Drive Shafts and Hand Brake ... a completed drive train

Monday 30th November - Work time = 4.5 hrs ... Build Time To Date = 57 hrs

Having carefully bolted together the rear suspension it was now necessary to unbolt the top hub to wishbone linkage to fit the drive shafts.  I seem to be bolting / fixing things on only to take them off a couple of chapters later in the build manual!

Fitting the drive shafts was a bit fiddly while trying to get the set screws in (with loctite thread lock on) ... however my very expensive hex sockets worked miracles again ! ;-) and both shafts were quickly torqued up on the hubs and diff.

I quickly filled the diff with EP80w/90 oil ... although the 1 litre which Westfield had provided didn't completely fill up the diff to the fill level so I need to get some more ... another job on the list !

With the rear suspension and drive train completed I flicked over to the next chapter in the manual ... hand brake and rear flexible brake pipes.  Connecting up the cabes to the hand brake lever was a bit awkward requiring lots of winding of the adjuster.  Also I ran out of the convoluted tubing that Westfield had provided to cover the cables where they touched the metalwork.  A quick look on eBay and more was ordered ... another job to finish off later.  Here's a few pictures of the hand brake in situ and the cable routing.