BX Ride Height
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BX Ride Height
Hi is it me or does my bx ride hight look a little hight or is it normal
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Oi, how come you have a picture of my BX
The rear looks a bit high, make sure the rear height corrector linkage is free to move. The height is easy to adjust by moving the clamp on the anti-roll bar. If you are going to do this make sure the rear is on axle stands before you play, if the clamp moves too far the suspension will drop and make you dead
The rear looks a bit high, make sure the rear height corrector linkage is free to move. The height is easy to adjust by moving the clamp on the anti-roll bar. If you are going to do this make sure the rear is on axle stands before you play, if the clamp moves too far the suspension will drop and make you dead
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I bought it because of the colour and the dark aftermarket tinted windowsken newbold wrote:Does look nice though even without foglamps. Best colour.
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Whenever I've convinced myself the suspension was set too high, I set it to settings I've been told (clenched fidt between top of wheel and bottom of wheel arch) and always ended up convinced it was better before I started except once. (Maybe I have small effiminate hands)
In that case, the adjustment on the rods that link front and rear h/cs had been stuffed around with and as a result gave some weird symptoms. I also found amongst the things I needed to rectify that the front h/c was partially seized and was flexing the arm to the sway bar. By 'working' the arm up and down (with the car well up in the air on a ramp) it suddenly let go with a great whoosh and has been right ever since.
This may explain why you don't have an intermediate place on your height settings.
I wish I could find the pics I took of this adjuster but feel thay may have been deleted in preference to other more important things by the boys; the more important thing may have been wearing a bikini at the time!!
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In that case, the adjustment on the rods that link front and rear h/cs had been stuffed around with and as a result gave some weird symptoms. I also found amongst the things I needed to rectify that the front h/c was partially seized and was flexing the arm to the sway bar. By 'working' the arm up and down (with the car well up in the air on a ramp) it suddenly let go with a great whoosh and has been right ever since.
This may explain why you don't have an intermediate place on your height settings.
I wish I could find the pics I took of this adjuster but feel thay may have been deleted in preference to other more important things by the boys; the more important thing may have been wearing a bikini at the time!!
Alan S
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I'd say the rear is everso slightly too high. As mentioned, probably a sticky adjuster
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