Sunday, October 08, 2006

Rear suspension rebuild


This shows the IRS - independent rear suspension, reinstalled, with test fit up of the new rear shocks, KYB GR-2's. The installatin included:
- new rubber (vs. polyurethane) diagonal arm bushings - BFY Obsolete Parts
- powdercoated diagonal arm and spring plates (thanks to East Coat Powdercoat)
- all new spring plate and diagonal arm hardware (the old nuts and bolts were rusted out)
- new rubber bump stops (CIP1.com)
- new axle bearings and seals, repacked
- stripped, prepped and applied 2 coats Master Series Silver primer, and one coat AG111 finish coat to the exposed portions of the rear axles.
- new bearing plate bolts (CIP1) - not shown here
- replaced the drum brakes with disc brakes from CIP1 (I think this is an EMPI kit; despite the bad reports on the quality of EMPI products, this appears to be a good quality setup) - pics to follow

2 Comments:

At 2:52 AM, March 12, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi again Larry
Excellent work [as usual] on the rear suspension..
I haven't replaced My rear rubbers
as yet...
not sure i will as there is no noise etc..
I have thought about doing the torsion bar pivot rubbers..
inner and outer... one day.. lol

cheers

Lee

 
At 2:53 AM, March 12, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm not really anonymous...

68Autobug

Lee

 

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