904-068
February 8, 2006
Andy has
got the reamers out and a good hammer.
That would
mean...he's ready to install the left rear upright.
Now he
can do this because we just got an order of new 904 suspension
bolts. Needless to say, 068 and 090 had some of the wrong
ones and some of the right ones were beyond repair.
Mark Schomann,
our team engineer who resides in New York (the nice country
part), gives Andy a hand during this
6-hands-needed assembly.
Like all
of our suspensions, most often new parts are used.
This car
will drive like a brand new car.
Looks
pretty neat when they are all assembled.
Andy sets
the protractor to check for castor.
Six thousand
dollars later (not billed to the customers), I'm an idiot
business man, but the car loves me because I keep throwing
new parts at it. These are various sizes for all the suspension
components for both 904's.
There
are flan bloc spacers and heim joint-shock absorber spacers
also.
These
are made to the exact specification so they are virtually
undectectable from original.
Andy will
make these parts black before assembly. He will use phosphate,
not oxide to color the hardware.
I had
to remake the base universals for the steering rack because
the existing ones were worn out and un-fixable. They are made
to the exact specification as original.
You notice
Andy safety wires all these bolts in the couplers, this is
original to a 904.
I caught
Andy laying down on the job. Here he is installing the steering
rack. You can see that the new universal and guibo are installed
and waiting for the steering column shaft. The next step will
be installing the wire harness.
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