Rubrignitz

All the OT idiots need to go play elsewhere.. I have a 15mb down/7 up broadband connection and have to quick post because it's so goddam slow.

jmk3

there is no need to have the car level it only has to have the rear suspension loaded like on ramps or jackstands under axle. you could do it on a 45 degree hill & it would work cause you are comparing angles with each other & not with true level

Rubrignitz

ok, phew... here are the pics of the one-piece. You can see where it's rubbing on the permanent bracket for the park-brake bracket and another spot appears to be hitting. The sound is an aluminum "plink" sound like if you hit the DS with a wrench or something.

Rubrignitz

Sorry I can't get better pics.. it's tight under there .

Going out to readjust the MGW while she's up and will parse over all this info in the morning.

I need to fix the shifter problem and eat, get to bed at some point tonight. I'm in the IT field and have been making plans for mr. confiker virus tomorrow.

I should have taken a week off before attempting the suspension upgrades....

moosestang

You have a clearance problem with your drive shaft. If you can't remove or relocated what is hitting it, then you could lower the angle of the pinion, which will lower the saft some relative to the body.

Many people, with 4 inch shafts, have had to move the parking brake bracket or even take a hammer to the tunnel to make it clear. Of course if you have a 4 inch shaft, then you have bigger(pun intended) problems.

there is no correct pinion angle. The correct way is to set it parallel to the transmission angle, but that is in a perfect world where the angle of the pinion does not change under load or during decel. With that said I have set mine parallel and it runs smooth as silk on accel and decel, but unfortunately this gives me zero traction in 3rd gear.

Rubrignitz

Thanks moose... I knew it was a d-shaft clearance issue. Or a frame/suspension issue. My d-shaft has zero vibration and traction with the LCA's is astounding on the lower holes. I moved them up to the upper holes under another members recommendation but the noise (and traction) was much worse. Today I had rearend noise from the rodends hitting the axle brackets in the upper holes (rodend locators were touching the axle housing in the upper position) and traction was bad. The rear was completely silent with the LCA's mounted in the lower holes on the brackets but I had this odd popping noise (my new all time annoying sound). I'd always heard you should use the lower holes on the BMR's when lowering over 1'' (I'm @ 1.5'') and they are completely silent along with hooking like hell in that position.

I just moved my MGW shifter back out from 10 turns to 5 which gave me another 1/4'' clearance from the front of the DS.

I'll bring it somewhere this weekend and have them massage the brackets around it to make it work, along with setting me a ~3 angle on the pinion.

Rubrignitz

Oh yeah, here's my tires hammer. big fat ***** and that's with 5k miles on em. I hope they get me to 15k.

hammeron

lol!

you best get to sleep, all your network computers
are going to crash tomorrow......


just kidding, i hope all goes well and your network
survives.....