I rarely “give up” on jobs.
Today I did give up and changed direction for a while.
Sometimes you need to change place and pace to survive.
I had hoped to get the bushes completed and even the chassis partly reassembled.
Sousing a Mercedes Benz spring compressor which was not a Ford item, meant I ultimately failed to disassemble the upper and lower control,arms.
Unfortunately too big to successfully clamp and deactivate the springs so that I could get the arms off.
So once I gave up on the springs, having tried them three ways, I decided that reassembled parts made sense.
Problem with the poly bushes, was that even when completely wound in, they hardly give way, compared to the units removes.
VS
The old
So the space is taken up differently.
Looking at the parts next to the wheel you can see I had too much bush.
Minus the two steel eyes that this threaded though I was still dismally short in bolt thread.
So I took the 8 small bushes and ground about 3mm off each of them to create some space so that I could thread on, and tighten the nut.
Once completed, I felt a bit better about failing.
Despite the control arms still having to be done, possibly when I cut the front springs, or buy some correctly specced shorter front springs and shocks.
I am hopeful that I will be able to do this as soon as I have time to get to it.
Todays weather was decent in fact, starting out cold, but dry all day.
Weekend is over, work again tomorrow.
Life is good though .