Wishbones

[philh]

Been cleaing up my chassis and suspension and my drivers front bottom wishbone has seen better days so looked into swapping it. My god they are pricey £150 + per wishbone, i know its low volume etc but my god. Tried TVR dean and bell hill for second hane bell hill have none in waiting fro TVR Dean to reply. Does anybody know of one or any where else to try??

thanks

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

philh said:

front bottom

Are you allowed to say that on this forum?

[philh]

Ill get my coat

[K4TRV]

philh said:

Been cleaing up my chassis and suspension and my drivers front bottom wishbone has seen better days so looked into swapping it. My god they are pricey £150 + per wishbone, i know its low volume etc but my god. Tried TVR dean and bell hill for second hane bell hill have none in waiting fro TVR Dean to reply. Does anybody know of one or any where else to try??

thanks

Seen better days??

Has it got rust holes in it ??

Or does it just need wirebrushing and painting ??

Unless it "really" is coated in scale-rust, I would recommend a clean up and re-paint.

Save you hard earned for when you really have to replace items and a new wishbone will be £150 plus bushes - and new shockers......??

HTH

Trev

[philh]

The thin cross piece has a hole in it the others have cleaned up fine.

[roysum]

philh said:

The thin cross piece has a hole in it the others have cleaned up fine.

I'm not sure just how much that "thin cross piece" plays in structural strength. It's quite inboard, not far from the pivot points, so surely these would prevent any torsional movement anyway ? probably talking b-ll-cks again

[Aussie John]

Just replace the rusty piece, should cost only a few Quid; good as new.

[philh]

Cheers for the input people.

[ralphy12345]

I thought mine were pretty bad, but after blasting and cold zinc treatment they've come up fine:













R

[CHGRIFF]

SC Power have a wishbone set of 8 wishbones on offer at the moment so might be worth considering. If corroded the otherside will be just as bad. Dont forget these bits hold your wheels on at 165mph. Any severe corrosion, dont take chances.

[quattrophenia]

ralphy12345 said:

I thought mine were pretty bad, but after blasting and cold zinc treatment they've come up fine:













R

Nice job, looks great. Thats just what I'm going to start in the next few weeks. If you have any general advice for the novice I would appreciate it.
Also could you tell me-:

- how long it took you to strip down the suspension arms?
- how long it took for them to be powder coated?
- Do you have to split any ball joints or do they just unscrew from the arms?
- Did you stick with the original bushes or fit new poly thingies?
- I dont want to ask the cost of the shot blasting / powder coating, but an approximation will be fine (£250ish?)

Sorry for all the questions, but I need a bit of confidence building before I get my hands dirty!

[SILICONE KID]

This guy fabricates and sells the uprated tubular type ,cheaper than the standard wishbones..I have them fitted to my car..He loves doing a deal give him a call.

http://www.readmanracing.co.uk/

[ralphy12345]

quattrophenia said:

Nice job, looks great. Thats just what I'm going to start in the next few weeks. If you have any general advice for the novice I would appreciate it.
Also could you tell me-:

- how long it took you to strip down the suspension arms?
- how long it took for them to be powder coated?
- Do you have to split any ball joints or do they just unscrew from the arms?
- Did you stick with the original bushes or fit new poly thingies?
- I dont want to ask the cost of the shot blasting / powder coating, but an approximation will be fine (£250ish?)

Sorry for all the questions, but I need a bit of confidence building before I get my hands dirty!

I'm sorry but I can't answer some of your questions as most of this was done for me! (I had to go abroad at short notice and the work above was done as part of a number of jobs).

But a) they weren't powder-coated: they were treated with a cold-zinc process b) I stuck with new rubber bushes and c) there are no ball joints that require splitting.

HTH.

R

[philh]

Found this on ebay, so will cut out and replace the bar.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mild-steel-Rec-ERW-tube-20mm...

Edited by philh on Wednesday 9th February 06:20