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#1 proccy13

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Posted 09 June 2020 - 08:49 AM

Hi all,

 

Annoyingly this super helpful link/guide has had its pictures lost to time (I've tried asking admins to try and find them but I think they've gone due to being an old thread) http://www.theminifo...-fitting-guide/

 

Does anyone else have a video or picture/step by step guide? 

 

Thanks Oli

 



#2 danie garry

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Posted 09 June 2020 - 08:57 AM

Hi all,

 

Annoyingly this super helpful link/guide has had its pictures lost to time (I've tried asking admins to try and find them but I think they've gone due to being an old thread) http://www.theminifo...-fitting-guide/

 

Does anyone else have a video or picture/step by step guide? 

 

Thanks Oli

 

the link redirects to the forum home page



#3 nicklouse

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Posted 09 June 2020 - 09:08 AM

There is a great guide in your Haynes manual.

 

compress rubber remove rebound buffer. Remove top arm, alloy cone. I would also replace the rubber if it is old. Reassemble. Set approx ride height. Let settle. Get corner weights and tracking done.



#4 g0myw

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Posted 09 June 2020 - 09:10 AM

I went on youtube, plenty of videos there swapping out suspension parts.
as with all youtube videos - some are truely terrible.!!
But you'll get plenty of good tips as well.

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Posted 09 June 2020 - 09:31 AM

the link redirects to the forum home page

 

 

 

Sorry this link - http://www.theminifo...-fitting-guide/

 

 

There is a great guide in your Haynes manual.

 

compress rubber remove rebound buffer. Remove top arm, alloy cone. I would also replace the rubber if it is old. Reassemble. Set approx ride height. Let settle. Get corner weights and tracking done.

 

Ah okay, thanks.



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Posted 11 June 2020 - 09:04 PM

After watching lots and videos and reading many threads there seems to be differing ways to do this. Is it possible to leave the top suspension arm in place to do this and not have to fiddle about with the top arm bolt and its retaining plate bolts? 

 

If not, is it possible to slide the top arm bolt from the firewall side into the engine bay to shimmy the top suspension arm out of the way WHLST keeping the fiddly retaining plate and its bolts in place, to then get the trumpet and donut out and put the new Hi Lo in?

 

Many thanks!



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Posted 13 June 2020 - 02:22 AM

I tried to get the cone out without removing the top arm and it wouldn’t physically fit through the gap. If it’s been in there a while there’s a good chance the cone is fused to the alloy trumpet too.

The way I did it was undo the rear nut on the top arm pin, and then remove the two small bolts from the front retaining plate, and then pull the pin through to the front.




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