Sunday 11 January 2015

Fitting Rear suspension

So with the differential mount welded up it was time to begin to fit the rear suspension.
I have decided to fit a different telescopic damper system for the rear compared to the existing one (which was an after market type that bolts through the inner wing).
The replacement mounting is a CTM type which mounts to the lever arm damper mount and the rebound bump rubber mount.
CTM rear telescopic shock conversion

The only other nasty job was to drill out the mounting for the bump rubber on one of the trailing arms.. These often cause trouble as the screw that mounts the bump stop corrodes into the aluminium trailing arm. When an attempt is made to remove the bump stop it shears off. Exactly this had happened to mine so the only remedy was to drill the remains of the screw thread out, which took more than an hour, and tap a new thread. This time the bump stop was screwed in with lots of copperslip to prevent the same happening
Rear Suspension (red circle around bump stop)

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