Today I spent some time in the garage, I started installing the front suspension and brakes on the drivers side. The biggest problem I ran into was compressing the spring, and placing it up in the correct position in the spring perch. It took a few tries and quite a bit of maneuvering of the spring until I finally got it in the right spot. The springs were new hotchkis springs. The shocks are bilstein, that came with my suspension kit from UMI Performance. The Baer Track 4 brake kit went together fairly easily using the included instructions.
Hotchkis spring and bilstein shock, upper and lower UMI suspension A arms
With the Baer Track 4 brake kit I was able to reuse the original factory drum spindles. I sandblasted the spindles and gave them a couple coats of aluminum coloured paint
The Baer kit came with a new hub assembly that was all ready to go and prepacked with grease.
The Front Driver side front suspension and brakes are all together, tourqued and ready to go. Now I need to do the same on the passenger side.
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