Spent last Thursday, Friday and Saturday working on the old girl! Marshy's hoist was free and the plethora of Mopars he's been building/working on for customers were elsewhere so we got into it (mornings at least - 40+ degree days - hate to think how hot the shed got!)
Ripped out the old diff and sat the new one in. Marshy had already machined the hats to fit and made cardboard templates of the brackets needed to mount the 4 spots.
Didnt take us to long to make the mounting plates from 1/2 inch plate, and tack them on. That was enough for thurs, time for a few paleys.
Friday we got into the handbrake calipers. They are wilwood go cart brakes and needed quite a bit of work to fit my rotors. They are meant to be floating but we didnt want them rattling so we solid mounted them on 10mm plate and will make some shims for when they need adjusting.
We didnt actually get this far friday, I'd just finished night shift and couldnt wait to attack Marshy's fridge; guessing it was about 48 degrees in his shed when I cracked the first one.
Saturday we also worked on fitting the factory style tramp bar/top links on the diff. We will probably use Left and right hand thread rod ends so they can be adjusted. The springs will need some work on the front half for 1/4 mile launches as I think the links will encourage the springs to open up and produce tramp.
We then pulled the new diff out and put the old back in. Cruised her home and tucked her in Sunday. When Marshy gets some time when its cool he'll TIG it up.
