front roll bar size?

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Re: front roll bar size?

by U_V6 » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:22 pm

tazz666, do you have other ebooks from Vauxhall college (except the one about C25XE, X25XE and X30XE)? ;)
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Re: front roll bar size?

by tazz666 » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:49 pm

might have why? :D
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Re: front roll bar size?

by Fraz » Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:03 pm

you do know you have to drop the subframe to change the rear anti roll bar bushs
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Re: front roll bar size?

by vinny_69 » Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:05 pm

im changing the front's Fraz but i will look at the rears the weekend unless its p*****g it down or snowing
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Re: front roll bar size?

by U_V6 » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:28 pm

tazz666 wrote:might have why? :D

I liked that one about v6... and sure would enjoy others. though I could't find ANY information about other books from Vx college or about itself on google (may be wrong search terms...)
any possibility to share? ;)
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Re: front roll bar size?

by Fraz » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:35 pm

vinny_69 wrote:im changing the front's Fraz but i will look at the rears the weekend unless its p*****g it down or snowing



well the fronts are the drop links as the ATB is only attached by two mounts to the sub frame and by the drop links to the bottom arms. And you should have the later style bolt on ones so dont matter what size your ATB is as the dont actually go on the ARB just bolt to it

like these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vauxhall-Calibra- ... 0001r11219
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Re: front roll bar size?

by Allys Cally » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:07 pm

its not the droplinks he wants to change Fraz, its these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-CAVALIER ... 3a41f02886
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Re: front roll bar size?

by Fraz » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:26 pm

he says its the fronts not rears, and those are the ones to the subframe
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Re: front roll bar size?

by Allys Cally » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:31 pm

yes he said in his first post that it was the anti rollbar bushes that he wanted to change, so i'm guessing its these hes talking about
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Re: front roll bar size?

by Fraz » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:53 pm

thats what I thought as well but he is on about the fronts
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Re: front roll bar size?

by vinny_69 » Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:42 am

even i was confused yes you are both right i want to change the front droplinks and the rear roll bar bushes,i wasnt aware you needed to drop anything to replace the bushes as i thought it would be the same as the veccy :(
it looks like i might have to investigate the front end clonk a bit better as i thought the front end had roll bar bushes 2 :oops:
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Re: front roll bar size?

by v6 steve » Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:34 pm

i take it when you say rear bushes you are talking about the ones on the front subframe, the bushes are held on with a metal bracket and bolt not sure if you will get into them with the subframe still on the car, im sure someone will tell us, everytime we'v done them we have been working on the engine so the engine has been out
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Re: front roll bar size?

by Fraz » Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:51 pm

you wont get the bolt/ metal bracket out with out dropping the subfarme for teh rear ones

Though you could just drop the one side and do it that way
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