[urq] RE : Rear suspension tie rods DOES hit the body.

[bhowell at rmi.net]

You shouldn't have to remove the bump stops to put lowering springs in, nor
should you. The Bilstein's (what I was running at the time) have built-in
bump stops, so you don't even get the choice to remove them.

When I had a rear wheel off the car, I jacked it up from the control arm to
compress the suspension to it's "Resting" point and the tie rod was
uncomfortably close to the frame. Nevermind compressing it more to simulate
a cornering or bump situation. There is almost no way that a bump stop
would stop the upward movment before the tie rod hit the body. It was
uncomforable enough for me to not want to drive the car again, until I
removed the springs.  

I would venture a guess that ANY early 83' with H&R's has these dents in
the frame rail. It's almost impossible for them NOT to be there because
they are THAT close! Honestly, I can't believe this is the first we are
hearing of it. Of all the people that track thier cars, or drive them
"Hard", or rally them and this has never been mentioned before? Odd.

I felt lucky that I was able to find a new complete tie rod at Blau, but I
know that they don't have any more of them. The dealer is silly expensive
and given the small amount of cars they fit, they may be NLA. I can only
hope that people start taking thier H&R's OFF thier early 83's.

Ben
83' UrQ
85' UrQ

Original Message:
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From: Louis-Alain Richard laraa at sympatico.ca
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:57:36 -0400
To: bhowell at rmi.net, urq at audifans.com
Subject: RE : [urq]  Rear suspension tie rods DOES hit the body.


I guess that installing lowering springs means removal of the OEM
bumpstops ? This may explain that...

Maybe there is another bumper that will prevent bottoming without being
too tall ?

Louis-Alain



> De : bhowell at rmi.net [mailto:bhowell at rmi.net]
> 
> 
> My personal feeling is that on the early
> cars (rear sway bar cars), the H&R’s are WAAAAAY too low. IMHO, they
are
> too low for any UrQ, but on the early cars, they are quite literally,
> dangerously low. I suppose someone could “Notch” the frame rails
directly
> above the tie rods, but I elected to remove the springs.
> 
> Ben
> 83’ UrQ
> 85’ UrQ
> 


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