I have finished up assembling the diff this evening. To be honest all that was left was to make the O rings. I had bought a length of material from the local factors and they just said to glue it together with super glue and it should be OK. So, fingers crossed.

Now I say its all done. I do however need to finish off the piece that goes between the plates, but hopefully it will be done soon, then it will all be done

OK OK, so I am not actually running a second diff! But what I am doing, while I am still fabricating the car and its not too much bother to add an extra bracket here or there, is to allow for the installation of a different Diff.

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I picked up the reverse parts from Jon today. I haven’t actually got round to doing anything with them but here are some pics anyway

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I also received my sprockets this weekend. They were custom made by a company called ‘Special Sprocket Services’. They are very nice pieces of kit Imust say. I was somewhat concerned over whether or not to go for split sprockets. The advantages being quick ratio changes, although you can obviously change the front engine sprocket, but the split sprocket obviously being weaker.

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