hi all,
i'm now am at the stage of fitting front w/bones,the book is very vague to say the least,is there anybody out there who can point me in the right direction, or even better,any builders local to leicestershire who can spare some time to help a noobie out? thanks.

Chris, welcome to the mad world of locost building!

I see no one has replied to this. Perhaps if u explain what sort of problems uve got with the wishbones, people will only be too glad to offer advice!

Thats certainly what I have discovered!

As 8 wrote: what actually is the problem? Is it the brackets you are having trouble with fitting? Or the bolting of the wishbones themselves? Or ...

Good Luck,

James

thanks 8smokin......,james, my problem is that i don't know where to position brkts or how to work out castor angle, dont have a great deal of mechanicle knowledge, but will learn as i go along,worried about getting it wrong, no problems in the welding dept (welder by trade). have read numerous threads on this site, only to confuse myself even more.

There are two main choices

1, Put the brackets on symetrically and modify the upper wishbone to suit

2, make standard wishbones and weld the brackets offset on the upright members

I have done the first, but I am not on the road yet, so cannot comment on handling, but if you do a search on my name, you will find what I did, with dimensioned drawings.

I am sure someone will extoll the virtues of the offset brackets so you can compare

Good luck,

Mark

Chris,

Like u i am very new to all of this- suspension theory is indeed a difficult subject and Ron's book doesnt go into it much. However there are some good books out there- i read Des Hammill's and it really helped - tho i find I have to keep reading it coz as soon i learn one bit of theory- i forget the previous!

What i could add to Mark's advice is - what about mocking up a double wishbone suspension? This is what Im starting to do using an old steel table frame as the 'chassis'. The main advantage of this is that will help see if my ideas work and of course it doesnt matter if things go wrong- just hack em and start again!

ATB
chris

thanks for the info chaps,
mark did a search,very useful thanks.would be interested in your pdf file on the capri axle as my donor is a 2.0s. ps what is a pdf file(new to computers as well)?

If you U2U your email address, I will send it over, PDF stands for Portable Document Format, very small file size for a load of text and pickies. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read it (available on most magazine discs, printer/scanner driver discs, or direct download)