Stripping the Suspension
Today I spent the day taking all the assorted components to do with the front suspension and steering off the car. I had soaked most, if not all, of the nuts and bolts with Penetrene a few weeks ago. This helped a lot as all but one nut came off easily. The only component that I couldn’t get off was the cross member. One nut just wouldn’t budge and started to strip. I decided that I could paint the cross member in place and left it on.
With all of the bits and pieces off, I could check all of the bushes. Most of them look pretty good and Dad said that they had to have been replaced and could not have been from new. Maybe they were replaced when the Peter got the road worthy for it. The only bushes that need to be replaced are the D-mount bushes on the sway bar.
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- Very bare wheel arch
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- Engine bay as stripped as it will ever be
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- The components under the car for safe keeping
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- The steering rack