Rear spring trama
My Sky hawk had a broken spring on the rear passenger side and needed repair. I thought about trying to weld it while on the car and be done quickly but just decided that it needed to be done right rather than a quick fix. The removal went well and all was good until I notices my donor spring had an extra leaf added to the stack. It was actually another main leaf that someone had torched off and slapped on the stack.At first I thought of just removing the extra slam in leaf done by slappy the clown. Then I decided to claen it up and keep in in the stack and attain the car rake I like , level or slightly raised in the rear. This had to be done by completely disassembling the leaves and sawing the slappy (and sloppy) torched ends off, cleaning and reinstalling plastic, painting and reassembly. Well this cost me to install new U bolts and some paint. Then comes the rough part. The bushings were shot and were priced at the parts store for 44 bucks each. No way, The wheels turned in my head and I decided my machining students needed a machining job to turn me a set of bushings with new steel inserts. With a few scrap parts and guys that still don't read calipers well enough they finally came through for me. After pressing in the new bushings in came the realization that the other spring needed the same care. One more round of machining, dissassembly , sawing the slappy torched leaf and reassembly I finally finished the job.
Now comes the trunk pan relacement job. It feels good to finish some work and is nice to have snow days (off from school) to accomplish the jobs. I wish for snow now more than when I was a student since it is a paid day off.
Now comes the trunk pan relacement job. It feels good to finish some work and is nice to have snow days (off from school) to accomplish the jobs. I wish for snow now more than when I was a student since it is a paid day off.
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