Smooth Ride

So I got the bug home and made a start on the front suspension, end of July I went away for a couple of weeks before I made any real effort and now its mid September and things are progressing but a bit slower than I wanted to, but its been mostly due to me making the most of the summer weather.

New Steering and Brakes

New Brakes and Spax shocks

So I've got the front beam off and that was truly rotten. While I was waiting for a couple of parts I had time to paint the interior floor pan and fully seal it. The fun started with fitting the new ball joints.
I went to my friends Brian's house who showed me what to do and we used his 20ton press to change the top two ball joints. We couldn't as hard as we tried get the lower ones out, I took them to work and discovered that they had a 60 ton press which pushed them out with a BANG! after which I changed my pants. That weekend I rebuilt the front suspension and fit the new brake system and new steering components. One of the mods was cutting down the Pittman arm to clear the narrowed beam.

Pressing Ball Joints

Modified Pittman Arm

A looked good until I turned the hubs and the torsion arms wobbled, indicating the inner bushes had not been installed in the new beam. So ordered the bushes and once arrived I managed to get them in after an hour or so and that's where I'm at.

Wrapped Steering Column Cover

Gave a few parts to the powder coater guy and should get those back next week and been vinyl wrapping some plastic parts with carbon effect vinyl courtesy of Mark. I'm feeling positive about the weekend and should get most of the electrical components and wiring in and finish a few other odd jobs before the trimmers come to fit the head liner.