I was supposed to pick up the cooler ducts last weekend but things didnt quite end up going to plan! So I nipped over and picked them up on Saturday. These were made from my ally jobs, albeit with a fair smattering of filler etc to get them nice and smooth on the inside! All I had to do was to drill the holes for the oil cooler fittings, which was a somewhat nervous procedure as if I got it wrong that would be that! But it all panned out OK and
With the suspension all mounted it was time to mount the rear anti-roll bar. I had previously decided to mount the drop link into the inner end of the toe adjuster. So I quickly whipped that off, drilled and tapped it 5/16 UNF.Yes, I know, its imperial but its a race car, all race cars are imperial (even if it does mean I get confused over dimensions)! Then I bolted on a rose joint to the blade and the adjuster to see how long the drop link needed to be.
I wanted to try to break the back of the work on the rear of the car. This meant that the next job was to install the driveshafts. Of course this actually meant one of the most messy jobs on the car, packing the CV’s with grease! I had already done the inner joints, well they actually came greased up, but I had checked them over and squirted in some more grease for good luck. You can overfill them, but hopefully they will be fine! The outer joints however come dry but with a small tube of grease to pack them with. After about half a second with the tube thing I threw it in the bin, and reverted to the CV grease from GKN Porsche shafts. I am sure there is no difference but it come is a sachet and seemed much easier to direct!
Anyway, first up was to gently poke a shaft into the CV to help move it all around and work the grease into the joint.
