Posted 7/5/2009 3:26 PM (#510215) Subject: LITTLE HELP NEEDED PLEASE
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Posts: 1364 Location: gods country
need a little help guys and girls....was goin down this road 2 nyt...nice and steady...and i hit a pot hole.. a big 1 too...now my steering wheel is out, my suspension is low and it tripped my fuel cut off switch.
as you sit in the car you can see the car leaning to the front passenger side but theres still pressure in the.
Posted 7/5/2009 4:48 PM (#510229 - in reply to #510215) Subject: RE: LITTLE HELP NEEDED PLEASE
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Posts: 9862 Location: Cornwall
i dout the top arm would bend as its cast, bottom arm maybe. could maybe have let the nitrogen out of the canister. or the subframe could have bent as said.
Posted 8/5/2009 1:05 PM (#510393 - in reply to #510229) Subject: RE: LITTLE HELP NEEDED PLEASE
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Posts: 2907 Location: a pub in yorkshire
ralphh85 - 7/5/2009 4:48 PM
i dout the top arm would bend as its cast, bottom arm maybe. could maybe have let the nitrogen out of the canister. or the subframe could have bent as said.
Ralph
you'd be suprised, i've bent top arms (and steering arms) a few times on my mini. ok there slighly different but both cast and basically the same. also managed to bend rear trailing arms.
Posted 8/5/2009 5:57 AM (#510319 - in reply to #510215) Subject: RE: LITTLE HELP NEEDED PLEASE
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Posts: 1364 Location: gods country
so far i have changed the pass side hydro unit and the full steering rack just got to bolt it back on, have looked at both the arms and compared them with k18 and my old subframe and they look ok
Posted 8/5/2009 6:45 AM (#510326 - in reply to #510215) Subject: RE: LITTLE HELP NEEDED PLEASE
Location: Essex
did almost exactly the same thing a while back, didn't loose height, though it sounds, as everyone else said to be the hydro unit
measure from the front subframe beam to the balljoints on each wishbone and see if the distance varies as to the ones on the drivers side
check balljoint movement/play - i'd put brand new mgf lower ones on and one was knocking seriously after the impact
also, check the top arm pivot bearings - mine were badly worn from over 100k miles and the impact finished off the passenger one and was completely mashed
LITTLE HELP NEEDED PLEASE
