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Super-mini
 Post subject: Rear Hilos
PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:32 pm 
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anyone find the rod length too short?
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 Post subject: Re: Rear Hilos
PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:44 pm 
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Super-mini wrote:
anyone find the rod length too short?


I have in a couple of instance found them too long (these were the Mini Spares ones).

Not enough in the Hi-lo Bolt to compensate?

Can you fit factory washers between the knuckle joint and rod?

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Have your cones collapsed?
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these ones.

http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx? ... 500&title=

i thought the rear ride height was okay, didnt have a look at the cones tho.
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 Post subject: Re: Rear Hilos
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GT mowog wrote:
I have in a couple of instance found them too long (these were the Mini Spares ones).


Likewise -- the ones I got from Karcraft a year or so ago were a cast iron sod to get into the back of my van with new cones...

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use an old pair of hydro rods...
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simon k wrote:
use an old pair of hydro rods...


I have done that and had them bend. They should work OK but it has happened a couple of times.

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GT mowog wrote:
simon k wrote:
use an old pair of hydro rods...


I have done that and had them bend. They should work OK but it has happened a couple of times.


dunno - I had them on 3 daily drivers for 10 years or so all up, always the same set, never an issue
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simon k wrote:
use an old pair of hydro rods...


I've done this in two of my mini's no problems so far. (approx 5 years of use)

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