V1 Grants Full Cage Goblin - '06 LT NA Donor

[GrantSmith6]

It seems that I have run into another issue. I was going to work on installing front suspension today and I assembled the front uprights and installed the heim joints on all the control arms. However when I went to mock them up on the car, I noticed a pretty substantial gap in-between the body mount and the heim. I will attach a photo and it seems that all of the control arms are off and all by the same amount (about half an inch). I don't know if I am missing some thing or if the control arms are incorrect. Any input would be great. Thanks in advance.

 

[Ross]

My car is the same. Put the bolt in, and pull the A arm back into shape, the DOM tubing will spring a little.

 

[Robinjo]

Same issue when I built mine. Once it tightened up everything was ok.

 

[GrantSmith6]

Ok I will give it a try. Thanks!

 

[GrantSmith6]

I'm trying to do the last push so I can get my car driving for this summer and I am having some issues. I have installed pretty much all the front and rear suspension and I am now working on front and rear brakes. Most of my problems are at the rear of the car, as I am unsure what to do with some of the hardware.
There are 2 brass pieces that seem to be some sort of retention spring but I'm not sure how they are meant to be installed. They are made from some thick wire and there are some dimples machined in the calipers that it seems they go into but I am not sure how.

There are also 6 aluminum spacers, 2 short machine screws, and 3 longer machine screws, plus some ny-lock nuts and washers and I'm not sure what these are for.

Lastly I bought the SS parking break cables as in the donor part document it said that I needed those as the parking brake cables for dum brakes wont work. I took the old cables out and tried to feed the new ones into the aluminum guide tubes but they are getting hung up and wont go through.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Rttoys]

This wire?

 

[Rttoys]

Pics of spacers and such.


They should feed though. I don’t think one is thicker than the other, but maybe so.

 

[GrantSmith6]

Thank you for the picture. Thats how I thought they went but I was having trouble but now I got it. Here is a photo of all the other fasteners. Are they used for mounting the handle itself?

 

[Rttoys]

I believe so and are stacked

 

[GrantSmith6]

Ok. I'm still confused why I have 5 nylocks though because the plate for my parking break handle has rivnuts and the machine bolts also dont match the thread pitch of the rivnuts

 

[Rttoys]

I’m not sure. Mine was from the old kit where you had to do a lot of stuff on your own. On the new shifter it doesn’t even use as many bolts.

 

[Rttoys]

I should have asked if it was stock cobalt shifter or Df new one.

 

[GrantSmith6]

It is the stock cobalt brake handle

 

[Rttoys]

Correct, but the tunnel cap is different from the stock shifter, to the upgraded Df shifter. Hell, they may have put rivnuts in the stock tunnel cap by now too. Mine didn’t have that. We had to measure and drill holes. mmmm. Maybe some others will chime in on that.

 

[GrantSmith6]

Ok I think I see what you are saying. I do have the DF shifter but that is on a different plate of the tunnel cover so maybe they started splitting them into separate pieces? I have three total to cover my tunnel.

 

[Rttoys]

They did on the Df shifter. Only used 3 bolts and 4 spacers (maybe just 2) for the park brake lever, if I remember correctly.

 

[GrantSmith6]

Ok. Does anyone else have any idea what the hardware I have that I am unsure about is for?

 

[Robinjo]

Sorry, can you repost what you have and maybe include some photos.

 

[GrantSmith6]

Yeah of course here is the description and the photo:
"There are also 6 aluminum spacers, 2 short machine screws, and 3 longer machine screws, plus some ny-lock nuts and washers and I'm not sure what these are for." They were all in the parking brake hardware bag.
My other question was about routing the parking brake cables through the aluminum guide tubes as they don't fit through the bends.

 

[Robinjo]

The spacers hold the hand brake assembly off the tunnel cap. You can two spacers of needed to raise it further. I had to drill my own holes in the tunnel for the assembly. My brake tubes were easy to bend to route around the subframe.