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Feilding, manawatu, New Zealand
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Our parcel of goodies from Moss arrived from the UK, so the front cross member got stripped & stream cleaned.
The moss coil over conversion is really simple, the hardest job is having to cut holes for the coilover to pass through. Not hard with the right size holesaw & a slow, grunty drill. A little bit of juggling with the alloy pillow blocks until I got them in the right positions. Stripped & cleaned the old cross member with a wire cup wheel on an angle grinder. Primed & painted with POR15, results where awesome.
1 comment about the coil over kit, reported back to Moss, was the poxy satin black paint the bits were finished in. Truly crappy. Most fell off whilst putting the kit together, so stripped the remnants off & repainted them.
The trunnions were stripped, checked, cleaned, greased & put back together.
The steering rack felt horrible when turning over by hand. After taking a look at the rack, plenty of oil/grease, the rubber boots looked good. Pulled the bearing from the bottom of the pinion to find a dry/collapsing bearing. A new bearing from the local bearing supplier, check the preload, and the rack is as good as new.
The moss coil over conversion is really simple, the hardest job is having to cut holes for the coilover to pass through. Not hard with the right size holesaw & a slow, grunty drill. A little bit of juggling with the alloy pillow blocks until I got them in the right positions. Stripped & cleaned the old cross member with a wire cup wheel on an angle grinder. Primed & painted with POR15, results where awesome.
1 comment about the coil over kit, reported back to Moss, was the poxy satin black paint the bits were finished in. Truly crappy. Most fell off whilst putting the kit together, so stripped the remnants off & repainted them.
The trunnions were stripped, checked, cleaned, greased & put back together.
The steering rack felt horrible when turning over by hand. After taking a look at the rack, plenty of oil/grease, the rubber boots looked good. Pulled the bearing from the bottom of the pinion to find a dry/collapsing bearing. A new bearing from the local bearing supplier, check the preload, and the rack is as good as new.
coilover conv4
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