Rear suspension refresh (picture heavy, HURRAH!)

[britlude]

This leaves the inner race behind,
IMG_20231009_081235 by JON SUTH, on Flickr

So you have to get busy with a grinder, to carve an edge for the more conventional bearing pullers to work on…. Eventually they move, and you have the hubs…
IMG_20231009_183945 by JON SUTH, on Flickr

Then paint the backs, cos you can….
IMG_20231009_184938 by JON SUTH, on Flickr



Meanwhile… grotty bolts…..
IMG_20231010_192155 by JON SUTH, on Flickr

I could have bought shiny new, but I didn’t, life is too short to dredge parts diagrams, and def too costly… I could have had them replated, a place near me does them by the weight (Phil knows!) but I was concerned about the ‘special coating’ as they go into aluminium, and galvanic oxidisation is a mare, so I decided to clean and reuse….

Wire brushed off, cos no-one knows what that looks like
IMG_20231010_192201 by JON SUTH, on Flickr

Then treated with my fav rust converter/stabiliser gunge….
IMG_20231010_194749 by JON SUTH, on Flickr

Pretty much the best stuff I’ve found…
IMG_20231010_201440 by JON SUTH, on Flickr

Meanwhile….. you try to find the correct grease for the axle, in enough quantity to do the job in this country… try as I might I couldn’t find the correct honda custard grease outside gaiter kits, trawled google and forums, conflicting arguments for everything, until I happened upon
IMG_20231011_164622 by JON SUTH, on Flickr

IMG_20231011_164656 by JON SUTH, on Flickr

The NSX has tripod(e) joints, not CV joints!