It's Alex's birthday today. It makes me feel old knowing that my youngest just turned 24. Happy birthday son.
After golf in the morning with my buddy, Bob Budde (we both agreed that this was a lot better than working), I fitted the front suspension and anti-roll bar, only to find out that some bolts aren't quite long enough (no room to fit the headlamp brackets, now that I have found them, and assorted washers).
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| Remove powder coat from ARB |
I removed the powder coat from the anti-roll bar (without removing the skin from my hand in the process this time) and fitted everything in what seemed to be a logical positioning, as there were no instructions whatsoever in the manual.
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| Front suspension, minus uprights |
Starting to actually look like a car (a bit - something missing though. Oh yes, uprights).
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| Top end of Protech damper |
No room for washers in here! It's the same in a few other places. I also need to fit the headlamp bracket and a spacer here - no way that is happening. Need to get onto Westfield about that. Also need to ask them why they sent me 2 liters of automatic transmission fluid.
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| ARB mount |
No room between the anti-roll bar mount and the wishbone bracket either.
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| Raer wiring and ARB mount |
Tidied up the rear wiring and fitted the fuel tank. The wiring is a little convoluted, but everything is in the right place. I think I had a little more wiring at the back end than was intended because I didn't
cross over the transmission tunnel that the front - I couldn't see the need as the only think this would have helped would have been the handbrake switch and that pigtail is plenty long enough. No doubt time will tell . . .
Now if I had some uprights, I could bleed the brakes, fit the wheels and figure out how I am going to get it out of the courtyard. It is a little wider than I anticipated.
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