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dieselflosse · Snailer Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 72 Location: Finland

So, nothing need to buy, just unscrew that part a little bit. It might be stacked but with oil and heat it should be screwable.

I am a little bit confused what happen if I put full load (people or gargo) to the car. Is suspension on the bottom all the time? Or does that screwing some strange effect to the springs and they are stiffer?
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JoZeF · Grave Digger Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 1734

Hi

No, if you lower your car, whatever weight you add will lower it more...

Be careful if you heat the screws, cause on one side of the chassis there is the brake line, and, more dangerous, the fuel !!! Shocked

Put a heat shield to protect it, otherwise........

I don't know what tools/knowledge you have, but if you are equipped or/and want to get it low and useable, follow the tips given by 2cvracer (amongst others)

just unscrewing will make the steering harder... but it's driveable, although not as soft as a regular 2cv
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dieselflosse · Snailer Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 72 Location: Finland

Thanks for the tips! That brake line warning might save lives...

I thought to use heating machine (looks like hear dryer), no fire.

What comes to my tools and fasilities, it is more on the intro part which will come later when my 2cv is landed...

On this phase I can tell some keywords; garage of two cars (hole on the floor for car repairing), welding machine, small compressor, bunch of hand tools... 25 years some kind of maintenance activities around cars from Honda Civic to Dodge Coronet mainly Mercedes', not 2cv (driving experience of 2cv 5 meters Laughing

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Etienne · Hoodrider Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 2829

Hi and welcome here!

So now my car is like that :

I just let 1,5cm screwed and it works fine. I also have Gabriel shock absorbers and there are stronger. I drive a lot like that, and that's perfect!

Before the car was like that:

with some longer part (as the Joseph's pic), but the steering was totally too hard. I will lower my car like that later, when I will have money to buy modified front arm and harder spring....
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dieselflosse · Snailer Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 72 Location: Finland

Etienne · Hoodrider Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 2829

JoZeF · Grave Digger Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 1734

The best thing to do is obviously to fit shock absorbers on the front of your car...

a 2cv goes up and down as it bounces along the road... so if you are close to the road, it could hit the oil sump and crack it (happened to a friend in his old Dyane)
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björn · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject:

etienne where cane i buy this shock suport?
i'm thinking of dowing this on my other azu
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Etienne · Hoodrider Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 2829

At the "2CV Club Cassis" but it's quite expensive!

Bart · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

I think it shouldn't be to difficult to make them yourself, just cut a circle out of a normal frontaxle endplate and make two barckets to fit the shocks near the from of the springtube.

Pimslet · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject:

hello,

dieselflosse · Snailer Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 72 Location: Finland

Pimslet · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:12 am Post subject:

hello,

You should have dismantable ones.

If you want to see, get of one cover, you'll see a big nut, with a bolt that is used to prestress the spring of the "frotteur".

this is the first type, that you can not dismantle.

http://www.forum-auto.com/uploads/200506/alexgb_1118596749_1.jpg
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Joolz · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject:

Excuse me if I take this thread back to topic, has anyone got any experience of cutting and welding the tie rods? I am wondering if they are regular steel or if they are something special that wont weld easily or will break where I weld it.

joolz

Bart · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject:

As fare as I'm aware they are just regular steel which you can weld with any decent welder. I did shorten a set for an offroad buggy a few years ago and they are still going strong! (at least my friends didn't complain... )
For obvious reasons you got to pay attention to the quality of the weld though.

Cheers, Bart