Tein HA's w/ Cusco pillow ball mounts

[Ade]

Hi guys,

I started fitting some Tein HA Coilovers and Cusco Camber Plates to my RS13 today and I seem to have ran into a problem that I had never anticipated..

The Coilovers and the Camber Plates came together as one peice, so I proceeded to pull the old strut off and went about fitting the new unit. I think the coilover is at its lowest setting, as the coilover was alot shorter than the original strut, to make life easier, I used a jack under the lower arm to hold it up to a nice hieght while I attached the Camber Plate Top Mount bolts and then bolted the shock to the hubs... The Coilover was installed and tightened up.

As I wound the small jack down, to remove it from under the lower arm it had previously been holding up, i noticed that the shock was coming down at the same rate as the jack. I looked up at the Pillow Ball mount and it was no longer attached to the Camber Plate..

If the car was on its wheels with the coilovers, the Pillow Ball mount would stay in its proper posistion, obviously because the cars wieght will prevent it from dropping out of the bottom of the Camber Plate, but if you were to jack the car up or to jump/extend the shock then it would surely fall out of the Camber Plate mount.. Cant be right, can it?

So, anyways here are some picture to try and explain all of that a little better..

http://www.finaldrivemagazine.com/~pazzaep82/Tein1.jpg

http://www.finaldrivemagazine.com/~pazzaep82/Tein2.jpg

http://www.finaldrivemagazine.com/~pazzaep82/Tein3.jpg

Is this how they are supposed to be? Why do they fall away from the Camber Plates? Is this how anyone else's Teins are?

Any help will be greatly appreciated, as I am totally confused :mad: :confused:

Thanks

Ade

[Halz]

Doesn't look like a very good design on Cusco's behalf..

Here is a picture of a Tein plate..
http://halzmann.homestead.com/files/240/tein_pb_hang.JPG

Granted, it does not really give a good idea of what is significantly different.. at all..

Are you able to press the bushing back in? While I'm sure you would be able to.. it still would not seem right. The plates should be able to support a decent ammount of unsprung weight.

I would suggest sending the same questions to Cusco, and see what they have to say/suggest.

[Ade]

Is there anyone else out there using Cusco pillow ball top mounts :confused:

Are they the same ? Am I something missing :confused:

PLEASE HELP ME :rolleyes:

[Tekryder]

uhhh did you get those used or something? I would think maybe there is a piece missing that bolts under the pillow mount that holds the pivot point in.

I got Teins but am waiting to put them on.

[Ade]

Yeah, they are used from Japan