psbarham
23-03-2007, 11:48 PM
a few people have now brought and fitted camskill bottom arms , me included , the trouble i have is my normally unprovokable V6 has be a nervous bag 'o ****e since fitting them , i knew the tracking was out so i thought this would be the cause of it , so i thought i would change the bushes for the poly ones and then get the whole thing 4 wheel tracked .
well the fitting of the bushes went well , until /Grrr i went to refit the arms , the arm to strut bush is mounted at an angle in the arm to line it up with the holes in the strut fork , now the fun :thinking: bit , when i went to replace the arms the mounting holes were miles out , now before you start going 'the bumkins got them arse about face' the arms have been replaced twice now , each time they have been replaced with the identical arms that came off ( the bolt and blank on the top of the arms denotes the side of fitment) now i even checked with the picture that Bern posted up of his replacement arm to make sure his were the same , and you can even see the offsetting of the casting to angle the bush so i was confident that the arms were the right way round . so if they are the right way round why does it look like this ????
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quite a way out of line i think you'll agree
the rubber bush looked like this
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well and truly mullered , the annoying thing is the bolts went in and out OK when fitting them because of how squidgy (technical term:scholar: ) the rubber ones are
so next plan , reverse the arms , well bugger me sideways with a blunt instrument , the bushes line up perfectly :speechles
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so the mystery deepens , has my car always had arse about arms , if so why does every thing line up perfectly ?
why did camskill confirm the part no.s for each side ?
why are Bern's arms the other way round ?
please help me , its pissing me off now /Grrr if anyone else can confirm which side of theirs has the bolt , and which has the blank it would be a great help
well the fitting of the bushes went well , until /Grrr i went to refit the arms , the arm to strut bush is mounted at an angle in the arm to line it up with the holes in the strut fork , now the fun :thinking: bit , when i went to replace the arms the mounting holes were miles out , now before you start going 'the bumkins got them arse about face' the arms have been replaced twice now , each time they have been replaced with the identical arms that came off ( the bolt and blank on the top of the arms denotes the side of fitment) now i even checked with the picture that Bern posted up of his replacement arm to make sure his were the same , and you can even see the offsetting of the casting to angle the bush so i was confident that the arms were the right way round . so if they are the right way round why does it look like this ????
uploaded/1031/1174689248.jpg
uploaded/1031/1174689282.jpg
quite a way out of line i think you'll agree
the rubber bush looked like this
uploaded/1031/1174689355.jpg
well and truly mullered , the annoying thing is the bolts went in and out OK when fitting them because of how squidgy (technical term:scholar: ) the rubber ones are
so next plan , reverse the arms , well bugger me sideways with a blunt instrument , the bushes line up perfectly :speechles
uploaded/1031/1174689553.jpg
uploaded/1031/1174689594.jpg
so the mystery deepens , has my car always had arse about arms , if so why does every thing line up perfectly ?
why did camskill confirm the part no.s for each side ?
why are Bern's arms the other way round ?
please help me , its pissing me off now /Grrr if anyone else can confirm which side of theirs has the bolt , and which has the blank it would be a great help