Dr_evil
Banned
Been a little bit productive today but mostly destructive 
So thought I'd fit the X brake......how hard can that be?...........As it turns out extremely hard
So first things first, remove the prop shaft to gain access to the handbrake drum and drive flange bolts.
Diff flange end....no issues.....transfer box end? Well.....first off one of the bolts was missing! Great success but after that, all three remaining nuts were not 9/16th's as they should be. They were the right thread but oversized nuts meaning without the correct crows foot spanner I couldn't take them off the prop wouldn't give enough clearance for the socket set of my spanners to get on there even with some gentle hammer persuasion.
So I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and swap the prop to a new rear one which I had and started to take the UJ apart so I could remove the long half.
Not so fast dick head.....I'm not done ****ing you off yet. To wit! The bastarding UJ top pieces were seized into the flange and this is after I managed to pry out the snapped circlips so I tried to prize off the rubber seals and get a chisel in there, easy enough to break off the perished rubber but the UJ then proceeded to put up a great fight against the big hammer. Finally releasing one side and all its needle rollers!
Got the hand brake back plate off after this and after a bit of knocking with a hammer I realised the hand brake adjuster was a screw pin not just a split pin through a hole type!
After this the rest was just as annoying, took the 1" nut off the back to release the drive flange and oil started pouring down my arm. This was followed by a huge struggle to get the new backing plate back on after swapping the bolts over to the new M8 ones that came with the X brake!
Finally managed to drift the new backing plate and drive flange back on then began tightening the lot......so far so good then!
Gonna fit the calliper tomorrow and finish tightening up the disc. Hopefully I wont need to take anything back off!
Then I suppose a litre of oil needs to go back into the transfer box as well as the OD and gearbox as they probably want topping up judging by case conditions
Oh and to top it off it turns out the exhaust is only partly together where the Y joins the tailpipe. Might explain the popping when I come off throttle
All of this took four hours
So thought I'd fit the X brake......how hard can that be?...........As it turns out extremely hard
So first things first, remove the prop shaft to gain access to the handbrake drum and drive flange bolts.
Diff flange end....no issues.....transfer box end? Well.....first off one of the bolts was missing! Great success
but after that, all three remaining nuts were not 9/16th's as they should be. They were the right thread but oversized nuts meaning without the correct crows foot spanner I couldn't take them off the prop wouldn't give enough clearance for the socket set of my spanners to get on there even with some gentle hammer persuasion.So I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and swap the prop to a new rear one which I had and started to take the UJ apart so I could remove the long half.
Not so fast dick head.....I'm not done ****ing you off yet. To wit! The bastarding UJ top pieces were seized into the flange and this is after I managed to pry out the snapped circlips
so I tried to prize off the rubber seals and get a chisel in there, easy enough to break off the perished rubber but the UJ then proceeded to put up a great fight against the big hammer. Finally releasing one side and all its needle rollers! Got the hand brake back plate off after this and after a bit of knocking with a hammer I realised the hand brake adjuster was a screw pin not just a split pin through a hole type!
After this the rest was just as annoying, took the 1" nut off the back to release the drive flange and oil started pouring down my arm. This was followed by a huge struggle to get the new backing plate back on after swapping the bolts over to the new M8 ones that came with the X brake!
Finally managed to drift the new backing plate and drive flange back on then began tightening the lot......so far so good then!
Gonna fit the calliper tomorrow and finish tightening up the disc. Hopefully I wont need to take anything back off!
Then I suppose a litre of oil needs to go back into the transfer box as well as the OD and gearbox as they probably want topping up judging by case conditions
Oh and to top it off it turns out the exhaust is only partly together where the Y joins the tailpipe. Might explain the popping when I come off throttle
All of this took four hours
