Europa TCST

[TurboFource]

Trailing arms, drums and half shafts painted....


Almost ready to reassemble rear suspension....

[dakazman]

 Turbo,
    I am glad to be past that job . The universal joints , bearing fit , freezer time , lubricant on seals , thread lock-tite.  What joy, but worth it when your done. I believe I asked every question imaginable when at this point. I documented every step so it may be a concise tool for everyone , you can skip all the polishing too. 😁
Dakazman

[TurboFource]

Been mulling this over for a couple of weeks..... At full suspension droop and the steering at the stop,
my anti-roll bar rod end mounting bolt hits the caliper. I am not sure that this condition would occur in normal driving, but it could happen so I have decided to reposition it....removed mounts from control arm today, also sanded and painted my rear coil springs (not much fun sanding a spring...)

[Clifton]

I didn't notice before. The sway bar tabs look nice but the vertical flat that receives the fastener is on top of the open side of the control arm. The top of the control arm will flex as it's not supported on the open end. It will eventually tear along the top.

[JR73]

The high level anti roll bar solution from Banks locates the drop link into the end of the lower shock mount bolt.
Needs to be bored and tapped on a lathe (bolt size escapes me atm) but I’ve never witnessed any clearance issues (even with much bigger brakes/wheels etc) and neither have I seen any failures (22 years fitted on my own car without issue on various sized anti roll bars). - might be worth considering?

[Clifton]

There's a ton of Alder uprights used on race cars here. The open wheel ones show  better pics but this one is one a Spitfire.

Link to more.
http://www.britishracecar.com/

[TurboFource]

Clifton,
I was worried about flex too, redesign will fix that!

[kram350kram]

TF, Another rendition to contemplate. This clears P-16 Cortina calipers.

[TurboFource]

I will be doing something similar to Kram that way I don't have to disassemble
half the front suspension to weld new tabs on control arm half.

[TurboFource]

Cleaned and painted emergency brake levers and some misc hardware.

The majority of the parts for the rear suspension and brakes are in....hope to have assembled
In the next couple of weeks and tear into the Twin Cam in March...

[BDA]

Very good! 

[TurboFource]

Got the rear Koni's apart (as much fun as the front ones to do so).
They are dirty and gummed up like the fronts were....cleaning/painting ahead....

[TurboFource]

"Lift off" occurred a year ago today!

Things are progressing well even though I thought I would be a little further along....

[TurboFource]

This week I am working on cleaning the Koni's and assembled the rear uprights

When I used to rebuild/assemble/upgrade high speed industrial manufacturing equipment
we had a nice SKF bearing driver set, since I don't have a press I made my own version
to assemble the rear bearing housings/uprights (try at your own risk).

1-1/4 PVC fits the inner race fairly nice, I used a large, thick washer and ground it down so it would
hit the inner and outer race simultaneously (like the SKF set), I used a piece of cereal box to
help distribute the load/absorb the impact (PVC pipe helps too) and a nice nylon dead blow hammer. I put the axles in the deep freeze over night and the bearing housings in the sun.....went together well and the bearings turn smoothly.......

[cwtech]

Are your sons helping, or showing interest, in your project?

Did you use Loctite on the bearings?