Telescopic rear shock absorbers

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Roy
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Telescopic rear shock absorbers

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Good evening all , any of you chaps converted the rear shock absorbers (dampers) to telescopic ,
If so you do mind sharing which ones you used ,ie universal ,or ford escort ,etc ,or from more modern jap car ,
Any info great fully Recived , as I can't find any supplier that can be botherd to give me any measurement ,
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pretty sure Dave Clark has, may be worth searching his threads. :study:
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I used Mini front dampers on the rear of my son's A35 (the orange one). I made a simple (but substantial) top plate that bolted to the original damper locating holes and welded a long bolt to the front edge of the lower spring plate. You need to get the spacing right and it is pretty tight on the driver's side due to the handbrake linkage.

I'm sure the purists will say that welding the bottom bolt anneals it but it seems to be lasting well at the moment as the conversion was fitted about a year ago and the car is used as everyday transport. Because of the fairly shallow angle the dampers run at, the bushes have to move quite a bit so it's a good idea to lubricate them with something like a silicon spray or the squeaking drives you mad!

On my A30 I carried out a similar conversion using MG Metro Turbo dampers (just happened to have a pair in the garage) but as they have a pin top, it is more complicated and doesn't work as well (and they squeak even more).

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Hi Roy I got rid of my old rear springs had a pair of trailing arms made and fitted Gaz adjustable shocks to the rear of my 35 only thing is I have yet to take it out on the road to see how they work out.
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Thank you ,for reply , spent the day. Working on car , I now have telescopic. Rear dampers / shock absorbers ,working , just done a short test drive , seems to work ok , copes with bumps pretty well , and got rid of that irritating knock noise from the old worn originals ,
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I would love to see some photos of the above setups gents :thumbs:
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:iagree: photos would be very interesting. :thumbs:
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I also agree, it will be looked at on mine at some point.
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Hello , a couple of photos ,not very good I am afraid ,had to hold torch underneath ,,,
You can see my bottom plate is from a Morris minor ,give me a bit of scope to re position if required to alter angle of damper ,also top plate I have made my fixing lug a little more reward , so end result is damper is at a
Reasonable angle , set up need a bit of juggling to set units so they don't either top or bottom out ,
My rear springs are new and car sit higher ,still got a couple of breeze block in the boot ,very slowly freeing
Up , ( the spring are another story)
The right side be a bit Cearfull to set them in closer to wheel , as to miss the brake rod linkage ,so a modified
Plate is required , hope photos are of some interst ,
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PS ,I struggle to get photos up ,image file to big ,so I made them in black and white ,that seem to do it
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What shocks did you fit?
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Great minds think alike Roy, mine look almost exactly the same.
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Morning Dave , yep seem to be the route to go (for us any way) hope you are as pleased with results as I am ,
My units are just the dead basic oil filled KYB type ,at this stage for the road I think will be just fine
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