I've been needing to replace 3 out of the 4 bearings, upgrade my brakes, replace tie rods, and inspect my suspension pieces. so i placed my order for everything i thought i needed, and got it all in the mail the week after Christmas.
I then started on the rear end, originally i was going to drop the sub frame, but didn't want to remove the exhaust as i have no means of drilling out the old studs and putting new ones in. So i bypassed that and just pulled the trailing arms. this is where i first discovered that my e-brake shoes were 22 years old missing half of the pad and had cracks all over them, and that my shocks are blown ( I can compress them by hand with EASE). i got both of them out in like 3 hours but didn't take any pics as i was working, and didn't want to stop. I did take pics of the after math though.
And the other side
After cleaning the garage and putting everything on the shelf i have, and organized. I couldn't get the 30mm nut off so I'm doing that tomorrow at a buddies house, and then the rear end should go together.
That concluded friday night, then i started on the front, my goal was to replace everything up there today and I did it. First thing i did was remove the caliper with the brake like attached as i am going to bleed the system. I then went to remove the rotor to get the my hub/bearing gave the rotor a good tug and got this.
easy enough, don't need to pull it off with a 3 jaw gear puller like i thought i would. the other side was the same way, extremely easy. i then decided to cook lunch, and was hungry for bearings. i tried to heat them up as i read on here it lets them slide right on, but it didn't work.
once that was done, i put both of them on and then the rotors.
I went with slotted brembos, they were on sale and i have been meaning to upgrade my brakes as well.
once that was done i did both of my tie rods, I unfortunately didn't take any pictures of this. but oh well, new tie rods and boots. i then put my pads into the calipers and put them back on the car. and then i was done.
Here is everything that I will hopefully get done tomorrow, the rest of my parts and rear end components.
Once im done with this part of the car, ill tear apart the engine and do all new belts, seals, etc. and delete and move things to tidy up the engine bay.
-Farmer
I then started on the rear end, originally i was going to drop the sub frame, but didn't want to remove the exhaust as i have no means of drilling out the old studs and putting new ones in. So i bypassed that and just pulled the trailing arms. this is where i first discovered that my e-brake shoes were 22 years old missing half of the pad and had cracks all over them, and that my shocks are blown ( I can compress them by hand with EASE). i got both of them out in like 3 hours but didn't take any pics as i was working, and didn't want to stop. I did take pics of the after math though.
And the other side
After cleaning the garage and putting everything on the shelf i have, and organized. I couldn't get the 30mm nut off so I'm doing that tomorrow at a buddies house, and then the rear end should go together.
That concluded friday night, then i started on the front, my goal was to replace everything up there today and I did it. First thing i did was remove the caliper with the brake like attached as i am going to bleed the system. I then went to remove the rotor to get the my hub/bearing gave the rotor a good tug and got this.
easy enough, don't need to pull it off with a 3 jaw gear puller like i thought i would. the other side was the same way, extremely easy. i then decided to cook lunch, and was hungry for bearings. i tried to heat them up as i read on here it lets them slide right on, but it didn't work.
once that was done, i put both of them on and then the rotors.
I went with slotted brembos, they were on sale and i have been meaning to upgrade my brakes as well.
once that was done i did both of my tie rods, I unfortunately didn't take any pictures of this. but oh well, new tie rods and boots. i then put my pads into the calipers and put them back on the car. and then i was done.
Here is everything that I will hopefully get done tomorrow, the rest of my parts and rear end components.
Once im done with this part of the car, ill tear apart the engine and do all new belts, seals, etc. and delete and move things to tidy up the engine bay.
-Farmer
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