** Rear Wheel Rubbing Inner Arch, Help Needed **

[Mad Professor 7]

Hi All.

 

I seem to be having one problem after the other.

 

Now i have a problem with my rear right wheel.

It's like |---\

 

I have taken of my wheel, and the arm has a lot of movement, where it conects to the main beam.

 

Whats the program, besides it's FUBAR'ed.

 

And how easy / cost to get it fixed?

 

Thanks for your time and help.

[Anthony 1,003]

If it's got to the stage where the rear wheel has enough camber to be rubbing the inner arch, I think your rear beam is buggared beyond repair. Generally for the wheel to be leaning that much, the bearings in the beam tube will be ground away and the shaft will have dug into the tube itself.

 

Your best bet is to either find a good rear beam from a breakers yard, or to buy a reconditioned one from somewhere like SSP Engineering.

[Mad Professor 7]

Ok.

 

If the worse comes to the worse, i will buy a new or recon.

 

But how the hell to i get the arm off the beam? So that i can find out if the beem is dead.

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

To find out if it is dead you'll need to strip the beam down & remove the radius arm.

 

Follow the Haynes manual method, this works but it does sound like you beam is past the cheap repair stage IMO.

 

Graham.

[Rob_the_Sparky 9]

The only way to get camber is for the arm to not be held properly by the bearings. To get that much camber the bearings must have collapsed. At a minimum the bearings and the shaft that rotates in them are buggered and the outer beam is at least badly worn if not totally shafted.

 

Not much point in a strip down to check.

[Mad Professor 7]

Follow the Haynes manual method

Ok now where did i put that book.

 

Do I need to take the hole beam out?

Or can I just take off the arm?

[Mad Professor 7]

Well form what you lot have said so far, i better phone up my new boss, and tell him that i will not be doing the pizzia rounds this weekend.

[nick 3]

Graham, won't these bushes your working on save a lot of these beams with knackered tubes??

 

Nick

[hd_andy 2]

Ok now where did i put that book.

I usually find it near the bin from the last thing that it tried to show me how to do

[Anthony 1,003]

The newer Haynes comedy manual doesn't tell you how to strip the rear beam btw - you need the older style one for that.

[Guest Devil'ish]

Or better still contact perfecto-pug JIM he rebuild's them

[jonnie205 1]

Dont strip the old beam there is no point. Go down the breakers and whip one off a low milage 205, there are thousands of good beams at my scrappy, will only cost you £50 and half a day to fit. Jobs a goodun

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

Graham, won't these bushes your working on save a lot of these beams with knackered tubes??

 

Nick

That depends, the radius arm pin will be Ok with some wear but if the central tube is worn, nothing will save it.

 

Graham.

[Sam 4]

get a good nick 1600 beam, straight fit and bigger bars and brakes on it

 

no point rebuilding a 1400, you can pick up decent gti ones easily. and if you get a decent one take off the arms and grease all the bearings etc

[Mad Professor 7]

My head is going to explode.

 

I have been running round trying to find a new / recon / 2nd hand, beem.

The only place i have found so far is a new rear beem @ £269.76 inc vat, that's just for the beem, not arms.

[jonnie205 1]

jesus christ mate i could find you 10 within 30 mins of trying, where are you based and what beam do you want? i have a pukka 1.9 beam for if you are intersted. i want £150 but its complete and would bolt straight up in your xs. If not i can go to my scrappy and rip one from a nice k reg diesel or something?

[Mad Professor 7]

I am on the isle of wight, mate.

 

What would be the best beem to get?

Please renamber that I am using 1.9 speedlines.

Edited February 13, 2004 by Mad Professor

[Rob_the_Sparky 9]

There is a thread running on the differences between rear beams on different models of car.

[Mad Professor 7]

I take it you mean.

Rear Beams, Whats the difference base, 1.6, 1.9?

[Mad Professor 7]

I have been reading tho that comedy manual, And it is not very clear.

I don't think getting the beem out will be a big problem.

 

But how do you get the arm off the beem?

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

It depends on how far you are stripping it down, whatever way you choose smack the arm out of the central tube with a sledge hammer.

First you need to remove the rear ARB & brake lines so it will come away completely.

 

To get the arm off with the torsion bar still fitted in the arm just remove the shocker from the lower mount & the nut from the centre tube end of the torsion bar.

 

If you strip it completely & remove the torison bar fully from the arm & then hammer the arm out if it doesn't come free when the slide hammer is used to get the torsion bar off first.

 

Graham.

[Mad Professor 7]

I have removed the hole unit off the car.

But i will can not get to the nut in the centre tube.

 

There is some sort of plate in the way, The plate seems to be conected to the plate on the other side, as wen i turn it the other plate also turns.

 

I have looked tho my v3 pug cd's and none of the pic's has this plate.

 

Any Idears?

Edited February 15, 2004 by Mad Professor

[Mad Professor 7]

I have got the plate off now thanks to info from "Mattcony".

 

Did someone say that I was ment to have bearings? If so where are thay?

The other side has bearings, but thay are cesied.

 

So i have a dead beam, and a dead arm as it has worn it down as well.

[Mad Professor 7]

Right i have been round all the scrapyards again.

 

Nothing any good.

 

I have just been told about SSP Engineering, Duz 205gtidrivers or PGAC get discounts from them?

[Mad Professor 7]

I also have just been told about someone that brakes 205 on ebay.

As anyone tryed this (frostys_205_gtiz)?