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Murbella – Day 55 – Driver Trailing Arm

Posted on 2020-09-15
Chasing the bolt holes

So I chased the bolt holes for the bearing cap to ensure they were clean. I tried my best to not get paint in them but it did happen.

Black Urethane

I went with the black Energy Suspension urethane for the pivot joint of the trailing arms. I read back and forth about OEM and urethane but went with these since I could do them myself.

Pivot joint reinstalled

I ended up just using the new pivot bolt and new washers I bought. I had planned on reusing the originals, but once I learned Murbella is not a full survivor as I’d thought, I found it far easier to just put new parts on for these.

Spring Plate

So I did my best to get the goal angle per Bentley. I am sticking with 21.40° which is pretty close but not quite exact. I won’t be able to tell how successful this is until the full weight of transaxle and engine is returned. At least I can get the car back on wheels.

Spring Plate

So the new bolt hardware I got consisted of all longer bolts than the OEM originals. However, I have decided to just use them since they are all new.

Getting the spring plate up onto the ledge stop was very very difficult. Now I had problems getting them both off back when I disassembled them but I thought that was probably due to the aging bushings but I’m not so sure now.

I tried using the jack, which I’ve seen done in many videos, but I was shocked with that actual ended up raising the car off the rear stand.

Now I’d bought that special took previously. I had not luck with it prior but I was able to get it to work to at least get the thing up, and then used a mallet and screwing in the cover plate to bring and keep it all on the stop.

Threads took damage

Now this thing is so cheaply made that the threads even took damage. I was able to get it off, but had to put it in the vise to get this to finally screw off. I only need this to work one more time on passenger side.

Trailing arm brought up to marry the two

I was able to bring the trailing arm up. However, you can see how I already scraped the rust proofer paint in several places.

Unavoidable

I’ll touch all of this up with a brush, but honestly, I don’t think it was possibly for me not to end up scraping somewhere. I have no idea how this would be done professionally without doing so.

New hardware as well.

I used brand new hardware as well to join the two.

I still need to look up if there are any final torque specs for these, but they are pretty tight. I still need to peen the IRS bolt as well but wanted to get this all up as best I could.

 

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