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Dropping rear suspension

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Stripping my spares car before the shell is scrapped, in how much of a "one piece lump" can I drop the rear suspension? The gearbox and drive shafts are already removed, so as far as I can see on each side I need to undo one damper bolt, one big bolt at the front of the wheel arch, one smaller bolt at the top of the wheel arch. So six bolts, two brake pipes, and the handbrake cable.

Any-one think of anything I have missed?
 
Not sure how many attachment points there are (i'd guess about three per side) but the whole rear suspension can be dropped as a complete assembly. From conversations with the chaps at PH Sportscars there is a large bolt each side that can be a pig to undo. On the cars they are breaking they don't bother and just get an angle grinder to it as they are ususaly scrapping the shells, but if you want to retain both the shell and the suspension assembly then it can be a PITA.
 
Sounds good Tref, Barry dropped the torque tube, torsion bar tube, and gearbox all complete in one big lump. Then he sat about splitting the drive shafts from the box and the torque tube from the box with it all on the ground. As you can imagine he did say its @£$$%% heavy but this seems the quickest and easiest way to tackle it all. Especially for us given that we did a body shell swap and the primary concern early on was to strip the old shell. He has now painted it all, surprisingly including the end cap on the gearbox which is nice, I will post some pictures later.
 
Yep - good for tensile testing the wires that go to the reversing light switch and brake pad wear indicators[:D]

Look forward to seeing the pictures.
 
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