s13driftnut

First, Thanks everyone for the awesome comments, makes me smile!

Sorry for the delay, been extremely swamped, but I have been doing little things. I loaded up the truck and took the suspension and all its goodies to work with me. Now its time to knock out all the nasty bushings and ball joints to prep for powder coat and all the nice new bushings!



First thing to do was get rid of the nasty ball joints in the control arms!



I brought these all to work so I could use my super awesome snap-on ball joint press!


Next was the rear spindle bushings, kind of ran into a small hiccup, turns out the opposite end of the ball joint press gets narrower than the opening a little ways in, I thought it got stubborn towards the end which isn't normal, and I soon found out why!

Uh oh!



I took it over to the press and got it out fairly easy fortunately!





Next in line is the subframe bushings, those went extremely smooth which I was really happy about!





Save the hardest for last they always say........pretty sure that's now how it goes haha The rear control arm bushings were an extreme pain in the butt! I'm going with factory style bushings with the complete sleeve, not urethane style that require greasing since this is a street car I don't want to be tearing it down a bunch for maintenance. So that means I had to get the whole sleeve out, which was an eternal pain, but I got it done!

Famous burning bushing picture!




This is why I wear gloves at work, my hands would be super nasty!




When you bleed for your car you know you are dedicated!





Now everything is at powder coat and should be back soon looking brand new!

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