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[Deathrow]

Patience...or lazyness?

Dragging my feet at the moment, it isn't good.

[Deathrow]

Fought the weather today and managed to get some bits done.


Subframe, plus brake and fuel pipes in.


Driver side.


Passenger side.

The brake and fuel lines aren't finished. Just the front section is fitted and the remainder is masked to the floor underneath the car. I was going to do them properly but I'm a few bits and bobs short of what I need to do the whole lot.

The hubs are built up ready to go on the car too. Shouldn't be too long before she is rolling again.

Thanks for looking .

[bcjames]

That looks great Adam, love the hints of orange peeking through! Wont be long now until she's back on wheels! It's a great feeling putting nice clean parts back together.

[Deathrow]

Cheers .

It is indeed! Especially when the bits go together easily. Had some problems with the subframe tower bolts, one of them wouldn't go in all the way even though it wasn't cross threaded, very odd. Then it just went straight in, must have been some crud in the threads which eventually shifted.

The whole engine bay needs a wash before the engine and stuff starts to go in I think, dust from sanding is getting everywhere!

[Deathrow]

Progressing slowly but here is an update.


Passenger side tie bar installed.


Driver side tie bar installed.


Bars peaking down.


Installing new CV joints on the drive shafts.


Both done. I used zip ties instead of the clips that came with them.

From this point on I apologise for the pictures. I had to use my phone camera and it's far from great.


Passenger side hub installed and nuts torqued up.


Driver side hub installed and nuts torqued up.


Started making a tool for holding the drive flange while I torque up the hub nuts. I shall finish this off tomorrow.

Thanks for looking .

[MaxAndPaddy]

No idea what a flange is BUT humour me I'm learning, every part of your rebuild and the attention to detail is amazing!!

(called the carburetor a car'potato for years ho hum)

[Deathrow]

The drive flange is the bit your wheels sit against when you put them on. It is also what the drive shafts interlock with on the front end in order to give you drive to the wheels.

In acutual fact I've told a bit of a porky. My tool will be using the studs on the brake disk to hold the drive flange and drive shaft still while I torque up the retaining nut and pre-load the wheel bearings .

[grahama]

No idea what you are making there for the torque thing, but all will be revealed I'm sure!!!

[Deathrow]

More done today:


Finished off my tool.


Bearing shield in place and drive shaft slotted through subframe.


And in to the hub.


All the way home.


Disk installed on drive flange and flange located on drive shaft.


Tool used to hold assembley while I torqued up the hub nut with the flat washer in place.


How it's sitting now. Disk is close to the hub but I think that's normal.

I've left it torqued up with the flat washer for now. I'll undo the nut tomorrow and put the conical washer in place and finalise the whole installation.

Can anyone see anywhere I've gone wrong? I'm not really sure how tight the drive flange to disk screws should be.

Thanks for looking .

[bcjames]

That looks right to me. Are you tippexing bolt heads as they are torqued? If so, I like that, I need to adopt that practice for slow build ups!

It's all so clean and shiney

[grahama]

All is clear!!! Great idea well done with the invention test !!

[Deathrow]

That looks right to me. Are you tippexing bolt heads as they are torqued? If so, I like that, I need to adopt that practice for slow build ups!

It's all so clean and shiney

Yeah that's what I'm doing. Stops me checking them over and over!

Cheers, it's getting there . Just don't want to do anything wrong.

All is clear!!! Great idea well done with the invention test !!

Haha, it wasn't my invention. You can see it in the haynes manual in the first pic .

[hughJ]

That looks so good - you'd like to keep it in your sitting room.

Hugh

[Deathrow]

Hehe. She'd be so lucky.

She's going to be within an inch of her life once she's got an MOT and tax. I've got alot of Mini driving to catch up on!

[benjy_18]

the photos are working for me again now

havn't got a clue what was going on, but im glad its working again.

cant wait to see this when its finished!