Project Overly Ambitious

[jpod999]

All this weekend and most of next week I will be on the East Coast meeting my newest nephew. Beforehand, I wanted to make sure that I got the rear subframe cleaned, strengthened, and painted.





The welds don't look super pretty but I got plenty of penetration, so they should hold up nicely. Chose blue because why the hell not?

I got the strengthening plates from Garagistic: http://store.garagistic.com/e30-rear...l-reinforcment

When we return I have to reseal the new rear diff and then reassemble the rear end to go back in the car.

[jpod999]

well, you do live in cali.

Yeah I wasn't kidding about getting the ticket. That's why I put the fire out and grabbed my drill. The Bay Area is a strange place!

[flyboyx]

To get both subframe bushings out manually it took probably 1.5 hours. I started to burn them out but my dad got nervous that the cops would come and give us a pollution ticket.

well, you do live in cali.

[Sharon97]

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[jpod999]

To get both subframe bushings out manually it took probably 1.5 hours. I started to burn them out but my dad got nervous that the cops would come and give us a pollution ticket.

[DaWildBeast]

Got the subframe bushings out of the subframe with the help of my dad this weekend. It took a lot longer than I thought it was going to. We ended up using a drill to remove as much of the rubber as I could, then hammered out the center sleeve. Then we used a hacksaw to cut a slit in the outer sleeve which then made it easy to hammer out of the subframe. Not that exciting of a picture, but text only updates are boring!

This week I'll be doing the rear wheel bearings with the help of our shop owning family friends. I also ordered new rotors for all four corners, now I have to figure out how to rebuild the calipers.

How long did it take you to do this?

[jpod999]

Rear wheel bearing replacement done!

[jpod999]

Got the subframe bushings out of the subframe with the help of my dad while my wife cleaned the shit out of my old diff this weekend. It took a lot longer than I thought it was going to. We ended up using a drill to remove as much of the rubber as I could, then hammered out the center sleeve. Then we used a hacksaw to cut a slit in the outer sleeve which then made it easy to hammer out of the subframe. Not that exciting of a picture, but text only updates are boring!



This week I'll be doing the rear wheel bearings with the help of our shop owning family friends. I also ordered new rotors for all four corners, now I have to figure out how to rebuild the calipers.

[DaWildBeast]

Thats mad work man keep at it looking for that final project!

[jpod999]

I've been spending my lunch breaks breaking apart the rear end. I had a terrible time getting one of my half-shafts out of the hub! In the end it took a shit load of PB Blaster/Liquid Wrench, heat, and lots of hammering but it came out. I had to hammer it so much that the end with the threads is totally mushroomed now, it's a good thing I was already planning on replacing them! One has both boots torn and the other is starting to crack.





I ordered new wheel rear bearings from Blunt that are supposed to come in today. I will bring them with me to work tomorrow and will drop them off with the trailing arms at the shop of a longtime family friend. I don't want to deal with changing the bearings so I'm just going to have them do it.

This weekend I am hoping to have the time to burn out the subframe bushings so that I can thoroughly clean it and then weld in the Garagistic reinforcement plates.

[jpod999]

This is awesome. Definitely subscribing. V8 swap is the best swap.

Thanks! It's been fun so far but I'm starting to get overwhelmed with how much left there is still to do. The worst part is that I keep thinking of things I can do

[theTBLACK]

This is awesome. Definitely subscribing. V8 swap is the best swap.

[jpod999]

This weekend I got started on the suspension rebuild. Saturday I pulled the struts and control arms, this job took me much longer than expected. When I was in high school I used to be able to go from car on the ground to both struts off in 30 minutes, it took me about an hour and a half to get everything off this time!

Sunday I dropped the whole rear subframe, this took me about two and a half hours. Throughout this week I am going to disassemble the rear subframe. I am going to take the trailing arms and the front struts to a shop owned by some longtime family friends, they are going to replace all four wheel bearings for me. My small case S4.10 will be sold and a resealed S2.93 will go back in its place. Also for the rear subframe I have Garagistic strengthening plates as well as all new bushings from them.

Here are some pics to keep things interesting:

[diegom6]

After a week of vacationing in Peru I'm ready to get back to work. It was nice to meet you Diego!

Same here JP! Glad you made safe back to home ;)

[george graves]

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