I then had a go at putting the rear suspension back on on the near side. Fought me every inch of the way. Took 4 hours to get the job done, and even then I have not connected the ARB drop links or put the brake caliper back on. That rebushing job is a nightmare:
This picture is about halfway through. I have not got the driveshaft in at this point, but when I did, I put the wrong side in. That's the sort of luck I have, so no change there. I remember reading an advert where it said that the driveshafts are not 'handed'. Of course they are. On one side (the near side), the retaining nut is a left hand thread so that it minimises the chance of it undoing itself. However, needless to say, I didn't think it through, and therefore had to spend an unbudgeted half an hour swapping the driveshaft out. This is where we ended up:
It's in no way as pretty as some efforts I've seen, where the person has done some sort of colour scheme (perhaps the wishbones are grey and the hubs etc. are red), and the fact that it's all black doesn't make for good pics (and it doesn't help that I didn't clean off the grease that I inevitably got on it messing about trying to get the bushes to play ball). However, the chassis has had a huge amount of protection applied, and likewise the wishbones. Maybe I'll get creative with the colour scheme next time.
In other news, Racing Green didn't deliver the front lower wishbones I ordered this time last week, so I postponed the geometry set up at Dan Taylor's because the car won't be ready.
