View more…Today we finished putting all of the front suspension together. I’m very happy with the way that things have turned out. It looks very schmick, with all of the components painted black. Once we got her on four wheels again, we were shocked at how stiff the front suspension was now. [...]
Today I had a few spare hours to work on the car. We started out by putting the shockers into the struts, compressing the springs, putting on the rubber boots and putting the strut tower (what I call it) all together. I put a little oil inside the strut casing to try to [...]
View more…Today I spent a little time getting the last of the suspension parts painted before I begin putting it all back together again. Before I started the painting though, I checked to make sure that the shockers would fit into the strut casing. Guess what, no go!
I couldn’t believe it. They [...]
Yesterday Dad went back to the Z Shop and swapped the strut over for one with the right dimensions. The only thing wrong with this one was that the bracket for the brake lines was missing. Dad fixed that today by taking it off the old one and welding it to the new [...]
Dad went for a drive today and stopped off at Z Shop to see if they had a replacement strut that we could buy. Fortunately they had one. Dad bought it and took it home. One problem though, when he got it home and measured it up against the old one, he [...]