MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: SteveP on April 21, 2010, 09:50:42 pm
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Evening all,
Having some trouble with the front KW ARB's being noisy, what grease should be used on the bushes for these?
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Silicon based grease is fine to use if the bushes are rubber, black molybdenum or most lithium based ones if the bushes are polyurethane
This stuff seems to come well recommended :happy2:
http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-824-silkolene-pro-rg2-racing-grease.aspx
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Cheers Beddie :happy2:
Has anyone else had to do this on their car? Any tips?
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Cheers Beddie :happy2:
Has anyone else had to do this on their car? Any tips?
....Yes, but it was as usual all done for me. I seem to have a resistance to getting my hands dirty - Sorry! The point is that ARB bushes do seem to need re-greasing from time to time. Surely not on your Mk6 so soon?
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Cheers Beddie :happy2:
Has anyone else had to do this on their car? Any tips?
I get the ocassional squeek / squeel could do with getting them re lubricated
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Cheers Beddie :happy2:
Has anyone else had to do this on their car? Any tips?
....Yes, but it was as usual all done for me. I seem to have a resistance to getting my hands dirty - Sorry! The point is that ARB bushes do seem to need re-greasing from time to time. Surely not on your Mk6 so soon?
Within a week of the uprated ARB's being fitted I have had issues, one (a knocking noise) I solved myself. Just need to sort the low speed compression "squeaks" now :smiley:
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my rears have started to creek again,
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Is it worth roughing the two surfaces up just a little bit - just to stop two very smooth surfaces acting like when you rub two balloons together?
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Is it worth roughing the two surfaces up just a little bit - just to stop two very smooth surfaces acting like when you rub two balloons together?
....QD stokeballoon knows everything about rubbing such things together :evilgrin:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2FRedRobin_05%2FRR%2FRRDaveR_Brussells.jpg&hash=c9f0e295db1ce4a087792f34fbc94011e71f112c)
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my rears have started to creek again,
....Is that in sympathy with your front spoiler? :evilgrin:
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Is it worth roughing the two surfaces up just a little bit - just to stop two very smooth surfaces acting like when you rub two balloons together?
....QD stokeballoon knows everything about rubbing such things together :evilgrin:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2FRedRobin_05%2FRR%2FRRDaveR_Brussells.jpg&hash=c9f0e295db1ce4a087792f34fbc94011e71f112c)
:grin: :grin: :grin: :signLOL:
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how did you get a way with the knock. i have a little knock on mine nowsince refitting the oem font arb
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The knock on mine was due to one of the drop links being loose :surprised:
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was it loose where it connects to the arb or loose where the drop link connects to the car??
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Drop link connection on the arb on the drivers side.
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cheers steve, ill get it up on the ramps and take a look i think. it feels like the knock is coming from just underneath my feet in the drivers foot well, so i think potentially it could also be a loose clamp?
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cheers steve, ill get it up on the ramps and take a look i think. it feels like the knock is coming from just underneath my feet in the drivers foot well, so i think potentially it could also be a loose clamp?
....I had a knocking on the passenger side. It turned out to be a broken front wishbone bush - Extremely difficult to spot but worth checking if problem not otherwise solved.
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Does anyone know how to tell which setting the arb is on?
On mine there are two holes, so if the inside hole the stiff setting and the outside hole soft?
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Does anyone know how to tell which setting the arb is on?
On mine there are two holes, so if the inside hole the stiff setting and the outside hole soft?
As the lever will be longer therefore easier I think the outside is softest. I do stand to be corrected on that though. :smiley:
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thats correct steve.
After 3 weekends in a row at the ring with a different ARB set up each time: front and rear on stiff, front stiff, :signLOL: rear soft, and front soft, rear stiff, i found the front soft, rear stiff to be the the best setup.
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Cheers guys, based on that mine are set on front soft / rear stiff :happy2: