Remove the free wheel hub, then the brake drum with wheel bearings, then the drive shaft and outer knuckle joint.

Not quite a standard bearing in those big holes top and bottom. The outer race is contained in an eccentric housing from after market camber kit.

Ordered new from Australia as difficult to separate from old outer housing.

On return he needed some practice and the ducks were convenient.

The choice was either have a second hand set of original springs shipped over, this set of parabolics, or try for fixing the old springs.

We think we've got it right but only time will really tell.

We can replace front springs but we only have two axle stands (purchased as part of planning the work) and it looked a bit precarious to take the rear wheels off.

Thanks to Dave for picking up a second camber kit and couriering it from Aus.

The old kingpin bearing shells are sitting there so we have some hope of preserving the camber setting.

The second leaf wraps around the front and rear mountings which hopefully means that if the main leaf breaks the axle doesn't try to disappear under the truck.

And we like eating them.

More unrepayable hospitality.

Not ideal but sufficiently accurate to suggest we preserved the camber.

Surprisingly off the shelf within the tyre group. At 60% the Aus price and cheaper than Spain where we'd originally planned to replace them.

I've left the two older tyres on the front until wheel alignment. Then I'll swap them for new.

I scrounged some valves and tyre grease.

The ferry leaves from Heysham at about 2am so we spent a few hours parked on Morecambe promenade waiting.

The parabolic springs feel like a success at this early stage. No additional roll, and the harsh jarring of the standard springs is very much reduced, with more of a floating feeling without loss of control. So far so good.