Lower rear wishbones
Continuing on the rear suspension I installed the lower wishbones. This time (given I've done six wishbones to date and these were the last - doh!) I checked the bolts in the chassis mounts first and used a rattail file to open up any that were interfering. It was still a struggle with the engineer's hammer seeing plenty of action. Regardless unless someone convinces me otherwise it seems to me the quality of the Birkin is still reasonable.
Rear Uprights
From here it was onto the uprights.
Upper rear wishbones
This was straight forward until I realised that I had oriented the left upper wishbone on the position of the stabiliser bracket which was for a RH unit (see yesterday's post for an image of the wishbone). I thought I had installed both wrong so I took them back out. However once I had them out I realised I had two with the stabiliser bracket located on the same side. So I flipped one bracket and refitted them and the uprights.
Handbrake
It was here, fitting the handbrake cables to the uprights with circlips that it came to me that I hadn't fitted a circlip when I installed the handbrake short cable. So I disengaged and loosen the cables to the uprights and removed and replaced the short cable the right way so the circlip holds it in place. So much for my "grommet" smugness yesterday.
Diff
With the uprights in place I started to prep the diff and quickly worked out the the threaded shafts had to come out to fit the bracket from the chassis. This is why I try to concentrate on not being too eager; I took to a shaft with adjustable pliers and broke the pliers.
So I got myself a brew and mulled over the problem. This is my solution - I hope it is not too violent for a public blog.
I drilled through the shaft and used a center punch and hammer to unscrew the shaft. Then I fitted the chassis bracket.
At this point I shut up shop as I had a movie date with the missus.
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