Sunday, October 6, 2013

Rear Suspension

After taking a bunch of pictures and looking at all of the intricate parts that are involved with a car, I now know that I have absolutely NO IDEA what I'm doing! It's one thing when you're taking pieces off the car, but totally different when you have to fix things and put them back together. Looking around online I found that there is not a lot of direction on how to put a 60 year old car together. So I'm just hoping that I remember how to put everything back together using pictures. I've now taken apart the rear suspension, cleaned it, and repainted all of its pieces. I chose to do the back first because there wasn't nearly as many pieces as the front and it just looked a whole lot easier. My uncle had said that the leaf springs were completely redone before it sat for a while(30 years), but whoever did them didn't do a very good job. In between each leaf there is "supposed" to be a rubber pad, and when I took it apart there was rubber missing and the leaves didn't look like they had been repainted. I don't really mind how the job was done before, I just want to make sure that I'm doing a good job.

Here is a picture of my progress on the rear suspension:

This is the rear axle that had to be taken out in order to take off the leaf springs

These are the leaves that I separated and cleaned
 Here they are again after I put primer and two coats of black on them

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