Made a start Sunday. I'd got the refurbished rear end back from Hugo at "Hugo's Race Glides" , it has the 2.56:1 ten bolt Torsen centre in it and the necessary bits to swap in the 2.41 when we need it. With a mixture of dragging, slogging and other non-conventional heavy object moving techniques I got it out of the back of the wagon, down the drive-way, past the ute.... and into the shed. First job was to get the frame off the rotisserie at the back so the rear superstructure could be re-attached.
I got the frame supported and then got the rear up onto the axle stands....then the frame, with a little encouragement fell off ......I was well out of the way, nothing got hurt.
So, I sorted that out and started to get the two pieces aligned, as I turned the whole thing one of the tags that hold the brake line on the back of the axle tube caught the top of the axle stand.......and the whole thing fell. This was a different deal, it happened really fast and I was right there , it missed both my feet by inches........
Monday night I got into it again, I'd managed to capture the hoist chain around the frame before I bolted it up,genius, so that came almost all the way off again. I had a bit of a beergineer of how I am going to set the steering up, never really been happy with the arrangement we had. After seeing Andy Welker's neat arrangement I thought that it might be the way I proceed, a couple of heims and a shaft splined at the right length.
Last night I welded in two new members to the cage, just tube gussets really in the side windows.Then I did a bit of housework....I dunno where all that crap comes from but I think my shed has some mysterious force that draws it in.....there I was with a dust pan full of dust and grit, swarf and other detritus when I bumped my elbow and emptied a cup or so into the cockpit, bewdy, it seems that part of the car caught the disease that the shed has.......its impossible to keep clean......
I'll get some photos up soon, can't upload em at work....... have fun at WOS peeps.