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reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:53 pm
by 87inaustin
ok so i am doing a gts rear end swap on my ae86 and sr5. And I saw my rear control arms were nasty looking covered in what look's like road tar lol . So I first bought a shop bench press to get the old bushings out, this is a very easy way to pop them out

Re: reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:57 pm
by 87inaustin
then i stripped the rear end control arms with rust-oleum , aircraft remover, paint came off great ! After I sprayed them I waited 15 mins then rubbed it with a steel scrub

Re: reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:04 am
by 87inaustin
then i primer it with rust-oleum ENGINE PRIMER resists heat up to 500 and stops rust :tu: the primer came out great! But now i am stuck on the color i should paint them . I bought some universal red ?? because i have t3 traction brackets RED , kby agx RED shocks , also a t3 panhard bar RED i am wondering if it will look fine ? lol also i will be replacing the bushings with RED prothane bushing ..... but the rear end i painted black so thats for sure not changing

Re: reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:32 am
by dr.occa
You got 'em out! Good job there man!

Re: reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:20 pm
by 87inaustin
RED is the color of the day !!! this cam out really nice i stripped to bare metal , and did two coats of primer , and two coats of paint

Re: reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:36 pm
by dr.occa
They look really good man. Better detailed pics. The lighting, I believe, isn't doing them justice.

Re: reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:43 pm
by 87inaustin
i know i am using a camera phone HTC EVO , been spending to much $ on parts to buy a new camera but i will buy one soon :tu:

Re: reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:10 pm
by 87inaustin
i was surprised it looks so nice . " Only on a import" :) :)

Re: reconditioning my rear control arms

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:22 am
by dr.occa
I didn't understand your syntax but I agree that it does look nice. Good job on all of that. I'm digging the Camaro AGXes. :tu: