So, powdercoated items now have cleaned out threads (cheers Beavis for the taps). I've been putting stuff together for a few days and spending WAAY too much on new parts, so I had a good session of fitting stuff together yesterday.
After I'd cup-brushed back the area where the subframe bolts up and put a couple of layers of galvafroid over the cleaned section it was time to start. Footplate thingamies on:
I'm not sure whether the moistness here was from some heavy breathing out the top, or if the seal was going, so I've replaced the seal on the nearside output shaft:
Not very yummy, but hey it'll be fine.
I've pressed new bearings into the arms, fitted polybushes to all except the pendulum mount (not available in poly) and generally gone over-board to try and do the job properly. I got rather carried away with assembly, so here's the next pic:
For most people this wouldn't be terribly exciting, but I've been running with the OE drums since I got the car, so this is quite a sight to behold for me!
Rallye caliper carriers and discs, to go with the 280mms on the front. I've also now fitted up the Golf3 handbrake cables, Golf3 calipers, Goodrich braided lines to the rear axle and started flaring and fitting up the brake hard-lines, in copper-nickel. Does anyone have a guide to flaring brake pipes? It's a job I bloody hate!
Next up is to fit the rest of the hard lines from the rear axle, up to a tee, then to the bias valve, then re-make the front lines, to accommodate the re-wiring of the front brakes to handle the non-diagonal split braking set up.
Chop chop, eh?