cleaning and prepping the suspension is taking abit longer than usual, always afew minor issues to sort out.
first taking the rear calipers off, noticed one of the guide pins really stuck. tis what happens with lack of maintainance on these calipers.
so placed it on a vice
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and gradually jiggle the rusted pin out, don't wanna snap it off eh
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the pin and bore are quite dry n rusty so wirebrushed this clean
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and bored is clean with a small stone on a dremel
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flushed with carb cleaner and relubed with grease. slides alot better
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removed the rear coilover spring base off the axle. when I removed the RH base I saw that a chunk was missing off the axle and thought crap, is that a piece of axle rusted off and I'll have to take the whole axle out to reweld?
but nope it turned out to be just a crusty layer of crud that's been building up in the gap between the spring base and the retaining cap. poked it through and its a normal hole that the spring base sits in, phew.
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pair of dirty rusty spring assemblies
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the powder coating of the left spring has almost completely peeled off like an egg skin. you think I can still run this on track without risk of it snapping?
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threads wirebrushed
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all abit cleaner
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fitted the rear springs n dampers and noticed at full droop the springs ain't held captive?
either the spring base are too low or the dampers are resting too high from the axle which was originally to hit the bumpstop sooner before the axle hits the exhaust but causes a longer droop till it can't retain the spring.
I'll need to do abit of adjustment to the exhaust so that I can lower the damper body to reduce the droop till the springs are captive and the axle misses the exhaust during bumpstop.
at bumpstop the exhaust is too far right and hits the upper trailing mount
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the leaning angle of the exhaust seen here might be part of the cause.
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I readjusted the backbox rubber mounts and yep that helped level out the exhaust but still need to shift it all to the left abit more. so the mid pipe needs yet more adjustment
