Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Six??!! Is that how many I have? I always lose count after three.

Hands up everybody who's undertaken a project on their vehicle and, when the weekend rolls around, thinks "Great. In the next two days I will get jobs A,B,C and a little bit of D done..." - and then manages to get a little bit of A done, give up, do B, not have the parts/tools for C and start D too late in the day so the light runs out and everything has to stop.

I thought so.

Today, I managed to get all the steering gear in and properly adjusted, so I can't complain..... but, really, when I think about it that was just doing up a few balljoint nuts and checking clearances here and there. It should have taken minutes....

Yesterday, thinking I was almost home on the job already, I failed miserably in getting the overdrive fitted. I am being somewhat delicate in my approach (except for the bits where I hit it with some 4"x2" hardwood...) as I do not want to damage anything. It has all-new-everything all the way through it and it seems that the fitting of the overdrive to transfer is a little tight. I am being cautious as the modification to the sump may have led to distortion or swelling through the welding heat. This doesn't seem to be an issue, though, as after a light clean-up with emery paper it fits-up easily enough. The new bush inside the input shaft is very tight on the gearbox mainshaft and I think that is where the holdup lies. So, I did the prudent thing and downed tools yeaterday before I damaged anything. Walked away. Had a cuppa.

Then today I made a wee bit of progress in shaping the "legs" for the aircleaner bracket. Slow job.

Here are a few photos. Steering gear (under all that dust is all the new paint somewhere), modified 200Tdi aircleaner box in all its glory and a few wheels looking beautiful and Limestone-y.

Toodle pip.

John