Lipinhu's...

[Lipinhu]

Hi

Today was a heavy work day. Recieved the prothanes this week, and today i went to Rasteirinho's garage to replace my 21 years old ones.

I had in mind change all the bushings, one piece at the time. I started off by the rear end. The sway bar was out like butter and replacing its bushes is very easy, as the parts came out I cleaned them up. Next was the panhard bar and bring out the bush on the chassis end was quite a challenge, not the rubber but the metal outter ring, but with my silly engeniring he was out.

The 4 links were the most pain in the ass i´ve ever had while working on cars, keep in mind that I had te rear end standing in simple tripods, and work underneeth the car can be painfull, i mean, there's not big gap between the floor and the car and arrange yourself to give you some room to work its just impossible, specialy when you need to aply some strengh on tools to loose the bolts, and this ones (8 bolts FU*K*NG tight, and there is the gas tank, panhard member, exhaust, the freekin axle...) at the 4 links were just crazy, once out, another insane thing, the links didnt want to came out (the rubber wasnt that weared) so I used the tool i loved most today: the hammer. It took me 567876 times more taking the 4 links out than anything done today. As the prothane bushings they slide in just fine and tight, but that grease they supply just stucks to the hands so much that between parts i needed to wash my hands. I started to work on the car at 10:30 and finished at 19:30. I´m soooo tired, looks like I got beaten by a bunch of gangters.

So, for now I only have the rear end done, the front end i'll try next week, and i'm pretty sure it will be easier.

As the drive of the car, I feel the rear end very bumpy. I had koni special with oem springs, but i think it´s yet soon to say something because I want to have all the bushings in place and figure out the final result.

It's a shame that i didnt took any pictures, but I promess you, I´ll never buy another Canon. I´ll try to get a borrowed cammera to fill a bit my topic.

By now, this is the possible report. Hope to get everithing done next week.