Refurbishment of Parts

Refurbishment of Parts - Back (7th to 14th June 03)

The next job was to start and refurbish the back drive train elements.  Starting with this:

I firstly took the brake drums off, rubbed them down and painted with red caliper pain to match front.

Drum before refurbClick to expand

Painted with red caliper paint
Next job was to remove the rear brake parts, unscrew the 4 bolts that hold the drive shafts on the the rear swing arms and then withdraw the drive shafts from the assembly.  Removed all on the backplate although left the handbrake attached at this stage, and then disconnected the final drive unit by unscrewing the 4 bolts that held in place.  Next a simple job of removing the swing arms from the cross member by removing the 2 bolts.  This left me with the following bits:

crossmember

crossmem2.jpg (119926 bytes)

finaldrive.jpg (100598 bytes)

swing.jpg (114851 bytes)

 Rear Suspension Bits

swing2.jpg (104472 bytes)

Next job was to rub down the swing arms ready for undercoating (red oxide paint).

armunder.jpg (95030 bytes)

armunder2.jpg (73392 bytes)

After the undercoat, painted with black smooth metal paint (screwfix again) with the results as below:

swingblack1.jpg (75460 bytes)

swingblack2.jpg (69882 bytes)

swingblack3.jpg (67208 bytes)

 
Also painted the cross member:

tube.jpg (74534 bytes)
All-in-all it came out quite well.