1967 Morris Oxford Traveller - off to a new home

The rubbers on the current shocks are 25mm O/D set up to go onto 16mm horizontal pins

The kit looks pretty similar to this

Ohh nice - some of the VW stuff has definite scope.
Some good options for shorter items for lowered right height too - which might be useful.

I thought I edited that quick enough after posting! That's why I said I ffffd up because they are 19mm pin. I thought they were 16 but was looking at Series 1 landy (but then damper lengths are wrong)

But your tube sleeve idea sounds great solution

 I hear you, but from what I remember about my 4-link design from my 4x4 days, you also have to have a good amount of separation between top and bottom links.

I was planning to box them in, when I do the final welding. That should give them a lot of strength.

and another one has come along 



It was still almost 200C 5 mins after finishing the welding, so I've left it to cool before a quick rub over with the flap disc.

Next step is to bolt them up, and I can then cut the top links to size, before starting on the bottom links.

nice job

might be worth welding them to your chassis legs once its all finalised. as it is i think the plate will work loose due to the bending moment on them, plus chassis rail not having Z plates or crush tubes where you have bolted through

Time for the bottom link mounts, which are shared with the lower shock mounts.

So I took a couple of days off of work, and this is the result of the first day a full 10-6 shift. Fab work takes time - lots of time.

Day 1

Take the old MGB telescopic shock conversion, and add some lovely laser-cut 4mm steel



Chop and change stuff around an little, and then duplicate, and I ended up with this.



Those were then positioned a 1000 times before being tack welded to the axle, you'll see that later.

But now I had all my link mounts in place, so I was able to cut the link tubes to length and add the sleeves for the bushes.
I used a coping calculator found on the interwebs, put in you tube sizes, and it gives a template to wrap around the tube to act as a cutting guide.

It works nicely



Weld them up and then grind them down gently (the tube is on 1.5mm wall) and I ended up with these.



Day is to bolt it all up and see if it works......

Day 2

This is everything in place, with the suspension on full droop, limited by the length of the shocks. The air-springs won't allow that much travel. So I should get some kind of limit device, but I'm not sure I can be bothered.



Jack the axle up a little - this is the max droop allowed by the air-spring travel



Now to start jacking up one side, to see if/where it binds.
This is the limit of my side-side travel. The bushes on the top of the axle are binding.
I come from a 4x4 background where axle articulation is everything, but for this cruiser, I think it is going to be fine.
The top mounts will be boxed and triangulated at the final welding stage.



This design of 4-link is pretty severely compromised by the short top links causing the bush to bind, I'm not willing to butcher the shell and go through a BIVA, so I'm fine with this.
What I was surprised by was how the prop touches on the prop tunnel.
A rework of that area is not on the cards, I'll see if I can gain a few mm by putting a scissor jack there, maybe it will want to stretch it a little ??
Failing that I'll look at a prop with a narrower tube if it is a problem in the real world.

Now it is starting to get interesting, how far can I jack it up before
A)    The shocks bottom out

B)    The air spring reaches its internal bumpstop



The shock still has 30mm of travel 
I've allowed a little space in there for the platform for the spring, which is still a work in progress.



I'm not sure if animations work here - but lets try.....



Wrapping up, time to put on a wheel and see what the end result will look like

Maximum ride height - which is maybe a little over stock - not sure



But down in the weeds 



Pretty happy with that, there is clearance everywhere, but less than 1cm in places, so I couldn't really of gone any lower without doing a lot of cutting.

Taking a bit of a break now, as the end of Day 2 saw me in Southampton eye hospital with a chip of metal in my eye 

Good progress 😁
Feel your pain regarding your eye. Hopefully had it out in one. I had a carbide tip shatter on me in May. Three trips to the eye hospital to get all of it out 🙁