Saturday, 16 June 2012

Suspension washers and short bolts - correction

Talking to Richard @ Newark, I realised my mistake and the reason for my bolts being apparently short.

Scenarios:

  1. Where the bolts go through the bottom of the rear hub, and a bolt head/nut faces up against a bush directly then - small & penny washers required to spread the load across the bush.
  2. In all other places where a bolt head/nut faces up against a chassis bracket only a small washer is required - thus I save about 2mm per bolt in length.

I may leave the rear suspension as I have it - small & penny washers all round.
The front will be off again anyway to fit the side panels so will be small washers only.

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