REAR WHEEL SPACERS

[glenrobbo]

Just have a feel underneath the sill on each side and check whether the gap between the sill and the outrigger tube is more or less equal.
If there is a significant gap on one side and none at all on the other side, there's a good chance the body is not centred properly on the chassis.

Edit: Assuming of course that the new outriggers ( if they have been replaced ) have been fitted to the correct dimensions! This can be verified by measuring from the outriggers to the inner chassis rails.
A chassis and body geometry check can show up a lot of interesting stuff!

Edited by glenrobbo on Wednesday 14th June 22:38

[glenrobbo]

ukflyboy said:

phillpot said:

Have you tried removing/slackening body mounting bolts to see if it will shove over a bit to centralise?

Not looked at that yet phillpot, not dealt with any body stuff yet, so would need to investigate where the mounting bolts etc are. Is it a big job? If I got the overhang even on both sides, reduced the spacer to the bare minimum to get it away from the trailing arm I might just get away with it; the situation could then be improved with 215 wheels in future. But then 15 inchers like it was designed for might just be an overall smarter choice - 16s on the back were supposed to be an easy option cos plenty of other S owners had done it and I had a free set from a mate!

I'd love to know what might be causing the 13mm difference in driveshaft length; are they supposed to be the same left and right?

The driveshafts are designed to accommodate quite a large range of "plunge" to allow for a large range of suspension movement.
If you removed them and compared them both in their compressed state, they would be the same length.

[glenrobbo]

Loads of info on body lifts etc on this forum,:

Useful links > S Series FAQs
Owners blogs, How to's etc.

A wealth of advice from experienced S owners:
some learned the hard way so you don't have to.

Thanks to all of you.

[phillpot]

ukflyboy said:

I'd love to know what might be causing the 13mm difference in driveshaft length; are they supposed to be the same left and right?

Never measured mine but quite possible the "diff" is not central?