Pretty excited, happy and relieved with some progress I've made in the last day or two. I installed Elephant Racing rubber bushings on the a-arms and rear control arms, rear bearing installation and pulled in the hubs. Bushing installation was a huge PIA, not as easy as Chuck makes it look in his video. Doing the bearing/hub work I was real nervous about boning it up and ruining those $$$ bearings. Done, behind me now...moving on.

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Lookin' good! I always found bearings and bushings to be a PITA too.

Looks goooood!

Nah, that's gravy compared to dealing with the fresh air box/air diverters/cables up front!

Ohhh, that blows...I've got to do that also!

Looks like nicely refinished arms....Thinking about powder coating a set were these done that way...IF so do I need to total strip bushings and bearing due to curing heat.
Thanks
Terry

I just finished powder-coating my suspension bits (in my garage!!!), installing new bearings throughout, and installing Elephant polybronze bushings front/rear -- so i know your pain.

Everything went together pretty well, except for I broke off one of the zerk fittings on the rear trailing arms and had to order a replacement from ERP. Nice stuff, though! I'll post my pics on my build thread this weekend.

I hope you enjoy the rubber bushings -- be sure give us a write up once you get a chance to test drive the car.

Geoff

Not that it will help now but... I have a ton of those on the shelf. I don't use them as I use 6x1 zerks instead. Those 5x.8 zerks have bugged me since day one. Too small. Too fragile.

Looks great Kevin. What are you going to do about the bare spot? I'd POR15 it. Another note for Elephant Bronze guys:

Install the bearing races on the arms using JB Weld prior to powdercoating. Have your powdercoater tape them off. The JB Weld will hold up to 500 degrees and will be fine in the powder process. This will eliminate having to sand off the powder and have a bare spot on your freshly coated arms.

Hope that helps.

Crap... I've got to take out that fresh air box as well!!

Yes. Powder cures (flows) at around 450. So do rubber bushings and plastic bearing seals.

Take them down to bare metal.

Im doing that very job Feb 6th (bushings&bearings).....your scaring me you mentioned a video??

Wow, looks good, let us know how it drives.

However, the 911 cables are worse... oh yes, MUCH worse.

ER has a video on they're website that shows how "easy" the front a-arm bushing are to install. In all fairness, if you happen to have a long reach bar clamp used in his "how-to" video it is probably pretty easy. I used a set of bar clamps I had for woodworking and I ended up breaking both, it just didn't have a deep enough reach but I got it to work. Make sure you study really closely the orientation of the front carriers and I goofed it the first time and had to redo a PIA job.

Kev

Catalog Page: http://www.elephantracing.com/suspension/r...berbushings.htm

Video page: http://www.elephantracing.com/suspension/r...ation-video.htm

Mike, his are rubber. Your's will be a veritable "breeze" in comparison.

I feel better now ..lol..I still think its a big job ....Cant be any harder then ajusting my valves ,thats a bitch..Im sure i will be calling you Erik ...P.S what size drill&tap for the trailing arms??prolly in the instructions just havent read them yet