Build School

[jrichards]

When I unpacked my kit over the weekend I inventoried my parts and began with the front end. It occurred to me that I was already very familiar with the parts and the way most of them went together because of the build school in Mott I attended with my son last fall. I am glad I went and would highly recommend it to anyone thinking about building a car. It was time well spent and the instructors (at least the ones that I had, Todd and Jim) did a fantastic job explaining the build. Jim and Todd wherever you are - thanks again.

[CobraKai]

I totally agree! Really glad I went to build school. Although I am still finding that my kit isn't going together anywhere near as easily as the one at the school! Still plenty to figure out and lots to learn. Did you remember to extend the grease grooves in the lower control arm bushings? That was one tip I picked up at the school, promptly forgot and had to remove the LCA's to do. Learning!

[jrichards]

Wow. Totally forgot about that! What else did I not remember? Now have to take mine off as well.

[Fluge]

Build school was one of the best things I did. Unfortunately there was a 5 year gap between school and delivery.

I don't want to give you more work but in my rear LCA I found the grease fitting to be quite loose and when I tried to grease the arm the fitting just fell out. There was essentially no thread engaged...so I took it all apart and tapped new threads with slightly larger fittings. Just check the fittings before you reinstall the LCAs. if new larger ones are needed, make sure they don't go all the way through when threaded in. I think I went to a metric size just to get a slightly larger thread. The older arms may have been more prone to this but have a look.

Marc