Ive had an issue.. the heads of the wheel carrier bolts that secure the shock body to the carrier have snapped.
I've posted the story behind n a separate thread for better exposure: https://www.motoringalliance.com/threads/front-wheel-carrier-bolt-snapped.30435/
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That's a good thing to know... I'll go poke around back there in a bit. I went out and fiddled w/ the extenders to figure it out and found the set screws to remove the top knob. I've got a CD Changer back there, which makes getting through the passenger side panel door a PITA, so I might dig around a bit for an alternate solution. Nathan set me this photo, of extenders he ran for another coil over brand setup:
![[IMG]](http://focusoa.bizland.com/rufus/GnatAdjuster.JPG)
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Looking forward to seeing pics of that..
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Good to know about the lack of settling! I'm a bit overcommitted over the next few days and over the weekend, so it will have a week to settle in before I start mucking about with ride height adjustments. I'm not going for a slammed look anyway... just something nicely sporty. If it settled 1/4" off of the pic above, I think I'd be quite happy with that! When I put the KWs on Jango, he settled in a good 3/4 to 1" in the first week. I spent way too much time fiddling w/ ride height way too early.
I sent the pic, below, to Todd at TCE Performance (Willwood supplier in the US). He verified that I've got the right lines, (the right part # and they match the specified length of 20") but they sure look short to me. Maybe I want to run the line behind the shock body. Any thoughts?
![[IMG]](http://focusoa.bizland.com/rufus/refresh101.jpg)
I can also assume that I screwed up when estimating the tie rod length... I've got one wheel straight and one that is 10 degrees off to the side! I'll make a coarse adjustment before driving the car, so I don't completely destroy the tires. -
Go drive the stink out of it, that will settle it!
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It took me almost the entire grade from Vail to Vail Pass on I70 (4000 elevation feet) before the car would cut out. I then learned to pull over every few miles when on long steep grades and let it idle for a while, which somehow seemed to give it legs for the next few miles without cutting out. Almost felt like there's some sort of reservoir of available fuel that would suffice if I kept the car above 20mpg realtime gauge reading. It took me quite a lot of miles and several mountain passes to learn that, though. Prior to that we chased down ignition and other issues, swapped coil, wires (still in the car, that $40 Subaru coil works great in the Mini once you figure out how to mount it).
Last October I drove it across the mountains towards Atlanta, but honestly could not say that that was hard enough of a challenge to possibly expose a still existing problem. I feel I really have to take the car back to Colorado to push the envelope. There simply is no way I could do this test here without running the car at 100+mph down the freeway for 15 minutes or more
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