Rear Beam Parts

[SWINNEY 2]

I will hopefully be moving house soon and have two knackerd rear beams both, had the normal bearing issues when taken off the car, are these worth keeping for any bits or just scrap?

 

Mark

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

Personally I'd take out the torsion bars and arb,and also keep the trailing arms. But I'm a bit of a hoarder!

Perhaps keep the arb end plates and offset washers and those double ended screw things out of the end of the tb's, as their easy to misplace.

Its worth noting that the torsion bars and arb will be an upgrade for a base model so might be worth a few quid on here or ebay

[Alan_M 66 1 Cars]

The front mounting blocks (with the 2 studs), particularly if it's a 1.9 as they're unique to bigger engined car (handed left & right).

 

All the mounting bolts too (shocks/mounting arms), they're a unique size too. Don't bother with the nuts though, they'll be shagged.

 

In fact, keep everything!

Edited May 4, 2014 by Alan_M

[SWINNEY 2]

I think I will go for the keeping everything option, the wife is just nagging that we should use it as a de-cluttering exercise, I haven't thrown any off the other bits Ive swapped so I shouldn't start now, I remember reading an article in classic ford a few years ago where someone was quoted saying that with an old car don't throw anything away as something is better then nothing and its always good to have parts to swap.

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

There will be a time in the not too distant future when people will be machining out rear beams and probably a group buy of over-sized bearings or something. Currently it is not economically viable to do so but times will change. The amount of 205's that have been scrapped in the past for small corrosion versus what people are starting to do to save them is just the start.

 

It all depends on how much space you have / how hard the wife nags!