Droplinks Needed???
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Droplinks Needed???
What are the symptoms of worn droplinks, and how would I check that they're OK?
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Rear arm lean.
Hi I dont know about the arms leaning as such, mine were noisey/crackly but did not seem to lean at all, but the bearings were completely shot and the "rear wheel steering" was something else. Thank goodness they are cheap and still available.
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Geoff.
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Geoff.
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I probably didnt explain that very well. What I meant by the arms leaning in is that when the rear arm bearings wear, the tops of the back wheels get closer together and the bottom gets further apart. Mine dont apear to do that, but the slight long distance directional instability is starting to happen, and that is possibly rear arm bearing wear, or front bottom arm bush wear as far as I know- or it could be a worn droplink I suppose.
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Worn droplinks can be difficult to diagnose. The noise does not prevent them from doing their job and the wear is not a safety or MOT issue.
You can easily confirm or deny their source of your noise by simply removing them one at a time or just undoing the top or bottom joint and taping the link out of harms way to see if the noise symtoms change.
You cant remove them both together cos the suspension height is taken from the position of the antiroll bar via the drop links. So you always need one there to move the roll bar with the suspension height.
I had a very noisy one last winter. But when the weather warmed up the rattling noise almost disappeared - only to come back when the frosts returned again. So if yours is noisy now, in summer you have been warned.
You can easily confirm or deny their source of your noise by simply removing them one at a time or just undoing the top or bottom joint and taping the link out of harms way to see if the noise symtoms change.
You cant remove them both together cos the suspension height is taken from the position of the antiroll bar via the drop links. So you always need one there to move the roll bar with the suspension height.
I had a very noisy one last winter. But when the weather warmed up the rattling noise almost disappeared - only to come back when the frosts returned again. So if yours is noisy now, in summer you have been warned.
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