Ok did some more work today. No pics but i basically started taking the rear end apart.
3 hours of work and i got a fair amount done. Removed the sway bar, quad shocks, main shocks , springs and broke loose all the
control arms bolts to the housing. I have the car set up on jackstands and ready to take it out. I onlt didn't today because I was alone. Next weekend i'll have a buddy with me and he'll help me wrestle the rear out. For 20 years of new england weather, the bolts all broke relatively easy and came out. My car was never really driven in the snow, so it just has minor surface rust only.
I noticed my spring isolators were trashed. I'll need some new ones.
Quad shocks were also junk, so i tossed them out. I'll get new ones as well.
Steel driveshaft is coming out with it and getting trashed. I have an AL d/s so i don't need the steel unit anymore. I just want to take the yoke off so i can stuff it back in the trans to keep fluid in.
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control arms are coming out too. I really want to put an IRS in, but where the car is i don't have the ability to tackle such a project, so for the time being i'm putting the solid rear back in along with some new
control arms, A/L d/s and resto'ed 8.8 with cobra disks.
I also did some more work with the steering wheel. I bolted it in and took measurements to see where to mount the 87=89 contact ring to the SN95 wheel so it would fit correctly.
SO next weekend i should have the rear totally out. Then i car start addressing the *light* surface rust issues under the back of my car and clean it up and apply some POR15.
I'll tackle the rear end mid-winter. I have a set of 3.27's but unsure if i want to put those in or look for a set of 355's. I'm not a big fan of 3.73's (what i have now) and 5-spd. I like having some taller gearing for the highway so i'm looking into 3.27's or 3.55's.