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1961 Volvo PV544 in Holland

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Old Feb 20th, 2018, 16:21   #25
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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 won´t mind me welding up one side of the figure of eight!

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Check the inner corners of the lower spring seat. There are sometimes stress cracks there.
Thanks I´ll 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 ¨upgrade¨...
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