I've been meaning to update this thread for a while and finally have the time to do it.
In some ways the rebuild has worked out well - in other ways there has been a steep learning curve - in other ways I got to the jumping about the garden singing the "uckety uckety bastard wank **** ****" song...
Background information => I needed to get the car on the road in a hurry. As I'm sure most of you know when you are in a hurry things often go wrong.
I took the car to a local MOT (APK safety check) centre and on the way back I heard a weird ticking. I thought something was rubbing on the rear right wheel - wasn't that. Could it be the brake caliper? Nope. The parking brake? Nope.
I thought it was the rear wheel bearing - could I have got a bad one? Did I bugger up the fitting of the bearing? Nope.
It turned out that the differential was way too stiff.
This bit went wrong =>
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This meant I had to do this =>
