well after almost 7 months the car is finially done. Finished it up tonight. Droped it off the jack stands fired it up with a little help of the jumper box and drove it around in the church lot behind my house. Little back ground on what I did. I took it for alignment months ago and was told the spindle was bent and something was wrong with the strut. Well Like always with me that turned into replacing a lot of otehr stuff endned up with
- KYB GR2 Struts & Gas Adjust shocks
- UCA's & LCA's
- Energy Suspension Sway Bar & Front Control Arm Bushings, Spring Isolators, and End Link Kit
- UPR 4 Bolt CC Plates & Bump Steer Kit
- Ball Joints
- Hubs
And painted things as I had them off pretty much everything got sprayed with paint while it was off. also cleaned up the rims. The front rims need polished more but I wanted the car done I can finish them on the car.
It was a long process not having the right tools (MM Axle bushing removal tool worked great after I broke down and spent the money on it), the weather, and starting to date my wonderful GF. I left the car sit to spend time with her. After all this I still wonder if the spindle was even bent because there was a big rubber doughnut looking thing on the driver side strut under the dust boot which I would think would throw that side off and maybe make the spindle look bent.
heres a few pics of before and after and i'll try and get some tomorrow for the full deal 9 I know the rotors likke like **** but after hittign the brakes a few times they will look better actually already do
Rear Before:
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Rear After:
View attachment 497178
Front Before:
View attachment 497180
Front After: (have to get one tomorrow with the rim on)
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Under Hood Before: (kinda hard to see in this pic but theres a big hunk of wires covered by split loom running down the driver side fender area)
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Under Hood After: (notice wires are gone. I ran them into the inside of the fender
)
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The whole car is dirty I know, the engine needs a bath but its done. Gotta find out about inspection and alignment tomorrow. I shouldn't need emissions this time hardly drive it so it should be a quick inspection. Everything seems good so far I heard a thumping noise every once in a while coming from the back but not sure if it was all the tools laying back there moving or something else my dad said might be the new stuff settling. I'll find out when I get all the tools out.
Thanks everybody that helped me along the way with this project. Should be the last for a while don't wanna start anything else untill I have my own house with a garage
- KYB GR2 Struts & Gas Adjust shocks
- UCA's & LCA's
- Energy Suspension Sway Bar & Front Control Arm Bushings, Spring Isolators, and End Link Kit
- UPR 4 Bolt CC Plates & Bump Steer Kit
- Ball Joints
- Hubs
And painted things as I had them off pretty much everything got sprayed with paint while it was off. also cleaned up the rims. The front rims need polished more but I wanted the car done I can finish them on the car.
It was a long process not having the right tools (MM Axle bushing removal tool worked great after I broke down and spent the money on it), the weather, and starting to date my wonderful GF. I left the car sit to spend time with her. After all this I still wonder if the spindle was even bent because there was a big rubber doughnut looking thing on the driver side strut under the dust boot which I would think would throw that side off and maybe make the spindle look bent.
heres a few pics of before and after and i'll try and get some tomorrow for the full deal 9 I know the rotors likke like **** but after hittign the brakes a few times they will look better actually already do
Rear Before:
View attachment 497176
Rear After:
View attachment 497178
Front Before:
View attachment 497180
Front After: (have to get one tomorrow with the rim on)
View attachment 497182
Under Hood Before: (kinda hard to see in this pic but theres a big hunk of wires covered by split loom running down the driver side fender area)
View attachment 497184
Under Hood After: (notice wires are gone. I ran them into the inside of the fender
)View attachment 497186
The whole car is dirty I know, the engine needs a bath but its done. Gotta find out about inspection and alignment tomorrow. I shouldn't need emissions this time hardly drive it so it should be a quick inspection. Everything seems good so far I heard a thumping noise every once in a while coming from the back but not sure if it was all the tools laying back there moving or something else my dad said might be the new stuff settling. I'll find out when I get all the tools out.
Thanks everybody that helped me along the way with this project. Should be the last for a while don't wanna start anything else untill I have my own house with a garage
