HELP MK1 suspension problems

[jp43044@netzero.net (jp43044)]

Check your strut bearing.  My Golf does that all the time.  I know it needs
replaced but hey.  It fixes itself evry once in a while.

Erik
88 16V
88 Golf (Urban Insult Vehichle)
----- Original Message -----
From: Cory Langford <corylang@dccnet.com>
To: <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:35 PM
Subject: HELP MK1 suspension problems


>
>
> Well, I think I did something bad to the '79 yesterday :(
>
> I was not paying attention and I ended up hitting a rather nice large pot
> hole dead on with the driver side wheel at about 120 KPH.
>
> When I hit it, it sounded like I ran into a wall. Nice huge BANG, and I
hit
> the brake, but the car started rocking in a very weird way.  It was like
it
> was rocking back and forth between the front driver side and rear pass
> side.  Almost like the wheels were no in the same plane as the other two
> corners.
>
> Even at slow speeds it did this, until about 5 minutes of slow driving
> later, I went over another bump and the front end seemed to pop up and
> things went back to normal again.
>
> I have not had a chance to look under the car yet. So I figured I would
get
> some opinions for sat. job of pulling the suspension apart.
>
> The guy I bought it off of put new struts into it (or so he says) and it
> definitely has nice new Febi strut bearing/caps on.
>
> Any thoughts of where to look?
>
> I was thinking if he forgot to put the bump stops into the front, I may
> have hammered the strut into the top of the cart. and it go stuck until it
> worked its way back out again.  Is that possible?
>
>
> Cory Langford
> '86 turbo project - running, just needs tuning :)
> '79 daily driver - Restore in progress...
> '65 Ghia - The next project in the garage
>
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