Decided to upgrade to a Koni kit and removed all the old legs.
Had to cut off all the droplinks as the bolts were rotten, if only I knew how much they were!! Found the lower balljoints were both fcuked, as were the trackrod ends.
The top mounts had collapsed and the rubber brake hoses had corroded around all the metal bits.All in all things weren't looking good, bought new braided hoses, droplinks, top suspension mounts, suspension kit, rear legs
(as the old ones had rust holes in the lower spring seat), lower ball joints, track rod ends and some dot 5.1 (and some Autoglym cleaning products to treat her after the abuse she was getting!)and a new lower strut as mine had...wait for it.....rusted, surely nothing else could go wrong?!
Got nice shiny new stuff ready to go on and notice this!!
A hole the size of a mother of twenty!! Upon closer inspection, and an attempt to treat this, I find THIS!
and THIS!
Thoroughly pi55ed off about the rot on a car that I only bought in May last year, knowing that it should never have passed it's MOT last year
(unless I drove through a vat of highly corrosive stuff, I was ready to get rid, but a bit of perseverance and I now have this
This,
this
and this
and this
Finally, I can get it on the road, but alas whilst bleeding the brakes, fluid starts weeing out where the steel pipe meets the braided
Had enough by now, I'd managed to knacker the thread on the union so had to cut the pipe, put a new union on and reflare it.
Sounds easy enough, does it seal? Does it xxxx!!Off to Pirtek,
£5 for a new copper pipe, refit and wahay!!! What a bl00dy mission!!Anyway, as I'm sure you can imagine, the car is a completely different beast, no wishy washy steering, just point and go, nice brakes and everything is rosy
(until the next thing, MOT on Tue 
)Thanks for listening!! As I'm sure you can tell, this has become such a huge part of my life, I thought I just had to share it, coz that's what it's all about isn't it? Sharing?!
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