{"id":1031,"date":"2010-08-09T22:42:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T21:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2010-08-09T22:42:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T21:42:27","slug":"front-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Front Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the back end was easy enough, but the front&#8230; is a slightly more involved affair. \u00a0This is mostly because of the remote reservoirs for the new suspension, which are an important part of it, giving much bigger oil and gas volume, and allowing a thermostat to be placed away from the suspension, giving consistent performance. \u00a0That&#8217;s all lovely, but they need to be <em>placed<\/em> somewhere, and that&#8217;s where the fun began. \u00a0On newer suspension systems, they come out of the top of the strut, making them fit easily in the engine bay. \u00a0But on these, they appear <em>under<\/em> the top mount, meaning that they are under the wheelarch. \u00a0Ideally, the reservoir should be in the engine bay for a number of reasons &#8211; cleanliness, adjustability and also avoiding damage. \u00a0The strut needed to be carefully placed to stop the hose from fouling the inner wheelarch (which took some time), but the next issue was finding a way to get the reservoir under the bonnet. \u00a0And here&#8217;s the problem: \u00a0The reservoirs are quite big. \u00a0Which means a big hole. \u00a0So, what started out looking like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1032\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/front-inner-wing-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1032\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1032\" title=\"front-inner-wing-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/front-inner-wing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/front-inner-wing-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/front-inner-wing-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small hole...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Needed to be much bigger:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1033\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/front-inner-wing-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1033\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1033\" title=\"front-inner-wing-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/front-inner-wing-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/front-inner-wing-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/front-inner-wing-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A much bigger hole<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Which wasn&#8217;t that easy to do with a holesaw, but did look fairly neat after some tidying up. \u00a0The reservoir can now live inside the engine bay, on the filter cool air box wall, although the hose needs to be fixed in place to stop it doing something silly. \u00a0However, no progress has occurred today, because I&#8217;ve been doing something else &#8211; the garage roof had started to leak in the rain, and needed replacing. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t afford to have someone else do it, so I did it myself with the help of a friend, and it took the entire day. \u00a0Hopefully there will be more progress tomorrow, with the left hand side getting done, and the car finally sitting on the Proflex all round&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the back end was easy enough, but the front&#8230; is a slightly more involved affair. \u00a0This is mostly because of the remote reservoirs for the new suspension, which are an important part of it, giving much bigger oil and gas volume, and allowing a thermostat to be placed away from the suspension, giving consistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}