Nice Rob,
This should be quite a nice track tool mate.
Eddy
An E30 Project
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330hp Pulsar Gti-r, 153hp Metro and 185hp Smart Car!
330hp Pulsar Gti-r, 153hp Metro and 185hp Smart Car!
You are going to have fun putting those on
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330hp Pulsar Gti-r, 153hp Metro and 185hp Smart Car!
330hp Pulsar Gti-r, 153hp Metro and 185hp Smart Car!
Spent the last few days fitting some of the parts that I have aquired.
First thing we did was to strip down the front suspension this accually went quite smoothly and within a hour we had the front strut out of the passenager side and on the bench ready to strip down, the shock and spring on this side was knakered to say the least, as we compressed the spring the shock compressed at he same time not releasing the pressure on the spring we had to almost completely compress the spring before we we able to relase the shock.
Then removing the shock from the strut there is a screw in fitting at the top of the strut and this was rusted to hell we were thinking this is never going to move so out came the trusty WD40 and soaking this fitting we left it for a while and attacked it with a pair of stilsons and it moved straight away
and unscrewed completly fine couldn't believe it this has probably been there for 20 years and undone like it had just been done up.
Once undone the shock pulls out of the strut then all the shock oil came out as well! Think it had been leaking but was traped in the strut. Fitting the new shock was easy push in screw up fitting the new spring was even eaiser as they were so much shorter than the original it could be done up without compressing the spring. (This is where I made a mistake as putting it back together I refitted the original bump stop this came back to bite me later.)
To the front wishbone and I pretty much followed exactly how Sidewaysfletch did his, cut out the front rear bush with a hacksaw cut off the inner sleave with a grinder then cut a slot in the outer sleave with a hacksaw then colapse with a hammer and chisel and push in the new one with a vice (forgotten how many times I lined it up before pushing it on :x )
I brought new anti roll bar links for the front but I pushed the bushes out of these and fitted the poly bushes supplied by Fasteddy
This was the time we removed the drivers side strut and again had all the same issues but having done it once we knew how to get over them. Out with the old anti roll bar in with the new Whiteline 24mm antiroll bar the worst part of fitting this was trying to get the new poly bushes to fit in the mounts a little persuation and they were home. :-D
Fitting the struts back was next and fitting everything else back.
Wheels on and drop down I was keen to see how low it would sit with a 40mm drop
It was lower but not as low as I had expected.
On to the rear and this was where I hit on a problem as I don't have a pillar lift I didn't feel safe dropping the rear beam with the car on axle stans so at the moment all I have done is fit the rear shocks and springs
This was pretty easy as with the car fully jacked up the spring only needed a little compression to get out and to remove the shock is just 3 bolts. I had new top mounts for the rear so a few pieces had to be removed from the old shock then fitted on the new and straight back on the car.
Wheels on and the car back on the floor the rear looked to sit lower than the front anyway time for a test. What a hard ride got back and the rear seemed to have settled even more then as you have probably guessed we realised that the front was accually running on the bump stops :x
Jacked up the car and with a little help from Mr Stanley and his knife the bump stops were removed. :-D :-D
With the car back on the floor it sat a lot flatter and now with a few tweeks of the suspension a hard but much improved ride.
All I have to do now is fit the rear anti roll bar and the rear poly bushes.
I'll put some pics up later
First thing we did was to strip down the front suspension this accually went quite smoothly and within a hour we had the front strut out of the passenager side and on the bench ready to strip down, the shock and spring on this side was knakered to say the least, as we compressed the spring the shock compressed at he same time not releasing the pressure on the spring we had to almost completely compress the spring before we we able to relase the shock.
Then removing the shock from the strut there is a screw in fitting at the top of the strut and this was rusted to hell we were thinking this is never going to move so out came the trusty WD40 and soaking this fitting we left it for a while and attacked it with a pair of stilsons and it moved straight away
and unscrewed completly fine couldn't believe it this has probably been there for 20 years and undone like it had just been done up. Once undone the shock pulls out of the strut then all the shock oil came out as well! Think it had been leaking but was traped in the strut. Fitting the new shock was easy push in screw up fitting the new spring was even eaiser as they were so much shorter than the original it could be done up without compressing the spring. (This is where I made a mistake as putting it back together I refitted the original bump stop this came back to bite me later.)
To the front wishbone and I pretty much followed exactly how Sidewaysfletch did his, cut out the front rear bush with a hacksaw cut off the inner sleave with a grinder then cut a slot in the outer sleave with a hacksaw then colapse with a hammer and chisel and push in the new one with a vice (forgotten how many times I lined it up before pushing it on :x )
I brought new anti roll bar links for the front but I pushed the bushes out of these and fitted the poly bushes supplied by Fasteddy
This was the time we removed the drivers side strut and again had all the same issues but having done it once we knew how to get over them. Out with the old anti roll bar in with the new Whiteline 24mm antiroll bar the worst part of fitting this was trying to get the new poly bushes to fit in the mounts a little persuation and they were home. :-D
Fitting the struts back was next and fitting everything else back.
Wheels on and drop down I was keen to see how low it would sit with a 40mm drop
It was lower but not as low as I had expected.
On to the rear and this was where I hit on a problem as I don't have a pillar lift I didn't feel safe dropping the rear beam with the car on axle stans so at the moment all I have done is fit the rear shocks and springs
This was pretty easy as with the car fully jacked up the spring only needed a little compression to get out and to remove the shock is just 3 bolts. I had new top mounts for the rear so a few pieces had to be removed from the old shock then fitted on the new and straight back on the car.
Wheels on and the car back on the floor the rear looked to sit lower than the front anyway time for a test. What a hard ride got back and the rear seemed to have settled even more then as you have probably guessed we realised that the front was accually running on the bump stops :x
Jacked up the car and with a little help from Mr Stanley and his knife the bump stops were removed. :-D :-D
With the car back on the floor it sat a lot flatter and now with a few tweeks of the suspension a hard but much improved ride.
All I have to do now is fit the rear anti roll bar and the rear poly bushes.
I'll put some pics up later
Rob
