Okay so I figured it was about time to start one of these threads on here. We'll start off with I have a 1990 318iS Dswartz:
I've had the car for a little bit under 3 years now and up until now I've virtually had $0 to spend on it due to being young and dumb and pissing it up against the wall. Recently though I've started to actually do some work to the car and thought I'd post it up as I go along.
I appologise in advance if the photos are pretty crappy, All I have is my camera phone.
So last week I was driving along and blew a shock mount while slowly going over some train tracks. At this point I decided it was time to tear down the rear end and replace all the bushings at the same time. I already had some IE Subframe bushings kicking around that I hadn't got around to fitting. So I ordered some trailing arm bushes from IE and some cheapish mounts with lifetime warrenty off ebay that will hold me through until I get GC Coilovers(they come with mounts).
So first off I stripped everything out of the rear. Exhaust, brakes, trailing arms, diff, subframe, Half shafts/axles.
First trailing arm out.
Little dark but after I finally got the subframe out.
How the car is sitting now.
Also noticed that one of my half shafts had a torn boot and rather than replacing it I opted for a second hand job from a wrecker.
After I pulled all these out I noticed that my diff had a massive oil leak. At this point I decided that this was the last time I wanted to have all this out so I was going to do this all the right way and not half ass it. This included changing the diff seals and sanding back, undercoating and top coating the subframe and trailing arms to make them look a little bit cleaner.
So I went down the shop, bought a 10L drum of degreaser and got to work degreassing all of the removed parts.
Finnished product:
Degreasing it seemed to eat away a lot of the paint on the trailing arms so in the end I would of repainted them anyway.
I got to work sanding them all up and got them ready to be painted
Undercoated
Ghetto style hanging place:
While I was waiting for the undercoat to dry I decided I'd sand back my new boot lid I had laying around and undercoat it. I only got around to doing the underside but I'm pretty happy how it turned out.
After this was done It was time to sand back the subframe and trailing arms and top coat them. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out and they look a Lot better than what they did 2 days ago.
Thats all I have for the moment but will probably have more updates this afternoon with what I've done.:)
I've had the car for a little bit under 3 years now and up until now I've virtually had $0 to spend on it due to being young and dumb and pissing it up against the wall. Recently though I've started to actually do some work to the car and thought I'd post it up as I go along.
I appologise in advance if the photos are pretty crappy, All I have is my camera phone.
So last week I was driving along and blew a shock mount while slowly going over some train tracks. At this point I decided it was time to tear down the rear end and replace all the bushings at the same time. I already had some IE Subframe bushings kicking around that I hadn't got around to fitting. So I ordered some trailing arm bushes from IE and some cheapish mounts with lifetime warrenty off ebay that will hold me through until I get GC Coilovers(they come with mounts).
So first off I stripped everything out of the rear. Exhaust, brakes, trailing arms, diff, subframe, Half shafts/axles.
First trailing arm out.
Little dark but after I finally got the subframe out.
How the car is sitting now.
Also noticed that one of my half shafts had a torn boot and rather than replacing it I opted for a second hand job from a wrecker.
After I pulled all these out I noticed that my diff had a massive oil leak. At this point I decided that this was the last time I wanted to have all this out so I was going to do this all the right way and not half ass it. This included changing the diff seals and sanding back, undercoating and top coating the subframe and trailing arms to make them look a little bit cleaner.
So I went down the shop, bought a 10L drum of degreaser and got to work degreassing all of the removed parts.
Finnished product:
Degreasing it seemed to eat away a lot of the paint on the trailing arms so in the end I would of repainted them anyway.
I got to work sanding them all up and got them ready to be painted
Undercoated
Ghetto style hanging place:
While I was waiting for the undercoat to dry I decided I'd sand back my new boot lid I had laying around and undercoat it. I only got around to doing the underside but I'm pretty happy how it turned out.
After this was done It was time to sand back the subframe and trailing arms and top coat them. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out and they look a Lot better than what they did 2 days ago.
Thats all I have for the moment but will probably have more updates this afternoon with what I've done.:)
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