Rear Beam, Slack In Splines?

[B1ack_Mi16 67]

Today when my new rear beam for the track car almost was ready (had mounted the brake brackets and wheel bearings and everything) I noticed that one of the arms (no ARB or dampers connected yet) had a slack in it of about 1cm measured ride-height wise.

 

I did inspect it a bit and it seem to be the splines in the tube that have too much clearance. The arm side seem to be just fine.

 

Has anyone used a beam like this before? The springs will give resistance, so the main problem will be if the slack gets even larger, and the splines starts to slip.

 

As I see it this will only be noticeable when the wheel looses contact with the tarmac (which of course might happend quite often at trackdays though).

 

The other arm is as supposed, no slack at all...

 

What do you reckon, anyone used a beam like this before? Will it give me dodgy handling or will it probably be un-noticeable as long as the rear tires doesn't lift off the ground?

[Anthony 1,002]

I've seen this a few times before in both tubes and arms, but doesn't seem to give any obvious issues or get noticeably worse.

[B1ack_Mi16 67]

Ok, so maybe I just should give it a go.

 

I've spent lots of time on the beam tube sand blasting and painting it.

So it would be a bit silly just to throw it in the bin really.