have lower arm pins changed in design from aussie ones to UK ones ?

or perhaps early to late design ?

i just ordered one of these -http://www.minispares.com/product/Classic/Suspension/Front/Dry/2A4362.aspx?190201&ReturnUrl=/search/classic/lower arm.aspx|Back to search

for my moke.. and it doesnt fit my aussie subframe ? (the end will pass through the subframe)

am i missing a plate for the inside end ?

im under the impresion that it should fit against the subframe tight ?

any help would be much appreciated

Nick

Pins are all the same, I'd say your frame might have been modified.
Can you post a pic of the subframe where it fits?

thanks for the speedy reply harley, i must be half asleep and half a complete idiot..

i was test fitting the pin in the upper arm hole

there are 2 pins, early & late

one had a flange , or shoulder-plate (for want of a better description) & the other had no flange

either work fine & are totally interchangeable

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Having now found the correct hole when inserted the pin doesn't have much meat on the end, only just enough to get the but on and that's without a spring washer, will this get better as I tighten the nut?

The pin changes from 3/8" thread to 1/2" shank.
The hole is 1/4" deep, when the shoulder bottoms out there should be enough thread poking through the other side for a nyloc nut or a spring washer and normal nut.
If there's not enough thread, just use a normal nut with loctite.

ok they are now fitted.. only just just comes flush with the end of the nut, and thats with it done up to to a point where i wouldnt want to do it tighter for fear of bending the subframe