Thursday 15 July 2010

Shocks!











  • I got my springs and fitted the shocks to the front. They are a really nice bit of kit.


The rears were a little bit more tricky as i didn't really think it through when ordering the shocks. I was using the old Spax shocks as a template/guide but i should have got the damper adjuster fitted 90 degree's from where they are to make it easier to adjust. Also the thrust washers at either end of the bottom pin had to be filed down to fit. other than that it went ok!

NOTE: I changed my spings on the rear from 180 lbs to 220 lbs as i could not acheive the correct ride height . The 350 lbs springs on the front are perfect for my rover V8.

update!



  • Well it's been ages since i updated, sorry about that. As you might expect i have finnished the build but i will try to continue the blog as if i wasn't as lazy as i have been!




  • So with the wishbones in i feel i must point out that the original build had fitted the upper wishbones the wrong way round. I didnt realise this until i got the car aligned , and we could'nt make the correct adjustments. In the picture you can see the offside upper wishbone, in the middle of each arm is a lump ( on the Jag these would have bump-stops in ) one of the lumps is both sides and the other arm has one lump one side. The arm with the lumps on both sides is the front .