guess what fellas..........

boo hoo now.......

i was a bit too/over excited about the spacers, that i didn't bother/was too lazy to flip the strut mount back to normal.

anyway, instead of saving myself a couple of minutes/a sh1t load of work to flip the mount back, i have to take everything apart again, and flip it back!

but i did find out that everything is good. as in....

i put in 2" coil spacer, and the strut had only 1" down travel, (with strut mount flipped!), then i put in 2" strut spacers, and now the front struts have at least 3" down travel, was good until i found that the CVs were binding like crazy to the point where the axle shaft would not turn! (at full extention/droop), and that after a good thrashing/running in process, i discovered that the struts, with this configuration, does not have enough up travel/compression, as it was bottoming out.

now if i correct the strut mount back to how it was, i lose 1" of down travel, my CVs will be closer to being safe, and in theory, should not bottom out with a soft to mild driving style.

story time is over, so now it's question time....

does this sound true/correct/resonable?

has anyone else had this experience/problem?

there are a fair few dirt/gravel roads where i am, and you can get up to some speed on these roads, eg: 60-70MP/H, where 60mp/h=100km/h. its just that, some times along these roads, you can get several small dips in a row, and that really gets the suspension oil hot!. so you can see how a lot of fun can end in a lot of tears if things dont work/f#|removethispart|@k up.


thanks again guys,
Steve

BTW: you should select whichever term best suits/fits the sentence/line.

That sounds about right, I made my spacers 2" so the suspension would hit the bump stops before the strut bottomed out. Someone else I know fitted  2 1/2" spacers and had the same CV problems.

2" strut spacers, and now the front struts have at least 3" down travel, was good until i found that the CVs were binding like crazy to the point where the axle shaft would not turn! (at full extention/droop)

I warned you about doing that  
Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2004, 8:01am

BTW  you can't run a flipped strut
mount with a 3"  (75mm) strut spacer,
as it is 3" is on the long side, I found  
the wire CV cage/ball retainer ring a  
little dimpled around the edges where
the CV balls had been in contact at full
droop, so if you get somthing like this,
for the life of the CVs make it about 2 3/4"
or about  68-70 mm long, that should help

I hope you didn't do any real damage,
and no the dipps in the road should have
no negative effect on the CVs at full droop

Wild

ta-daaaaaaaaaaaa!

Noice,  

Wild

Noice,  

Wild

looks pretty good.