With a bit more time to spend on the car over the bank holiday, we were out in the workshop early on Saturday to make a concerted start. I struggled the exhaust headers on then bolted the engine into position. Next up was to mount the diff. I mounted the diff in, and then realised that I had forgotten the chain! D’oh!
Whilst driving round I had absolutely no idea of the next problemette! But it quickly became apparent when we took the rear body section off!!!! Basically one of the driveshafts had thrown a LOAD of horrible nasty CV grease all over the place!
The regs for the 750 motor clubs Bikesports say that you are supposed to have a chain guard which covers the upper face of the chain to the same depth of the axle line. I cant see this actually doing anything practical, apart from keeping the chain grease off the bodywork. Anyway, I made some cardboard templates and have finally got around to making it.
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.
Next up was to mount and fill the diff. Not the most difficult task but still needs to be done. The black gunge around the CV bearing housing is silicon to seal it as otherwise oil might weep out between the bearing and the diff plates.
