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depending on how your rating smart i can be pretty Posted by vvack0matic [Email]  (#1443) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from vvack0matic) on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:48:13
In Reply to: Rear Noise w/ Full Load On Bumps, Bob C, Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:49:34 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
dumb, or should we say i can be pretty ignorant of what is yet to be learned.
but to the subject at hand.
through out my years i drove many cars, truck, vans anyhow when you say bottomed out im thinking the frame of the car actually hit the ground.
in which i had lots of experience in, of course not in a saab but in a truck that was dropped to the distance of 2 inched off the ground.
even though i drove this truck like this for a some of 5 years throughout the duration with the frame constantly slapping the ground had no real ill effect, lots of road rash but thats it. even when i managed to get the truck air-born (unintentionally) after hitting the ground with no suspension (may i add it was quite hard) the truck continued to drive with no ill effect.
you would be surprised just how much abuse a vehicle can take before snapping something, grant it saabs are their own ball of wax, where it only takes one to back the car up to break something. but driving forward the basic principles are the same, just 1 thing.
to get the saab 900`s frame to hit the ground is next to impossible, or should i say is.
as Zaab noted before the frame hits the muffler would be tore out, and with the gas tank sitting above the rear axle impossible.
so lets look at what could have or go wrong.
if i just hit the punch line that would be kinda dull so lets think on the bushings, if they were rotted out the rear end would be so sloppy the car would be undrivable, rear wheel bearings if going south would make the most terrible scream to get the horrid noise of a car bottoming out and would definitely be noticeable in the vibration that would rattle the car to death, but the noise without the rattle excludes bearings,
which leads use to one thing that keeps the car from bottoming out, or the muffler.
all 900`s are equipped with rear bump stops to keep the rear wheels of the car from traveling up into the body, however
i have been looking a good long time for the front spring`s bump-stops on every car that i have found in the pick n pulls, to perhaps pull them to replace mine which are destroyed.
but every car i looked at their bumpstops are also destroyed.
and seeing the cars up in the air i take a gander at the rear stops also, which are also destroyed.
so taking into account i have never seen in-tacked bump stops on a 900 i would bet yours are also destroyed (why ohh why dont someone sell these things)
so driving the car with destroyed rear bumpstops there is nothing stopping the rear wheels from traveling up into the body of the car (and rubbing the inner-side of the wheel well)
only problem that may arise is if you have pretty crummy tires one may blow.
have a safe trip & take no worry about the rub.
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