Pre-Lowering Advice

[FireFly 4]

Looking at getting the rear beam lowered sometime soon and want to try and ensure its as unsiezed as possible.

Can anyone point me to a guide or advise me which components need lubricating/penetrating.

 

Cheers!

[chipstick 382 1 Cars]

There's a useful guide on the home page which has half decent pictures.

 

If I had to be a pessimist which I do love - I'd say a bit of WD40 won't hurt but don't expect it fall apart because of that alone.

 

Who is doing the work for you?

[stu8v 68 1 Cars]

Everything........

 

Fire up the burning torch and break out the sledge hammer.

 

 

I managed to break my thumb doing mine.

 

Good luck!

[welshpug 1,655]

I've never found anything to be of any use, its either going to come apart easily or put up a fight (99% the latter, unless its known to have been apart recently)

 

Just take it as it comes and be prepared to go in with the heavies so to speak.

[ORB 227 1 Cars]

I have done four in my time.

 

Two came apart with ease, two were sledge hammer jobs.

[Alan_M 66 1 Cars]

Be prepared, and if it does come apart, have new seals etc to put back in place.

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

Regular soaking of the ends of the torsion bars does help in my experience.

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

Looking at getting the rear beam lowered sometime soon and want to try and ensure its as unsiezed as possible.

Imo, you'll struggle to do this & if the beam has never been apart before, personally I wouldn't consider just lowering a beam in otherwise unknown condition.

 

Is this the car in your profile pic you're looking to lower?

 

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[FireFly 4]

Yes it's the 205 1.9DT I'm referring to. It's a standard pov spec beam so should be fun.

If torsion bar method fails theres always the notch method which I'm sure is a hot topic..

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

Isn't it already lowered now?

 

Notch method or correct factory method makes very little difference if the rest of the beam is already past its best, if anything the notch method is worse because you take the beam further apart & failed bearings can fall out of place rather than just rotate further round.

 

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[FireFly 4]

I'm fairly certain it's standard ride height on the rear at the moment with 40mm springs up front that give a rock hard ride.

I've purchased some cheap coil overs but it won't be a while until I get a chance to collect them!