Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician

Posted by CarFreak On 2023/6/23 8:32:56

Well, the entire front suspension is done! Disassembly wasnt difficult. I left the backing plates, and associated brake stuff on the knuckle and just removed the pivot bolts. The upper and lower control arms came out fairly easily. Upon disassembly I finally understood what my dad meant when he rebushed the car, he only did the control arm bushings.

pressing the bushings out of the upper arms were not bad at all. Pushing them in was a little tricky but it went together A okay.

I saw that a lot of people cut apart the lower control arms to get the bushings out, but with a punch and a decent size hammer they came right out. Again pressing them in was a little tricky, but got it done.

once the suspension was together, torqued at ride height I went on to installing the power steering hardware since my dad converted it to manual steering. Everything went together on the underside okay until I saw the power steering cylinder was hitting the exhaust. After doing some research I saw that the stove valve for the exhaust was installed on the wrong side, so once it was installed on the drivers side, it all went together okay. I took this time to change the cross(?) shaft seal on the bottom of the steering gear. I was a little annoyed that I had to partially disassemble the gear to change it, but I am glad I did. it was bone dry... No idea for how long, but I cleaned up the components, added the new seal and coated everything with a liberal amount of oil. I was letting everything sit before I fill the steering gear up.

Surprisingly I had a little extra time that I utilized to reworking 1 and almost two leverler control switches. Not to bad to do. Once I test fit the alternator Ill install the generator hook up the new switch and report back on how well it works on the car.