Thread: Rebuild time

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

That bracket is the jacking point and is fitted to the botton of the drivers side swivel hub only. Im missing mine. I cant find it anywhere...grrr.
As far as I know the extractors should fit. I bought a new set, just gotta get them ceramic coated to reduce heat transfer to the cabin area

Cheers Rod
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Is this something that is only used with the original jack? I just use a trolly jack under the plate where the leaf spring and axle bolt together

Yes i think so.

Cheers Rod

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That bracket goes on the bottom of the right hand side swivel housing.
It stops the chrome ball getting damaged by the jack when locating the jack and/or jacking the vehicle up. There is not one on the left as there is a bit more room for jacking points with the longer axle tube/diff housing.
Most of the time these brackets get tossed as people don't know what they are for or where exactly they were removed from.


Cheers, Mick.

Hey mick do u have a spare one lying around u dont need?

Cheers Rod

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I will have a look tomorrow Rod.


Cheers, Mick.

This afternoon I fitted the front axle & springs to the chassis. It's nice to be working with new/clean parts. I was hoping to fit the new shocks but they don't fit by about 1cm. I will need to wait until I fit the engine to compress the springs down a bit more.



After tea I decided to have a crack at the steering relay. It got hit with the wire wheel to clean the outside up then I proceeded to strip it down as per the manual. I was a bit disappointed as I didn't get the big bang of the spring exploding. I replaced the oil seals and managed to reassemble it without loosing an eye. Gave it a quick coat of paint and it should be ready to install. Should I put some grease between the relay and chassis housing? Or just leave it dry.

Next job is to start the rear sailsbury diff

Ben , a while back I removed a relay that had been wrapped in Denso tape and it just lifted out of the chassis with ease.
Graphite grease or Copper Kote would do a good job too!


Cheers, Mick.

tonight i finished cleaning up the rear Salisbury diff/axle and replaced the rear cover gasket and replaced the pinion seal before giving it a coat of primer. not real easy to to work with as you cant remove the diff center on the Salisbury units compared to the rover type.

I made sure i marked the nut, hub & pinion shaft before removing it, hoping i managed to keep the preload on the pinion hub the same when reassembling. One thing i forgot to do was install the new gasket that goes in behind the new pinion seal. I had it there on the bench but somehow managed to forget it . How important is this gasket? I suspect that if i try to remove the new seal its going to damage it. I may add another pinion gasket to my next order of bits & pieces.