Suspension of disbelief....

Happy Monday to ya'll,  Took Miss Emmy out for a nice drive on Sunday with some friends from the car club.  Nice break from working on RJ.

The work today was reassembling the passenger side front suspension which was so much fun I did it twice, I hate it when I have leftover parts in this case three very important washers.

One interesting thing I discovered was that who ever rebuilt the engine previously took at least one significant short cut in re-installing the engine.  They/he left out the 7/16ths  bolts that fasten the reaction plate to the engine frames,  this is a big no, no because the torsion bars (springs) are not held in a fixed position and possibly even worse allow the frames to separate.  I'm wondering if this is why the alignment was so far out?

Fluid from the caliper, the brown stuff is likely water in the DOT 5  brake fluid, there was quite a bit more in the reservoirs 

Reinstalling the 'A' arms and torsion bar, a setting link is required to get the torque set correctly on the torsion bars

What's missing in this photo? Well the reaction plate on the upper right should have a bolt going through the spacer in the frame to lock the mid-portion of the car together.

Another view of the end of the reaction plate and missing bolt

The large hole is where the torsion bar sets, the plate behind it that goes across to the other side carries the load .

Suspension installed, will tighten it all up once it's back on the ground, tightening the rubber bushings in the unloaded position will tear them up, they always need to be tightened in the 'mid' position 

Ready for the rotor and caliper, waiting on new wheel bearing seals

Looks a little better and no left over parts ;-)

Tomorrow will start disassembling the drivers side, will have to drop the exhaust system to get at the bolts-Oh Joy!
Cheers,