FITTING CORSA B SUSPENSION TO MY 1975 VAUXHALL VIVA HC - DISASTER!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2023
- In this video I attempt to start replacing the springs on my VIva HC with which I thought were Corsa B springs. There is a disaster at the end of the video and in my thumbnail pic I copy the ever increasing number of car youtubers that look extremely confused in their photo 🤣
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Eight hundred views in four hours, and nearly four thousand subscribers. Seems a lot of folk like one man and his Viva! Old cars can be frustrating, you're going great, then something goes wrong to put you back days. Worthwhile mod, though. Suits this car.
Cheers mate! I'm very appreciative of that as I didn't think anyone would watch when I first started out. Yes frustrating but fun! Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Sunday mornings are made for Viva updates. How to bring a smile to an ex-viva owner's face.
Ah thats nice to hear! 😀 Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Hello Steve,great video,modern springs fit perfectly on the Viva.
Thank you very much mate! Thanks for watching 👍
In the immortal words of the Macc Lads.... "Vauxhall Viva's all covered in rust, but you can't shag yer bird on a 29 bus"
🤣 Thanks for watching 👍
Great way to start me week!. Some old vehicles 'fight' you all the way!. 🤣
Thank you mate! They certainly do! 👍
Just been given a half hour break from the decorating to watch what you've been up to this week - great stuff. Now it's back to the painting for me cause I'm not allowed to work on my old cars until I've finished!
Thanks very much mate! Thanks for continuing to watch and good luck with the decorating! 👍
Nice one Steve I have never heard of corsa springs used on hc viva looking forward to your video keep on smiling 😃 cheers mate
Thank you mate! Its been done before but I think I used Corsa C springs 😆
Hey Steve, noticed the inside of your wheel arch in the boot is spot on, you normally see patches there as crap gets stuck behind the shock absorbers and rots it. Suspension looking nice and level mate, just cut down on the chocolate bars 😅
Yeah mate its in very good nick suprisingly! The right hand one looks like its had a repair but I will be tackling that in the future. I am trying my best to cut down on the choccie🤣
Corsa bits on a viva. I hope that as and when DNR 503K repairs start the wife does not notice any parts stolen from the family ‘shopping trolley’. Keep up the good work.q
😆 Thank you very much mate 👍
As they say "shit happens" great vid as always.
Thank you mate! It certainly does! Thanks for watching 👍
At first I'd of thought corsa springs wouldn't be strong enough but to be fair it did look a lot firmer mate 👍
drill the cup out and use a bolt if you can't find a replacement, it'll work just the same! Haha the self telling off was awesome 🤣 "nah cos ya tightened it" 🤣 Mint 👍
Thank you mate! 🤣 I had doubts at first, but they are more heavy-duty than the original Viva ones. Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
I got round similar by buying a 3rd spring for my Nova GTE, cutting that up and welding an extra spring piece onto my 2x too short springs.
Very cool mate! I love the Novas! 👍
Don't dwell on this as this will be a common theme with old cars. I don't know how many times I've broken a bolt/part tightening or untightening something. It just happens. Keep up the good work.
I won't mate! I am always expecting something to snap or round off in every video now! 🤣 Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Nice one stevie you could repair the bracket grind the rest off drill it then put a bolt through then weld the head to the plate? That's if your stuck like 👍
Thats a good idea mate! 👍
Keeping it all vauxhall at least, works well, good work!
😀 Thank you mate! 👍
Great seeing the Viva again, good resourcefulness adapting the Corsa coil spring, maybe worthwhile getting four new ones made up to provide some consistency, the old one being the template.
Great to see the Viva boot light system working 💪 with its three essential components.
Look forward to whatever you decide, great to the generosity of specialist subscribers.
Until the next video 📹 👌👍🍺🍻🥃
Thanks Vernon, I think you can still get them made up to order, but not within my budget at the minute! 👍
Have a go and try to drill it out if you can and put a nut and bolt through it, it looks more level now mate, great vid.
Thank you mate! Thats one of the ideas I'm toying with 👍
Grind the stub of the snapped bolt off so that it is flat and then simply drill a new hole. You are either going to end up drilling through the weld for the stud causing it to drop off or you can replace the whole stud with a suitably long M8 bold with a washer and a new nut.
Cheers for that mate! Thats one of the things I was thinking of doing! Thanks for watching 👍
Happens to the best of us mate! Good positive attitude 👍 Thanks for the update, it's becoming part of my Sunday routine, all the best.
Thank you mate! Appreciate it! 👍
Oh damn I think you tightened instead of loosened 😂😂😂, many things in life don’t run to plan mate but you won’t do it again I’m sure 🤔 well not on that nut anyway 😁👍🏻.
I did mate! Righty tighty, lefty loosey! 🤣
love it you say what it it the good and the bad keep going your doing fine
Thank you mate, appreciate it 👍
The original viva HC front suspension set up is a better more competent design than struts, thats why f1 and supercars have double wishbones, the actual real reason why struts took over is because they are easier to manufacture and are a lot cheaper.
A popular modification back in the day of hillman imp racing was to fit a viva front subframe and suspension to the front of the hillman imp.
I've heard of viva front suspension being used on a lot of hot rod builds before 👍
Great vid Stevie. I like to watch when I'm having my Sunday lunch. Pity about the fixing snapping. However, better that it failed in your driveway than on the motorway. I guess you could drill the old bolt out, but you would have to know what kind of bolt to replace it with. By that I mean that it might be high tensile steel as it's a suspension component.
Thank you mate, appreciate it. I will sort something but yes will definitely use high tensile steel with it the being the suspension 👍Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Hi Steve. Love your channel.
Thank you mate! Appreciate it 👍
New springs didn't come with the top mount assembly, they were just bare, so you had to drill out the peened over 'bush' that held the rubber bush to the plates etc and I think you could either make a new one and peen it over yourself, or just carefully place it all together and rely on the car weight etc to hold it in place while you bolted it all back together (like you did anyway). I also seem to remember lathing up some bottom mounts for the spring that were a bit thicker, but for the life of me now, I can't remember why (maybe I'd lowered it too much?). I had got the lowered springs from a mail order company back in the day but can't remember much about them now.
I think I drilled out the bottom cup and used a nut and bolt before. May have even welded the bot to the cup to make it more like oem, but the thick spacer versions I made were brass so would have just been nut and bolted.
For the front, on a Magnum I cut a coil or two off the existing spring, and with the coil in a bucket of water, heated up the cut coil so it could be 'bent' and made flat at the top and sit in the spring mount correctly. The water was to stop the heat affecting and softening the rest of the soring. It seemed to work too as the spring still worked just fine and didn't collapse.
Might be an idea to get some new firmer shocks too.
Thanks for all of that info mate! Appreciate it, Making my own mounts is an idea I've got in my head for the future, and yes I am going to invest in some new shocks too. Thanks for watching 👍
Great video as always Stevie, another hurdle to jump but I’m sure you’ll overcome it..the Viva shall not win haha ..! Looking forward to next weeks to see how you get on..👍🏻❤️
Thank you very much mate! Yes you are right she will not win! 😆 Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Thank you for another great video, if you cannot get a replacement, you could drill it out and weld a bolt to the inside. I found out that the thicker spring the harder the ride, the shorter the spring the lower the car is.
Thank you mate! Thats a good idea, I'll add that to the other things of thinking of doing 👍
Excellent vid as usual chap. Is becoming a Sunday tradition👍🏻. The rear trailing arm may be worth checking out thoroughly, if years worths of water and dirt have found their way in could be seriously weakened. Hope not though.
Thank you very much mate! 👍 I'll give it a thorough check over! Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Great stuff, as ever - the best channel on car restoration there is. Your videos are great. Thanks mate - keep it up. Looking forward to the next one. I think the paint work might need a bit of the old touch up brush though.
Thank you very much mate! Appreciate that! The paint work certainly needs some touching up! 😀 Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Hi steve, if you want to fit a rear anti roll bar a cortina Mk 4 / 5 fits, fitted one to my 1972 viva 1.6 { yes vauxhall did make them } in the late 70s it fits straight in so easy.
Thanks mate! Thats good to know, I will look into it 👍
Great to watch as usual Steve pity about that bolt but easy done you were probably thinking about how the front spring was going to fit as you were turning that bolt the wrong way bet you give ya self good bollocking when you realised eh😆keep smiling mate just another bump in the road👍
Thank you very much mate! I didn't even realise until I watched the video back and was cursing myself 🤣 Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Cut off the bolt flush with the mount and drill a hole in it and replace with a similar bolt either M8 and a nut on the underside, make sure though you get a high tensile bolt and nuts you don't want that bugger snapping doing a tonne up the A19 lol
Thanks mate, yeah probably going to do something like that and I'll definitely use high tensile on the suspension 👍
Easily done man, nice work on the nearside chopping the upper pigtail off 💪 a few years ago i was doing the front brakes on my friends mk5 gti and tightened one of the nearside caliper carriers bolts til it snapped 🤦♂️ called my mechanic mate for emergency over the phone tech support, got carrier off, mole grips on the snapped bit of bolt then used a wheel bolt off my car to get him back moving again 🙈 total fail on my part 😂
Thank you very much mate! Ah never! Sounds like you had a nightmare! But at least you got him moving again! Learn by doing or learn by breaking is my motto! 🤣 Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
💩does happen😂been there done that😅whoops lefty no righty no, ah idk 🤷♂️😆 good stuff, no worries mate!
🤣 Thanks for continuing to watch mate! (and I haven't forgotten I'm still going to email you those songs😀) 👍
@@RetroRebuild no worries! Thanks! Keep it up🏁🚙💨💨💨💨💨
Bad luck with the bolt snapping pal, enjoyed the video xx
I know mate, it happens! Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Morning fella, what Sunday mornings are for watching your channel Steve, that was a bit of a twat do you know you tightened it instead of losing it 🤣,feel for you mate but as always thanks for sharing keep having fun
Hi mate, thank you very much! I didn't even realise until I played the video back! 🤣 Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Your rear radius arms seem to be very rust free for such an old car , I wonder if they have been replaced at some time in its past?
I never really noticed, I'll check it out in the next vid mate 👍
Looks like a good mod. The back sits nice
Thank you mate! Yeah its nice seeing her look level! 😀
sorry it never worked out but at least you were brave enough to try dunk a koala in a cuppa and relax a bit
😆All part of the fun! Thanks for watching 👍
Please tell me you're gonna bang on a firenza droop snoot!!! :P
😀 I bet they are worth a fortune now if there are any still knocking about! 👍
Your local car breakers might have some of those kicking about
😀I wish mate! Thanks for watching 👍
Chop the broken bolt off near to the cup. The other end I think won't be far off dropping out then nut and bolt it. Job done!😂
Think I will do that, cheers mate! 👍
My only experience of Vauxhall Viva Suspension (It was my first Car) was the workout I gave it when me and my first 'proper' girlfriend spent some Quality time in it. PS If her Dad is watching this then I'm sorry I lied back then lol...............NOT!
😆 Thanks for watching 👍
You should be able to drill / grind the broken bit out and replace with a bolt and weld it in if you can so it stays still when fitting back on the car. i havent heard of using corsa springs on a viva, what will you use on the front ?
Thanks for the info mate, thats one of the things I was thinking of doing. I will have a look to see of the corsa springs will fit the front too. Who knows! Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Get the wheels BANDED! 8x13 s😂😉
😀 I do love the look of banded Viva steel wheels! 😆
Nut bolt and a big washer
Thats what I was thinking too! 👍
try vauxhall green parts supply all models of past vauxhalls
I've used them before, you've just reminded me! Cheers mate 👍
Note 🙂 if mistakes didnt happen nobody would learn anything lol
Very true mate! 👍
That's a shame . You just don't know your own strength 😉 .
They used on any other newer cars? I'd have thought they were fairly standard .
Nice kangaroos too 👍 ( that'll bugger up the minds of them that read the comments first 😀😀 )
😀 True mate! I'm not sure, I'm going to do some research/shopping around, would be good if they were! Thanks for continuing to watch 👍
Hi mate I would not of cut the springs that's always a no no but u have got to do what u gotta do
I've done it plenty of times before😆 The spring is more heavy duty than the original viva spring so I'm sure it will be ok. Thanks for watching 👍
Have a boiled egg instead of 3 shredded wheat.
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The voice over bits, no because you tightened it.🤣🤣🦘👍🏻
🤣🤣 Thanks for watching 👍