So it’s been a busy day and a half.
Yesterday I decided to strip off the suspension, hubs, rear railing arms, rear hubs, camber arms, control arms and rear arb.
The car is 14 years old and I don’t think any of this has ever been touched apart from maybe the brakes. So thank god for my DeWalt impact wrench, it made light work of most of the bolts. Obviously the impact wrench cannot get to some, so still had to use brute force.
The driveshaft on the passenger side came off no problems, and the speed sensor. However on the drivers side things didn’t go as well, the driveshaft was on solid and the speed sensor bolt is knackered so couldn’t undo. I ended up disconnecting the cable and left it in situ at the moment. Trying all day to knock it out and eventually it has come out. Then the track rods proved troublesome and wouldn’t break from the ball joint, so ended up going to Halfords and pick up a fork ball joint separator tool, which has now done the job.
While I gave up on the front for a while, I started on the rear. The rears were even more of a pain, never really looked at the rear in great detail before, but there are bolts galore, so made it easier for myself and just undone the ones attached to the car.
First removed the caliper, to move it out the way I had to disconnect the line then moved it and reconnected as I didn’t have a clamp tool at the moment, it will need bleeding as I will be replacing the pipes to braided lines anyway (or someone will if I can’t). Left the handbrake cables attached also.
As with the drop links, every time I end up cutting them off, so just went ahead and sawed them off.
So I just removed the bolts that attaches the camber arm, one at the control arm and the two holding the trailing arm, then lowered it all down removing the strut bolts and removed it all in one part.
Also removed the arch liners from the rear as well, the amount of crap that come out of them and down behind them, I can’t believe why they put these in from the facelift, as they have suffered a little from the bottom of the arches, so this will need to be treated before I go any further with anything.
Next job is to treat the rust patches and then under seal in the arches and under chassis.
This is where the messy bit comes in, although if you see the state of me earlier, I can still feel bits of dirt in my hair lol
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