Double Adj Dampers - Rear Spacers?

[356Speedster]

Hi, I was fitting my dampers earlier and while the front spacers were mm perfect, the rears appear to be miles off. From the factory they were fully labeled L&R and the spacers were tie wrapped to mounts, in their (apparent) correct placements on the car. However....

The LH top spacers are a good 10mm too wide to fit the chassis mounts and the RH bottoms are very small to the point that on one side the spacer is narrower than the damper body itself. The others are closer, but still not as snug as the fronts which were perfect.

As the factory go to the hassle of tie wrapping these in place on the back, I feel like I'm missing something. Has anyone found this on their parts recently?

Mark

[02PRUV]

I found the same problem. Someone stuffed up their measurements in the factory for the spacers. If you check the shock and spacers are the overall width of the brackets that hold them to the chassis. Someone has made the spacers with the outside measurement of the brackets instead of the inside measurement. I just turned them down myself. But yes it's a factory stuff up. There are a few minor factory stuff ups like this but going by the attitude on this forum, not many people on here or the factory want to here about it. So mostly I have kept them to myself.

[356Speedster]

02PRUV said:

I found the same problem. Someone stuffed up their measurements in the factory for the spacers. If you check the shock and spacers are the overall width of the brackets that hold them to the chassis. Someone has made the spacers with the outside measurement of the brackets instead of the inside measurement. I just turned them down myself. But yes it's a factory stuff up. There are a few minor factory stuff ups like this but going by the attitude on this forum, not many people on here or the factory want to here about it. So mostly I have kept them to myself.

OK, well thanks for confirming that I'm not going mad! I'll get them replaced, as at least one of them is far too small, so can't be modified.

[deadscoob]

02, what gives you the impression no one would want to help or know about it? Because of a few comments made on your previous posts or something else?

Sorry you feel that way regardless, it's a small community and it's a shame if you have been pushed away.

Edited by deadscoob on Sunday 28th August 22:17

[Storer]

You need to use one large and small spacer on each of the lower damper/wishbone pivots with the larger spacer at the rear side so that the damper clears the spring on the handbrake caliper.

If you don't do this you will suffer wear on the damper and handbrake spring.

Paul

[356Speedster]

Storer said:

You need to use one large and small spacer on each of the lower damper/wishbone pivots with the larger spacer at the rear side so that the damper clears the spring on the handbrake caliper.

If you don't do this you will suffer wear on the damper and handbrake spring.

Paul

That was my expectation, but as the spacers are all the wrong size, it looks like a prep issue in packing.