Suspension work continues

Saturday I spent the day at a friend's shop, John, from 90 Inclusive. He was nice enough to lend me his spring compressor which I used to remove the springs from the rusty parts car struts, sorry, no pics. I then cut them up to use as new center sections on our current struts.

Once everything was cut, and the surfaces prepped, I was ready to weld them together.

John took a quick snapshot of me using his Tig to weld the new collar on the strut housing. I forgot to take pics of the finished pieces, but I will upload some this week.

Rebuilding suspension & motor mounts

I took out both motor mounts, and they had both sheared completely. I was planning on replacing them with hockey puck s, but i dont think the hockey pucks will be thick enough. Plus hockey pucks are $8 at Sports authority, and I need 4, 2 for engine and 2 for the trans. If anyone has some old pucks they'd like to get rid of, please let me know.

While I was at it yesterday, I decided to go ahead and redo the front suspension. I was never very happy with how it turned out. The top screw of the bilstein doesn't reach the strut housing and wont hold it in securely. I kept the front suspension from the parts car, and i'll be using it to cut and weld the new strut housing.

Today should be a busy day

Houston, we have a problem.

Today, after trying to chase a no-start issue, I spotted something very disturbing, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...


The motor is already an inch out of place in these shots.... That means that it needed to move a total of 2 inches over, towards the passenger side to make these dents.



It turns out that at the last autox, I broke the motor mounts. Probably because of the cold front we had. It was in the 40's that morning.


...not good.

Soul

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