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At last...wishbones!

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Finally I've managed to get a hold of a pair of wishbones, it's only been...3 month!!! Anyhoo, many thanks to Douglas Valley breakers for sourcing a pair :) So now I need to remove the old bushes, clean them up, re-paint them, fit new bushes and fit them to the car...simple! Removing the old bushes was a matter of brute force and hacksaw, generally it's as easy as making two cuts in the bush so a section of about 1 cm can be removed, this allows the old bush to be knocked out. The picture below shows the components of the Powerflex bushes with the bolt kit purchased from Steve Heath: bolt, metal washer, nylon washer, rubber bush, metal insert, rubber bush, nylon washer, metal washer and nut Here it is fitted together: So after I replaced the lower ball joints with new ones that was all the prep complete, time to fit to the car. I forgot to take photos of the actual event, it wasn't THAT exciting :o) ...it was a matter of sticking the car on axel stands, remove the wheel...