Thread: Lifted P38 on air - questions

Thanks for the offer mate, I will pass at this stage as ill be fitting the kit up before it would arrive. I will change the game plan and run with the new idea.

I thought about that, however, the turnbuckle is stainless steel and I doubt the sensor arm is, and I don't have a tig! I can fit up a pipe bush (also known as a socket) and loctite it, just as good without the benefit of easy adjustment of sensor arms.

This will make it easier to lengthen the front arms as there's not a lot of meat on them and the turnbuckles were too long for the front anyway!

Cheers
Keithy

Hey Keithy check out my previous posts on the height sensors I made from s/steel turnbuckles available at mitre 10 with pics attached -easy as to make and benefit of adjustment up/down while fitted to vehicle!

I did see that! That's the same type of turnbuckle I've got (I have four of them), mine are too long to use on the front sensor arms though so I'd have to get creative there anyway! Unless it was possible to shorten the turnbuckles... I only need them to be 35-40mm long and mine are more like 75mm.

Cheers
Keithy

The easiest approach for the front height sensors is to lift their attachment point on the panhard rod by 30mm or so. As per Martin's technique.

Adjusting the height settings through the EAS unlock software is easy enough, providing you have a manual inflation kit fitted. Inflate the bags to the height you need/want, take the readings, then plug them in and save them. Apologies if this is grand mother sucking eggs stuff. I learnt the hard way!!

I was actually considering using some semi-flexible plastic 25mm x 3mm thick (or so) to raise the front height sensor attachment point - to improve the flex of the sensor arms.

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these guys have a myriad of different rod ends, ball joints and jack screws. If you can wait they would have a solution you could order. I've used them before - its a great website and service. I'm not in any way affiliated with them.

So I've got a lifted P38, but not completely...

The height sensors have got me buggered! I measure them at 6mm by the good eye. I can't get my die to start on the arms with a 6mm die on... I got a great 7mm thread onto them, but not 6mm! Could not for the life of me get the 6mm to take!

Anyone able to confirm that the sensor arms are in fact 6mm or are they 7's?

Other than that everything is good!

For now I've raised it up and removed the delay timer.

Cheers
Keithy

Keithy, I took mine into an engineering place & they tapped thread on original sensor to match thread of turnbuckle then they welded l/h thread of turnbuckle to other end of original sensor arm that way everything works perfect and you can adjust each side to get almost exact values on both sides making calibration a breeze!
Hope this helps, Martin