What's happened since it looked like I opened the blog and then abandoned it? Well, many things. Including me rethinking the budget a little, and my friendly engineer looking at the back of the car again. Also, it turns out that auto boxes are a pain in the backside.
Let's start with the bad news. We're going to have to open up the gearbox to check that the sprag clutch is intact. It's the right thing to do, and a replacement is cheap, and has been ordered already. The garage are going to remove the gearbox, open it up and have a peer at the sprag clutch. If it looks fine then they're going to reassemble it and put the box back on the car. If it doesn't look fine, then they're going to put it all in a big box and wait. When the new part arrives it'll be fitted, reassembled and put back. Small question of who will do that, but we'll figure that out.
And now the good news.
Firstly, I can not say thank you enough to my friendly engineer. He's been chasing many avenues and forming and discarding plans at least a dozen times since this project was started. I'm well aware that basically I've bought the car and he's making it work.
What does this mean for the car? He's figured out how to put the original suspension back. That's a saving. He's found out what parts are needed for the propshaft and got those ordered, so reconditioning will happen soon. While he was looking at the suspension he also discovered that the axle was slightly off centre, so that's going to get lined up when the suspension is put back.
The dependancies there are actually very simple. The axle depends ont he suspension. Aside from that, there are no dependancies.
At the end of this round I'll have a known-good gearbox, a good driveshaft, the axle correctly centred, and the suspension working, which means the car is drivable again!
Once it's drivable, we'll look at what else might happen. Will it get caltracs and split springs? Will it get more power? What's required for those? We'll find out ... next time!
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