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when I was 18, and had my first daily driver mini, the mini guru pumped up my suspension to the correct pressure, which made it sit ridiculously high. It had pot joint inner CV's, and when I accelerated hard, it would lean right back (worse than in your photo) and the front end would clunk like mad - either from the pot joints trying to come apart, or the driveshafts bashing on the subframe. I solved it by converting to dry suspension - at the time I thought the bags were rooted, but it could have been anything

but I'm still thinking yours is an alignment problem - if it was just the bags, then it would settle straight after accelerating etc.

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Thanks Simon.
I'm suitably chastened, but then I am a bit of a luddite with all this new fangled technology.
What exactly is BBCode?
The SU carb is a good example of the kiss principle to which I adhere to wherever possible.
IT doesn't seem to work on the kiss principle.
I also don't think I'll try and mix driveshafts. That theory has been blown to pieces.

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[quote="miniron"]What exactly is BBCode?
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at the risk of muddying up the thread, BBcode is the various tags you can put around things in posts, like [img][/img], [quote][/quote] etc. When the website needs to display a page, it replaces those tags with the proper 'markup' that makes your web browser display it as intended. If BBCode is disabled, the tags aren't replaced with the 'markup', and are thus just displayed as text

in this case, I disabled BBcode in this message to allow the example tags I listed above to display properly, but that messed up my quoting of your message, can't have it both ways

now, back to the suspension discussion

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my cars suspension is now dead flat on its bump stops and still tilting up im going to put the standard ones in for now and try my dads trick of putting holden shockers in the rear and once i can afford it ill put some oil fiiled shockers in the front

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Ziegech wrote:
my cars suspension is now dead flat on its bump stops and still tilting up im going to put the standard ones in for now and try my dads trick of putting holden shockers in the rear and once i can afford it ill put some oil fiiled shockers in the front


hydro doesn't work with shockers in the back.... the springs are there to hold the back down - they simulate extra weight in the rear of the car

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yeah my idea is to run shockers in place or springs to remove the weight effect so i dont lift on take off.

IVE FOUND THE PROBLEM

i basically have no rubber left on my rubber bushes on the lower arms. No idea why these have eaten themselves but there gone. this is why the wheels are tilting on a funny angle they arent always lifting they are moving the bottom arm

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i basically have no rubber left on my rubber bushes on the lower arms. No idea why these have eaten themselves but there gone. this is why the wheels are tilting on a funny angle they arent always lifting they are moving the bottom arm


oops... I had the ones on my left side "go missing" when the nut on the collarbone wasn't tight enough/had worked loose

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Ziegech wrote:
yeah my idea is to run shockers in place or springs to remove the weight effect so i dont lift on take off.

IVE FOUND THE PROBLEM

i basically have no rubber left on my rubber bushes on the lower arms. No idea why these have eaten themselves but there gone. this is why the wheels are tilting on a funny angle they arent always lifting they are moving the bottom arm


Thats good news, Ill see you later on...

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