I took a break from the wiring for the last couple of days!
Firstly because I'm waiting on parts to relocate the battery and secondly because it was so tedious!
So I decided to crack on with the front suspension as removing the front wings would help me later when I drill the holes in the doors to run the wires to the windows and locks.
All of the old suspension came off no problem, I believe the previous owner had done a suspension overhaul so I didn't have to contend with anything bolted together 30 odd years ago.
As I wasn't planning on re-using any of the old suspension, I took the whole lot out in one piece apart from the tie rod ends which I split later.
I used the T3 bolt in camber plates which required the cutting of strut top to allow camber adjustments.
I'm using their strut braces too so I used one of the brackets as a template.
This also means that the plates are mounted underneath the strut tops.
One problem I did run into while fitting the plates was that although the plates have bolt slots instead of holes the bolts have to go to the outside of the slots to clear the gold coloured adjusting adapter.
The only other thing that caused a little ball ache was drilling out the steering knuckles for the T3 tie rod ends.
The first one I did seemed to be really hard and take forever despite using a slow speed on the pedestal drill and plenty oil. The second one drilled out no problem.
I had taken the precaution of buying a spare set of knuckles in case the drilling turned out badly which luckily it didn't!
After that it was just a case of bolting all the new bits together, keeping everything as close to original dimensions until I can get an alignment done!
I still have to get a couple of brake lines made up as the ones from T3 are different connections which is no big deal as my mate is the local HEL dealer.
The only other thing I need is a couple of boots for the inner tie rod ends which have perished.