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Old Mar 26, 2017 | 09:32 PM
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Default Rear axle nightmare goes on!

hi guys!!
At first, my apologise for been missing this days, this project takes so much time, is not easy to keep updated in real time.

So, as my camera died as my new smartphone i picked up the crappy old one to take this pics, that is why its so bad.. but now is all ok, next post will be better

And the estate arrived to my garage, and the first thing to do was to remove her 'underwear':
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Than found a huge problem: my first crossmember was tooooooo big, couldt fit diff mount or sway bar..

Chopped all diff back:
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then fitted it into the car: (removed and fitted again this axle more than 30 times this week!!)

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And this is how it looks now with a Corsa A gearbox mount to fit the diff to rear:

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In this pics is not visible but i made so many reinforcements in order to make it as much stronger as possible

And the other parts are being built, this is the actual condition of the gearbox:
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Now had some time to disamsemble all car in order to check if is all ok and clean the interior..
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And removed the engine, suspension, power steering and some other bits
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Found some cracks in the body, in the rear wheel arch, maybe the suspension made it

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Remove the drivers door (bended) and send the car in this condition to the be repaired and painted:

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By now its all, news every day, hope to have some time to keep you updated

Last edited by dms04; Mar 26, 2017 at 09:51 PM.
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