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« Reply #11460 on: February 27, 2020, 09:43:24 PM » |
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Tiny steps, but at least it's moving in the right direction.
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« Reply #11461 on: February 28, 2020, 04:42:44 AM » |
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Thumbs up from me, you've done more last night than I have done in over a year.
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« Reply #11462 on: February 28, 2020, 12:06:19 PM » |
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« Reply #11463 on: March 01, 2020, 10:52:53 PM » |
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Yup, positively inching forward.  I've touched in a few spots of paint on the back axle & still need to do something about the weep of oil from the diff flange -it's not perfect, but it's good enough now. So I've moved on to refitting the brake back plates. Should've been an easy job, but there was a lot of cursing along the way. I had to lift the axle off the stands as they were in the way. So now it's sat on a pair of thick cushions under the axle tubes. I bet when I move it, they'll have left an imprint in the paint. So backplates now fitted, complete with new brake shoes, slave cylinders & handbrake cable. |
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« Reply #11464 on: March 01, 2020, 10:53:34 PM » |
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« Reply #11465 on: March 01, 2020, 10:54:35 PM » |
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« Reply #11466 on: March 01, 2020, 10:59:59 PM » |
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A mate in the Royal Mail workshop pressed new bearings & oil seals into the hubs for me ages ago. I spent some time this evening scraping the old paper gaskets from the face of them & cleaning them up. So the next job is to cut new gaskets -just as soon as I remember where I put the sheets of gasket paper I bought last year.
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« Reply #11467 on: March 01, 2020, 11:03:21 PM » |
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Marked the mounting holes to fit the new numberplate bracket over the top of the old one, (it sits at the wrong angle), but couldn't get my beat up old generator to fire up.
Time to treat myself to a new one I think, but will take the plate to a mate to drill for me in the meantime.
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« Reply #11468 on: March 01, 2020, 11:04:50 PM » |
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So yes, very small steps, but a few more jobs done.
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« Reply #11469 on: March 03, 2020, 11:05:05 PM » |
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New hub gaskets cut.
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« Reply #11470 on: March 03, 2020, 11:08:06 PM » |
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Hub bearings packed with grease & drifted onto the axle stubs as far as I could get them with a block of wood & a big hammer. Retaining nuts & locking tab washers cleaned up & refitted, (right hand thread on one end & left hand on the other).
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« Reply #11471 on: March 03, 2020, 11:11:51 PM » |
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I'm not sure the hubs are all the way on, but hopefully winding the nuts on to the correct torque setting will pull them fully home.
When I dismantled the axle I had to buy a 55mm socket & adaptor. Cost a fortune & I'll probably never use it again.
I don't own a torque wrench though, so need to borrow one before I can go any further.
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« Reply #11472 on: March 03, 2020, 11:13:33 PM » |
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Homemade copper pipe axle breather cleaned up & refitted. My camera seems to really highlight the dust on the black paint!
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« Reply #11473 on: March 05, 2020, 10:33:04 AM » |
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AINT IT JUST LIKE IT, my son just been made redundant, he has given me a brand new torque wrench, to go with the one I got when they sacked me in 1991  But I'm a long way from you Andy. |
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« Reply #11474 on: March 05, 2020, 10:36:44 AM » |
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Looks good Andy,
Would it make it any easier to fit rear wheels before fitting?
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