Geometry

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Fri, 16/01/2009 - 09:13
dentsmithy
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Well I finally got round to fitting some spring spacers to level up the back of my car and the results are great..........
except, as expected the panhard rod is now too short/ or the body mount is too high.
Has anyone tackled this problem? and come up with a nice clean solution?

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Fri, 16/01/2009 - 18:06
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mgrays
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Re: Geometry

I sure the other US site.. someone had done a cut and shut job and welded in a pair of threaded plugs to the cut .. and then a length of stud with 2 locking nuts... ideally you want one to be left hand thread to adjust in-situ but that solution required you to remove one end from car to adjust.. but it would have worked.

Note.. do it near an end .. max bending force is in the middle so do not put a weak part/mod there..

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Fri, 16/01/2009 - 18:36
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Re: Geometry

http://www.gwoa.co.uk/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6966

Anakreon from Greece posted this detailed article on panhard length correction here on our own board

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Fri, 16/01/2009 - 19:46
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dentsmithy
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Re: Geometry

Cheers gents, I saw all the stuff on p3 but I thought i'd seen a simple solution here, but couldn't find it

now all I have to do is get the hacksaw out and brush up on my 'TOASOHCAH'

Thanks again

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