Old and new brake drums ... the old ones were too far gone to use ...
It's important to have good working brakes ... !!!
Mike was able to restore the brake backing plate ... sandblasting and painting them ...
It was great to have had a couple nice days to work outside ...
Mike had sandblasted and painted the front axle beam ...
the torsion arms ...
steering gear box and the brake backing plates ...
Once the paint had dried on the control arms ...
it was time to press in the balljoints ...
Mike also assembled and installed the torsion bars ...
Then over the next couple days...
Mike assembled these parts onto the front axle beam ...
including the tie rods ...
getting it ready to install the floor panels ...
next he measured and tack welded the panels onto the car frame ...
It looks like it is coming along well..what a great project for Mike to work on, such a sentimental value that VW has for you.
ReplyDeleteSusie's VW is going to better then new --- I am sure Craig has his eye on it !
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