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ridds
Original Poster
6,534 posts
113 months
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Underneath of tub cleaned.  CV joints polished and reassembled.  Diff is back in.  Just waiting on the driveshafts (end of next week :s) and new Pacet fans, which are late. Still need a couple of P clips and some new bolts for the Anti-roll bar mounting.
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scotty_d
5,633 posts
63 months
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Superb work  How did you get on with the diff? Did you use swearing as well to make it go back in. 
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spongy
2,120 posts
30 months
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Those diff plates have come up nice sir,well done..its a hard one getting that diff in on your own....do you look like popeye today.;)
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ridds
Original Poster
6,534 posts
113 months
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The Diff was easy, well compared to the gearbox. Or the gearbox on an Isuzu Trooper, that's quite hard to fit on your own. The trick is remove both output flanges and the speedo pick up and job done. I did have issues getting the bolt in offside front plate bush as it just wouldn't line up.
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ridds
Original Poster
6,534 posts
113 months
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Well the weekend before Chatsworth and the car is STILL in the air!  Todays progress. New shafts installed, with new CVs and boots.  Fuel system components back in  Anti-roll bar mounted  Upper and lower wishbones are mounted, spent a fair while cutting bolts down today. Re-plumbed the fuel system after checking the roll over valve function and pipes for blockages. Also got a fair bit of work re-taping all the wiring harness in the front of the car and re-mounting the HID ballasts.
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ridds
Original Poster
6,534 posts
113 months
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Well, it's all back together and has fired up but is still on the axle stands.  [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/540570_10151587273375387_533680386_24079782_713420088_n.jpg[/mg] [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/574507_10151587274425387_533680386_24079786_1978826721_n.jpg[img]   Took long enough to get these!!!!  Cable tying these hoses out the way was one of the best things I've ever done! Makes fitting and removing the Rad soooooo much easier! 
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Boosted Cerb
508 posts
100 months
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Looking good, think you'll make Goodwood?? Any reason you didn't refit the radiator cowlings?? I tend to think they're needed for the radiator to be efficient, they slow the air down as it passes the rad and allows the heat to be taken away effectively  I thought it was along the same lines as most car rad inlets at the front grill are smaller than the surface area of the rad, again the air has to slow down before it passes through the rad, All modern cars have some sort of cowling arrangement, can't believe its just for fan efficiency. Rich.
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ridds
Original Poster
6,534 posts
113 months
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Boosted Cerb said: Looking good, think you'll make Goodwood?? Any reason you didn't refit the radiator cowlings?? I tend to think they're needed for the radiator to be efficient, they slow the air down as it passes the rad and allows the heat to be taken away effectively I thought it was along the same lines as most car rad inlets at the front grill are smaller than the surface area of the rad, again the air has to slow down before it passes through the rad, All modern cars have some sort of cowling arrangement, can't believe its just for fan efficiency. Rich. When was good wood again? Stuck in Germany at the moment. I cut the radiator cowls off, they were welded to the rad! My theory is that they just block flow. The fans (even the crappy TVR ones) are more than up to the job of cooling the coolant when running. However, from experience on hot track days the rad pack is not capable of rejecting enough heat when using the engine at high load, high rpm. They purely block airflow. The more air you can get past the rad the better in my eyes. I'm not trying to balance flow or anything. The cooler the better! There's no way TVR did anything as fancy as worked out the most efficient way to get heat out of the rad pack, the bloody cars struggle not to overheat at the best of times! Even of they did it would be outweighed by the hugely variable amount of air you have flowing up inside the wings due to the front cowl not being sealed fully. Modern engines will use some sort of ducting arrangement but then they have variable speed fans etc which are designed to run within a finite operating temperature window.
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ridds
Original Poster
6,534 posts
113 months
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Well it made it to the tracking centre today. Fairly close but not close enough.
Had pushed my front toe out from raising the front shocks a turn also.
Now for a longer run out and a quick spanner check underneath.
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