The last parts to strip down were the wishbones. They all had some surface rust, as seems to be the norm for all Elise’s, so I wanted to clean them down and give them a good coating of POR15.ย I had also ordered spherical bearings to replace the rubber bushes and new ball joints for all […]
Suspension Refresh
S1 Elise – Suspension Refresh – Pressing out Drive Flanges and Wheel Bearings.
Having removed all suspension components from the chassis, the next thing to do was start breaking down what was left into single components for cleaning and refurbishment or replacement. The first thing I needed to do was come back to the ball joint that had refused to split and broken my trusty old ball joint […]
S1 Elise – Suspension Refresh – Strip Down
As soon as I got the Elise I got it up on the lift for a good look over and found a few little jobs that needed doing including replacing some suspension parts like a ball joint and track rod ends at the front and a couple of toe link rod ends at the rear, […]