Got the washers sent from Cyberspeed and went to fit the coilovers, thought I may as well fit the LCA's as well.... then
Had my finger on the back of it to make sure it was turning which it was but turns out it was seized in the bush
didn't have a drill or grinder with me to sort this so left that job and moved on to the next, the rear d bushes, thankfully this went fine.
old vs new
So my new plan was to build it back up put the wheels on and limp it 100 yards to the garage along the road to get the bolt ground out.
Got my wheels back from the bodyshop
Got my tyres fitted Friday and headed out to the car on Saturday to get it on the road and finally have some fun.
Dropped the car off at the garage and returned an hour later, the car was sitting outside and I was excited..then the mechanic told me he had no tool small enough to get in to the broken bolt without taking the hub off etc and had no time yesterday. So I just decided to get it sorted myself and removed the trailing arm.
@R1PPU loves being destructive and offered his grinding services so I dropped the arm off to him. Removing the arm also brought to my attention the RTA bushes are deteriorated so will be replacing them whilst the arm is off.
The lca bolt in the subframe on the other side is also seized so will need to go back to a garage to get that sorted as I don't have the tools to deal with that, once that has been freed off the RTA will be coming off that side and the bush replaced.
Just want to get out and play now, just getting hit with one thing after the other
, glad this is a toy and not my daily that's for sure.
Thanks for reading