I will be replacing both uppers and lowers due to an obvious lack of maintenance
on the part of the DPO. I have however given them to a local machine shop that
takes great pains to do quality work and usually works on far more expensive
cars than my Alpine. During the process of pressing out the lowers they put a
micrometer inside the arm to verify that it was not flexing. As soon as they
figured out that it was in fact flexing they stopped and are now building a
reinforcement to stop the flexing. I assume that they are going to have to do
the same with the uppers.
Kurt Eckert
1963 Series III GT
-----Original Message-----
From: "Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda; CA)" <GROSS(at)UNIT.COM>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 1997 8:45 AM
To: alpines(at)autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Trunnion and Swivel Pin Question
Ramon wrote,
>I'm trying to get our Series II ready for some serious autocross
>competition, and I had planned to take the whole front-end apart,
>replace all the replaceables, and powder-coat the rest. Now Jarrid's
>got me thinking maybe I should just hose the thing off, spray it black,
>and run with it!
>
>Ramon
I dont want to scare anyone into not performing a needed repair.
The key here is if the part needs replaced, you should put a-lot
more thought into it than I did.
Some parts on these cars are really easy to replace.
Others were never really meant to be repaced.
I would put the fulcrum bushes somehere closer to the latter.
The process requires fixturing that is not decribed within the
workshop manual, and failing to provide adequate support
for the control arm, could result in a control arms that are bent
or have stress cracks that make the resultant parts more
dangerous than the old parts with worn bushes.
Ramon,
at least take the whole thing apart. clean it all up, and gauge the
wear on all the parts.
If you find something you dont like, worry about it then.
Paint it all up nice and pretty, and if didnt need all those pretty
new parts, youd never know it from the outside.
Jarrid
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