I set about doing the suspension and bushes this weekend after ADI.
The weather was nice and was meant to be nice for sunday. I thought prime time to do it and save from waiting.
saturday was nice, sunday was wet cold and windy. Proper ****, but I started so i had to finish.
Short of it, I did it was it set out to do. fit new shocks, springs and front control arms with new ARB bushes.
But now got a small issue with the car
I got a feeling I ordered facelift rear
suspension parts to fit my pre-facelift rear top mounts.
I was told my car has the facelift top mounts so I ordered the suspension they I was told was wrong.
But this is wrong.
When I was doing the shocks and springs, I shared the work out cause I was in a rush.
Me and my old man did the fronts and my mate (who owns the garage) did the rears.
The fronts was fine, no issues.
My mate said there was a issue with the tops mounts but he sorted it out and it should be fine.
Took his word for it, bolted it all back together, lowered the car and stood back to look at my handy work.
it was fine. Not a massive drop which is what I wanted.
Drove it down to kwik fit to get the tracking done and then home.
On the way there was some massive knocking taking place from the back end, took it to kwik fit got the tracking done and back to my dads to find out about this knocking.
We think its the top mounts. bit of a pain, I ran out of time to do any more to it, so I just drove it home.
I'm going to park it up now and order some new facelift rear top mounts and hope that solves the issue.
Whats where its at now.
Still got a small list of bits to do, front wheel bearings, rear axle bushes, front CV boots and I think thats it for running gear. Need to get the belts checked out. The AC belt it squeaking and the aux belt is not looking to healthy. I'll drop it in to the mech end of the month to do them.
On to the pics.
Before
During
After.
Apart from the above issue with the rear strut tops I think i've done ok and i'm happy with the way it feels now. so much better than before and less clunking (apart from the rear lol).
Get the back end sorted out and i'll see if it handles any better taking some cornish roads to work.
Also, thanks to ebay, TonyA4, A4_Nut and Byzan I got me some new toys to play with for the motor. I should start playing this week.