Subframe today, but I started by glueing the brake hose bracket on so that could be curing. The adhesive has a nominal strength on aluminium of 22N per mm². The bracket has an area of 616mm² which gives 13552N of holding force in ideal conditions, or 1.3 tons. I reckon that should hold a brake hose
New bolts. I've used the D3 toe adjustment bolts as they're only 4mm longer than the D2 ones. I got mk5 Golf camber bolts, but unfortunately they are missing 8mm of thread on the end so aren't quite long enough. The D3 camber bolts are 10mm too long, so I may have to just get the Febest ones.
The two long ones on the right are for the outer toe rod joint, which are from an Amarok, and 5mm longer than the D2 bolts. We probably should have an alternative parts thread where I can list all this...
All assembled
It was about this point where my phone battery died, so no more pics unfortunately. I had to swap the headlight level sensor, and made a new arm for that at the same point. The rear dampers are painted and back in too.
There are a couple of jobs left before putting it back in the car - the diff mount bolts were on back order so those need swapping, new camber bolts as noted, and a few other bits of hardware. I'd also like to get the brakes assembled while its sitting on pallets and nice and easy to get to.
Finally, I need to make some alignment sleeves to line it up with the rear mounting holes, as the tool I made when I did Ricky D's doesn't work with the D3 bushes. Those are 20mm inner diameter, whereas the locating holes are 21mm diameter, so I'll print up some simple sleeves for these. There's no load on them as they are purely used to line it up, and being printed there's no issue leaving them in place.
20th March 2022, 06:59 PM
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