Concurrent with the glass installation I have been prepping to get the car back to rolling status. This means some effort has been going on for suspension.
First, I am converting to a through-body sway bar. That means early style drop link tabs must be welded on. Easy Peasy. I bought some tabs off Ebay and they had holes for plug welds. A Quick clamp into position and some zzzzztttttt noices and they were attached.
The welding was followed up by some wire brushing, cleaning and 2 coats of satin black VHT epoxy. I know its rattle can but I have fond that it holds up extremely well under the car.
We all know the control arms need something to connect. In this case, Some bilsten RSR coil overs should do the trick. These were another ebay find and needed paint and cleanup to be quite functional.
The yellow paint was as close as I could match. its a little light but that won't matter after the first few drives.
I also epoxied the control arm races for the Rebel RSR front bushings. I have found these to run quiet and are easy to install.
Of course, once the struts are painted the best protected place is to hang them on the car. It is such a nice feeling putting clean parts back on the car.
I hope to have the car rolling in the next 2 weeks. Then I can go back to the wiring install as well as staring to build the drivetrain.