Saturday, February 28, 2015

Suspension Assembly Rear Day 1

SVE Lowering springs were installed. Man do my joints hurt. I need to ice my knees after today.
I have problems with my shoulder as well, so things take me considerable longer amount of time to complete. I try to use the jack when i can.

Koni shocks added.









\Passenger side completed, but on the driver side I found an issue that needs to be addressed. This hole is deformed from a previous control arm bolt removal. To rectify this I have added an 1/8 in piece of flat stock steel with correct hole diameter and tomorrow I will weld this into the correct position eliminating any play or travel for the control arm mounting bolt. I may need a slightly longer bolt then what came with the kit, if so I will make a trip to Farm & Fleet and find a grade 8 bolt to take it's place. 




Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Day 2 Front Suspension Removal For the 1979 Ford Mustang

Why waste time taking each component apart when your replacing everything in the front.
I got my new hose for the torch, but ran out of gas.. I forgot I bought sawzall blades. Back in Business. Would have been easier with the torch though. Good bye Monroe Sensacrap.











Just check out how they will look. 



Sunday, February 22, 2015

1979 Ford mustang Front Suspension Removal

I was going to remove my whole suspension in front the easy way. Next step would have been to cutt off the junk control arm with my cutting torch. I am using an open flame Propane heater less then 5 ft away. Just as I was about to fire up my Acetylene torch I got a mouth full of Acetylene. I immediately shut it off and called it quits for the night before I go boom in the garage. I found that my lines to my torch were dry rotted through. I guess more shopping is due. Need new lines for the torch.