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Old 22nd February 2013, 06:32 PM
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They come out a lot easier if you can spin the bolts in the uprights with an impact gun, soak over night with oil, then they come out with a drift and a big Ammer!
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Old 22nd February 2013, 07:29 PM
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They come out a lot easier if you can spin the bolts in the uprights with an impact gun, soak over night with oil, then they come out with a drift and a big Ammer!
Yep I'll second that as thats what we done.
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Old 22nd February 2013, 09:30 PM
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They come out a lot easier if you can spin the bolts in the uprights with an impact gun, soak over night with oil, then they come out with a drift and a big Ammer!
Exactly how I got the other side off. This one, it wouldn't turn even with a 4 ft break bar and I was hammering like buggery until the end of the bolt was mushrooming with no joy so I made the executive decision to get the angle grinder out.

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Uprights are ready to just bolt on now with all new brake seals, new rear bearings and new bushes.




Next I need to finish welding up the chassis and get the wishbone brackets tacked up.

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Very nice indeed
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Old 26th February 2013, 10:39 AM
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Look what just turned up from Phil @ Talon.



He even painted them for me.

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Made some more progress with the chassis. Trans tunnel is in and suspension brackets are on.




One of my D12s has gone missing. most everything else is fully welded.

I trial fitted one of the front suspension and uprights to see how it would fit too.



Look a bit weird from that angle but it will probably make sense once I do them flat.

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Some cracking progress there
Are the wishbones roughly based on the Saturn design? If so you may have a problem with the steering arm extension hitting the lower wishbone. You can get round it by limiting the amount of steering lock as it only just hits on full lock.
I know Phil made some lower wishbones with a slight bend in them to get over this as well I believe for the Voodou design I think.
Any thoughts on how you are going to mount your diff yet? It's been a topic of much debate in the past on which way to mount it.

Looking forward to more photos...
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