Noisy pedals... Creak!

[Mark82]

Recently i've been putting a few miles on the car (s1 elise) and i've started to notice a few more creaks etc. One that is really anoying is at the top of the throttle travel there is a type of 'click' it seems to be coming from the linkage that connects the pedal to the throttle cable, I've tightened the nut on the pivot and it went away...for a bit! Anyone else had this and been able to sort it?

The other thing is that when i'm reversing to then pull forward, as i brake going backwards just as everything stops there's a creek and it feels as if the pedal box moves...Similar kind of feeling when i brake for the first time going forward after the reverse, any ideas? It's kind of hard to explain - it's not as drastic as it sounds lol.

I am very low on my brakes so have a set of front discs and all four pads to put on - maybe this will help?

And my rear left damper is groaning, just under 30k miles, think it's time for the konis to go?!!! Anyone know anything of the motobuild equiped gaz shocks currently on eBay? How much is a set of AVO's these days?

Cheers

Mark

[StuartB]

Throttle Linkage:
www.elise-shop.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=260
Buy, Fit, Forget

Other creakes ? Could be toe links, ball joints, roll bar bushes...

Gaz ones aren't meant to be great something about monotube (complicated and I do not understand) howewver for £500ish there is a chap on SELOC called SteveB that will sell you the Blistens that the S2 uses

[Mark82]

That's cool, just what I need!

I would have thought about the ball joints, bearings etc etc but i had an MOT through Bell and Colvil last week and nothing was picked up by them, sounds like I have air in the damper for sure, surely the s2 kit is the way to go?

[dss123]

Mark,

Think you get stung big time on the postage from elise shop.


Luckily elise parts sell the same thing now:

www.eliseparts.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=607

Should work out a bit cheaper.


Dunc