Isabel's West Coast Sister by relentless

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Yeah, a second spoiler would be a cool thing in Prowler Purple Metallic (and maybe some accents).

Yesterday I cleaned up the right front underside. I found that the 3-M paint removing disc did a good job removing the rust from the (new) brake rotors. Well they were new ten years ago and have not been used. I used plenty of hi-temp grease on the bearings.









Fresh paint really helps it look clean, as my camera seems to show off every little speck of dirt.



The moment of truth, the wheel goes on and the car lowered back onto the ground.







Neeless to say the car now sits crooked!



And now my aggravation. I get to pull the spring and straighten out the spring isolator!  



I kept having a problem when I put the isolator on the spring, it kept popping up and wouldn't lay where it was supposed to be. I was careful when I guided the spring and isolator up into the shock tower, but not careful enough it seems. The spring compressor uses the shock top mount making it very difficult to see what is going on up there when using it.



So today I start out by taking one step backwards... and hopefully come up with a solution that holds the isolator in place until the spring's pressure captures it.

9-11-2014

Yesterday I was able to fix the duffed up spring isolator.



Here's the difference in the original spring height and the new lowering spring. I can actually compress the new spring a little bit by pressing down on the passenger side of the car!





The wheel moulding lip is now about an inch above the top of the tire.