There was no rust underneath, but it needed a good painting.
Sitting at the panelbeaters the diff and springs picked up alot of surface rust.
I started off by rubbing the flatter surfaces with a medium sand paper and used wire brush on the hard to reach places. the diff was sprayed in matt black high heat paint after all the rust was removed.
After the rear setup was cleaned and sprayed, i used bakkie bin liner (BTC3) on the undercarriage, it bonds welland stays hard. (see pics below to see how it turned out)
moving from back to front the next thing that had to be pulled off was the complete front supsension for a clean and refurb. the easiest way was to unbolt the stabliser bar at the front mounting pionts and then remove the rack ends and remove the steering rack.then the crossmember was removed after the tie-rod ends where unbolted from the strut.
The steering rack before and after.
Crossmember with stabliser bar still attached.
Once everthing was removed i masked off the engine bay to neaten it up as the panelbeater did not do a great job on the lower areas.
The steering rack was refitted to the crossmember and the whole unit was then refitted to the body, was abit of a mission as you have to get the steering shaft in first before you can start tightening the crossmember in place
Pic from below, you can see the undercarriage painted in bakkie liner at the back
Reattached the tie-rod ends and rack ends to the struts
Door tops cleaned an masked to be sprayed in black
I tested fitted some rims to check shock clearance - 13" RS ronal 6.5J
And the rims the car came with - 13" Ensures 8J
The brakepads where also changed and then we refitted the front lights and took it out the garage after a long time.
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