I closed down my previous thread because we had basically ground to a halt. When i went on my Hols it looked certain that Central Day would be on the cards, when i returned that was not going to happen. I had promised Pete at Spec-r that it would be available on his stand & i felt i had let him down.
The problem was the beam, all normal brute force methods had failed to get it apart, it was seized big time. Being a Zoo Jag Diff conversion it was not a case of just getting new bits for it.
We came to the conclusion it had to be sorted so Deano/Myself were told to ' Get it apart' so Brute Force was the order of the day. The Beam was then given shock tactics, that consisted of hitting with a sledge then heating it up whilst hitting, then cooling with Rostoff Ice, nothing happened .
Deano is a persistant bugg*r though after 40 min it finally moved a few thou & finally the adjuster came free. Deano by this time had a Headache & dead arms so the reserves were called in namely Mark & Red Bull Paul & boy to do the other side boy did they have probs, They took longer despite using bigger bashing impliments but finally the beam was apart. I had already sourced new Rod ends & bolts but the adjusters, pins & spacers etc were all destroyed. The beam itself was fine & i cleaned & painted it.
The machine shop next door was asked to make the new parts & yesterday they were completed, After cleaning everything the new adjusters can be wound in by hand . I will be trying to source the final parts this morning hopefully getting them to Mark sometime today.

We wont make Central Day because there are many jobs still to do but it will be at Dunsfold in May .

Maybe we are within a week or so of starting the car but i expect there will be other hidden problems, dont leave your car standing for 4 years its aggro to get it back to perfect condition as im finding out.