oilmagnet477

Hi Howard - happy to help and I hope it does!

I found that you need to remove the prop shaft and the diff has to come out or at least be dropped to do this - this is the cause of my pain and why I have walked away (added financial constraints haven't helped either!) I have got the diff back in (having replaced the diff output bearings and brakes etc) but now whenever I bolt up the drivers side drive shaft onto the inboard brake drum, the wheel seizes up - it has done my head in several times! I think it is all there in the thread but I'm pretty sure you will struggle to replace the fuel pipe with the prop in place - once unbolted from the diff (and the diff moved) the prop shaft just slides out of the gearbox - that was the easiest bit! Whereabouts are you in the UK (I assume!)
Cheers

Ant

if I think hard enough, if you fit the front union only, then feed the pipe from front to rear, you probably don't need to enlarge any holes! I did the enlarging thinking I would fit both unions and in the end realised I could probably fit the boot one in the car. You live and learn!!!

Hi Howard,

If you look back through my thread you will see that I tried to show at the front where I had to enlarge the hole in the chassis - basically, where the chassis backbone narrows there is an entry at the front and an exit at the rear - all the holes are big enough to accommodate the pipe (As I recall - apologies, I haven't done much on my Elite for 5 yrs for various reasons!) but if, like me, you are using racing style joints, it is these that are bigger diameter and don't fit. The fitment of the unions is tricky to do if not in a vice so I wanted to do those 'off car' - this necessitated bigger holes. In the event, I only needed to make the hole at the front bigger. there is 1 or maybe 2 baffles along the inner section of the backbone - these are triangular and the join does fit through - with some wiggling - I did this using a length of narrow gauge wire - fed through the chassis and then attached to the pipe/union and pulled through. The rear hole I left as is and will fit the union in the boot once rooted. Hope that helps. Good luck!

Are they powered mirrors? Not seen any like that before.

Electric ones (usually on S2) are pretty rare!

Nice pictures by the way

Sounds great Vito. Looking forward to picture as and when you can

Cheers

Ant

Good luck with them both.

Not sure what you mean about only having 1 restoration project - I've 2 hands.....