Fitting Bc coilovers

[singlespeed]

I wonder if there would be an issue getting different rear springs instead of the weitec ones.

That depends on the lengths of the damper

If you go with a spring which is shorter when under no load, theres a posibility that when the axle goes to full droop with no load on it the spring will fall out of the spring seats.

If the spring allows the body to go lower, you could end up bottoming out against the bump stop which will cause a large difference in the effective spring rate as the stop loads up/un-loads (interesting mid corner!!!). Also, the damper piston could be taking a hammering against the bottom of the damper tube.

The BC damper length is adjustable

 

[waitey]

I'm not selling the Weitecs to buy BCs Neil! :lol: too much hassle

 

[singlespeed]

I'm not selling the Weitecs to buy BCs Neil! :lol: too much hassle

I wasn't suggesting you should, just stating mentioning that they have adjustable length

 

[Callum-stirling]

My driveshaft just popped out and ripped my cv boot when I hit a pothole decent haha **** these coilovers annoying as hell

 

[singlespeed]

popped out of the gearbox?
come disconnected from the hub?
How low have you gone

 

[waitey]

My driveshaft just popped out and ripped my cv boot when I hit a pothole decent haha f**k these coilovers annoying as hell

Swap for Weitecs then?

 

[Ollie133cup]

My driveshaft just popped out and ripped my cv boot when I hit a pothole decent haha f**k these coilovers annoying as hell

wow .... :shock: :?

 

[Callum-stirling]

My driveshaft just popped out and ripped my cv boot when I hit a pothole decent haha f**k these coilovers annoying as hell

Swap for Weitecs then?

Hahaha errrr Naa I'm ok

 

[singlespeed]

Hahaha errrr Naa I'm ok

So, which bit have you broken/popped?

 

[maggi200]

I'm confused what's gone wrong

 

[Callum-stirling]

Hahaha errrr Naa I'm ok

So, which bit have you broken/popped?

The inner cv boot as split and sent grease everywhere hopefully I haven't damaged my driveshaft cus I popped it back in and the car drive fine, didn't want to put any power through it though so I was just crawling home, got the girlfriends yaris for the weekend till I can get a new cv boot.

 

[Callum-stirling]

I'm confused what's gone wrong

My driveshaft popped out somehow which split my cv boot/gaiter

 

[MovingShadow]

Same kit isn't it?

I'm sure I looked at someone else's too!

Mine!

They're abit more compressed now as they've settled properly

I'll upload how they are now tomorrow when its light, I wonder if there would be an issue getting different rear springs instead of the weitec ones.

It's the same like on my car, so I guess it kinda looks normal.

 

[Callum-stirling]

Anyone got a spare drive shaft ???? I'm in need of one

 

[user 980]

Fixed and back on the road callum?

 

[Callum-stirling]

Fixed and back on the road callum?

I wish :/ still waiting for the driveshaft, could be as late as Friday

 

[oscar]

callum, did you order an entire new driveshaft? if it was only the boot that was damaged, you'd have been a lot cheaper to just replace the boot by the sounds of it

 

[singlespeed]

I wonder if this was this actually caused when you crashed and broke the gearbox mount the other month? Just popping out recently???

 

[Callum-stirling]

I wonder if this was this actually caused when you crashed and broke the gearbox mount the other month? Just popping out recently???

I'm unsure Neil, I think it's just the fact that I have gone so low and haven't had any angles checked, that it put too much movement on the shaft so it was not as far in the gearbox as it should have been. But your right the crash could possibly have weakened the area or moved something that I hadn't noticed.

And I order the whole shaft because it's the joint and the boot that has gone, the whole shaft only worked out about £20 more so It's just less hassle with a straight swap rather than dismantling the old shaft

 

[Callum-stirling]

callum, did you order an entire new driveshaft? if it was only the boot that was damaged, you'd have been a lot cheaper to just replace the boot by the sounds of it

See above post