height |
See here http://www.citroenspecialsclub.org/foru ... .php?t=462 |
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| Author: | turbofiat124 [ October 10th, 2016, 5:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adjusting ride height |
Thanks for the link. I can grind and weld but doing that to the kingpin sounds a bit dodgy to me. The main concern was having to pay a shop to realign the front end after the fact. A front end alignment over here is about $90. I've tried doing it myself on other cars but with little luck. I got screwed one time by a shop when they aligned my Yugo. I purchased some new Fiat Strada struts off Ebay and got a damn good deal on them. But apparently when you start mixing and matching Fiat and Yugo parts things can go a muck. Somehow this threw the camber off quite a bit and the camber adjustment bolts I supplied did not work (so they told me). They had the car over night and after the fact charged me $400 in labor! I was pissed. Labor prices over here are ridiculous. I think it has to do with our healthcare insurance and worker's compensation rates. Yeah we may pay $2.10 for a US gallon or £.50 for a liter of petrol, but we have to pay in other ways. A guy charged me $800 to replace the freewheel device in my Trabant's gearbox and supplied two input shaft bearings he managed to find over here. I supplied the seals and the freewheel device. I think he said he spent 8 hours on it. Then I got a quote on having a 40 foot tree cut down at $2000. I declined. I'm not paying for someone's worker's comp.... I don't dare take my '03 Subaru Legacy Ute in for work unless I had to (fuel injection issue). The dealership charges $100 an hour. Also considering the 2CV being an unusual car over here, I'm not sure if I trust most shops to work on it. As of right now the tire wear seems normal and the steering wheel returns to center and doesn't have that "weird" feeling to it when the camber is off. So I'm thinking about leaving it well alone. Dropping the ride height would give the car a better look but I may just leave it alone for the meantime. |
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| Author: | EirikJ [ October 10th, 2016, 6:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adjusting ride height |
turbofiat124 wrote: I don't dare take my '03 Subaru Legacy Ute in for work unless I had to (fuel injection issue). The dealership charges $100 an hour. In Norway a typical workshop charges about 150 USD an hour..... But I guess before you can say a country is expensive or not, you'll have to take into account the wages in that country. |
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| Author: | subarupete [ October 10th, 2016, 7:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adjusting ride height |
Another link...http://snail.s4.bizhat.com/snail-ftopic514.html |
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| Author: | AZL57 [ October 10th, 2016, 10:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Adjusting ride height |
and with lowering you loose all 2cv strong points, like no problem with speedbumps, great off road capability, superb winter driving...etc
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