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Old Feb 20th, 2018, 15:21   #71
Army
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Last Online: Feb 11th, 2022 03:15
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Somewhere in the Netherlands
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Originally Posted by Derek UK View Post
Your "botch job" on the brake parts is the result of fitting the disc brake conversion. I don't think it is anything to worry about.
Well I hope you wonŽt mind me welding up one side of the figure of eight!

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Originally Posted by Austinvolvo View Post
Check the inner corners of the lower spring seat. There are sometimes stress cracks there.
Thanks IŽll double check

From my experience of other vehicles it does seem a bit of a light weight system. Having seen a few videos (in Dutch - I can link if you want but seems like few here will understand the mumblings) on the subject of hard plastic suspension sports bushings they look to me like a bit of a bad / short lived šupgradeš...
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