John S's Journal

While the crossmember and assorted front suspension parts are getting media blasted and powder coated, I’ve slowed a bit but decided to get some other front end bits cleaned up. Wrapped up the painting on the steering rack and the sway bar today and while those are curing, I spent some time researching the process of installing new bearings and races on the front hubs.

Last year about this time when I acquired the GT, the rotors were garbage and I did a quick and dirty job on replacing them to get the car running, driving and stopping to assess what all needed to be done. Now that I’m going through the front suspension, I want to go through the hubs and replace everything. The parts order from BPNW came in yesterday and had the bearing kits but unfortunately they were out of shim kits so I wound up ordering them from Import Parts Northwest which is another vendor up North in the Portland area. Put a small order in with them and it will be here early next week. I got as far as knocking out the old races and cleaning up the hub and stub axle and experimenting with the old shims and new bearings just to see how it all works. I haven’t done this before with the other MG’s so it’s a learning experience. YouTube and the forum to the rescue again. I have a good handle on it now so I’ll prep the other hub tomorrow and then I’m sure I can find some bits and pieces to clean and paint so they’ll be ready to go when the parts arrive. Same goes for the steering rack. Doesn’t appear that there is a lack of things to do.