Tuesday 5 November 2013

Rear Discs

Tue night sees JtC make the trip to Chev Central.

Relatively short work is made of removing the rear axles, except we found the small retaining pin was snapped-off and when unscrewed, only ~ 20% came out, the rest was left in the hole! Thankfully, JtC was able to coax the remainder out with a scribe... definitely dodged a bullet there!

Cleaning up the axle flanges...

RearDiscs 002


Sweet new part goodness! The quality of construction and finish of the parts from Right Stuff is good...

RearDiscs 003


Then dummying it up...

RearDiscs 007


The caliper needs to be trial fitted to check what spacer is required to centre the caliper on the disc. Mine took the thinnest of the three spacers (the 0.25" spacer)...

RearDiscs 008


Lookin' good so far...

RearDiscs 005


The rotor hat is thicker than the drum backing plate, so I will need to replace some of the shorter wheel studs for longer ones; the decision was made to replace the lot.

A bit of a shopping list then:
- 2 x new rear axle housing seals
- a new diff cover gasket
- a replacement diff centre retaining pin
- 10 x wheel studs
- 10 x wheel nuts

John out

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