| Re: My Rear Differential and Suspension Rebuild Chronicles |
Subject: Re: My Rear Differential and Suspension Rebuild Chronicles by dstaley on 2009/5/8 3:32:55 So, I ordered a new case. In the mean time, I ordered threaded tubes suitable for camber rods from Speedway, spherical rod ends from Summit, and misc. hardware (including two very large stainless steel nuts) from McMaster-Carr. I bored out the nuts just large enough to slip over the threaded tubes so that the alignment shop has something to grab onto that won't rust when it gets scarred up.   I'll powder coat these at my next opportunity. Next, as Gary instructs I shaved the heads off of five of my ring gear bolts and made dowels out of them.    This was also a good time to finish up the halfshafts, with a nice black powder coat and new solid U-joints.  It also seemed like a good time to clean up the crossmember, give it a coat of Rust Bullet (my favorite, somewhat like POR-15), a coat of semigloss Rust-Oleum paint, and new bushings.   |
