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HAN8L1965

HAN8L1965

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Tony here are the pics you requested. Went fairly easy, it is a little tricky squeezing the new A arm bushings into position. As you see I used a box to get me to the work heigth. Made it fairly easy. I did have a slight issue on the passenger side the clearence between the top of the pin and the lever shock was minus about a 1/8" it really fought me but I one. Now all I need is a 200+lb neighbor and a floor jack and hopefully the springs will go back in as easy as they came out. I will have to release the top of the pin to accomplish this. Hope this helps someone.

Mark
 

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Looking good Mark! I pulled my front suspesion last weekend to clean and paint the frame rails and engine compartment. Now you've provided me with a nice visual of how to put it back.
 
Is that brake line bracket going the wrong way?
 
I think it is Trevor, I had theat feeling earlier. Oh well that's an easy fix

Mark
 
:crazyeyes:What else is wrong with those pictures? When you do things on the bench and they lay for sooooo long you just don't comprehend until you put things back on.

The steering arms are on the wrong side and upside down. corrected now.

Mark
 
Boy, am I glad you posted those! I forgot to install the brackets for the front splash plates! <span style="text-decoration: line-through">But, which one goes on which side...one has more bends in it than the other.

Can you take close-ups of those pieces?</span>
Figured it out! got everything back together....

Tomorrow brake lines & MC in engine compartment.
 
I think they can only go one way Tony.

Mark, I did even notice the steering arms.

How about the calipers? Bleeders at the top?
 
:grouphug:After doing this and thinking about what Jim said and I said regarding the lower A arm bushings I think we are making this more work than necessary. It is only necessary to put the bushing on the screw side or inner side of the arm. You can put the other one in after getting the pin screw into position and then put the other bushing in through the open hole and cap off and bolt.

I only know this due to the fact after getting everything into position one of my bushings flew off through the open hole.

Mark
 
I'm confused....
 
Look at the tabs on the frame for the A-arms. One tab in each pair has a large hole. Those large holes allow those bushing to be put in after the a-arm is in place. It is not necessary to squish the a-arm and all four bushings in at one time.
 
no - but it is still necessary to squish two
 
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