What Suspension Do I Have?

[Sid76]

Hello all.

 

New to the forum, membership and ownership. I inherited a 2b but know very little about it. I'm really starting from scratch as the project wasn't finished I thought I would disassemble and then build it from scratch. Which will also give me an ideal opportunity to service and recondition parts.

 

The question I have for you good folk is what 2b type is this? I have noticed the bottom bush is u/s so need to know what I am replacing with. And also is there a conversion I can do here to bring the handling up to date!

 

The front hub has a spring above the hub and to the front of this is a separate front shock.

 

On the rears their is a spring which sits in the bottom trailing arm, housed at the top by what looks like a modified front sierra suspension upright. To the rear of the is a large rear shock.

 

If I can work out how to I'll post pics later.

 

Thanks in advance

[agent_zed]

Hi,

by the sound of it you have 'sliding pillar' on the front end and a standard ford sierra rear.

 

The sliding pillar chassis has 2 big 'arms' each side that are fixed and the hub slides up and down a chrome shaft. There are conversion kits to double wishbone if you want or you could just stick with what you have. It's not the best setup but you'll have good fun in it anyway.

 

the rear you correctly id'd the front sierra strut cup upside down to be the top spring mount. i find the setup works pretty well but its an easy change to coil overs as you just need a new bracket at the top and one in the spring hole in the wishbone.

 

the rear suffers from too much camber and toe in so you can buy shims to adjust this, which mostly cures the problem.

 

hth

[Sid76]

Thanks Agent Zed for the quick reply.

 

Do you know where I can get a bottom cup/bush from. It's looks like the original was make from a plasticky/foam substance. Or is this something to fabricate?

[Guest Ian & Carole]

Any heavy duty rubber will suffice as it is only really a bump stop as such.

When our car was sliding pillar I used some industrial belting of around 1/4 " thickness cut into circles with a hole drilled through it.

One thing you will need before you start to strip down is a set of good quality motor cycle spring compressors.

The springs are lethal to mess with.

Beware.!!

[Tazzzzman1]

Hi Sid

Look on the 2nd page for suspension 2b... I posted quite a bit of info on the sliding pillars. Of you get stuck let me know

 

[Tazzzzman1]

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Edited October 2, 2014 by tazzzzman1

[maccavvy]

I used an anti vibration mount with a hole drilled through to slide onto the shaft.

the shocks are mini front ones too.

the top bearing is original sierra ones.

 

best way for pics is photobucket and post the img link

[Sid76]

Thanks for all the replies. Useful to know they are mini shocks.

 

I got a couple of vibration mounts the other day which I think will do the job and act as the bottom bump stop or bush.

 

I will post photos soon. I have her nearly stripped (the car that is...) with only the rear subframe and diff to go.