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Corner Balance issue after suspension rebuild, looking for ideas...
So the car is at the shop, it lives there more than at home.
Anyways, I get a call today, and here are the numbers they have:
647/344
627/917
Total 2,535
Cross weight 971lb - 38.3%
Cross weight 1564lb - 61.7%
Left weight - 50.3%
Right weight - 49.7%
No matter what they do, it's not making a whole lot of progress.
Recently, the suspension was rebuilt.
New 22mm Torsions in front
New ER A-Arm bushings
New Ball Joints
New ER shock tower bushings
New rack spacers
New sway bar bushings
Fresh rebuilt Bilstein shocks (custom-valved by Steve Weiner)
ER Triangulated strut brace (pre-existing)
New 29mm Torsions in rear
New ER spring plate bushings
New ER trailing arm bushings (sport)
New sway bar bushings
New drop links both sides
New shock tower bushings
Fresh rebuilt Bilsteins (also from Steve)
New Bridgestone RE-11s all the way around
Car is taking an alignment to pretty reasonable specs
Other notes:
Front torsion caps were indexed the same way to achieve the correct ride height (so they are at similar adjustment via the screws, not one way down and the other high)
Rear spring plates were adjusted and set the same way via the spring plate calcuator and set to the same angle with a protractor. Spring plate height adjustments are similar side to side.
CB has the sways adjusted as usual, and rear shocks were also unbolted in case one had decided to freeze up or something weird.
The right-rear trailing arm got bent somehow in the rebuild process (long story) but was replaced with a known good one, and had a new bearing installed, etc. (but reused the trailing arm bushings that had <50 miles on the bent arm)
Car was taken in for a re balance after pulling to the left with pretty good force on hard braking.
Shop is baffled. What are the next steps?
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Rob
1980 SC - 2011 Tiguan - 2018 Tesla M3P
Last edited by MysticLlama; 09-07-2010 at 05:15 PM..
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