Hey everybody,
The front end is off the car now. It was even in worse shape than I
thought. Looks as if it never was serviced.
I'm taking pictures and measurements of the shock kit, so I f anyone feels
up to trying to build it from scratch, I can give a guide at least. I put
that up n my site when the job is finished, and the film comes back.
I did get the Wire Wheels mounted at a tire place here in Dallas, that
worked fine, except they scratched a couple spokes, but that was touched up
easily. BTW I used the plasti-cote spray in a can, steel wheel color. It
came out really nice, I have a clearcoat that they make that I will use to
keep them from scratching again.
While I'm under there, what should I pay for a used front sway bar. My car
didn't have one, and now that my new A-arms have the holes, I think I should
go ahead and add a set. I guess that I would need to buy the bar, brackets,
links, and then buy new bushings. I guess at the moment I can't even do
that after the financial hit of the rest of the front end work. My Birthday
and Christmas are coming up soon, so I get to start leaving parts list
around for my wife to get me presents :).
Anyway that's about it... I should have the front end finished next
Saturday, and hopefully I can get to the rear so the car doesn't have to
have wire in the front, disk in the back for long. Maybe I should have done
it a side at a time so it wouldn't ever look that funny!
Patton Dickson 67 Austin-Healey Sprite Dallas, TX
See My Austin-Healey Sprite Page
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