Suspension strip

Hi All

The spares from Bruno arrived this morning so all ball joints ready for fitting.

Starting on the offside suspension, after the removal of the nearside this should go a little faster as I now know the correct procedure, the corrosion is just as bad this side as no protection has been applied for many a year.

Offside

I started the removal with the caliper which again slid off quite nicely although the connection into the caliper would not budge so had to remove from the brake pipe. The brake pipe is quite new, I did not mention that in 2007 the previous owner spent £3500 on the car unfortunately over £2500 of this was in labour charges from the garage.

This caliper needs a bit of attention 

Offside caliper

The hub came of next, and the bearing seems fine so no having to replace this, I next removed the track rod end and tie rod then ready to compress the spring.

Spring under compression

Once happy that all was safe I removed the split pins and undid the rest of the nuts and bolts which came off easily until the tie rod which had to be removed with the lower arm.

Lower arm and tie rod

All of the ball joint tappers just tapped off and all was ready for sand blasting, it took a hammer and chisel then the air gun to remove the tie rod nut, I am used to having difficult to remove bolts at work but this one was real bad.

Offside hub

Managed to spend the rest of the day sandblasting with most of the parts getting done will carry on tomorrow.
See ya Paul