Cleaned up and fully resealed the valley of the oil leak, if anything gets out of there now I give up
Mounted the fan and alternator. Really happy with how that looks.
Need to clean up/repair/paint the shroud as it’s a bit tatty next to all that goodness!
Then that can go back on.
I’ve rescued the shims from the old diff, one bearing came off with a gentle tap and a bit of leverage. This one required persuasion! Guess that bearing lock I stuck the race back on with after it spun works!
Cleaned up the cases and ran a die down the studs, fitted the outer diff bearing races and the new clutch fork before a dry build.
The new (aftermarket) clutch fork needed some love with a file to get it to fit properly as it didn’t rotate properly or fit the release bearing… other than that it was fine
Whilst looking around with the chain covers off I noticed both tensioners weren’t doing a lot of tensioning. So rebuild kits on order. Good job I had the safety collars on as I’ve a feeling it’s been sat on them…!
I want to get the rockers back on and the engine buttoned up but can’t do the valve clearances with mole grips tensioning the chains
So that and the absence of gearbox bearings mean I’m a bit stuck now.
Soon… !
