Alain
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Dance monkey boy, dance!
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Yippee! The springs arrived from Germany on Monday, so now I can drop my passat  I've got to do it tomorrow, as I'm busy thursday, and need to do a 400 mile round trip in it this weekend. Which includes giving Junglist a ride back home to pick up his goof - I don't think he'll be happy if I cop out  ;D So hopefully everything goes to plan! I've got to fit: - Shortened, uprated shocks - 40mm drop H&R springs - New wheel bearings for the front (figured I might as well do it while the bearing/strut housing is off and in bits! - New front wishbone bushes Hopefully it'll all go to plan! I'll be posting pictures up tomorrow ;D Once it's dropped I need to offer up the mattigs and see how much I need to flare out the arches (bottle jack at the ready ) |
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Last Edit: Mar 8, 2007 21:19:48 GMT by Alain
 '74 Type 181 - Undergoing 'resto' (albeit friggin' slowly! 2 years and counting...) Wedge Panel Van GTi (Still needs finishing) '85 Passat GL5 Estate (Now Breaking) '87 Passat GLS5 Estate (Daily Hack) |
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Sounds like a plan!  |
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Alain
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Dance monkey boy, dance!
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So, from thevery start it all turned to curse word.... it took me about 4 hours to get one front strut off. Nothing went easy. Mainly because the spring was snapped, and therefore putting massive pressure on the strut against the strut tower. I had to drill out the strut top mount just to get it off  Anyway, got both front struts and wishbones off by about 3pm, and couldnt get the wheel bearings or wishbone bushes out... gonna sort them at the garage tomorrow with the press. I then thought I'd get the back done quickly before it got dark. Got one side off, put the new damper together, bolted it up and went to bolt the wheel on...it fouls against the spring The spring cup sits way to far down the strut so the spring is about 4 inches lower than on the stock one  I'm clueless as to what to do now... Has anyone else lowered a mk2 passat with GT cupline shocks? I can't for the life of me work out how else the bottom spring plate could fit to it to make it any different Anyone got any idea? |
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'74 Type 181 - Undergoing 'resto' (albeit friggin' slowly! 2 years and counting...) Wedge Panel Van GTi (Still needs finishing) '85 Passat GL5 Estate (Now Breaking) '87 Passat GLS5 Estate (Daily Hack)
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Alain
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Dance monkey boy, dance!
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On second thought, I might just get some stock shocks for the rear... I can't be arsed with this hassle and they're only £11.500 plus VAT (minus trade... )
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'74 Type 181 - Undergoing 'resto' (albeit friggin' slowly! 2 years and counting...) Wedge Panel Van GTi (Still needs finishing) '85 Passat GL5 Estate (Now Breaking) '87 Passat GLS5 Estate (Daily Hack)
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bad luck, dude I wonder if the spring cup is lower to allow for more drop? or is it what the germans call shortened shocks? bit of a bummer whatever. perfect excuse for much larger offset wheels tho ;D hope tomorrow bring you better luck |
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Sorry to hear your bad luck. I think I'd be double checking part numbers ect. to make sure the parts are correct.
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thats definitely not fun. had trouble myself getting a spring out, so the cars been on axle stands and a trolley jack for 2 weeks now lol
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only two weeks! mines been on jacks since ive had it!
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theres a couple of guys here who have lowered pasties, maybe they could shed some light as to the problem.
can anyone remember their usernames?
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berendd
Europe
why do I need 3 keys for one car?
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been there done that.... front shocks, search for audi 80 type 81/89 on ebay.de and buy some Koni's (yellow, sport) rear is just golf/jetta/vento stuff got questions, mail me.. and it'll look kinda like this:   |
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Last Edit: Mar 7, 2007 21:50:28 GMT by berendd
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Alain.....nooooooooooooo waaaaaaaaaayyyyy hope you get it sorted dude.... and while there's some pissrat pervs here, how can i severely lower my '78? without cocking the job up  |
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'04 Sharan TDI 130
'05 Passat TDI Highline Estate
'92 Mk2 GTi 'VR
'69 Moggy Traveller
'65 Beetle 1300
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Alain
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Dance monkey boy, dance!
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Man... What a lot of hard work! I am aching ALL over! Took the front strut/bearing hosing to get the bearings pressed in/out today, and decided to not bother changing the wishbone bushes, as new wishbones (with bushes in) are only 27 quid anyway...but they will have to wait till next week. Got back to Leeds at about 4:30 and cracked straight on with getting it done, as it needed to be off Gareth's drive by 9pm at the latest, and it gets dark at about 6:30 Anyway, I managed to get it all done, bar one rear corner - I just ended up using the stock shock. It seems the shock I was sent is designed to be used with a coil over style srpiong, which is obvisouly a lot narrower Not to worry...Here's some pics from the whole thing: Then:      Now :  |
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Last Edit: Mar 8, 2007 21:22:31 GMT by Alain
'74 Type 181 - Undergoing 'resto' (albeit friggin' slowly! 2 years and counting...) Wedge Panel Van GTi (Still needs finishing) '85 Passat GL5 Estate (Now Breaking) '87 Passat GLS5 Estate (Daily Hack)
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Glad you got that sorted mate.
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Great stuff....all worked out in the end, smell of victory dude. :-)
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Alain
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Dance monkey boy, dance!
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Great stuff....all worked out in the end, smell of victory dude. :-) Almost! I had to drive the car home (a couple miles) and there's an incredibly loud squealing comeing from the o/s fron brake... I'm hoping it's just the backing plate making slight contact with the disc (after i bent the curse word out of it by not taking it off!) Tomorrow will tell. First thing to do is get the other rear shock done...then drive it 200 miles |
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'74 Type 181 - Undergoing 'resto' (albeit friggin' slowly! 2 years and counting...) Wedge Panel Van GTi (Still needs finishing) '85 Passat GL5 Estate (Now Breaking) '87 Passat GLS5 Estate (Daily Hack)
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sparko
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we had a squealing noise in my budies punto turbo and it turned out that the hub nut was loose... might want to give it a check...
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mrj
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Great work ! Reminds me of my old GT, just found a pic of it :  it was also lowered on H&Rs.... sadly it will be crushed now  |
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- 1971 VW 1600 TL Fastback
- 1978 Passat GLS Variant
- 1980 Audi 100 5E
- 1981 VW aircooled panel van (sold)
- 1983 VW Jetta Mk.I
- 1984 VW Polo Coupé
- 1984 VW Passat hatchback
- 1987 VW Passat Variant
- 1987 VW Passat hatchback
- 1988 VW T25
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Alain
Part of things
Dance monkey boy, dance!
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we had a squealing noise in my budies punto turbo and it turned out that the hub nut was loose... might want to give it a check... Yeah, I think I might.... |
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'74 Type 181 - Undergoing 'resto' (albeit friggin' slowly! 2 years and counting...) Wedge Panel Van GTi (Still needs finishing) '85 Passat GL5 Estate (Now Breaking) '87 Passat GLS5 Estate (Daily Hack)
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I had to drive the car home (a couple miles) and there's an incredibly loud squealing comeing from the o/s fron brake... I'm hoping it's just the backing plate making slight contact with the disc (after I bent the curse word out of it by not taking it off!) I did that on my old Alfa 33 ... made the most hideous noise ever!! |
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