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Once secured into the car the first half shaft was slotted into place, located into the diff end, re-fitting the shims that came off the car and the backing plates and hub re-attached along with AVO adjustable shock. Onwards to the O/S!! (pic shows the back plate removed)



Upon attempting to slide in the O/S half shaft it located ok into the diff splines but then bottomed out, mechanical interference somewhere along the line was not allowing it to fit.



After a bit of head scratching and phone calls, it turns out that whilst the axle is the same the new diff is slightly different in size which means the shims need to be custom spaced upon fitting the half shafts. The reason the N/S had slid in ok is that it had pushed one of the planet gear axle's through to protrude to the O/S, (the shiny dot at the end in the pic below)



hence mechanical interference (can be seen by the circular imprint in the masking tape on the end of the half shaft in the pic below).



So in the end we stripped back down the N/S and tested the imparted theory which allowed the centralisation of the half shafts and diff planet gear axle... so.. now we're stumped as we need 3.5mm worth of shims each side to progress... more head scratching next week to source those!

Next up, the revised tank.. our pencilled up design was as follows;



Mulfab's revision can be seen in it's full glory (we hoped it fitted ok)!



Frst off, we offered up the frame to make sure that went in ok. It did, stage one completed - all's well.





Now onto step two. Getting the tank itself into position, this was a little more tricky. To get the tank in, we lifted the tank into position from the top and held it up then positioned the frame underneath, this is not how it's supposed to be done, the tank is supposed to be mounted to the frame and swung up into position using the rear ledge of the tank frame as the fulcrum on the rear cross member. Our car however has the rear axle locating spacers which put the diff slightly too close to swing the tank up, never mind, we got it into the car anyhow, it just made getting the bolts done up which mount the tank to the frame a little tricky..