Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Okay, so to recap. . .

Notes on removal of the front suspension (vehicle already raised):

  1. Remove shock
  2. Weld together a tool of questionable integrity to compress your coil 
  3. Remove suspension bumper stop
  4. Disconnect ball joint from upper control arm
  5. Swing lower suspension components out of the way
  6. Compress spring slightly so that you can unbolt spring seat
  7. Swing lower control arm down as far as you can (while performing 8)
  8. Grab that spring after compressing it the bare minimum needed to wrestle the bastard away from the upper control arm
  9. Get ready to pull the rotorhub and it's bearings
  10. Attempt to dislodge the outer races of the bearings from the rotorhub, while working diligently to ensure you ruin the latter
  11. Buy new bearings, races, seals, and of course, rotorhubs
Notes on putting all that crap back in:
  1. Rebush and install the upper control arm before anything else, while you still have all of the suspension components removed
  2. Reinstall all the other shit like an idiot, saving the coil and shock for last, because you really don't want to do the coil
  3. Attempt to reinstall coil (you don't have to spend much time performing this step before moving on to 4)
  4. Remove upper control arm
  5. Reattempt to reinstall coil
  6. After coil is seated in shock tower but still compressed, work in hurried terror to reinstall upper control arm
  7. Save the rotorhubs and bearings to get around to them when you feel like it 

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