My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)
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I got another little chunk of work done yesterday. I wanted to smooth out all of the old bracket mounting points. I grabbed a 120 grit flap wheel and went to town.
I then got most of the seam sealer finally removed from the corners. Some of it is still in that very tight corner. I think I'll need to use a pick to get that out.
I then put the subframe bushings in.
I went to put the trailing arm bushings in and ran into a snag. I got the end with the sleeve pressed in with the help of a hammer, but I could not get the other end to come in any farther than pictured=( I didn't happen to have a c clamp handy, so I will be using one today to get them fully seated.
I will be going to the shop today after work, and also on Sunday. I'll post the updates Monday=)
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nice!
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excited to see this thing in one piece!
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comfort and performance can co-exist. Just because something stiffer exists doesn't necessarily make it better Β or higher performance. The main goal is to keep the trailing arms from going toe-out under braking and decel. You would have to be tracking the car pretty hard / competitively to complain about toe-out problems with good stock bushings.
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What it really needs is to be finished.
fixed it for you!!
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I got some work done on Thursday and Sunday, but I only took one picture=/
Lets start off with the trailing arm bushings. I figured out why they will not seat. I simply installed them incorrectly. You are supposed to insert each poly piece, and then run the sleeve through the middle. I ran the outer pieces in, with the sleeve in. When I put the inner pieces in, it trapped air. This kept them from fully seating, and is now keeping me from taking them out. All I can think of now is to drill a small hole in each one to let the air escape, and then install a zerk fitting so I can grease them in the future. I will let you know how this works after Wednesday.
Now for work that actually got completed. I got sick of seeing the firewall/trans tunnel insulation just dangling there, so I finished tugging the rest of it out.
Other than that, I finished removing all of the seam sealer that I could find and also finished smoothing out the mounting points for the old ABS brackets. The next step for the bay is to weld the seams to keep any filler used from cracking. I wish I could fill every imperfection in the bay with metal, to stay away from having to use filler. That would take a whole lot of time and I would still need filler in the end to smooth it all out. Hopefully I will just need a light skim coat to fill small indents and to smooth all of the welded seams out.
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So to start on a bad note, I may have to destroy my new bushings to get them out. I drilled a hole in the end of one arm to release the air, and that didn't help at all. I'm really not sure how else to remove the bushings without damaging them=/
Good Note: I should have some boxes showing up today=D Not sure exactly which ones, but they're all great.
I got something done yesterday that I have been meaning to do.
Started by removing this:
To access here (among other reasons):
So that I could bundle these here securely:
So that I would be left with this:
Bye bye wires. Also snapped some pics of the bay ready for the seams to be welded:
Then I was peeling plastidip off of my front bumper. I will never plastidip a car again. The removal is so tedious=/
Updates tomorrow with whichever boxes arrive=P
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