Front suspension, Again? Yup!

Hi Y'all,

Today marked the beginning of re-assembly of the steering rack and passenger side suspension.  The torsion bar went in much easier that the drivers side as one can actually get to the bolts that hold the TB adjustment plate!

I think I'll let the pictures do the talking tonight, I'm tired having gone to the Vigil for the little girl that was killed on her third birthday here in Boise.

That's it for today....
Cheers,
Lynn


7hrs

Steering rack

Evening,

Today was spent cleaning and refurbishing the steering rack,  the years of grime took most of the morning to remove. After cleaning I painted the rack, greased it and replaced the boots.

Hard to believe it took six hours to do that but it just takes time.  From here on out it should go faster with re-assembly.  The parts are all cleaned, painted and ready to go back on the car.

Prior to cleaning and refurbushing

After, looks a bit better IMHO.

That's it for this week, hope y'all have a great weekend!

Cheers,

Lynn

6 hrs

Cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning-front suspension.

Evening folks,

Yesterday did most of the cleaning but had to do a bit more today, one of my least favorite tasks in refurbishing an old car. Good thing I'm passionate about E Types?

I'll just let the pictures do the talking tonight.

Lower control arm with bushing that has seen it's best days 

Same bushing

Front suspension parts cleaned and painted 

The disc brake shield and sway bar, both painted black

The cleaned control arm supports, cleaned and ready for their new bushings

Had to remove the steering rack to replace the old steering rack mounts, will clean it up a bit and install new gators.

front sans steering and sway bar

New mounts in the fore ground, bushings in the support arms.

Well that it for today, will be taking a Grandfather day tomorrow so won't be back till Friday.

Cheers,
Lynn


7 hrs

Passenger side front suspension

Evening Ya'll,

Bet you wondered what happened to me?  Well, we went on the Atomic City Tour with the Idaho British Car Club. The tour was fantastic, once again a destination that one might turn up their nose too turned out to be FANTASTIC!  We stopped at INEL and saw EBL1 (Experimental Breeder Reactor 1), well worth the drive all by it's self-have you ever seen a nuclear air plane engine?  256 tons!  Just the engine, can't imagine what they had in mind....

Then on to Craters of the Moon for a spectacular view of some incredible country.  Then on to Idaho Falls where we stayed in a very nice hotel.  We went to an aircraft museum on Friday and had our only 'incident', we lost our license plate and almost took out a motorcyclist according to our friend who was following us.  Thank Goodness that it missed him!   Then we had a car show on Saturday Morning, great turn out from the locals but about noon it started to rain, first time that we've ever been rained out!   Then Saturday evening we had a catered dinner in the Idaho Museum where they had a very fun "Steam Punk" exposition.   

RJ went on to receive 1st place in our group and I received 2nd, couldn't have been happier to see Michelle take first!!!!

The drive back on Sunday was an adventure, Rick who drives a very nice TR6 started having fuel pump problems and after several stops he was able to get it to work once he sorted the wiring to it.  Well he must have had bad Karma or he was just so unhappy with that fuel pump he 'decided' to take it out by running over a large rock!  I happened to have the exact same type of fuel pump in the boot so after a bit of a struggle for Rick he was able to install the new one, after a couple more false starts we got back on the road and had a late lunch in Stanley-Thanks Rick! and then back on home.    

Monday was a recovery day but got back to CD today and disassembled the passenger side front suspension.  Then spent the afternoon minus a couple of hours for a Mtn Bike ride cleaning the parts for painting.

That's it for today, will paint tomorrow, pull off the steering rack so that I can replace the rubber steering mounts. 

"That's All Folks"

Cheers,

Lynn

7hrs

Front suspension, sway bar, splash guards....and something completely different :-)

Evening Ya'll,

Another short day and maybe the last of the week.  I installed some of the splash guards on the drivers side but can't install the rest of them until the bushings are tightened up and they can't be tightened until the weight is back on the front end.  Tightening them without weight on them would lead to early failure of the bushing.

The driver side with some of the slash guards installed, below there is a before and after picture.

The sway bar, not yet cleaned. 

Took a break and went for a bike ride, I thought it was kinda pretty.

Sway bar link, wonder how this one got bent?

Used my press to straighten

Better, did a little bit more after this picture but it looks pretty good.

Passenger side, caliper off and tie rod end removed, a lot of cleaning to do-Yech!

Looks like a different car doesn't it?

"That's All Folks"

Cheers,
Lynn

4 hrs

Front suspension....

Hi Folks, hope you all had a nice weekend.  Today I continued the installation of suspension parts on the drivers side, got stalled for a few minutes trying to figure out how to proceed with the shock absorbers.  The new shocks have a different type of spacer so had to remove them from the old ones and install them in place of the new ones. I think I'll just let the pictures tell todays story.

Went shopping for new wheel bearings today but couldn't find them locally so stalled on the assembly till we can get the wheel bearings.  

Looks a bit different than the passenger side

Cleaned and painted the heat shield, looks better with a little paint and it seals it up.

The heat shields and reservoir bottles for the brakes and clutch are now installed.

Well that's it for today,

Cheers,
Lynn


4 hrs

Front suspension continued.....

Hi Folks,

A long day on the drivers side front suspension,  Removed the old bushings and pressed in the new ones.  New upper and lower ball joints then on to installing the lower control arm and torsion bar.

New lower ball joint, had to cut off the old bolts and tapped the holes to take full advantage of the full thickness.

Fitting the lower control arm with the torsion bar setting bar, had to fit and refit the TB to get the bolts to line up on the TB adjuster plate.

Lower control arm with the TB in place and both bolts/nuts in place on the TB adjuster plate (only had one when it arrived here) and now the heat shield back in place underneath.

Well folks, that's it for this week, hope to finish up the front suspension next week.  The right side may be just a touch easier as the exhaust isn't in the way as it was/is on the left side.  Have a great weekend ya'll!

Cheers,
Lynn


9 hrs