Boring day...

Kind of a boring morning at least, went over to 6 Flags (sounds like and amusement park doesn't it) to see if I could source the u-joints locally.  Was able to get a couple that should do the trick, got them home and installed them attempting to maintain the same positions of the yolks as before.  Painted the steering shaft up and got that back in the car.

Also went to Imports Parts Specialists and picked up some Redline MTL for the Transmission and some Redline gear lube for the differential.  Redline fluids have a very good reputation on JL, and the Moss box transmission will need all the help it can get! Will drain both and put in the new fluid before RJ's back on the road.

Spent the rest of the day working on the front suspension, removed the front roll bar, the bushings were shot as expected.  Will clean the bar up and set it aside till i'm ready for it.  Tomorrow will try to get the passenger side torsion bar released and the control arms off, cleaned and ready to install with the new bushes.

Just a shot of the assembled steering shaft and parts

The shiny piece is the wrench, above it is the old worn out bushing, the linkage just slid off it.

A shot of the somewhat beat up cross member, hope to be able to straighten it out a bit when I have the shock out of the way.

A better shot of the somewhat damaged area

This thing bugs me, they painted everything else black under the bonnet except for this, a piece that should be black!


Stay tuned, hope to show more progress tomorrow with the suspension.
Cheers