Cor, that suspension looks great! I hope mine will turn out looking as nicematienzo wrote:Just remember to not fully tighten the bolts up until you have the car weight back on the suspension. I do this but using two trolley jacks under the wishbones to just lift the car off the axlestands. This saves nipping the bushes at the unloaded position and then twisting them under load.
Use Copperslip (liberally) on the bolts and make sure there's loads in the metal sleeves and they'll never seize. Another tip when installing the lower wishbone with the new bushes. If you have the hangers loose enough to move a little you'll probably find it a lot easier to force the bushes into place...then retighten the hangers making sure that they don't twist.
Some good tips there, thank you! Any ideas on the torque for the wishbone bolts?
One step forwards and a few steps back today, sadly. On Friday I degreased the the suspension turrets and liberally coated them in CurRust, then gave them a couple of coats of some anti-rust paint I had to hand.
Then this morning I had a bit notice slapped on the windscreen stating that the car had to be moved by 6am tomorrow morning else it would be "removed"
This is due to the London Marathon coming nearby. Very annoying, as there were no notices warning of this near the car - the only one I could find was about 150m down the road!!
Luckily my new vertical link and trunnion arrived in the post on Friday evening, so at least I had all the bits. So I've wasted my whole Saturday bolting everything back together again as-is so I could move the car 100m down the road
My front shock absorber is no longer attached to the spring, so driving down the road with only the bent shock attached was rather scary! It made it though.
