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The Classic Marque

Guy,

You're assuming that James has the bar stock to make one. ;-D

LOL.! I knew he was close. But how long does it take to drill 4 holes in two lengths of flat bar? James will have to walk quite briskly! 🤣

Guy
He's in walking distance - oh its a bit heavy !

R.

David Smith's anchor bar is so elegantly simple it would take a lot less time to fabricate one than going to collect Richard's. And with the price of fuel even a short trip is going to cost more!

Ok think I get! Thanks for your help

I don't know why but didn't think about removing the diff

Richard I'll message you if that's ok to borrow it?

Thanks

I have done it with the diff in the car, but as David said, it's much easier out.

Mark the position of the nut in relation to the pinion, so you can tighten the nut to the same position once you have replaced the seal, without loading the bearings.

I shaped up a large piece of flat steel to fit around the pinion nut so I can fit a couple of bolts into the flange - same basically as David's but mine is one piece.

If the car is on stands the bar would react onto the ground - I did mine in the bench vice.

You can borrow it if you want to save making one.

R.

I did a similar arrangement to Davids. Before you loosen the nut mark the nut orientation so that you get it back to the same torque setting. Helps keep everything aligned internally.

I knocked this up using 1/4 x 1 inch mild steel bar. Take the diff out, attach the steady bar to 2 opposing holes in the flange. Place on the floor and then use a socket and as long a breaker bar as you can find. Easy-peasy.

Anam, thanks. Close up you can see filler outline on the bonnet through the celly, as I rushed it, but it will do for now.

Guy, I had to replace those spire clips on the headlamp buckets that the screws engage with and find their alignment is critical but they're easily displaced.