My Series 3 Project

**Homestar** · 6th September 2016, 06:23 PM

Thanks - my gaming prowess extends to Ducktales back on the old Nintendo (I think I still have it somewhere)

Ordered all the parts for the front end which I will have by the weekend, so we should be able to complete the steering (from the steering relay down), disk brakes, hubs, swivel seals, etc this weekend.

Then it's onto the firewall, power steering, brake and clutch master, etc.

**Homestar** · 7th September 2016, 05:34 PM

Question for the brains trust please. While cleaning the swivel balls tonight and installing the new railko's is found a few very minor imperfections on the cromw ball. I've read a lot of threads on this about filling the pits with 2 part epoxy, etc but these blemishes are standing proud of the surface. It's like a bit of surface rust under the chrome if that makes sense? There are only a few about the size of a match head - they are in very good condition overall. These imperfections are in the path of the seal travel, so I need to fix them.

My first and only thought is to gently file them flat and being they will get oil on them as the steering is operated, this should keep them from rusting again?

Any other ideas or is that what you'd do?

**67hardtop** · 7th September 2016, 06:45 PM

Thats what i did with my swivlel balls. I used a brown abrasive 3m disc in a die grinder to "polish" the imperfections out. Some were hard to get rid off so i used a sanding disc in the same die grinder. I had a few minor rust pits in my swivels. They didnt leak after. The seal surfaces need to be as "flat" as possible to stop damaging the new seal.

Cheers Rod.

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**russellrovers** · 7th September 2016, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by ThatSeries3Kid

Hi, just joined up and plan to show you through the restoration I'm going to undertake on my Series 3 tray. I am the Son of Bacicat and he will be assisting me at times.

The resto will be from the ground up and I plan to take about 2 years to complete this. Although the vehicle has been around for a while, it only came home yesterday. Here are some pics of it.

I'm sure I will be requiring help from everyone here along the way.

hi if you require a good fire wall i have one coming in a large amount of fire walls to choose from starting price 900 dollors jim

**Homestar** · 7th September 2016, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by russellrovers

hi if you require a good fire wall i have one coming in a large amount of fire walls to choose from starting price 900 dollors jim

Thanks but I scored a mint condition one locally that needs no work other than paint.

**Homestar** · 7th September 2016, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

Thats what i did with my swivlel balls. I used a brown abrasive 3m disc in a die grinder to "polish" the imperfections out. Some were hard to get rid off so i used a sanding disc in the same die grinder. I had a few minor rust pits in my swivels. They didnt leak after. The seal surfaces need to be as "flat" as possible to stop damaging the new seal.

Cheers Rod.

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Ah - that's a good idea, hadn't thought about a scotch brite.

**The ho har's** · 7th September 2016, 07:47 PM

Please answer you phone

**Homestar** · 7th September 2016, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by The ho har's

Please answer you phone

You may be calling my personal phone - I don't have that one on at the moment. I'll PM you my work number, that's the best one to get me on.

**Homestar** · 8th September 2016, 05:44 AM

Another thought that popped into my head last night - is it worth pulling the axle seal out of the diff housing before I reassemble everything so the swivels get fed oil from the diff?

Pros and cons?

**JDNSW** · 8th September 2016, 07:17 AM

There is no advantage - swivel oil level should be checked every service anyway, and this is not hard.

Disadvantages - parking on a side slope would eventually see the uphill swivel low on oil, and although this is probably not an issue, an unfixed leaky swivel or hub seal could eventually see the diff running low, which is an expensive situation.

It is a lot easier for contamination to get into the swivels, via the ball seal, flange gasket, hub seal, and if this happens, you really don't want it in the diff, which is not only more susceptible to damage from this (water, sand) as it has gears, but is more expensive to fix.

John

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