25-03-2014, 09:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-03-2014, 09:30 PM by Radradratorius.)
Thanks for the suggestions, people. As I've mentioned before - I've replaced the whole real axle assembly (the new one came of my other gti6 that is completely straight), so I don't believe it to be the axle. Tires - they are two pairs - front rear different, but left to right paired. I already tried to swap the sides - did not help.
Anyway - I was experimenting a bit last couple of days - I bought two brand new rear axle mounts, cut the right one apart and added a 12mm steel plate (additional 4mm to compensate the force of other three jumping onto rear right torsion bar once it's raised). Bolted it all and welded together, grind the bolt heads off and welded the bolt tops to the bracket to allow the room required for the mount to be fitted. :
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Fitted this altered mount yesterday. Car is nice and completely straight now, but... guess what? it still tends to wander away to the same bloody right... a bit less I must agree, but still does it. The plan for tomorrow is to disconnect the anti roll bar drop links at the front and measure the anti roll bar itself on both sides to see if it's straight (don't know why I did not do that when I was replacing the drop links...) Could it be bent because of continual use of the car with pissed bottom?
Anyway - I was experimenting a bit last couple of days - I bought two brand new rear axle mounts, cut the right one apart and added a 12mm steel plate (additional 4mm to compensate the force of other three jumping onto rear right torsion bar once it's raised). Bolted it all and welded together, grind the bolt heads off and welded the bolt tops to the bracket to allow the room required for the mount to be fitted. :
Fitted this altered mount yesterday. Car is nice and completely straight now, but... guess what? it still tends to wander away to the same bloody right... a bit less I must agree, but still does it. The plan for tomorrow is to disconnect the anti roll bar drop links at the front and measure the anti roll bar itself on both sides to see if it's straight (don't know why I did not do that when I was replacing the drop links...) Could it be bent because of continual use of the car with pissed bottom?