Two Go Mad In The Garage

How two numpties try to build a Westfield kit car.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

DriveShafts and Brake Calipers




Today we fitted the drive shafts and brake calipers. This continued the theme of confusing information, in that the drive shafts were apparently helpfully labelled left and right, but they just didn't seem to fit, another phone call to the factory elicited the information that a batch had been labelled wrongly and yes the 'RH' one should go on the left hand side.

This was aparrently a simple enough job but it took us several hours and a lot of effort to get all 24 bolts in loctite'd and torque tightened. unfortunately we graunched two of the bolts due to the difficulty of getting the allen key/torque wrench in the difficult angles. s'pose if they have to come out again we may need to cut a slot in to the top with a hacksaw and use a big screwsriver.

Brake calipers went on fairly easily and we quit for the day feeling exhausted.


















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