Oneball
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Some progress since Christmas, I've finished seam welding and gusseting the chassis and taken it to Dudley to be dipped and e-coated
Front end removed as it's been repaired so many times it's not worth the effort of painting it for it to crack and craze in a couple of months
Diff stripped in preparation for changing the LSD to a more aggressive setup than standard, also need to tap the case for oil cooler lines, but I have at last got something shiny!
Gearbox strip down today.
Sidecover off, two of the threads are buggered so they’ll need helicoils.
The selector forks are worn, especially for 4th so new ones of those to the list.
Extension off and gears out, reverse fork also needs changing.
I’m changing the gearset from the M20 that’s in there to an M22 which a stronger semi heilcal cut gearset that was homologated in period
so most of this is useless.
The only bit that could have been reused is reverse gear but that’s trashed too. Bearing in mind this car has done 80k just shows how bad driving can damage things when you compare it with the box in Bebs 100k F360
Time to give the cases a proper clean and order a load of bits.
Front end removed as it's been repaired so many times it's not worth the effort of painting it for it to crack and craze in a couple of months
Diff stripped in preparation for changing the LSD to a more aggressive setup than standard, also need to tap the case for oil cooler lines, but I have at last got something shiny!
Gearbox strip down today.
Sidecover off, two of the threads are buggered so they’ll need helicoils.
The selector forks are worn, especially for 4th so new ones of those to the list.
Extension off and gears out, reverse fork also needs changing.
I’m changing the gearset from the M20 that’s in there to an M22 which a stronger semi heilcal cut gearset that was homologated in period
so most of this is useless.
The only bit that could have been reused is reverse gear but that’s trashed too. Bearing in mind this car has done 80k just shows how bad driving can damage things when you compare it with the box in Bebs 100k F360
Time to give the cases a proper clean and order a load of bits.