Hi Guys,haven't had the time to update the website lately.
That's why now it's a major update covering the time from 20.otober till today.
In general i have to admit that i didn't like too much what Steve discovered with the rotors, spindles and bearings.
All the bushings and most of the bolts i ordered already new.
But there was a ton of more cost intensiv pieces which needed to be replaced.
Anyway, now almost everything is new.
Luckily Steve had already all the necessary tools to that inhouse, what saved a lot of money.
Some pictures of how the rear wheel assembly looked before.
Say idiots worked on this car !?!
One more. Could have become easily a disaster on the road !!!
The new and old rear spring.
Went with a 7 leaf Ghymkana.
Good looking strut rods.
Will be replaced by new adjustable ones.
One more great use of a cotter pin !!
Sure this car was very well adjusted, means maybe it steered just a bit over the whole road space ?
Like always, Steve takes atention to detail and marks all the pieces.
Shot trailing arm bushings.
New bolt assembly for the trailing arms.
Decided to throw all the old calipers and ordered new stainless ones with o-rings for front and rear.
Something is missing at the u-joint bolts ?
Well yes, the french locks which should asure the bolts can't come off !
A piece out of the parking brake !
Explains why the parking brake had not a lot of use on the pads. But also why it didn't work at all.
This maybe explains the parking brake problem better.
Makes any adjustment impossible.
Here a overview of the parking brakes. Surface rust overall let's guess it was "out of use" !
Some of the new parking brake stuff.
Bad looking rear spindles.
More in next photos.
Must have made a lot of noise when driving with such wheel bearings !
Grease seal failed.
Nice picture !?! And cost intensiv too.
Damage from bearing failure.
Shot rear spindle from all the bearing damage and no grease anymore.
one more.
This is just to show how the tool gets used.
Not really necessary as the spindles anyway get thrown.
Uff, at least the trailing arm is not looking bad and just has surface rust.
New wheel bearings from Muskegon Brakes.
The new spindles. NIIICCCCEEEEE
New lug nut studs, spindle nuts and chromed lug nuts.
spindle assembly with the new lug nut studs.
Rotors will getting bolted to the spindle instead of rivets.
Rotors bolted on.
Bolt heads still to long, but will be shortened to specific hight.
This is something i say looks hot.
And the whole 4 together. YEEAAAHHHHH
Trailing arm gets rid of the worn bushings.
New trailing arm bolt and bushings.
Now a switch to the front assembly.
Also the front hubs get new rotors. Again screwed instead of riveting.
Screws shorted to size on the rotors.
Lug nut studs pressed in.
Also on the fron wheel new bearings as well.
A good greasing is doing the trick.
Front wheel assembly. Not yet bolted together with the spindle nut.
As all the gas tank was restored to new condition it made sense to buy also a new gas tank sending unit.
Soon the body will go back on the frame.
So i thought it's getting time to have new weather strips and a good adhesiv from 3M.
Finally i made the long desirted progress with the Mako Shark Emblems.
They're out of metal. Yeaaahhhhh
The material is called ZAMAC and is often used for making car emblems.
It consists of Zinc, aluminum, copper and some other materials.
Here a shot from some of the scripts just after sand casting.
Still raw, but ehhh......heavy !
After the first polish they already shine like crazy.
Just let's see when they're plated in nickel over copper !!!
Next step is now to have casted also the special made Mako Shark gaslid-door insert and the special made Mako Shark shifter knob.
Like allways much much more photos (this time 169 new pictures) on our website.
And comments, also critical ones, allways welcome.
Greetings
Robert
http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/
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