16-07-2018, 11:52 PM
Eddamoo. Looks good.
Did you check that the king pin eyes in the axle had bearing surfaces that were at right angles to the pins.....ditto for the stub axles. Also the brackets for the rear spring pins....were the inner surfaces square to the pins???? On my car all surfaces needed grinding to get them back to square......the rear brackets were worn at the lower faces........once square any gap needs to be shimmed out so axle can't move sideways on pins. Non square surfaces in any of these positions will lead to rapid wear and car will not feel nice to drive anyway.
Sevens will indeed put up with a lot of misuse/misassemble and run BUT that only puts off the inevitable.....sometimes catastrophic failure of bits, now becoming ever rarer. Also I prefer a machine to run just right and get no pleasure when things are just hanging on by a thread and making wrong noises and rattles. Sorry for bit of a rant but too many bodges get passed on to unsuspecting new owners who in their ignorance of nicely running A7s think that the bad bits are just normal for these cars.
Dennis
Did you check that the king pin eyes in the axle had bearing surfaces that were at right angles to the pins.....ditto for the stub axles. Also the brackets for the rear spring pins....were the inner surfaces square to the pins???? On my car all surfaces needed grinding to get them back to square......the rear brackets were worn at the lower faces........once square any gap needs to be shimmed out so axle can't move sideways on pins. Non square surfaces in any of these positions will lead to rapid wear and car will not feel nice to drive anyway.
Sevens will indeed put up with a lot of misuse/misassemble and run BUT that only puts off the inevitable.....sometimes catastrophic failure of bits, now becoming ever rarer. Also I prefer a machine to run just right and get no pleasure when things are just hanging on by a thread and making wrong noises and rattles. Sorry for bit of a rant but too many bodges get passed on to unsuspecting new owners who in their ignorance of nicely running A7s think that the bad bits are just normal for these cars.
Dennis