It's a while since my last update.
Quite a bit of change.
I've had my first failure of a B suffix injector, about 10 minutes from home after a good 200 or so mile journey back from Scotland. Replaced by AA on my drive with the parts and garage cover, cost me just a little more than the excess.
After being scammed on one of the Caddy Facebook pages by a so called breaker, I eventually a sourced another bulkhead and rear door threshold trim.
I cut the bulkhead down to fill the gaps on the B pillars.
Fitting the trimmed bulkhead pieces and the threshold finished the camping interior off.
I have retrofitted cruise control and trip stalks, coded in with OBDEleven. Then wrapped the steering wheel with a sew on alcantara/suede type material, will see how well that wears! I don't have pictures of these.
Tracking didn't solve the vibration but the garage did identify that the rear control arm bushes were past their best, so I replaced the complete lower arms with new ZF Lemforder units C/W bushes.
Since then I've had the wheels refurbished and powdercoated. This included balancing the wheels when the tyres were refitted. Still no luck, same pulsating vibration at 60mph or so.
In my opinion the wheels look awesome now though. The colour is a copper candy.
In these photos you'll also spot I've fitted some roof bars and a humongous roof box. The roofbox was a Facebook marketplace find but was much bigger than I'd anticipated when I collected it!
Currently I'm working through fitting new top mounts to the front shocks as these appeared to have a bit of vertical movement when the front suspension was cycled up and down. I've also got a knock from the front end when driving on poor roads; might be the top mounts, maybe the drop links (also being replaced with Meyle HD ones) or possibly the steering rack pre-load. It's likely all 3 are contributing factors, although the latter most I won't be able to resolve without a complete refurb rack. I think so i'll have to live with whatever knocking is left after all the other suspension component replacements.
Through the top mount replacement process I've had to remove the CV's from the hubs so I've also removed, cleaned the mating faces and refitted the wheel bearing I fitted a few months ago. I've done this to hopefully remove any potential that it's the bearing or the CV connection to the bearing causing the pulsating vibration.
If none of this work resolves the pulsating vibration I might have to consider replacing the driver's side axle completely in case it's out of balance or something. I'm fairly confident it originates in that area and there's nothing else I can think of that would cause a vibration.
