[s-cars] short shaft

[Bill Mahoney]

He he... gotta love the list... just jam packed full of great useful
high tech, state of the art and totally impractical ideas.  And then
there are those that always step up and help out by generously offering
to kindly take the offending part off your hands;)
So, in keeping with the theme of totally impractical, what would be the
collective opinion of being able to merely bend this one inch of steel a
weenie little 15mm on each side.  Can I bend steel with my bare hands?
Would I need a 10 meter breaker bar extension.  What kind of torch would
I need to heat up the section to bend and how long ya think it needs
heating?
Or perhaps best; take it to a welding shop and have them do it?
What say ye?
Bill  faster than a speeding bullet; more powerful than a locomotive;
able to bend steel in his bare hands M. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Strangways [mailto:Strangconst at rogers.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 6:15 PM
To: Bill Mahoney; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] short shaft

You could sell it to me
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Mahoney" <wmahoney at disk.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:01 PM
Subject: [s-cars] short shaft


> Folks
> Since the family went out of town for the weekend, I was able to:
> 1. Install new front rotors n pads.
> 2. Replace LR abs sensor.
> 3. New plugs 
> 4. Attempt to adjust HRSB for clearance.
> 5. Party Saturday night like itwas 1999.
> 
> WRT #4 Clearance of the springs just isn't in the cards for the sway
> bar.
> I took the bar off and spent hours fiddling with this. It needs to be
> about 30mm longer IME to clear the springs.  Perhaps moving the bar
> towards the rear of the car would provide clearance, but would require
> some major reengineering of the mounting brackets.  So, should I
pursue
> the latest generation of HRSB (thinking these may be longer?) Or, weld
a
> 30mm extension in the center of the shaft.  Or, cut the bar and join
> each half together with a 75 mm coupling/collar?  
> I'm just not engineer enough to figure this out.
> 
> TIA
> Bill short shaft M
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