Sunday 22nd November - Work time = 2.5 hrs ... Build Time To Date = 45.5 hrs
Fitted the front wishbones, shock absorbers and steering rack today. Just a few little issues to contend with.
As I mentioned in the last post I was missing the headlamp brackets which bolt together with the upper wishbones. However when the replacements arrived from Westfield they looked identical to a couple of other brackets I already had but were completely different to how they looked in the manual? I flicked forward in the manual to the supplemental section covering the FW bodywork and lo and behold because I was having the FW bonnet the headlamp brackets were different to those described in the suspension section of the manual ... make note to self - read the manual front to back again!
Everything else on the front suspension was pretty straightforward. As detailed in the manual all the main bolts were just "nipped tight" to be torqued to the specified settings when the car is loaded on it's wheels. A few bolts were able to be tightened ... bottom ball joints and steering rack mounts. I painted a red line (Alfa red touch up paint from my old 147 GTA !) on the nuts to signify they were tight and torqued to the right settings.
A couple of pictures of the front suspension fitted ... it's starting to look a bit more car like now. Next step ... fit the front hubs.
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