John Lee's Front Suspension Rebuild

[Sharps40]

Furlough time....Suspension Time....To hot to hunt....

Clean up some room to work. Brace up the frame on the PS Side...let the suspension hang. Remove the wheel, drum and shock.



Pickle fork to pop the inner and outer tie rod ends...they're worn O U T.



Old and new side by side....loosen one clamp, count the turns off for a tie rod end, screw the new one back in the same number of turns. Tighten the clamp and repeat with the other tie rod end.....I bought 555 outers and Master inners so I won't get confused.....the one marked 555 goes to the outside....



I grease em up now, its easier than when they are installed.



I put the inner on the steering bar and torque it up. Leave it up out of the way till the rest of the PS side is torn out and rebuilt.



Loosen but don't remove nuts on the upper and lower ball joints....a medium SmasherWacker and some real HeMan blows on the spindle loop and the upper and lower pop loose under spring tension.



Remove nut from lower ball joint, let the spindle hang on the upper for now (so ya don't have to open the brake lines) and carefully lower the lower control arm and remove that deadly spring.



Over to the driveway, turn off the control arm shaft busings and toss them and the old lower control arm shaft out....A bit of clean up on the lower and a new rubber bumper and I'll put the new control arm and bushings back in loosely.