Reply to "Pantera 06927"

Mike, I checked and double checked the bearings and they were fine. All I can figure is that the wheel mounting face of the axle or the rotor step must have been slightly wrong.

A tip to others going down this road. I really wanted billet axles made or proper USA steel so went to Precision Proformance. The axles look beautiful but I obviously found some issues with the final ground shaft size not being perfectly parallel, and now it appears that the heaad of the axle might not be perfect also.

With precision fit components like this it's imperative that you check and double check your measurements and not buy 'off the shelf' witht he expectation that they are just going to fit and be perfect. I'm lucky to have the facilities at home to spin a few though off, but most blokes won't have a machine shop set up in their garage.

Tom - I used a polyurethane wheel paint for the control arms. It's a VHT product from USA and is a nice metalic silver. Being a wheel paint it has some resistance to stone chips apparently. I'm yet to make up my mind about this as it marked easily putting it all back together.

I reckon if you have the arms completely pulled down, including the ball joints, then powder coating is by far the best treatment. As I didn't have the ball joints out, I chose the painted option. I'll report in on the durability as time goes on.

The rear uppers I presumed were stock as they were already on the car. I'll check back through my paperwork and see if they are mentioned.