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23rd August 2019, 16:21 | #11 |
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I had new springs fitted last March and the inside of my Suspension arms were sound. No rust!
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24th August 2019, 12:59 | #12 |
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I see your fuel cooler aerofoil has corroded and disappeared the same as mine has.
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25th August 2019, 13:44 | #13 |
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I have now tackled the job with my angle grinder and I can now report that we are back to solid metal and ready for treating. I will have another day preparing the surfaces and then I will apply Aquasteel (used on ship decks and oil riggs).
It will then get a top coat of hammerite. Finally waxoyl will be applied to the inner sections of the suspension arms and all the nooks and crannies. Its a ll in the preparation! I'm pleased to say that the rust is not as bad as some of the other pictures I have seen. I put this down to regular hosing down the salt accumulations in winter's past. |
25th August 2019, 13:49 | #14 |
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25th August 2019, 18:01 | #15 |
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The offside rear suspension arm (not the one the spring sits in) has (or in our case had :-/) a small aerofoil to direct air passing under the car into the fuel cooler behind it.
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25th August 2019, 20:52 | #16 |
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Yes the rivets corrode and or the brackets rot, so they have a nasty habit of falling off.
It's one of the few part numbers I can remember without looking it up it's PIG000010 Russ
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26th August 2019, 13:51 | #17 |
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aerofoil
do they fit on the lower arms. black plastic covers?
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26th August 2019, 14:30 | #18 |
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no. 11 on here ………..
https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-GRID001547
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28th August 2019, 16:20 | #19 |
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Time to replace!!
Another afternoon cleaning rust off my suspension arms. Unfortunate I discovered a crack along the top of the offside suspension arm. On discovering this its made my mind up to replace. I will use aquaseal on the rest of the rusty surfaces, but exclude the upper arms. Time to replace me thinks!
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