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As in the topic.

I've got Mahle baby burners fited on CB Dropped spindles and 2" narrowed Cb ball joint beam with thisc brakes.
I grinded lower trailing arm around ball joint seat to allowe the boll joing go further. I also grinded the inner rim of the wheel.  the beam is adjusted almost in the top - I would like to drop the car a little bit more - but in this moment it scraches during turning right and on bumps on the road - eaven those small ones (yes we've got holes and bumps on the roadas :D) . the ball joint is really near the rim.

What do you do with your baby burners to stop that thing?
I don't wanna to put spacers between the wheel and disck or go back to std spindles.
any adwices?

PS.. where to buy the caps for BBs?

You need to get a taper reamer and cut the taper deeper into the spindle so that the ball joint will sit in further and move away from the wheel. Don't go too deep, ream a little bit and refit to see if you have gone far enough.

I got an engineer friend to do this and have no problems with the balljoint hitting the wheel rim now.
 8)

thanks I tried to remember what you've said on drag day on santa pod. Thanks for reminding that to me :)
I'll try to do that :D
by the way do you have any pictures of that?

I had the same problem with my pedrini's. The quick grinder did the trick with me ;)

Centre caps are available at www.vwjava.com

Cheers,
Sander

thanx for the link.

In my case grinder wasn't enough :D
gotta do what Andy did.

I had a couple of before and after pics with it all fitted up but photobucket seems to have binned one of my albums, I'll have a look around see if I can find the originals. I don't have any pictures of the process though.
 :)

thankx anyway :) I'll see waht could be done and If I did all propperly.
by the way did You used the balljoint for lowered front suspension?

hey All,

I'm pickung up my spindles today from machine shop, I asked to put the balljoint 3mm deeper  hope it won'e be too much. I was shocked with the price 2 holes 250zl each do 500zl plus vat so almost a price of a new set of spindles... but the babyburners are more important  :D

I'll show the effects soon,
gotta hurry up cuz on sunday we've got darg racing event.

cheers
Tom.

3mm should be plenty. I really like those rims!

hey Zach,

plenty :) I thought the same :D this planty made about 1,5-2 mm space between rim and the balljoint :) no rubbing any more but I grinded also the balljoint seat in the front controll arm :)