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Old 19-06-2018, 09:46 PM
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Bram, have you got some available, or do you make them as required? If you make them, whats the lead time? (I've got the car booked in for Thursday next week for install)
I usually make them as ordered. But i will have some more available any day now. Because I had an order last week on ozfoz, so parts were ordered then. And i got some extras. I reckon i will have them complete before next thursday. (Not this thursday though)
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Keep me posted? I have the suspension shop using an "off the shelf" set so far...
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Parts arrived today if you still want to grab a set of links Matto.
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Parts arrived today if you still want to grab a set of links Matto.

Cheers Bram, PM sent. Lets do it.
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I had a look at these links during the week

Very impressed with the quality
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Yep, picked a set up from Bram yesterday (Saturday), they look real good! Car goes in this week to have arms installed and alignment done, the arms appear to have anti-lift kit too? (They're the arms I got from you Neil, a couple of years back).
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Update.

Took the car in to have STI control arms fitted, but they couldn't be put on. The rear mount is too far back (so the whole thing is too long) by about 10mm.

I'm assuming the black metal piece in this pic is for a GD? or Forester? The arms are GC8 but the black piece is the problem.

So I need something shorter, or I'll just sell both arms with sway bar links if its too hard to source the correct length. Not sure what to do so any suggestions or advice would be appreciated please.
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Old 29-06-2018, 08:28 PM
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Thats a bummer. Are you sure its the pins that are the problem? They dont look like GD to me. The GD ones dont look like that. And forester have steel arms. Forester STi is exact same as GD, except the rear bush housing has different geometry.

The bushs/spacers in there look wrong to me.

My advice is to pull those gold things off and sell them or bin them. Then put standard forester ones in thier place, but with new upgraded bushes only. The forester mounts have the "ALK" geometry as standard because they came from the body lifted forester and dont cost anywhere near as much as the gold ones do.

Get bushs that need to be installed with a press. Not that junky 2 piece slot in crap.

These are GD pins. Could be just because im on a phone and not a big screen, but they look different to what you have pictured.
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10mm isnt that much. A pry bar would just about get you there i reckon.
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Doing a bit of google work, and it even shows in your pic Bram, my pins appear to have extra length with that thicker section *just* before the bush. The pics I found online dont have as must length between the arm and the bush, so Im going to have to find pins.

Urgh. Fck.
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