nice progress, it will look the biz with the 16's on.
nice progress, it will look the biz with the 16's on.
......in the bluecorner , fighting out of japan....
Make sure you put some grease on those threads on the tie bars as the rust quickly otherwise.
Been a bit ill recently. Had a nasty ear infection that has been keeping me out the garage. Today was the first day i could leave the house without the need for copious painkillers. Spent a couple of hours on the MR2 hunting niggles.
First up i re-greased the new rear tiebars and gave them a check over. They seem to be holding up well, and the rosejoints still tight after a hundred miles on Glasgows horrendous roads.
Only other noteworthy thing outside of bolt torquing and fluid checking was starting on the poly-bush installation. Nice simple one... rear ARBs.
Heavily greased, threads and all. Noticable difference? None.
Needs a mk2 rear bar thats when you see a big difference.
True. Always wary of stiffening up the rear end of a mid/rear car though. Skittish enough surely?
Made my car feel tons better after being bushed more solid feeling, as the standard bar was next too useless it was like piano wire I could strum it.
Hmm, might have a wee scour about for one. Rev 1/2 or 3 onwards?
So yesterday was a write off. Went to cut off the bolts and change my front track rod ends and found the angle grinder had thrown the death sparks. So in an effort to progress things, i set about cracking all the suspension bolts to ready for the poly bush instal. Couldnt find my wreckers bar for love nor money, and Camaro progress was going even worse, so the towel was thrown.
So today i hit it with full blown enthusiasm. Without going into the Camaro, the first point of contact was chopping the old track rods off. I should point out that i picked up a pair of front track rods as i was planning on making up a set of rear tie bars, but the TB group buy came along so i had them sitting around. Waste not want not! Typically thoughit was eBay strikes again, and once i chopped the old ones off i found that the MK1 rod ends i bought were nothing like the ones i needed. Bumsticks. I managed to catch a thread on the old one but it was barely a couple of turns.. Not drivable. And as usual nowhere in the central belt of Scotland keeps these parts in stock, so the MR wont be moving till tomorrow.
As i was stranded at the garage all day anyway, i made a crack at installing the poly bushes. Surprisingly the suspension came apart quite easily! Especially these control arm bits:
...which i reckoned may be my own personal brand of hell. Getting the lower arm bushes out was my own brand of hell though. I *tried* being all smart and engineery about it, doing something like this:
...and firing 12 tons of force against the bush....
...but all i managed to do was force my 3" wrecker bar into a shape resembling an over-ripe banana. Time for the more traditional method:
FFFIIIIIRRRREEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
BUUUURRRRRNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
Fitted! Well, it was a bit more involved than that. Nonetheless, thats the full front of the MR2 polybushed. Just a proper set of track rod ends to fit and i can see if this makes a difference!!!
get plenty of grease on all those threads, then as soon as your mobile again, get yourself down for a proper 4 wheel alignment. As long as everything is lubed up, it should be under £100 and makes a WORLD of difference!
Oh and fire is the ONLY way to do those bushes - buggers burn for ages once you get em going though!
I hate all southerners. As a point of reference, I'm stood at the north pole.
Yea, 4 wheel alignment is the next stop. I dont think I have a single bit of suspension complimentary left to change after this!
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