{"id":72,"date":"2003-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:11:17","slug":"bel-air\/some-assembly-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Some Assembly Required"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I picked up my A-arms from the powder coaters next door to where I work. They had been blasted and painted black and looked the business. This was quite an important moment for me. I could start to put parts of the car together rather than take it to bits. I had brand new bushings ready to install, and thats what I started to do. The powder coating needed filing out inside the bushing holes, and I was impressed with how hard it was to take off. \"ShinyA-arm.jpg\" Before I could do any assembly I had to do more cleaning. The crossbars were as manky as the rest of the car was when I got it. A little while with the wire brush got the worst of the grime off before it got sprayed everywhere by the grinder wire brush. I got the vice out and put it on the floor to hold the parts while I cleaned. Not for much longer though. I ordered a shed this week, so I’ll finally have space for a workbench. I started to try and push the new bushings in using wooden blocks and a hammer. \"Doity_Crossbars.jpg\" This was the first time I’d done this and didn’t know it would be so hard. The upper arms have a lot of flex in them, so they tend to spring rather than push the bushings in. It took me two hours to get them in on the first arm, and I realised that I was wasting my time. I decided to take the other three to the garage that pressed them out for me in the first place. I filed them out, took the bushings apart and got them in far enough to hold the crossbars for the arms in. With a bit of luck, the ball joints will be here this week. Might get some of the car back together next weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I picked up my A-arms from the powder coaters next door to where I work. They had been blasted and painted black and looked the business. This was quite an important moment for me. I could start to put parts of the car together rather than take it to bits. I had brand new bushings ready to install, and thats what I started to do. The powder coating needed filing out inside the bushing holes, and I was impressed with how hard it was to take off. \"ShinyA-arm.jpg\" Before I could do any assembly I had to do more cleaning. The crossbars were as manky as the rest of the car was when I got it. A little while with the wire brush got the worst of the grime off before it got sprayed everywhere by the grinder wire brush. I got the vice out and put it on the floor to hold the parts while I cleaned. Not for much longer though. I ordered a shed this week, so I’ll finally have space for a workbench. I started to try and push the new bushings in using wooden blocks and a hammer. \"Doity_Crossbars.jpg\" This was the first time I’d done this and didn’t know it would be so hard. The upper arms have a lot of flex in them, so they tend to spring rather than push the bushings in. It took me two hours to get them in on the first arm, and I realised that I was wasting my time. I decided to take the other three to the garage that pressed them out for me in the first place. I filed them out, took the bushings apart and got them in far enough to hold the crossbars for the arms in. With a bit of luck, the ball joints will be here this week. Might get some of the car back together next weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}