discopaul

discopaul

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Hi all i bent my Rear Tie bar at Tong over the weekend. is there anything i could do to stop this from happening again or do?
also now ive replaced the bent tie bar the axel does not seem to be equal i.e one wheel sticks out more than the other in the wheel arch
 
Walk the course first and pick your lines more carefully ... ;)

Maybe the new tie-bar is a different length to the original, or (most likely) one of the brackets is also bent forwards or backwards, giving the same effect.

I'd measure the other side bar length and also the distances between mounting points and compare them.

Then **** it wiv an 'ammer ... a feckin' BIG 'ammer!!

Sorry, that should have been use percussive maintenance to move the bracket.

:hysterically_laughi
 
it was my old man that was driving at the time and it was done when we was tugged from the rear and it pulled the back end into a rut. i will get the mesure tape out then lol
 
Heheheh, teach you to choose who and how you're recovered more carefully in future ... ;)

Seen more damage done by botched recoveries than the getting stuck ever did!! There was a video of Youtube and here showing a Disco that had rolled after reversing down a hill fast and turning, so it rolled ... looked reasonably OK until the numpties 'recovering' it had dragged it halfway to hell and back, made it a right wreck!
 
On a Discovery?

The rear arms on some early ones are thiner then the ones on Defenders. I bent one on a failed hill climb and swapped in a pair off a Defender.
 
the difference is: the thin type are solid bar and the thicker type are thick walled tubing much much stronger Jai
 
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