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Im just not that brave! My fingers as well attached and functional, id like to keep it that too.

I enjoy cleaning the wheels up, nice leisurely activity compared to my daily life. I might get an hour on them this evening if I can get out of work at a reasonable time

Nice rainy day so decided to tackle a job I've not been looking forward too...torque tube bearing's

I paid some to remove the old bearing's so I am starting with a empyty tube are some soda blasting and a coat of red oxide it looked like this I will paint it in 2K black after the bearings are installed


First job was to clean the inside of the tube so armed with a collection of cleaning solutions I pushed cloths soaked in the various solutions up and down the tube I considered it clean when the cloths could be passed through covered in carb cleaner and come out clean


I cut lengths of 1" and 2" tube the 1" will be used to apply adhesive down the tube to fix the bearing in position just incase they move whilst installing the shaft......I used RTV high temp silicone adhesive as supplied with my bearing's

The tape on the rod marks the position of the bearing ..adding the adhesive onto the 1" rod I was able to place it a few inches away from the bearing final position the bearing will push and spread the adhesive fixing the bearing inplace


in the photo bellow you can just see the adhesive all around the tube


the bearing was also covered in the adhesive to act as a lubricant

using a MDF block and the 2" pipe I knocked the bearing in until the tape was aligned with the tube end

First bearing installed


repeated for the other 3 bearings.....

Whilst the glue dries...24hrs I make a shaft insertion tool

30mm thk MDF with very acurate holes drilled in each bit (helps to have a friend with a CNC router)

Shaft is a perfect fit



This will bolt onto the end of the Torque tube and add the jack to push it in with all the banging and hammering




Tomorrow we will see if it works

Impressive set of tooling you made there and those bearing look like they are going to last forever. Once your cars complete you could start a sideline rebuilding torque tubes. lol

Glue has set so It gave it ago....WOW so EASY got the shaft in in about 10 mins with no effort at all,




painted the tube ready to go in the car now

Seriously impressive work!

Nice job Ken. I would have thought that this would have been a nightmare of a job. Would it have been difficult without your jig?

Started to build up the Rear beam new spring plates and Torsion Bar carrier bushes

superb job mate.....and all whilst on the get me out of the jungle with ant and dec...were they any help????

off to the platers today and picked up some bits




Dave some bits on the way to you...they came out really nice

Zinc brake discs?

I'm not the only magpie around here then. I thought I was a sucker for shiny things but you have beaten me this time!!