You may remember that the rear suspension was just a heavy lump of dusty, rusty scrap clogging up my garage space. However it was time to get it up to scratch, so the first job was to clean and strip it.
Once disassembled I was left with a box of bits which I would have no idea about reassembling. The differential was sent to Ace Gearboxes in Northampton for rebuilding, only for me to be told that it was beyond repair. This didn't surprise me too much as it whined like nobody's business when it was on the car, so I ordered a recon exchange unit from Rimmer Bros which was duly fitted into the repainted axle casing.
The lower link and radius arms were past their best, so were taken to be blasted and powder coated in satin black. Once back I had new bushes pressed in by classic-friendly local garage Blason's in Brixworth.
This was getting expensive now, but the costs continued to rise with the acquisition of new back plates, half shaft bearings, all the bits & bobs like gaskets and seals and of course springs, rubbers and dampers.
The brakes had ended up in a box and today my mate Neil came round to help me put everything back together. After a lot of fiddling (particularly with the various levers, adjusters and springs) it all went rather well. Needless to say they had new everything, including shoes and cylinders.
Finally everything went back together, along with the addition of a new hand brake cable.
