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Good call, I'll have to look up how to do that. So much "while you're in there," but worthwhile because I love this car! Side note: I've decided to paint the wheels red like the 1988 Clubsport or the fabled RS, and I'm doing red stripes to match. Super excited for summer.
But, in the meantime, a big fail and some strong progress: I rebuilt the right side successfully after switching the torsion bars and I've got both axles rebuilt; I've also got Schnorr washers for the reinstall. Also took the left rear apart fully, replaced the trailing arm bushing on that side, and painted all the old parts I'm keeping. BUT, the bone-headed move of the month was that I epoxyed my inner race for the poly bronze bushings to the spring plate BEFORE putting the two pieces back together. Had to cut it off, need a new one of those bad boys. Hopefully the good people of Elephant Racing will take pity on me and let me buy a replacement piece for less than the $375 for the entire kit.
The difficulty now is that I'm having a very hard time with the new trailing arm bushing on this side. Besides the fact that there's a bunch of throttle linkage and brake lines in the way, it just doesn't want to stay in once I start to loosen my jig to squeeze them together. So, I'm going to cut up the old trailing arm bushing to create a better jig, hopefully one that will allow me to both squeeze the bushings and push them in far enough to loosen without them sliding out again.
More soon, any tips/tricks for reinstalling the trailing arm are welcome.
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