Nova Back Beam ?

[vaughanmc]

How easy is a Nova back beam to twist slightly due to jacking it up ?

My drivers back wheel is sitting normal but the passenger wheel sits like ( / )

I reckon the beam has a twist in it due to being jacked up but I'm not too sure

Anyone any ideas ?

I have a spare beam there incase I need to change it like

Cheers in advance;

Vaughan :)

[Andy]

If its bent its due to serious terminal rot mate.Or its slid into the kerb?

[General Baxter]

unless its really rusty i doubt it, id say ****ed wheel,

[vaughanmc]

Nope the back beam is solid, no rot on it that I know of

Not hit any kerbs or that either, drive miles away from them...

[General Baxter]

you see if your cars wernt that rotten you could of jacked it up off the proper sill jacking place and not off the beam ;)

[vaughanmc]

Not too keen on jacking it up on the sill - I'd never do it with any car

Looks horrendous as well once your by lol...

[therealnovaboy]

could it be a duff shock? it may sound stupid but is the ground level? ive thought ive had broken springs in a few occasins with the car sitting in rough ground. could even be a duff wheel bearing. it wouldnt take much for it to be a wee bit out.

[vaughanmc]

Could be a duff shock aye, as there clunking like mad due to it being too low

Not sure about the bearings as they've not long been done

[therealnovaboy]

bearings is a long shot but id deffinatly check the shocks

[vaughanmc]

Could it be them like, I know the passenger shock is the noisey/squeaky one and it's that side of the car that's lying like f*ck all...

[Andy]

Wtf are shocks?

[vaughanmc]

Dampers ?

[Andy]

Thats much better lol

[General Baxter]

i was just searching for a shocking photo, but this looks better lol

http://pinewooddesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/shocking-aids-advert_0.jpg

[therealnovaboy]

could be. id swap them over and see if it changes sides befor splashing out in new shockabsorbers (shocks)

[vaughanmc]

That's creepy lol

[General Baxter]

its ok, she likes it lol

[vaughanmc]

It looks like it lol

[therealnovaboy]

think she has crabs not aids

[Andy]

Who is she? Shes fukkin well nice!

[Andy]

Back on topic this happened to me before,my passenger side damper had collapsed and wouldnt return,worth whipping it off vaughan and trying that mate

[General Baxter]

i found one for AW06 lol

http://buggery.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/french-aids-posters-1.jpg

[Andy]

AFPMSL hahahahaha lol lol lol lol lol someone needs to give him that as an avatar!!!!

[General Baxter]

or this one

http://blogs.pomona.edu/grmt134-2009s/files/2009/03/2272439312_18e5198fb2_o.jpg

[Andy]

where these from lol lol lol lol

[General Baxter]

google.Fr lol

[Andy]

lol im not even gonna ask what your writing in the search lol

[General Baxter]

well it started with shocking lol

[Andy]

btw the 2nd pic of them 2 birds on the bed=WOW lol
(when you put shocking into google fr)

[vaughanmc]

Back on topic this happened to me before,my passenger side damper had collapsed and wouldnt return,worth whipping it off vaughan and trying that mate

Will do mate, could that be causing the wheel to push out at the bottom or sit like / ?

[General Baxter]

maybe a bolt between the hub ? lol

[vaughanmc]

Nope lol Not into that Euro/Ghetto stuff

[Andy]

Will do mate, could that be causing the wheel to push out at the bottom or sit like / ?
Yes it probably would make it sit like /
It wont be pushed out the bottom,that would be serious damage lol

[vaughanmc]

Found out what the problem is...

Round about where the spring sits on the back beam has cracked

No idea what's caused it as I've not hit anything with the car but maybe it's too low/stiff ?

Here's the best picture I could get to show the damage:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g191/vaughanmc/DSC00489.jpg
Got a replacement back beam there from another Nova that I scrapped recently so I'm sorted

I hope this cures the problem

It's been a gradual thing this I don't think it's happened over night

Cheers, Vaughan

[Andy]

Must have taken a hard whack or just be rotten from inside mate

[zongie]

its a solid axle hence the word beam you could take the shocks of i wouldnt make any difference they dont hold the wheel in any way. some thing must be bent or a collapsed bearing

[Benn]

I was gonna say you will not bend a beam jacking it up. Thats the best place to jack it up.

[vaughanmc]

I always jack it up on the beam anyway - Usually the middle...Very rarely the corners...

Anyway, new beam is fitted and the wheels line-up much better

Just need to get the brakes seen to and I'll be good to go out for a test run

Going to stick the 15" Irmscher wheels back on and run it with the 3mm wheel-spacers still as it never rubbed once with them fitted before the beam went up s*it creek!

Cheers for the help everyone :thumb:

[Benn]

Brakes seen too? Glad you've sorted it.

[vaughanmc]

Aye need to connect the handbrake cable up and swap my drum internals over to the new axel as mines are fairly new

Flexi's, Pistons etc :thumb: