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MG MGF Technical - Compliance washers...help please

Just done the rear dampers with polybushes, and went to try to fit compliance washers....but how the h*ll do you get to the 13mm bolt at the front?
I can just about get a spanner onto the outer bolt, but access to the inboard one seems impossible!

ideas/ tool suggestions please
charlie (Kent, UK...N reg VVC)
Charles Dundas

Try Deiters site:

http://www.mgfcar.de/index.htm

Then click on the complience washer link on the left, you'll find a set of instructions and pics there.

Tim
tim woolcott

I used a ring spanner.

Remember how tight it was for when you do it back up again!

Neil.
Neil

If you have fitted polly bushes allround you should not need the compliance washers as the pollybushes have the spacers built into them. I made the mistake ordering both the polly bushes and the compliance washers only to find the pollybushes had this covered already. Lucky the compliance washers were only 10 quid...:-)

If you just have the shocker bushes fitted then you will need the compliance washers which are not too much of a problem to fit. For this Dieter or Rob (or several others) may have the instructions for fitting somewhere on the web.....
T.E.D.

Dieters site was the inspiration to fit them!

Currently only have rear damper polybushes, as the originals had gone soft. I contemplated spending money on 'cardan' (?universal joint) sockets as my spanners/sockets couldn't get to the bolt but I have given in and had them fitted by the people who did the tracking this afternoon (for �20....fitting, 4 wheel tracking another �46)


Seeing the amount of free play prior to fitting was indeed illuminating!

thanks,
Charlie.
Charles Dundas

Yeah, that 13mm bolt at the inner side of the subframe to tiebar mount is sometimes an a**e to remove.
Re-assembling is the same difficulties sometimes.
Dunno why, but at my first MGF that bolts got off and back difficult one side and on my current it was so easy.

Take care that you have a second person availiable who can catch the tiebar with a big gripper while you unbolt the big nut at the lower arm. Let him hold against. I think that torque can bend the bolt with 13mm head under load of unbolting the tiebar.

@ Tony, never mind the 10 quid. I recall you where the first who let the job do under own responsibility... and that in Holland ;)
BBS learned from.
Dieter K.

This thread was discussed on 29/10/2002

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