Finally got a decent deal on some of the remaining parts I needed to get working on my 5 lug/4 wheel disk swap....so I got started today.
After spending a billion hours on the web to try and make sense of all the options, I have the following parts:
2 95 gt front rotors
2 95 gt rear rotors
2 95 gt rear calipers
2 95 gt rear dust sheilds (didnt use)
2 95 gt caliper brackets (they are marked left and right)
2 95 gt front calipers
2 94 gt axles
2 95 spindles/hubs (1 was from an ABS car)
2 sn95 a-arms
2 1993 stock struts
Obviously I am still short a few parts but I have enough to get rolling at least. Aaaaanyway, on to the fun:
I tore down the front suspension to the a-arms the other day, so first order of biz was to remove the stock 86 a-arms. No big deal really, except for a few things....what the heck size are those bolts? The largest socket I have is 1 1/16 and it was still too small! And in order to remove the front bolts that mount the a-arm I had to just about remove the steering rack so that the bolt could slide out. You can kinda see what I mean in this pic:
When I put the sn95 a-arm in place (after much smacking the crap out of it with a hammer) I went ahead and reversed the front bolt/nut, but the steering rack is still in the way a bit even like that.
One mistake I made was to go ahead and tighten down the a-arm before I had everything else installed. Apparently this needs to be tightened afterwards, right?
Struggled with getting the stock spring back in for a while, but had to cut the wrenching short today. Over the next couple of days i'll continue to add to this thread to give you a blow by blow account of my progress and ultimately, problems I will run into.
Incase anyone wanted to see a pic of the stock 86 a-arm next to the sn95 arm, here you go:
Oh, and here is a picture of the spindles/hubs....I removed the abs sensor from one, but you can see the ring on it in this next picture, compared to the other one. They both look the same to me besides that, but I guess I wont know for sure until I go to put them on. (yeah I ripped the dust sheilds off)
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