Suspension dismantling - balls and shafts

[cantankrs]

Hi All,

Dad fabricated this radius turning tool for cleaning up the ball/cones in the lathe. Some were too pitted so he built them up with stick welder and rough ground by hand and then radius turned in lathe. The balls that had the remains of oxy'd rods still had hard rust encrustation that the drilling operation didn't get so I think he's found that aiming the sandblaster in there for a while is about the only way to chase it out.

He's got about 3 new rods nearly finished.

Thanks for the info and pics above about the on-carrier suspension spring compression tool, but has anyone got a pic of the repair depot tool that compressed the whole spring assembly in one action?

Thanks

Alex