Ride Height

[bbeech50]

Hi. Does anyone have any information or advice on raising the ride height for trialling? Any pointers would be appreciated.

[andy4]

Re: Ride Height

I am in the process of doing the same - the starting point on the back is better springs - I got 4 leaf van springs from Jones Springs in Walsaw. The car normally has ally blocks to lower it - doing away with these gives you about 40mm. The front seems to depend on the torsion bar settings - the manual suggests you can take these apart and turn them a spline to gain 40mm - Not that convinced about getting mine apart yet - anyone got any tips !! There is am adjusting screw in the lever arm on the back of the torsion bar and you can gain quite a lot by simply screwing this up. I have considered this as I think it will have a similar effect to turning the torsion bar but would be a lot easier - again anyone got any views ? The problem if you go too far with this is that there is a bolt that locates the arm and goes into a hole in the bulkhead - this would need to be slotted. The advice on the front is to turn the shock absorber mount round to make up for the increased ride height - however I see quite a few trials Marlins that have the mount the standard way - perhaps they have swapped for longer shockers ?

There is a bit of information in the technical topics section here :-

http://www.knightlybrown.net/sectionbegins/

[lil_red_roadster]

Re: Ride Height

As part of my front-end + rebuild I discovered Marine Clean from Frost Restorers - to my surprise, not only does it clean away oil/grease etc but it also stripped all the paint...quite happy with this result, I was even more gobsmacked when I pulled the (assembled) torsion bar out of the bucket to discover the lower suspension arm simply dropped off the torsion bar...this had previously resisted all my best attempts with a large hammer, heat and penetrating fluid. I'd already freed the reaction arm, using some old exhaust pipe as a drift...wish I'd have known as I could have saved myself some effort..! A squib of WD40 on the splines and reassembly was a doddle.