Suspension Strip Down

After the engine was taken out I could get at the suspension etc much better. It's a tough job on this car, because some of the bolts haven't moved for nearly a decade. They needed plenty of WD40. At point I really needed to put most of my body weight on them and at times stand on the ratchet. Eventually the suspension, steering rack, anti-roll bar (dodgy style links included), uprights and hubs were off.

The rear supsion was also taken apart. There were no real difficulties in this. The leaf spring came off pretty easy. And the halfshafts came of quickish too. The diff was frustrating with a mai large bolt needing to come out. I nearly completely ringed it, but I eventually got it in the end (luckily).

Sadly I've no photographic evidence of all this, but here's a random dark picture of my hardtop. Because I can...
Oh, I also took off the brakes. The calipars are looking pretty sad...
The disks look like they could be re-used. But I will probably be changing them for new, and possibly uprated ones.