08 April 2014

NA Rebuild - Rust, Sanding, Painting!

Caliper Bracket need a sandblasting

Front Piston Caliper after 20years of dirt

Shot peening process, is aggressive on thin surfaces like this metal ring

Let's paint the calipers with high temp paint!

All 4 Calipers Painted

Lower Rear Bolt after 20yr and after a wire brushing

Lower Ball Joint bolt rusted and seized in. Cutting is the only solution 

All Suspension arms shot peened

Fortunately, no metal balls under the ball joint boot

Suspension Arms after 1st primer layer

Suspension Arms after 1st primer layer



19 March 2014

10 March 2014

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.