Mastodawn

Starting to put the front suspension back together. Just test fitting for now to make sure everything goes together as there are a fair few totally new parts going in. These upper and lower arms are brand new for example. Nothing torqued down yet (need to learn how to use my new torque wrenches).

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Christian 1d ago

The upper arm has shims behind it for wheel alignment and I, stupidly, mixed up which ones go where. So I’m having to use old photos from before I took them off and counting the threads you can see in side the engine bay.

Old shocks vs new

Thought I had lost these new rubber ‘insulators’ that go at the top of the springs. They fit great.

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Christian 1d ago

I must say, this evenings time in the garage was really nice. The shell of the car is kind of in a good place. It’s nice to be past the phase where I’m scraping 50 years of crud off of this car. It’s also nice to be adding rather than subtracting for a change.
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Ben Foote 1d ago

@chrskly Spring compressors terrify me.