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Revision as of 13:20, 17 April 2007

Want to look hard and lift that front inside tyre?

Fitting an adjustable ARB is relatively straight forward.

Procedure

1. Support the front of the car

  • Remove both front wheels.

2. Remove old ARB

3. Fit new one


Eliseparts Uprated ARB
ARB Mounting
ARB Drop Link
Wheel Hub View


External links

First remove the lower bolts holding the droplinks to the ARB

Then you will have to remove the front aliminium access panel. On mine two of the rivnutted bolts had seized so I had to gring the heads off.

You will then have to drill out the rivits on the two aliminium panels on either side of the crash structure.

Then undo the two allen bolts holding the ARB bracket either side of the chassis using an allen key. It would be a good idea to use some WD40 on these as mine had seized in quite well!

On earlier cars the bushes are held in by extra long bolts holding the bushes and the lower front wishbone bushes in

You should then be able to drop the ARB from underneath the car