| Re: Lsx Swap Thread 408 to ZF6 |
Subject: Re: Lsx Swap Thread 408 to ZF6 by Danspeed1 on 2022/2/9 2:48:40 Interesting few weeks. Spent 2 of them sick and its been snowing in North Carolina. I was lied to. Told it "never" snows here; I moved here to escape snow... record snow fall this year. I finally got the new wheels and tires installed! Wow do they looks sharp. Except for the huge wheel gaps. So before I posted the pictures I decided that I would lower the car. Not a very difficult project so far, but I found a few issues I need to correct. The tie rod ends are shot and the ball joints could probably use replacement. The control arm bushings are all dried out. Young me would just put it all back together. Adult me will just order everything and spend the time getting it right.   So I am not even 100% sure if this is going to give me the result I am looking for but this is what I came up with. Got the spring all removed. Ignore the extended brake line; I don't care, I am replacing them soon.  I noticed immediately that the end pads on the spring were pretty well stacked so I got the hack saw out and went to work.   The next thing to tackle was removing the plates that are glued to the top of the rubber spring mount. To do this I heated them up and the tops basically popped right off.  I decided to cut this down and run it on a belt sander until there was just enough cushion so when I glued the plate back on the remaining rubber bushing it didn't bottom out on the spring but so it removed as absolutely as much of the rubber (and distance) as possible.   Glued the metal tops on, and tomorrow I will reinstall the spring. I just need to get ahold of some new suspension bushings and tie rods. |
