GD427 MK IV

GD427 MK IV
One of my first drives out - 8th September 2025 (St Ninian's Isle - Shetland)
Showing posts with label Anti-Roll Bar. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Headrests

The headrests and stainless brackets were supplied by GD.  I screwed the headrest onto the bracket and placed the headrest so that it was in the centre of the hoop's radius.  I then marked where to drill the holes and tapped the hole out to M5.

I wasnt too happy with the weld finish where the threaded boss is for the headrest, so I added some weld using the MIG, and then filed, polished back the bracket so it was smooth.

The headrests were then bolted in position using threadlock.












Thursday, 4 May 2017

Anti-Roll Bar

I managed to get around to fitting the front Anti-Roll bar to the car.  This includes two drop links fitted with Rod-Ends linked to a bar that goes across the chassis mounted with plastic mounts.

I screwed the rod ends into the supplied drop links with around 1-2 threads showing above the lock nut.

The anti-roll bar was fixed to the chassis using the supplied plastic mounts and 6mm high tensile bolts to rivnuts in the bottom of the chassis.  Note:  Ensure you use hex head bolts since you can't get an allen key in for the upper wishbone.

I jacked up the front of the car and allowed the wishbones to drop down at full droop.  The rod ends were then bolted to the anti-roll bar and wishbone as follows to permit the softest setting:

Anti-Roll Bar - Hole Furthest Out (Furthest from pivot point)
Lower Wishbone - Hole Nearest Centre of Car (Nearest to pivot point)

Once bolted together the car was lowered.  Job done!