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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:
Last edited by jpod999; 10-11-2016, 10:41 AM.Comment
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This is awesome. Definitely subscribing. V8 swap is the best swap.Comment
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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.Comment
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Thats mad work man keep at it looking for that final project!Comment
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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.Last edited by jpod999; 05-19-2016, 08:49 AM.Comment
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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.Comment
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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.Comment
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