So I set out today determined to get the rear end cleaned, get the gear oil in, and get it back together.
I get my new Moser street axles installed, and start the process of cleaning the housing. After about an hour w/ various wire wheels I manage to get it clean, and smooth enough to consider painting. I keep telling myself that this is under the car, and nobody is ever gonna get up close and personal w/ it, so I let that logic didctate how good I want the thing to look. I sprayed the thing w/ a chassis black, then filled the rear w/ 75/90 Mobil synthetic, and bottoned the titanium finished cover plate back in place.
Now before anybody asks,...let me re-qualify: Street car, never gonna be raced, never gonna have even as much as a sticky tire on it. I don't need a rear end girdle.
Pic doesn't really show the lower shock bkts I made,......maybe that's a good thing.
Next I got out the rear calipers that have been in a box since I originally tore this thing apart for shortening.
The left caliper bracket had one of it's guide pins rusted solid in it, so that's garbage.
The right caliper bracket was exactly the same.
So off to Rock Auto I go.
Reman Loaded GT calipers w/ hardware and brackets: 42.76 ea. (how can you beat that?) I do have to send my junkers back to them for the 50.00 ea. core charge they are charging me, but they can have them.
I also bought new inner
brake hoses for 13.00 ea.
So no sooner did I get started, I gotta stop until the new calipers get here. But I'm at least putting things back together again.