was having a little play around with this on saturday and something bleedingly obvious had escaped me. When you bolt the steering arm back on there's no room for the tie rod to poke it's thread though! so you'd have to run them front facing and that means I couldn't use the nice dust shields I have for them

That and the bloody tension thing, I think the best way (second to my dodgy bolt grinding) around that while not modifying the struts is to have the brake brackets re-threaded so they are exactly in the right spot.

Otherwise this project is just going to sit like that