Evening Folks and Happy V.D.,
Pretty much more of the same, another short day for a variety of reasons, our youngest Son came over and dropped off a Valentines Day Bouquet for his Mom and we had coffee and cranberry bread. Thanks Son!
Todays first task was to remove the old bushings from the control arms, not particularly difficult but a bit tedious as you have to make cuts in the sleeve from the old bushing and then split them. They pretty much drop out once that's done but the cutting with a hack saw blade takes time and you do not want to cut into the control arm!
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| Rubber out of the way and making the cut |
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| After the cuts are made a chisel and hammer are used to peal the metal back |
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| Once that's done the piece drops out |
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| All four of them are out of the way |
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| Still some dis-assembly to go but will have it all apart tomorrow if I get the time. I used the parking brake to hold the differential still so I could remove the drive shaft flange nut, No impact hammer there, just a BF Socket wrench 1 1/8" socket on a 3/4" drive. Thanks Dad! Well that's it for today, hope you all had a great Valentines Day! Cheers, Lynn 5 hrs |
Ah, time to get out the green and red buckets. Great idea to keep the parts separated. Yeah, the bushing sleeves are a bugger to get out. Putting the new ones in isn't the easiest thing either. I have some videos of how Ray did it for me if you'd like them.
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