Please be sure to check yours. Had a track day on Thursday, today I changed oil and checked the links. Both were lose. Be sure to check or they could ruin your day.
-Rob
-Rob
I know that we're supposed to check our toe links, and I've searched this forum for a good picture of toe link and not found one. As a beginner I'd hate to be fruitlessly checking the wrong thing. Does any of the undercarriage need to be removed to check the toe links? Does anyone have a good picture of the operation?WildCJ5 said:Please be sure to check yours. Had a track day on Thursday, today I changed oil and checked the links. Both were lose. Be sure to check or they could ruin your day.
-Rob
viacondotti said:I know that we're supposed to check our toe links, and I've searched this forum for a good picture of toe link and not found one. As a beginner I'd hate to be fruitlessly checking the wrong thing. Does any of the undercarriage need to be removed to check the toe links? Does anyone have a good picture of the operation?
the pic of where the nut that needs to be checkedThis post: LotusTalk - The Lotus Cars Community - View Single Post - Bolting "everything" down before a track day
Which has this diagram:
An accurate version of that claim would be, "If it is loose, damage MAY have already been done depending on how loose it is and what forces it has been subjected to, and it would be a very reasonable idea to replace it."Ian said:I thought I read somewhere that if it is loose, the damage has already been done and it should be replaced. Is this not correct?
No one knows for sure, though I think there has been at least one failure of a car that had the joints checked at regular service intervals (the blue Elise at Buttonwillow last year). I'd recommend checking it more frequently when the car is new and before/after track days. Over time, if you're not seeing any changes in it I'd scale that back to just checking it at every oil change.RegGuy said:Is this considered a "standard" maintenance check when the oil is changed or is it more frequently needed?
From the manual, section DH (rear suspension):ritcci said:Would anyone happen to have a nice pretty annotated image with all the torque areas and their values?
My toe link's were a 1/4 turn loose after every track event - until I installed the S111 Nocklocks locking washers.ducatiexigeowner said:Sec111 has locking washers for the toe links.....
does the same trick as a locking tab, if not better,simple mod.....
a took a load of these courtesy of shinoo and neil along to the stargazing
meet......if your close to CA shay2 may have a few left over...