Quote:
kevinpackard wrote:
Quote:
CarFreak wrote:
So I had to get some work done to my truck before the summer got into full swing, so now that is done I am back to focusing on the Patrician.
Got word that the carpet should hopefully ship in 2 weeks... hopefully. Been waiting a couple months for it.
last I heard on the seat covers is that they started it, ran out of material, created more material... I am due to follow up with them soon.
Didnt get a chance to modify one of my control switches to what Howard created. hopefully soon. I did start on re-bushing the rear suspension. I got mostly everything disassembled, going to try and get the big nut off of the front of the load arm tonight. Game plan is to have it disassembled and paint tomorrow and spend the holiday weekend getting the suspension back together.
Sounds like a good list to tackle. Your experience with the seat covers is what has me hesitating to have mine done at SMS. They are the only ones that have the right material, but I can order what I need and have someone local make them. It'll cost me a lot more, but with my car being driven I would rather pay more and have the car back on the road faster.
-Kevin
I dont blame you on that. I would have gone that route, but the door cards appeared in presentable shape and I wanted everything to match. Hopefully the seats dont make the door cards look too bad, but only time will tell.
thanks Riki! Ill keep that in mind
But as for an update, last week was busier than all hell, but I was able to get the entire rear suspension disassembled by having the car up on jack stands via the frame, put the axle on jack stands and just unbolted everything. I put a hydraulic jack under the load arms as the U bolts were undone and just lowered the load arms via the hydraulic jack once the U-bolts were undone. I did grab pictures of the U-bolts with a measuring tape just in case anyone would need to find new ones in the future.
but I got it all painted, rebushed, assembled, torqued and back on the ground! I hope to start on the front this weekend. Everything appears to be straight forward, I have the holding tool for the torsion bar.
is there any cutting that needs done to get the old bushings out? and do I really have to remove the backing plates from the steering knuckles/spindles? or can I just remove the knuckles/spindles by removing their pivots from the upper and lower control arms leaving the backing plates and brakes on? Besides taking pictures during disassembly so I know how it all goes back together, anything else I should be aware of?
thanks!
This Post was from: https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=257750