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#50 Rear Axle Beam and trailing arms

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Well RO Performance have again excelled themselves with a complete lack of care and incompetence.  This is one of the NOS bushes beam I supplied to them for fitting. Also note what a good job they made of painting the beam 🙄 At a guess I'd suggest they tried installing the bushes with a screwdriver. Using the correct tool it's only a few minute job without damage. Less then 10 minutes using my home made tool. And now the trailing arm bushes. The voids need to align with the seam on the arm so that they sit in a fore-aft position. The other side was better but that was probably just luck!  Maybe take some photos before you remove anything so you know how it goes back - maybe they have a void between the ears. The beam will be taken for powder coating and not just given a wire brush and a cat lick of paint over rust.
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#49 Differential now removed from car

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 I provide a new diff bush and they've fitted it cock-eyed. 😡 The rear beam corrosion is now more evident. Nobody informed me or mentioned anything but clearly it needed replacing or repairing. 
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#48 Rear hubs refurbish

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Rust and grease removed from rear hubs and treated. Brake drums have been wire wheeled and painted with Hammerite satin black. Just waiting on the brake backplates being blasted and the bearings being pressed back into their housings.
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#47 Rear Wheel Bearings strip and rebuild

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 There was nothing obviously wrong with the bearings but I wanted to clean the rusty housing up and so had my local engineer press them out. Good old Gunk.  This is the proper stuff not the water-based version. Just ready for grease now. I've run out so will have to get some tomorrow. The bearing on the other side all looked OK until I spotted the broken cage.  Luckily I had a NOS SKF bearing which is also now ready for new grease after cleaning the old grease out.
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#46 OS Trailing Arm and CJ Autos car mover now setup

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Car mover from CJ Autos (Heywood) now setup so I can easily move the back of the car to give me access in my single garage.  Works a treat. 😀 Partially stripped.  The driveshaft bolts at the diff end were loose on this side too.  Another half a job Rob. 🙄
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#45 NS Trailing arm

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 This has now been stripped but cannot yet be removed until the beam is dropped.  I need a 'car mover' so I can slide the rear of the car side-to-side for access - a local firm sells them so I'll be calling on Monday. The handbrake cable was seized in the backplate and had to be cut and drilled out.  The backplate will get blasted and powder coated. The new cable has been tested for fit and is OK.
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#44 NS chassis rail part 2

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Access is needed to clean and make minor repairs to chassis rail. A previous repair needs to be cut out to prepare for the removal of the diff beam. I've removed the spring, shock, exhaust back box and driveshaft. The driveshaft bolts at the diff end were only hand tight 😯🙄. The other end was OK so at least RO did half a job right.
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