Last week I got the last two missing thrust washers for the front lower wishbones. Eager to do something I assembled the left side at the front. Should have been an easy job, but I had a hard time putting the inner thrust washers in, because the wishbone is a 'GD-fit'. Took me the best part of an hour which …
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It's been 117 days since my last confession…

So, perhaps a little status update is in order. Although I declared the garaged finished earlier there's always something that needs to be finished/improved. So, this summer we placed 2 new windows in the south wall.

With the help of Peter Rousse new isolation …

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I've given the diff another spray, which makes it finished as a part, so today I positioned the differential on the auto-hoist for build up and (eventually) assembly to the chassis. I already determined the amount of shims needed between the inner bracket and the diff, so bolting them on was a 2 second job. The …
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Fitting the GD lower wishbone bracket to the wishbone seemed like a nice quick job. I layed out everything needed, took the obligatory picture …

and did a trial fit, only to find out the bracket would not fit. (both of them in fact). In the end I had to put the wishbones under the press and squeeze it a bit to be …

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With all the bearing cups in place in the rear hubs, the only thing which prevents me from completing the rebuild of the rear hubs, is to determine how many shims are needed inside the fulcrum. My info says the goal is to have a negative end float of 2 thou, which is kind of unusual. (Negative meaning you actually …
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