reconditioned wishbones
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I thought there was a company that offered a service where you send them your wishbones and some money and they send you some nice reconditioned ones. Was I imagining this? New wishbones seem to be quite expensive, if I was to replace the whole lot if would probably cost me upwards of £1000.
Edited to add...
What is the recomended paint/coating for chassis parts?
Cheers,
Mark
Edited to add...
What is the recomended paint/coating for chassis parts?
Cheers,
Mark
Edited by markh1 on Tuesday 25th November 17:04
chrispitman said:
Why don't you just find a local powder coating company, just get them sand blasted then paint. You will have to replace the bushes as they will melt, but a good time to go for poly ones as the eaiser to fit and replace.
This is the plan but im worried about the integrity of the parts if there is a lot of rust to be removed.How do you define a lot? When steel rusts it expands to 7 or 8 times it's original volume/thickness for suspension arms. So if the arms are twice as thick then you've lost about a seventh of the thickness/strength. When it's been shot blasted then they're either OK to be powder coated or buy new ones. Clevtrev is selling new ones at about £75; a repair would be very tricky to do satisfactorily for strength and lightness (semi-unsprung weight) and the cost of the repair (plus the cost of powder coating) may easily be in excess of the cost of a new part.
Just how bad are the originals? (They are know to be a weak point, as in a consumable.) Good luck :-)
Just how bad are the originals? (They are know to be a weak point, as in a consumable.) Good luck :-)
ROBTVR said:
Why not buy Tubular wishbones,I got mine from Readmanracing,i paid no more than £380 for upper and lower front wishbone, very strong and should last alot longer than the original design
A concern i have with the round ones is that they may be too strong. An impact on the wheel will bend the original wishbones thus saving the chassis. spend said:
If your chassis is toffee even rusty wishbones would bend it...
You have tubular wishbones as std on the lower rear ~ dont exactly hear of loads of bent chassis' from those and they are made extremely strongly.
Who's chassis you calling made of toffee! You have tubular wishbones as std on the lower rear ~ dont exactly hear of loads of bent chassis' from those and they are made extremely strongly.
My frontal impact bent the front lower wish bone and left the chassis untouched. My worry would be that a stronger wishbone may have transferred the energy and bent the chassis. Point taken though.
spend said:
If your chassis is toffee even rusty wishbones would bend it...
You have tubular wishbones as std on the lower rear ~ dont exactly hear of loads of bent chassis' from those and they are made extremely strongly.
Well... just because you don't hear about it... doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I have seen many TVRs that have had front and back spin damage and the front is often unscathed (apart from the wishbones) while the rear has had chassis damage such as cracks and ripped out brackets. The problem is that the car is often written off as a result so the details are lost.You have tubular wishbones as std on the lower rear ~ dont exactly hear of loads of bent chassis' from those and they are made extremely strongly.
On the Wedges, the front wishbones are incredibly strong. I hit a tyre wall at about 70mph at Goodwood many years ago and buckled the front wheel and did a bit more damage. The upright which is a single piece of heavy thick steel was bent and the chassis cracked in several places. The wishbones were fine though. If they had distorted a little, it would have been a lot cheaper and easier to repair the car. If it had been a road car, I suspect it would have been written off as a result.
The rear suspension needs to be stiff and strong because of the power going through the rear wheels so strength is needed. The downside is the risk of increased chassis damage but that has to be accepted.
£380 total for both o/s and n/s front upper and lower wishbones
Linky http://www.readmanracing.co.uk/parts4sale.php
Linky http://www.readmanracing.co.uk/parts4sale.php
Edited by ROBTVR on Wednesday 26th November 10:07
markh1 said:
I thought there was a company that offered a service where you send them your wishbones and some money and they send you some nice reconditioned ones. Was I imagining this? New wishbones seem to be quite expensive, if I was to replace the whole lot if would probably cost me upwards of £1000.
Edited to add...
What is the recomended paint/coating for chassis parts?
Cheers,
Mark
the wishbones of my Cerb have been changed... i wanted to recondition them because i thought that that would be way cheaper... but they changed them. i got the bill from TVR Belgium and including fixing the DIM/DIP box i have to pay around E500... and still have the old ones that i still can recondition... Edited to add...
What is the recomended paint/coating for chassis parts?
Cheers,
Mark
Edited by markh1 on Tuesday 25th November 17:04
cheap isn't it???
Edited by Dutch_Cerbera on Wednesday 26th November 18:43
Dutch_Cerbera said:
markh1 said:
I thought there was a company that offered a service where you send them your wishbones and some money and they send you some nice reconditioned ones. Was I imagining this? New wishbones seem to be quite expensive, if I was to replace the whole lot if would probably cost me upwards of £1000.
Edited to add...
What is the recomended paint/coating for chassis parts?
Cheers,
Mark
the wishbones of my Cerb have been changed... i wanted to recondition them because i thought that that would be way cheaper... but they changed them. i got the bill including fixing the DIM/DIP box i have to pay around E500... and still have the old ones that i still can recondition... Edited to add...
What is the recomended paint/coating for chassis parts?
Cheers,
Mark
Edited by markh1 on Tuesday 25th November 17:04
Edited by Dutch_Cerbera on Wednesday 26th November 18:43
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