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Rear suspension problem(self inflicted)

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timmyturtle

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Hello,Im all new to 944`s. My love is Mk1 Golfs really
I got my car as a part payment for money owed to me from a builder,so it wasnt planned.
My aim was to get the car home,tart it up and flog it on.
However,after driving it home i kind of fell for it
Car in question is a 1991 S2 Cabriolet
Seeing as every bolt ive touched seems to be super tight/seized,i decided to get the penetrating fluid out and free all the bolts off.Which was fine till i undid the 2 nuts that adjust the ride height.(yes,stupid me)
The plate has now moved(i can see where it was positioned before)
Question is,can i somehow move the plate back to this position without removing half the suspension??
Thankyou for any help,Tim
 
Hi and welcome

You say 2 bolts , I couldn't get mine to move when undoing all 3 ! Any pictures of exactly which bolts you've undone?

 
The ride height nuts are 2 on each side as you can see in the diagram posted earlier.
If you losened those and the suspension now is on its lowest position you might as well leave it like that ,i think it's better.
If you want to bring it back to it's original ride height just remove the shock bolt with the car on the ground then jack the car up and the trailing arm should drop back to it's original position or you can position it by hand in its original position.
 
The two nuts you loosened are a bolt with nut that locks the adjustment in position and an eccentric bolt with nut that is the height adjuster (the head on the eccentric bolt is about 34mm). The bolt heads are on the inside of the arm. You should be able to loosen the small bolt and nut slightly and then loosen the other nut (opposite the 34 mm head) and then crank that eccentric bolt to get the arm back to its original position. Then tighten up the lock nut and tighten up the eccentric nut and you should be back in business.

You will need to jack it up to take the weight off the wheel before you do this. Also - the nuts on those are self locking types - I think you are supposed to replace those nuts if you have loosened them up or you may lose the locking function.

The Haynes manual has a good exploded view of this set up so you can easily see what is going on there. The workshop manual is not so good.

Be careful what you are undoing under there - if you loosen up the camber and toe adjusters you need a special tool to reset those to the correct settings.
 
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