The long haul to a reassembled back end begins.
First off, I noticed that the offside outer driveshaft is not original. It actually looks like the new billet item I fitted to the nearside.
It's not obvious from the photo, but this is a different shape to the old one I took off the nearside hub. That bit in the middle is the safety pin I had to cut off in order to fit the CV jointed driveshafts. Anyway, the spider legs have the characteristic square edges that indicate they were milled rather than cast and thus likely to be billet. So, that's good, then!
The diff control rod bushes are done for.
- Old diff control rod bushes.
They are replaced and all bolts done up tight with thread lock.
- Nearside
- Offside
Next up, trial fit of the CV jointed shafts (no, the wishbones are not on yet, but this being a Plus 2, the shafts have enough length for "full droop" to be OK). Hit a bit of a snag - the CV joints have cups on their outer faces and one of them (the one that faces the nearside spider of the diff output shaft) will not fit, because the remains of the shaft "safety pin" are standing a little too proud for me to be able to bolt the thing together. I'm going to have to take it off and grind the pin back some more.... bother!
Off to pick up the wishbones soon.