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Those looks a whole lot more right

I think I've gone as far as I can with the front end for today and as much as I know it won't look like this for long, I'm pretty happy with how it looks right now....properly racecar like imo


Installing the sway bar I noticed it has a little preload, I'll recheck that when its sitting level and adjust the end links if needed. 3/8 black pipe is just about perfect for the spacers, that was a good find at lowes this morning.

The hubs can't go on because I have the wrong seal.....these are apparently GT4 seals so they will get the right ones out monday.

In the lower balljoint barrel bolts I decided to go with blue loctite on the OD so in theory the bolt, which is a tight fit will not turn out but if I need to disassemble there is less chance of the bolt just spinning the ball joint...at least in my mind.


I guess I'll play with the power steering now. I have a plan that involves cutting up the broken stuff to steal the connectors so I can make extensions and not have the controller where my feet feet kind of want to be or falling and pulling on wires that shouldn't be pulled on I'm guessing.

I picked up a bit and decided I just didn't have the steering in me today. I started, found the ballpeen hammers that have been lost and making me insane the past couple days.


Then after looking a bit I decide I can probably get both the steering controller and speaker cross-over boxes up inside the dash behind the instrument panel....and I did get the screwdriver before just giving up for the day.



Forgot, steering rack boots. My 308QV/328 parts book shows the shorter boot and say qty2l, as in they should be exactly what the guy sent me so I have no idea what's in my car......"I guess when you ordered the V12 option it came with the lowered ride height and a different rack to match?"

I was explaining my "I don't' know, I guess that's part of the V12 package" joke to my some and younger son and he came back with "it looks like an assembly error, the guy on the line must have just grabbed the wrong engine." also pretty funny.

Amazing work.

I saw this today and thought that you might like to know about the process of you don't already - maybe it will be of use to you one day:

https://youtube.com/shorts/ADSTXYUvRco

I actually saw that video a while back. That's basically the stuff I used just running the engine instead of with a bench setup

Today night I pulled the dash out and after a little playing found a configuration that put the steering controller and speaker cross-overs in the and let the instrument panel also fit back onto place


then on to looking at the steering unit. my plan was swap all the new guts into my modified housings.....but I took a short cut and welded the quicker to the PS unit so there is no way to disassemble that. ok, that is just a sensors, I can still swap the motor and that is probably the issue.....wait a minute.....my sensor unit is 8 wire and the new one 4 wire



the other unit I bought and broke by swapping the controller on to may old unit is also 4 wire. Why I do not know, but there is about a 0% change the new controller will work with that old sensor section even if that is not the actual broken part. So....I need to redesign the joint to make it not welded...or maybe just cut it apart and weld the new bits to it. tomorrow problem

Just let us know when you finally install the zipper...

Zipper in the trunk? I would say start holding your breathe right about ...now!




I got looking at the steering unit and kind of remembered why I made the choices I did....and its not that hard to do so I cut out the old bits and prepped everything the reweld.




The one harness is hard to reach once I weld so I got started making a new longer one, but needed more heatshrink and kind of lost interest by the time I got back from the store.....tomorrow. My plan is make this cable, put it together and test it, then make the other cables and finish up.

It seems impossible that you don't know about thread restoring files, but just in cast: They're much easier to use than a triangular file for fixing bunged up threads.

I have one, its barely used, wasn't cheap but dull as a hoe so I rarely use it....maybe I just need a new one.