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Ok cheers.

Thats sooooo funny...

That 5 looks stuning, does anybody know what sort of induction kit that is?

Thats a hole in one !!

Any chance next Saturday 6th about 10.00 am ?

Hi Tony , can you book me in for your next Available Saturday please mate ?

Good job it wasn't in front of me , cus i would have booted it !

Hi Tony Thanks for the information. I was booked in a couple of months ago regarding this noise and the young lad that checked it out for me didn’t make any reference to bushings. If he had I would have asked him to remove the joints and copper grease for me to see if this would have solved the problem. So I assume that you are talking about the bushings that come with the Gaz Coilover? Also, take into account at the time of fitting late last year; my car had only covered 19,000 miles creak/squeak free. If it is simply a case of copper creasing then any chance you can book me in on a Saturday to service the unit? Regarding the two ‘MOUSE-LIKE’ squeaks from the front end that I get every time I go over a bump in the road, again this has only been since I had the Gaz fitted; I would leave it to your recommendation as to what to do about these when I visit. link to soundbite. this is just a brief clip, there is some exhuast noise but you should be able to here the creak and the odd squeak.

Well i suppose i am sort of sorry to here this news , but consider ing i have had nothing but constant creak and squeak's coming from 3 of the coil-over units since fitted , i am not that bothered. So Tony looks like i am going to pay you another visit to see if these can be in someway cured not sure what you are going to do tho ugh ? I have made a recording of one of the problem shocks and i will tr y to post this later on today ( at work at the min hence the time of this post ).

hu? I mean are we talking real car or model car Well.... I've heard them called "hairdressers car" before , but never a model car. Then again they are a bit small .

Thanks for that , got it BTW the Plasticine links looks great in bl ue !

Yes they are "handed" so it looks like they have put on the incorrect sides. So factor in Mazda's fabled weak droplinks and also that they were second hand to start i would have thought that they would have been fitted with the least amount of stress as possible ? Would you agree or am i up the wrong tree ? (Again ).

So any thoughts as to why they were installed this way ?

I have got a new set of aftermarket mx5 droplinks ready to go on,what i need to know is do i put them on as they are in the pics or do they need to be more vertical reason is they just don't look right to me ? I know my old Wim ones were more vertical so do these follow suit ?

So is droop when the suspension is in an unloaded state, ie flying over and a hump backed bridge in a rally stage?

Ok Tony I hope this makes sense or I am back to square one. The two rear coilovers were set to show 13 threads counting from the bottom of the damper –upwards, with the car jacked up there was no play in the springs so I have wound down the lock and perch nut to show 10 threads now with the car jacked up there is a slight bit of play in the springs but not too much so that they can be moved easily. Took the car for a test drive and no creak not one bit I had a Twang or two at slow speed over some speed humps but I suppose that was to be expected having just done the adjustment. The noise was getting so bad it could be heard over the engine/exhaust and I even resorted to playing the radio something which I never do. So mate does this sound about right or is it a precursor of more earache to come.

The nut that holds the damper rod into the top hat , does that need to be air gunned off and on or are hand tools ok ?

You da man

My Mx sits about 115 mm from sill to ground can i higher the car about 5-10mm before it affects the Geo or am i ok, reason is i not only h ave the creaking bed spring noise from the rear offside but also seem to  have collected two field mice type squeaks coming from the front end  so i was thinking by highering slightly it would put the shock rods  in a higher position then see if its better or not and perhaps sol ving the problem any ideas ?

Check out Good-Win-Racing, its Brian Goodwins site over there, looks like they have ones for track and road may be worth a look.

I suppose its a sort of a result as far as the drop link V anti-roll bar goes in as much we now know the reason behind the problem know. So i suppose it is a case of taking the plunge and getting them fr om the states or just buy a set or two of OEM ones and keep as ba ckup. Still it was a nice drive down and back good to see the main man looking a bit better.

Cheers mate

Cheers grease sorted just need a bit of advice which method ie. Car raised up or all 4 wheels on the ground to remove nut and rubber ?