THE STAGNATOR April 23rd

Had a lot of stuff going on today culminating in an LBC drive this afternoon to honor one of our friends who has decided it's time to live closer to family-we will miss you Jim!

I was able to get a little bit done on the Stag and installed the drivers side front wheel bearings, no big surprises but I do think it's time to consider replacing the rubber brake lines.
The  set up on the wire wheels is kind of interesting as it appears that the wire wheel hub was an after thought on this car as the hub that you see here has the splined hub mounted to it on the four studs you see.  One problem with this approach is that the wheel and wire wheel hub have to be removed to service/adjust the bearings.  The black cap in the center can not be removed without taking the wire wheel hub off.

Just showing the minimal clearance of the caliper bolts to remove the caliper, very hard to get a torque wrench on these bolts and the are supposed to be torqued to 65 ft/lbs

Don't know why I put this picture in other than I didn't accomplish much today and needed to fill up space.

At any rate I did get one side done and the new seal and bearings are installed on the drivers side, hopefully tomorrow I'll have time to get the passenger side done.

That's it for today, hope tomorrows post is more interesting, I've had a couple of comments about using a TR6 emergency bonnet release kit form one of the usuals and having compared the two I don't think it will work as well as running a cable from the latch mechanism-we'll see.

Cheers,
Lynn


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