what i’ve been up to today ?

this is (apart from the engine) the biggest nastiest mechanical bit i’ve ever removed from the bus…

..you could kill someone with this.. 🙂

if you used it properly.

finally got the driveshaft out and stripped the CV joint on the end. I forgot that one end is a beetle CV joint and the other is bus one (because of having the beetle gerabox IRS conversion) so off to german and swedish car parts for new bus CV joint gaiters and one with the show…

here’s all the bits from a CV joint…

and here it is cleaned and waiting to be greased and reinstalled.

after much swearing and drinking of tea it’s all back in (at least one side is… i’ll do the other tomorrow)

bit of a problem tho….

i was going to change the front gearbox mount so i loosened off the two big bolts holding the engine cradle into the chassis horns so that it would all slide back a bit to give room for changing the mount.

that’s all fine.

but coming to tighten them back up one of the bolts seems to be going in ‘on the piss’ as it were. i have a horrible feeling that i’ve damaged the thread. the bolt thread is fine which means that if the thread is damaged i need to recut the thread in the chassis itself… visions of trotting into a machine shop with the whole bus tucked under my arm come to mind…

ollie slammed bay came over to say hi and couldn’t resist crawiling under the bus to have a look.

he agrees that it’s not happy.

oh dear.