1.9gti Rear Suspension Assembly

[Guest Crowley]

My trusty old 205D failed it's MOT bigtime and it's off to the scrappy with it soon. But a while ago I fitted a 1.9GTi rear beam as an experiment and I was thinking of taking it off at the scrapyard and bringing it home to recondition.

Now I'm fairly lazy and my new GTi needs a lot of work, am I actually going to have enough time to bother with this or is it going to clutter up my shed? I'm looking for opinions of people who've been in a similar situation.

[mbayley77 0]

I think its worthwhile personally. The amount of trouble people have with these things is worth keeping hold of it.

 

But then i guess its up to whether or not you will really get round to doing anything with it!

[Anthony 1,003]

You might as well remove it if it's good - even if you don't want it, it's worth a few beer tokens as people are always after 1.9 beams that aren't screwed...

[Guest Crowley]

I'm afraid that both bearings have gone, or are at least worn, according to the MOT

My plan was to re-condition this one, swap it for the one on the GTi, recondition that one and then sell one of them on.

Edited March 9, 2006 by Crowley

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

If both bearings have gone enough for it to fail an MOT then its worthless imo.

 

205 D beams are a different spec to the GTi ones, especially the 1.9 GTi beams anyway.

 

Graham.

[Guest Crowley]

If both bearings have gone enough for it to fail an MOT then its worthless imo.

 

205 D beams are a different spec to the GTi ones, especially the 1.9 GTi beams anyway.

 

Graham.

 

Even if I change the trailing arm pins/shaft as well as the bearings

 

Sorry should have made it clearer; they're both 1.9GTi rear beams.

[888rmb 6]

I would say keep it. It's not worthless. If the callipers haven't seized up and the bleed nipples still work then they are worth keeping as well.

You can always knock the stub axles out and use the hubs and stub axles to convert a 1.6 beam to 1.9 spec. If you haven't got much room just keep the stub axles, hubs, callipers and calliper mounting brackets.

[Anthony 1,003]

Even if I change the trailing arm pins/shaft as well as the bearings

If there's that much play in the beam, then the chances are that the beam tube will be pitted and worn oval as well.

 

Basically, the beam you've got is suitable only really for parts to rebuild a good base-model or 1.6 GTi beam into 1.9 GTi spec. You could refurb the one you've got, but it's a question of economics as to whether it's worthwhile doing so when it's been allowed to go so far.