1973 TA22 Toyota Celica - Patchwork quilt

Will a simple bearing swap work with the hubs, ?

Peugeot also seems to have a huge repertoire of discs and always done well for me

What's the size of the discs? There can't be that many old Toyota's with solid discs and mcpherson struts.

There's a massive list of brake disc dimensions here: www.national-auto.co.uk/assets/content/documents/brake_disc_cat_-_nov_2014.pdf

Might help source a pair that could fit

Also, have you thought of making a rotisserie so you can spin the shell upside down to do tricky welding? I made a folding one out of box section and bits of a winch quite simply. Took a bit of time, but it proved to be a fantastically useful piece of kit for all the underside bits of the Spitfire.

As always, steady does it.

And Progress is Progress

Spot on - the joys of having a space that isn't your own, can be both a blessing and a curse 

Been a bit of a distracting few days with a fair bit of work related stress (boss leaving, team restructuring, redundancies happening etc.), and well life in general for various reasons. Think all should work out ok but next few weeks/months might be interesting. 

One of said other reasons was also the need to make a start on clearing my gran's house over the weekend as with everything going on she's had to go into a home. It did however provide some entertainment in the discovery of a few priceless pics - seems I was always destined to play with toys much bigger than I could handle


It also resulted in the discovery of some serious entertainment relics




Any suggestions of what can be done with these much appreciated - think I might have a go at resto-modding them in some way and might start a thread, not sure when I'll get round to them just yet as homework has been banned in the house for the time being!   

Suffice to say as a result my head has not really been in the right frame of mind for car antics, especially not effort number three on a certain boot panel. Things seemed to have settled this week however (fingers crossed) so I decided to treat myself to some tinkering time after work one eve.

I didn't fancy yet more grinding and welding, and there isn't much point for reasons I'll explain in a bit, instead I thought I'd continue with the front suspension set up and see how things might go together with a few of the recently acquired parts from Techno Toy Tuning for a bit of a mojo boost - saving money on commuting does have some nice side effects.

Good news first, the camber plates fit!


and so will the roll centre adjusters with whatever set up I finally decide on.

I then decided to take a look at the TA23/27/28 coilovers to see what I could combine and what would need attention, unfortunately it seems attention is the operative word, and a bit of it. Once the top nut was removed and the mounting plates removed, the full extent of the top hat modifications in a previous life could be seen


Those out the way, the rest did all go together so a solution is workable, but I'll need the various parts for the bottom still.


The alternative, and a train of thought I'm leaning towards, is to forget using these as a starting point and order a set of weld on coilover sleeves and put them on to my spare set of strut casings, I can then use everything I've already got hubs wise and it doesn't become a mish mash of bits, however I would like to upgrade the brakes if I can. More research needed on that front.

Regardless of that, if I ever wanted to return the car to stock I wanted to have a spare standard suspension set up, so that's what I turned my attention to next. Firstly removing the springs from strut set number 2 using the arkwright's till equivalent of spring compressors


before building up the freshly painted number 1 set.


More on suspension developments soon.

In other news, the reason for not wanting to do too much welding and starting over with the rear repairs is because I've not yet got my mitts on this rather wondrous sight (Look it's even holding water so must be reasonably solid )


Hoping this will solve a multitude of issues for me concerning the back end, so for the time being the grinder and cutting discs are staying in the case until I can have a proper look at things. The other minor issue is that it's also at the other end of the country, however it's in the same area that I need to visit for a number of other things I need to sort... fate? possibly. Roadtrip? Definitely!

Which neatly ties in to the fact that I've also been getting rather a lot of grief from work about taking leave which I've been holding off from doing for most of the year for various reasons (intended house move, car logistics, other projects etc.), but seeing as I'm now pushing my luck and need to take it by September I've booked a decent chunk of August off - will see if we can clear the slate and progress a few things during that time. Fingers crossed!

I've never had much faith in the techno toy tuning camber top mounts/coilover combo. The top mounts on their own are fine but they don't seem to mate well with the spring top hat(even the one they supply themselves) and I've seen interference/wear like you've pictured above before. I always tend to make my own coilovers now for ae86s/charmants/rwd starlets etc. I wouldn't go to the trouble of making them if you're not going to shorten the strut tube and run a shorter insert. Gaz offer very competitive prices to build coilovers if you supply your struts.

I could post another photo that would answer your question but as it's somewhat incriminating and really not in a good way, I'll let you draw your own conclusions!