92 City, My First Rebuild by big-jay

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Update,

I haven't been able to get as much done as I would have liked this weekend, due to me having a bout of man flu.

ill start with what I bought throughout the week, some more smiffys bits and stainless p-clips -



Went down to minispares on Friday and picked this lot up, the wheel bearing kit is genuine timken, the cheaper ones looked a bit dodgy in my opinion -



First job of the day was to get the fuel and brake lines in place using the p-clips, here's the fuel pipe -





And the brake line -





The p-clips look great and are a lot more substantial than what the factory used to hang the lines.

Happy with that, we moved on to the front hubs. We started with the drivers side hub and fitted the new bearings, ball joints and stainless bits and pieces onto it, here's the finished hub -





I degreased and cleaned up the original timken bearings that we removed from the passenger hub. There in really good condition as I would expect seeing as my car had a relatively low milage before the rebuild.

Degreasing the bearings -



Cleaned up and awaiting to be fitted -



Packed the bearing full of high temperture, automobile grease -



And fitted into the hub with new dust seals. I couldn't fit the ball joints unfortunatley due to me running out of shims -





Fitted the adjustable tie rods and adjustable bottom arms to the drivers side, their set to the standard lengths at the moment -



And fitted the hub into place -



We've also temporarily fitted the doors back onto the car as they where getting in the way and I don't want them damaged.

Here's how the door gapping's are looking on the drivers side -







It was definitely worth that extra weekend getting them right, it's really paid off !

Couldn't get a decent picture of the passenger door as the space is tight that side, I'll pull her out tomorrow and take some though !

10-25-2014

Update,

Made some more progress today. Started off with a drive to minispares, here's what I bought -





Also picked up my radius arms from the powder coaters, I've had the new bushes fitted and reamed to the correct size -



Back plates fitted and the nuts and bolts changed for stainless -





Passenger side radius arm built up with the new brake shoes and what not -





Fitted onto the subframe -



Built up the suspension -



And fitted that into place along with the braided brake hose and gaz damper. (The brake pipe is not in its final position) -



Also fitted a set of the new bearings into the rear hub -





And the seal in place -



Can't put this in place yet though as I've still got to knock the studs into it.

I've also fitted the side indicators into the wings -





That's all we got done today, should have some more to update tomorrow !