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Author Subject: Beam query
tvrfan007

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Post #1
What's up with a beam if one of the wheels starts to develop some major negative camber, and as such the wheel starts to touch the arch liner on the inside of the arch?

This happened on the drivers side of my HDi shortly before xmas. Didn't really make any unusual noises, bar the scrapey scrapey sound of the arch liner being mauled lol. It started with the occasional rub on cornering, until it reached a point where it would rub on almost every left hand bend lol. Tempted to take the thing apart and investigate - is this thing likely to be scrap metal skip fodder though?

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Posted 11th Jan 2010 at 18:21
jonnie205

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Post #2
take it off and chuck it in the skip, tube and shafts will be shot, can either rebuild with new tube, shafts, bearings or fit a good used unit
Posted 11th Jan 2010 at 18:28
welshpug!

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Post #3
it'll be like fatty's leg already if it rubs.

impossible to say exactly what's damaged and how far gone it is until its stripped down.

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Posted 11th Jan 2010 at 18:29
tvrfan007

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Post #4
Ah it's already off, I stuck one on off a Meridian i stripped for parts - my car does like 1k a week so knew it wasn't going to last long the rate it was degrading at. Can't say i notice any difference in the way it drives.

Will probably lob it into the scrap metal skip lol.

Not something as simple as a wheel bearing then, you're thinking the entire swing arm is f*cked, and has eaten the tube?

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Posted 11th Jan 2010 at 18:35
welshpug!

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Post #5
not the arm, just the shaft and tube, worth pulling it apart incase the tube is still ok, the torsion bars in a DTurbo HDi are gti6 sized.

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Posted 11th Jan 2010 at 21:14

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