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[maxandali]

New to this mini renovation lark. Pretty pleased with myself for getting the old rubber cones out. Should have known it wouldnt be that easy !

How on earth do you get the new ones in ?. doesnt seem to be enough room to get the end of the spring strut over the lip of the cone and the cone is so solid I cant seem to get it to give enough to get the spring strut over edge of the cone.


any advice gratefully received

[xrocketengineer]

New to this mini renovation lark. Pretty pleased with myself for getting the old rubber cones out. Should have known it wouldnt be that easy !

How on earth do you get the new ones in ?. doesnt seem to be enough room to get the end of the spring strut over the lip of the cone and the cone is so solid I cant seem to get it to give enough to get the spring strut over edge of the cone.


any advice gratefully received

Hi,
What I did with mine was, I set the knuckle joint, trumpet and spring altogether as an assembly into the suspension arm. Then I used a pry bar between the spring base and the seat in the frame. I had to work the pry bar to first get the spring into the frame and then to make it go over the centering dome on the frame. I installed coil springs but that should work with the cones too.

Hope that helps

[mcaville]

New to this mini renovation lark. Pretty pleased with myself for getting the old rubber cones out. Should have known it wouldnt be that easy !

How on earth do you get the new ones in ?. doesnt seem to be enough room to get the end of the spring strut over the lip of the cone and the cone is so solid I cant seem to get it to give enough to get the spring strut over edge of the cone.


any advice gratefully received

I used adjustable trumpets (Hi-Lo's) and had no problem at all. This would allow you to set the ride hight of your Mini.

[bmcecosse]

You should be able to seat the new rubber cone in the subby - at a slight angle outwards - and then slide the trumpet into place - seating the ball end in the trailing arm first and then sliding the trumpet into the cone. Be sure to put a smear of grease on the trumpet/cone join - to stop it rusting up solid in future!

[maxandali]

thanks, just had a go and it worked.

only three more to do !

thanks very much for your help.

[maddogmcg]

[quote name='maxandali' date='Feb 9 2010, 09:31 PM' post='1728487']
thanks, just had a go and it worked.

only three more to do !

thanks very much for your help.

three more to do ,the front ones arent quite as easy ,you will need a cone compressing tool ,and when i recently did mine i had to remove the top arm to create enough room to get the old one out