You're keen LOL, I worked on this stuff in '78 when I started as an apprentice aged 16, reaming king pins, balancing carbs, bashing fuel pumps to keep the crap running, worked on all models, still do today aged 63. Welding castle sections and sills on 40 years later. Good job you are only using the BL POS shell with that engine in it. 🤣 Strangely enough, I have owned a '68 Roadrunner here in the UK for 41 years, and a '68 440 Conv Fury, been MOPAR all my life from 9 years old......your stuff from the 60/70s is waaay cooler than ours! cheers.
It was a challenge that I couldn't build the car without a kit. The engine compartment fought me constantly during the set up. It took me 53 days to do the install. It has never taken me that long to install any engine. Brit is damn stubborn but I am just going to remove the entire rear end and start over. It will be faster. I want to get the engine running and get the trans lines, fuel system and brakes plumbed. I hope to be driving this fall and over the winter the body and paint will be completed.
That is known as a Salisbury axle, fitted to many British cars and light commercial vehicles. It is stronger and considerably heavier than the early Banjo axle, which as you say, is like a Ford type with the 3rd member being fitted to the front of the pressed steel case. I'm pretty sure that removal of the differential from the Salisbury type requires a special tool to stretch the casing a few thousandths as it is an interference fit in the center casting. The straps on the axle are to limit travel, but I always understood it to be to stop excessive load on the rear lever arm shock absorbers. Keep up the good work!
I always thought the straps were to limit the drive shaft travel, etc... Maybe since I am out of the engine compartment , I can get some work done.! The rear end is laying on the garage floor. All the parts, I will need are on an ordering list. The gas tank came out yesterday. The inside is totally clean just a little trash floating about no rust showed up on the endoscope. The rear end is up next and she is ready to be unbolted and dropped out of the way.
Grumpy Dave, have you ran up this motor before installing it to the point you are at today ? Interesting project you have got going on here. looking forward to hearing it fire up and finally taking it for a spin too. forward thinking comments from me here in Vancouver Canada.
