Adjustable rear suspension arms

[Carl Chambers]

(Simon) Rustedandrottern has designed and made these as the originals are expensive and hard to get, plus its the only non adjustable part of the rear suspension.

I have been helping with making sure they fit as they should as my car is in pieces and one of my arms was bent (on the 30v6 not my acid vee) so needed replacing anyway.

Here is a few pics of them fitted,











Simon has asked me to start this and post pictures up, Im sure he will be along to help and comment.

 

[Big Iain]

Excellent stuff Simon :race:

 

[Matt]

Look great and easier to keep clean than the originals

 

[shinji]

Excellent work from Simon and it looks like a good replacement alternative.

May I ask what kind of adjustment it can give from these adjustable arms? toe angles?

 

[rustedandrotten]

Excellent work from Simon and it looks like a good replacement alternative.

May I ask what kind of adjustment it can give from these adjustable arms? toe angles?

Wei! Ni Hao Shinji,

The main purpose is to replace the existing arms, the benefit of these is to optimise the setting and remove some of the excess compliance due to the metallastic bushes. The only real adjustment is 20mm movement fore and aft for the wheel which is useful if you have a damaged chassis or you want to change the King pin incination angle on the rear hub which on a fixed ackermann set up only really changes the drive angle of the strut, forward leading, backwards trailing. Arms are also quite a chunk lighter than the pressed tin originals!
Toe angles are adjusted on the track arm that runs parallel to the bottom arm, this is the one Big Iain was having grief with a couple of weeks ago as the construction is a mix of machined billet aluminium and forged HT carbon steel, add a bit of road salt and you have a recipe for corrosion and seizure, not to mention that the adjuster is both right hand and left hand thread! The lump of alloy is about £180 so will be producing these next in HT tube steel for a fraction!

Shi shi neh

Simon

 

[Ali]

Looking good!

 

[shinji]

Very detailed explanation Simon! Thank you sir.

Now those alternative rear track arms I would be very interested! Although HK roads don't get salted EVER but we do get a fair share of rain. And everytime I get the alignment checked on the vee, the ever so patient tech belch out a long string of expletives (in aurally pleasing Cantonese of course) trying to undo the track arms for adjustments.

Ps. Extra points if you can rewrite the whole explanation in mandarin hehehehehe

Pss. This is why I love this forum so much. Awesome vee owners whom are willing to share their knowledge, experience and skinned knuckles.

 

[rustedandrotten]

Guangdongah!! Maomentai!!

 

[shinji]

Guangdongah!! Maomentai!!

:rofl: :rofl: