On another note... I just purchased some 'Special edition 20' Door cards, with Black material (instead of yucky grey).
Here is my summary (with pics of coarse) of the recently completed task.
DAY1:
Rear Trailing arm Bushings replaced, Hub assemblies replaced, rear coilovers installed.
all went pretty smoothly. think was a total of 5 hours start to complete finish for the rear end and tearing apart te front end. (Including a lunch break and a mate came over for a chat)
drove it around the block then pulled up back in the driveway to tear down the front end.
loosened all LCA bolts, after some great difficulty removed the CV nuts... then called it a day and went out for the night.
DAY 2:
This morning I removed the drivers side Hub, have taken out all the bolts for the LCA and is ready to be dropped.
Passengers side I didn't get along with too well *Sad Panda*
CV is completely locked into the hub so I went and took all the bolts out from the LCA.
Then came back to the CV with no luck.
Tried a 3 arm puller (broke that), along with some "massaging" ... which didn't work.
I might add... it has been bucketing down rail all morning, so i was drenched, cold and very annoyed.
Day 3:
removal of bushings and ball joint in LCA's and pressing in new items.
Also, the removal of bearing from knuckle and cutting the inner race from the hub shaft.
Also Re installed the LCA's and removed the CV shaft with the hub seized to it out of the Gear box.
Only did a couple of hours... was still bucketing and had enough lol
Day 4:
Crossmember changed (old one was bent), then realised that the Rod ends and Rack ends I was sent were totally wrong!
Day 5:
Spent the day chasing my tail trying to get the right rod ends... no luck.
and also trying to ge an ABS ring... as the New CV shaft i got didn't have the ABS ring (was supposed to... but didn't lol)
Finally that afternoon i got what i wanted... so Day was basically wasted.
Day 6:
Finished it in the morning!
Day 7:
Wheel Alignment time!!!
nothing agressive... I drive far to many km's.
Toe and Camber are stock... with 2.8 Degrees of caster in the front (I wish I could have more!)
Forgot to mention... also have no front swaybar attached, as the BJII runs longer front endlinks than the BJI... coilovers are designed with the BJI endlink.
and the rest of day 7 was enjoyed! (finally
)
celebrated by doing a mountain run and hitting the limiter for the first time ever in this car (almost 2 years).
Extremely pleased with just how comfy these coilovers are! Ride totally awesome! much better than my struts and autoexe springs ever did... and performance... well there is no comparison
also extremely happy with the Droop/ Extension that these baby's have...
