Simon arrived early, and after the customary bacon sarnie we started with the drive shafts, hub carriers, brake calliper carriers, brake callipers, and disc brakes. Fairly straight forward with just a little head scratching.
The drive shafts are the "push-in" type, and they are left and right handed. One is longer than the other and the diff is off-set so its easily seen which goes where, also the left hand side has a left hand thread... a second clue. So drive shafts pushed home. Brake calliper carriers placed over the shafts then a bit of grease around the end of the shafts and the hub carriers slipped on.
Next small problem... not got a socket big enough to fit the nut on the end of the drive shafts ? A trip out to the local tool shop for a 41mm socket. While out looking for this odd size, Simon started to tighten all the wishbone nuts and bolts which I had left from earlier in the build, just in case they needed to come off for some reason.
How much !! £23 for the 41mm socket tool ? and 5 tool shops later arrived back to fit just 2 nuts !
Some modification required to some bolts holding the callipers on, these where a good 8mm too long, easily touching the disc brake. trimmed down by 8mm was the only way to go. Next little issue was that the callipers did not sit right with the discs, so a little grinding down of the calliper bracket was needed, the powder coating was very thick, and to be frank the bracket was also about 1.5mm to long as well.
Hand brake cables fitted and secured, brake disc now freely moves within the calliper with the brake pads installed.
All this was repeated for the left hand side, which to be honest was much quicker, mainly due to we now know what to do ( just needed to remember the left hand thread and switching the ratchet tool the other way ! )
Had to put a wheel on to see how it was looking...
We then noticed the rear lower wishbone bolt was quite long, and only had a gap of 2mm from the inside of the rim. Time for a trim, we took about 5mm of the bolt, still leaving 3 to 4 threads past the Ny-lock nut.
Picture shows bolt after trimming.
Before the fuel tank is fitted, its easier to fill the diff with oil, with that done, time to bond in the fuel tank. As its still freezing cold I warmed up the bond by placing it in front of the fan heater for a few minutes before using. Fuel tank is bonded in centrally, then with a couple of ratchet straps to hold it tight overnight.
With still a couple of hours before we need to stop for the day, we started on the pedal box. Setting the clutch and brake pedals. It looked like the brake pedal may foul the steering column, so we put in the column, bit of jiggling about, and removal of a large spring and it fitted. The spring was part of the height adjuster mechanism and we didn't think it was needed as the column was to be set to the highest possible point for leg/knee access. And yes the brake pedal just touched the steering column ?
Made a small spacer from one of the extra bushes supplied, ground it down on the bench grinder. With the spacer installed the brake lever is still in line with the master cylinder...all good.
Followed the instruction on cutting/fitting the brake lever to master cylinder rod, and all seems good and working. Had to re-route the brake pipes around the steering column and added a bit of spare fuel line as a protective cover for the brake lines as seen in the photo above and below.
Last hour...
While I was marking out/drilling/fitting the battery tray, Simon was itching to fit the throttle bodies !
A big smile came on his face when he got them out of the box, and I'm sure I could hear "broom broom" in the background ?
I know he enjoyed fitting them, quality bit of kit.
Many thanks Simon for all your help today. :-)
So the day ends after 8 hours x 2
Fitting all of the above... 16 hours
Last 2 blogs build time... 4 hours
Total build time now... 99 hours.
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