<p>well all the major brake components are functional, no more leaks or anything seized etc etc. the fronts are getting pads and rotors since those guys do most of the braking in a car, used one of the sources i posted somewhere in this site to order the stuff.</p>
<p>along with it came all of the bushings i could see that needed replacing minus maybe the lower control arms to sub frame bushings. not super sure where i am going to get those (maybe they were already purchased?), may have to do some sort of custom deal where i find something close enough and try to sleeve it? gotta buy a micrometer first i guess. (ill show you the box of goodies when i get around to taking pics)</p>
<p>i will say i did enjoy driving the car up and down the town street (more like a neighborhood for me but its a town) and watching all the old folk stop and stare, first time ive broke necks like that since i last drove the el camino. the elco is back home in the US...<br>anyways i took it home and parked it yet again to start tackling the bushing crisis, started out well with an easy removal of the front sway bar and relative ease removing the upper control arm but ran into some issues with the lower control arm, GRRRR. i really struggled to get it off with the tools i had available, a block of wood, 22mm wrench, a 5 pound sledge and all the muscle in my noodle arms. im sure i PO'd a few of my german neighbors trying to remove the nut, i used leg strength with a little success but most of the movement came from pounding on the wrench with the hammer. at a certain point even the hammer couldnt move the nut any further, damn... i had to cave and go buy more tools, 80 bucks of an impact socket kit and i went back at it. initial plan was to use my torque wrench as a breaker bar but the head was too fat to fit where i needed it to. welp i grabbed the 1/2 ratchet and tried again, took me longer than im willing to admit but eventually i wised up and grabbed the pole from my jack to turn the ratchet into a breaker bar. BINGO! thing came off pretty easy comparatively speaking. woop woop! damn nut was siezed on so tight that it ended up de-threading a portion of the ball joint.<br>once that was off the rest of the corner fell into place without too much trouble, sure i had to pound the lower ball joint out with the hammer but it was easy after the previous task. (if there are pics ill post them later)</p>
<p>that brings me to where i am now, beginning to remove the rust from the bits i took off and after that is paint and bushing replacement time.</p>
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<p><br>hopefully the tie rod ends dont give me too much trouble, they're next after both front corners are done....</p>
