Front Suspension Reassembly

So the chassis is all nice and shiny. Have added 2 coats of epoxymastic  which seemed a little soft after 12 hours drying but has since proved to be rock hard. As witnessed when I dropped the differential on the chassis and not a dent in the paint was to be seen :-). Didn't really like the finish of the epoxymastic though so covered over with 2 shiny coats of black smoothrite.

Now the fun bit... reassembling all.. Starting with the front suspension. Had decided on a taking the "refurb with minor improvement" route for this. Didn't want to go too crazy with rock hard bushes as in the end the TR is mainly for long distance jaunts with the odd track lap. So cleaned everything up checked all components and replaced where nessecary. This included

• New trunnions (through bolt completely corroded into the trunion!)
• New second-hand uprights (the trunion thread on the old ones were very wasted)
• All new nuts and bolts
• New Superpro Blue polyurethane bushes on inner upper and lower A-arms
• New Koni shocks (I had perfectly servicable SPAX units already but Colin a CTM can be very persuasive and siad Konis at the front would match those at the back!)

All went together like a dream (part of the joy of taking lots and lots of pictures!)... Only thing I had to do is make a simple tool for fitting the spring.