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This wasn't a good weekend for me. If I wasn't hurting myself (which I did) I was breaking parts. I made a $75 mistake in the first few minutes of working.
Some good stuff too though.
1. I bought toys. This is my shiny new Harbor Freight 12 ton shop press. |
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2. And this is my shiny new tubing bender. |
3. I made this. I need to make two more. It will become a table with two storage shelves. |
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4. I used the shop press to remove the u-joints from these flanges. |
5. I also managed to gouge the bearing surface of one side. |
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6. Here's a closer look. |
7. The cheapest solution was to buy one from CWIInc. THey are a maker of some pretty slick Jag based suspensions. |
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8. This shows the gouged edge, and the furrow of metal inside the flange. |
9. They sent me two different upper ball joints for the corvette suspension. Both were different from the original. |
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10. Here is the corvette upright with the arms taken off. It took two different sizes of ball joint splitters. |
11. I got to break out my drill press to remove the rivets holding in the upper ball joints. |
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12. Here's the lower arm with the lower coilover mount set in place. |
13. The upper ball joint. |
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14. Lower arm with the coilover mount bolted in. |
15. Here's the arm hanging off of the car. |
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16. I came up with an interesting light for my work area. An old computer power supply (12 volt). |
17. And the headlight from my focus with the burned out low beam. |
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18. I also primered up the half shafts so they wouldn't rust like the lower coil arm mounts did. |
Some good progress, and some setbacks. I would have been able to put most of the suspension together if I had not broken stuff. Oh well.
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