The day my "onboro ALFA" would revive

Painting the metal parts of the rebound straps with remained POR tank sealer was finished. After drying the paint I started the assembly of the rebound stopper straps. To connect the double layered strap with the metal plates and bolts was little bit difficult because the strap was very solid and difficult to align the hole position. It was easy to insert 1st , 2nd and 3rd bolts.  However , I struggled to insert the 4th bolt into the metal plate hole.  After several try and error , I fixed the position of the strap and metal plate with tie-wraps and succeeded to connect the strap with 4 bolts. The other side could be assembled smoothly with the same way. By the way , these were the vinyl packaging with Alfa Romeo logo for the new straps.  These are just wastes for the normal people , but for me it looks nice and it is difficult to throw away always. (My original blog was written on 19th and 21st Dec. 2008 ) ...

The replacement of the rebound stopper strap was continuing. Originally I thought to finish the assembly of the right side at first.  But I changed my thought as follows ; to remove the left side strap in next , then finally to assemble both side at the same time.  As I planned to paint metal parts around the strap with the remaining POR15 gasoline tank sealer , I wanted to finish painting on both the left and right sides at the same time considering that POR to be hardened very quickly when opening the can. First work was to remove the deteriorated strap as same process as I did for the right side strap last time. Destroy the old strap with drill , remove the strap dust with screw driver and radio pliers , spray the rust penetration lubricant on the rusty screws and finally loosen the screw by attacking with the impact driver. New straps were the genuine parts I purchased about 10 years ago. I wanted to finish the assembly , but there was no tim...

The replacement of the rebound stopper straps in rear suspension was started. Those were already degraded since I purchased in 1986.  In the past I asked shop to replace them at the timing of the regular inspection , but shop owner hesitated to replace the straps saying “ the replacement of the old rebound straps is difficult ” .  Then , I thought I should do it by myself in future and ordered the new straps. I started from the removal of the small bolts connecting the strap , but 2 bolts out of 4 were broken immediately. ☺︎ It was no problem because I thought all the bolts and screws had to be replaced with new ones anyway. These were the thick screws that seemed to be very stubborn.  I guessed it was fixed with rust and mud and very difficult to be removed. At first I tried with the rust penetration lubricant and the impact driver. This impact driver was vintage one and it was given from my father when I was a student. ...