- Front suspension:
- Disassembled front axles and inserted outer axle stubs into the spindles.
- Used the pipe trick which made this super easy compared to FFR’s vice and hammer method. One whack and it was off for both axles.
- Tore up the boot to one upper ball joint when I used a pickle fork to remove it and rotate the cotter pin hole. So have to replace that now…:(
- Rear Suspension
- Disassembled rear spindles for wheel bearing installation, but there have been some complications to this.
- Having a lot of trouble with the roughly 12″ lateral link bolts being rusted to both the spindle and the lateral links. I broke one spindle trying to press the bolt out so that method clearly doesn’t work. Thankfully I have 4 (*now 3) rear spindles due to my 4-2 pot brake upgrade purchase. I have gotten the lateral link out of one so I just need to have a 50% success rate on the other two!
- I can use any spindle I have because they’re identical but I have to use the backing plate from the 4-2 pot spindles since the caliper bolt spacing is a little different in the rear than my donor WRX brakes. Good thing I have wheel bearings to put in whichever one I get the lateral link bolt out of.
- Looking like in about 2 weeks I’ll have the rear suspension on, steering rack installed, and front sway bar installed. After that, limited slip diff installation into the trans and then the powertrain goes into the car.
Rear Spindles Disassembled. I broke one of these though 😢
Axles taken apart
Saving the inner stub for the rear inner of the 818
Front outer stubs installed in the spindles
