Day 30 - 28 Chev Ute Restoration (28th July 2015)

Another job done tonight, stripped the old paint off the front axle, and cleaned up the stub axles in preparation for re-assembly.

I have had this axle since the 70's, and pleased to say the coat of zinc chromate under the black top coat that someone applied many years ago, did its job well, no rust to clean off anywhere.

After a few coats of paint stripper and high pressure water blasting, the black top coat was removed, and I had to remove the zinc chromate with a wire brush on the angle grinder. Its a bugger of a thing to get off, does its job very well.

The spring mounting pads are in pretty good condition, with no significant wear or pitting

I am using the king pins and bushes from the ute axle as they have been replaced recently, mileage wise, however the bushes have not been reamed in line, and were binding. I picked up a 28 Chev King Pin Bush reamer many years ago, and this was only the second time I have used it. The first was on Monty the 28 Chev.

Found a better set of bearings in my spares and will use these in the re-assembly.