27 February 2014

NA Rebuild - Suspension arm removing, update

Bottom damper bolt finally cutted! All 4 dampers are off.

Lower rear long bolt, really hard to remove them!

Situation on the rear, all arms removed!

At the end of the day!

Front Suspension situation, i need to separate all ball joints...

Ball Joint separator broken! i'm going to buy a fork separator...

Let's try to remove all bushings



20 February 2014

NA Rebuild - Rusted bolt saga


First try to remove rusted bolt on front left side: 1-1. Damper bolt removed successfully, but lower ball joint bolt is broken into the ball joint support.




17 February 2014

NA Rebuild - Front Suspension renewal

First Try to remove Front Suspension: Failed. 2 Bolt stuck on both sides...

The bottom damper bolt is rusted in the bushing buckle.

Also Track-Rod end should be replaced

Brake System down after failed try to remove front suspension.



10 February 2014

NA Rebuild - Suspension renewal process started!

Rebuilding Process restarted! Suspension Time now!

WD40 Everywhere, the day before!

Spoils of war, after a couple of hour! 1st time for me!



10 November 2013

NA Rebuild - Gauges and Randall intake draft

Some pics of last week job done on the NA:

Here the new gauges panel, with the manual switch for the 2nd radiator fan.


Overview of the Sandwich Plate mounted.

It has been necessary to sand the center of sandwich plate because i have had some trouble with ground conductivity...

Here a draft of Randall Intake, using the OEM pipe. I've just ordered a silicon coupler, and another 45° silicon pipe. Here the standard way:

Here, how should it changes way. Next update when silicon hoses arrive at my door.