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Almost rolled L series at Gnangara
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:43 pm
by adamb
hi everyone,
On Friday i was out at the pines doing some rallying in the L. i misjudged a corner and ended up sideways for about 20 metres before hitting the edge of the track and stopping abruptly, almost rolling the car. Now the back left tyre seems to be on an angle, ie: the bottom of the tyre is sticking out more than the top. Do you know what i would need to replace to repair this? is it the swingarm?
thanks,
Adam
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:52 pm
by Gannon
Do it to the righthand rear wheel as well, then you will have "Racing Negative Camber"
Yeah replace the whole trailing arm.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:56 am
by BrennyV
this is what stupid driving in the pines gets ya
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:35 pm
by Alex
PINES!!! NO! i hate that place.
alex
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:56 pm
by SuBaRiNo
LOL... the pines has claimed many a Subaru.
Dave
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:32 pm
by Matatak
'[4MUFF wrote:]
this is what stupid driving in the pines gets ya
WTF please explain...thats obviously not recent i hope lol
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:50 pm
by SuBaRiNo
no it's not recent... thats one of his wagons he had before the sedan.
Dave
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:44 pm
by Bumpty
I hope you kept the wagon and made it roofless! or something original hehe
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:03 am
by adamb
woah 4muff that looks nasty, how did you manage that? how much do trailing arms cost and would anyone have one?
thanks,
adam
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:20 am
by D3V1L
iu got more pics of the rollover if anybody is interrested....very vyer vyer uncool...and no the car is now a 2foot by 2 foot metal cube now
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:14 am
by BrennyV
adamb wrote:woah 4muff that looks nasty, how did you manage that? how much do trailing arms cost and would anyone have one?
thanks,
adam
driving stupidly, too fast, overloaded car basicly just abuse and not respecting my great car
rip girl she was the best i eva owned.
kind of served me right i spose
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:15 am
by BrennyV
Bumpty wrote:I hope you kept the wagon and made it roofless! or something original hehe
i used all of the drive line / running gear for my leone as she was a fwd to start off with. so at least it wasent a total waste
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:37 pm
by adamb
ok, i went to the wreckers yesterday and bought a trailing arm, installed it today and the wheel is still not straight. its a little better, but its no where near perfect. should i be replacing the out arm as well? What else could it be? is it the mount on the gearbox crossmember?
thanks,
adam
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:31 pm
by SuBaRiNo
dude you got any pics of what exactly your talking about.
Dave
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:57 pm
by Matatak
gearbox crossember mounts ?? how are they gonna affect rear wheel alignment
yer pics are good
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:00 pm
by adamb
theres some pics. see how the tyre has some negative camber? im thinking its the bracket that ive highlighted in the 3rd pic, because ive replaced the swingarm and it hasnt fixed it.
thanks,
adam
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:32 pm
by D3V1L
what are u talking aobut here...BAHAHAHAHA nearly every one of us have camber like that on our rear wheels.... in L series that is..in wa that is:P
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:40 pm
by SuBaRiNo
Thats cos almost every WA L series goes pines bashing.
Dave
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:49 pm
by Matatak
got any pics of wt it was like before?
mine use to be the same way (MY tho) and winding up my torsion bar fixed that.
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:31 pm
by adamb
nah dont have any pics of before, if its not going to cause to much trouble ill just leave it. the only thing that will be affected is tyre wear right?