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Evoman
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360 nose dive

Post by Evoman » 27 Jan 2011 11:41 pm

When i push it into corners my 360 seems to nose dive, especailly under abit of breaking. Its rubbing on the top of the arch. The dampers seems fine any ideas?
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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by Speedy88 » 28 Jan 2011 12:11 am

:shock:

Both sides? Sounds like something is catastrophically wrong IE something isn't attached to something else. Does everything look normal? Springs in the right place, dampers still bolted to the struts etc? Sub frame still bolted on? :lol:
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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by Evoman » 28 Jan 2011 12:16 am

na just one side. this is one very up and down rounds with uphill corners, proper lumpy back grounds in the moutain. Im pretty sure everything is bolted one. Theres no other signs of things wrong
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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by Ride_on » 28 Jan 2011 12:41 am

You probably gotta take out the strut and strip it down. The top parts can get in a mess, they need replacing every 5-10 years or so especially if you give it a hard time.
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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by Evoman » 28 Jan 2011 05:06 pm

Prolem found, one strut is bigger than the other. The nearside on is an inch shorter. Does anyone know why? were 360 glts struts a different length to other 300s?

so im now looking for some struts that match
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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by Speedy88 » 28 Jan 2011 05:55 pm

ehwha? Sounds like a worn spring to me. How do you mean the strut is shorter? Pic?
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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by theo2468 » 28 Jan 2011 06:00 pm

Yeah the GLT had bigger front struts think I might have a few down at my other garage
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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by jon-ovlov » 28 Jan 2011 06:49 pm

Evoman wrote:Prolem found, one strut is bigger than the other. The nearside on is an inch shorter. Does anyone know why? were 360 glts struts a different length to other 300s?

so im now looking for some struts that match
WTF? random. not collapsed then? Excuse to get some adjustable ones off Dai :wink:

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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by Evoman » 28 Jan 2011 07:06 pm

id love to if i can find the money, i think ill get some lowering springs off him
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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by trabitom99 » 29 Jan 2011 09:43 am

I guess a spring cup failed at some point, and the whole strut was replaced with one from another car. Non-GLT struts will be shorter as the springs are shorter. There is a difference between 340 and 360 struts too, 360 "legs" have an extra hole for stabiliser bars (not sure if that's the correct word for it).

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Re: 360 nose dive

Post by Evoman » 29 Jan 2011 11:56 am

thank you, im planning on finding a glt strut. Can i put lowering springs straight on?
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