joffo81
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Hey fellow Nav Men,
Just a heads up for those of you driving vehicles with aging suspension. Today driving down the highway in my Dad's nav we hit a pothole with a bang. We drove a bit further and noticed handling was a bit ordinary so we pulled over to check for damage. The front passenger side was sitting on the bump stop and the rear end of the torsion bar was no longer connected to the chassis. We first thought the bolt must have snapped and fallen out. We went back to the pothole and searched the roadside and luckily found the bolt - bent and a bit scratched but not broken!
We couldn't understand how it had come off cause it was still intact. We limped home, tidied the thread, straightened the bolt and then attempted to put it back in place and wind up the torsion bar. The problem was now apparent - the semicircle metal locator which sits below the adjusting and locking nut on the bolt had pulled through its housing which enabled the whole piece to drop onto the road.
We placed a couple of large washers underneath it and wound the torsion bar back up before pulling the drivers side off and doing the same thing.
This nav has been worked pretty hard and now has >300,000km and is still going strong so for those of you with similar vehicles you may want to check your torsion bars to avoid a similar set-back!
Cheers
Just a heads up for those of you driving vehicles with aging suspension. Today driving down the highway in my Dad's nav we hit a pothole with a bang. We drove a bit further and noticed handling was a bit ordinary so we pulled over to check for damage. The front passenger side was sitting on the bump stop and the rear end of the torsion bar was no longer connected to the chassis. We first thought the bolt must have snapped and fallen out. We went back to the pothole and searched the roadside and luckily found the bolt - bent and a bit scratched but not broken!
We couldn't understand how it had come off cause it was still intact. We limped home, tidied the thread, straightened the bolt and then attempted to put it back in place and wind up the torsion bar. The problem was now apparent - the semicircle metal locator which sits below the adjusting and locking nut on the bolt had pulled through its housing which enabled the whole piece to drop onto the road.
We placed a couple of large washers underneath it and wound the torsion bar back up before pulling the drivers side off and doing the same thing.
This nav has been worked pretty hard and now has >300,000km and is still going strong so for those of you with similar vehicles you may want to check your torsion bars to avoid a similar set-back!
Cheers
