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[Cir-clipalot]

My wheel alignment needs doing but my front tie bars are a bit bent. If i get the alignment sorted will it get screwed up when i subsequently replace the tie bars with straight ones?
Secondly, I believe clubby+roundnose front subframes are different, but will tie bars off a roundnose go onto a clubby?

[Jammy]

My wheel alignment needs doing but my front tie bars are a bit bent. If i get the alignment sorted will it get screwed up when i subsequently replace the tie bars with straight ones?
Secondly, I believe clubby+roundnose front subframes are different, but will tie bars off a roundnose go onto a clubby?

Well, if you can adjust the tie bar so its exactly the same length then you shouldn't mess it up. But I would always have the tracking set up after doing something like that.

And I hope the Clubby and roundnose subframes aren't different as I'm half way through changing one now!

[evolotion]

The subrames arnt different but your tracking will be affected by an change in the legnth of the tie rod!

[miniman5]

i would recomend some ajustable ones, there jsut as much as the old naff ones, and you can ajust these, there twice the thikness and the same weight! and if there set up right will alow you to thhrow it into an island and it wont bounce around it

[Guess-Works.com]

Bent tie bars are unsafe and should be replaced ( also MOT failure point )

Adjustables are only necessary if you intend on changing to -ve/adjustable camber bottom arms or you intend on doing track racing...

As for the price adjustables cost IRO £30 a corner when including bushes and standard ones are about £12.

**edit** and yes the subframes are the same ( as long as you dont try and put a MK1/2/3 subframe into a MK4 on shell, change over about 1976 )

Edited by GuessWorks, 20 June 2005 - 08:33 AM.

[Dan]

Change the tie rods before getting the wheel alignment sorted, it's probably the bent tie rods causing the alignment to be wrong.

[Cir-clipalot]

thanks lads, i must have had yet another brainfart and been thinking about manual vs auto subframes rather than roundnose vs clubman! :nugget:

[Boab]

Bent tie bars are unsafe and should be replaced ( also MOT failure point )

Tell me about it, but by heck, it's fun

Getting mine done shortly, what do you recommend taking into account of me putting a 1380 (100bhp for £400 :grin: ) later in the year

[TimS]

and if the bolts sieze in and you have to drill them out, make sure you replace them with the corect ones. I put fully threaded bolts in and managed to snap them under heavy braking. Both wheels hit the back of the arches bending the A pannels and grooving the tyres. Was very dangerous but luckily there wasnt much around.

[Guess-Works.com]

when you buy std tiebars you will get the bolts and bushes with the bar

[miniman5]

As for the price adjustables cost IRO £30 a corner when including bushes and standard ones are about £12.

duno where you buy your stuff from john! mine where, 22 sqwid! from min-its