What is wrong with this picture?

[caduceus]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 04 February 2015 at 15:15

[QBee]

Just been and looked under my car. ARB clears the exhaust tray by about 7mm, the shape of the ARB making it the lowest part of the rear of my car. What droop links have you used? Could they be twisting it?

[ChilliWhizz]

Er, you're going to drive the car up the road without suspension parts fully bolted up? Are you sure that's wise?

[ChilliWhizz]

Thought you might have had it on the wheels on ramps...

[QBee]

I suspect that tightening up all your ARB attachments will twist it away from where it is touching

[J400GED]

Are the bush retaining brackets put on the same way round as when they were removed? Could be that they aren't symmetrical and therefore sitting the roll bar in a different place.

[TVR Stef]

On mine the the hole in the bracket with the slit is at the rear. Does not look like this from your pics.

[Discopotatoes]

Looking at the photos your problem is the antiroll bar needs to be tight, it's the shock bushes that should be loaded before tightening

[Discopotatoes]

caduceus said:

Discopotatoes said:

Looking at the photos your problem is the antiroll bar needs to be tight, it's the shock bushes that should be loaded before tightening

But I've tightened up the bolts on the brackets as much as I can, without causing damage or the worry of.
But as someone has already mentioned, I may have put them on the wrong way round.

Those bushes look shagged they should be tight against the bar

[phazed]

Defo shagged bushes.

[roseytvr]

caduceus said:

I'll try and turn the brackets around tomorrow, with the slotted bolt hole nearest the rear of the car.

That and bleed the entire braking system again. Done it once already with eezibleed, and discovered I have no brakes at all today when I reversed it back in the garage
Wish I'd never touched the brakes. They were working ok before I started the work. They just looked a mess.

Have you bled the master cylinder? most likely culprit as many don't know there is a bleed nipple there. sorry if I am stating the obvious!

[NZ fan]

Some shots of mine (early 95 model) don't think it would mater which way around the slot was in the "D" bracket. Have you got the nut for a space under the front of the mount platform to space it down more?. Also your brackets seam to be wider apart in reference to the toe adjusters directly behind them resulting in your bushes clamping on the radius where the bar is bent instead of the parallel part iyswim. Something's not quite right there.

[phazed]

Defo doesn't matter which way round the brackets are.

The master cylinder bleed nipple is the one you need to complete the job, a bugger to get to!

[phazed]

Remove the curved panel over the clutch slave and you can see the nipple on the brake master.

I drilled a hole, about 13mm over the nipple and used my smallest 1/4" drive socket on an extension to bleed it.

A couple of pumps ant it worked instantly.

Block the hole with a grommet for future use.