Front Suspension

Today I was able to finish the passenger side suspension and brakes.  Here are some pics of both sides done.  I am really happy with the look so far.

Front Suspension and Brakes Install Started

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.

Rear Brakes

In September I was able to find sometime to work in the garage.  I decided to put together the rear brakes.   It was fairly straight forward when using the instruction manual that came with the Baer SS4 rear brake kit. 

 I had to remove the axles in order to bolt the brake faceplates on

 axles reinstalled in rearend

 Parking brake cable

Here is the rearend all finished, all I need to do is fill with oil and its ready to be bolted up to the frame