Weekend 28 - 29 Aug 2011

So it has been quite some time since we lifted body from chassis in my little shed! Looking at the car from the last set of photos, there doesn't appear to be that much left to do. but set to it I did. starting with the removal of the wheels, even more space in there now!

As the wheels were removed, I could get access to the hubs so that the rest of the axle, half shafts etc can be slid out of the chassis sections at the back.

The drivers side rear hub was easy to take off, a few taps to the rim and it came away from the rest of the hub, the pasenger side rear wheel hub was a different story, a screw was hidden in the hub which was present on the other wheel I unscrewed this and continued on.

I turned my attention to the prop shaft, this has to be dis-connected from the rear of the gearbox to the rear axle, which was achieved by taking off the 4 bolts that hold the two faces together see pictured.

Prop shaft at the 'Rear Axle end'

The prop shaft merely slides out of the rear of the gear box unit.

Once all four bolts were removed from the two faces of the prop shaft connection, it could then be slid out from the Gear box end, (caution here, as oil can start to spray out! have a bucket or similar item on standby!) This type of Gear box has a 2 litre capacity for Oil (from the research I looked into).

After this I removed the retaining struts for the suspension and took the shocks and coil springs off

The struts as removed from the rear of the car, the bushes inside these appear to be wasted so these will definately need replacement bushes when I have had the struts treated and re- powdercoated an 'acceptable' colour.
It's also really important to put the bolts back into the holes when the struts are removed so that these can be referred to for cleaning up or replacement outright, there's nothing worse than having to figure out what size bolts you need at an autojumble or parts order service. and some of them are rare too!

I'll upload the remainder of the shots over the weekend (most likely) showing the 'Monday work'. on the front end of the car.