Rear end done

It had taken a bit longer than I would have liked to get to this stage, but with the a house move and a new job to contend with, there hasn't been much time recently. 

However, I am glad to report that the rear end finally seems to be done!

There were a few teething problems along the way, but got there in the end. 

The suspension arms went on without any problem, and the shocks and springs all lined up without drama. The first problem that I encountered was when trying to fit the caliper carriers to the hub carriers. As you can see from the photo below, I could not get it to line up properly. 

I pondered this for about a week, trying to figure out what the issue could be. The XJ40 I have used as a donor had the older Girling calipers, but I wanted to upgrade to the ATE calipers, so I wondered if this could be causing an issue? However, I was told by a jag spares dealer that they should fit fine. 

Then, I had an epiphany! I suddenly thought that the issue may be that we hadn't torqued up the hub nuts. Looking in the Haynes manual I could not believe these needed to be tightened to such a large torque figure! We had to get my dads "big" torque wrench out!

I am glad to say that once it was all tightened up it all fitted perfectly

So, I managed to get the calipers on and the flexies all bolted up, then it was on to the handbrake cables

Again, this was all fairly straightforward. All I had to do was drill the holes out slightly to clean off the powder coating, and a new hole had to be drilled for the off side cable, as the bracket only came with 1 hole for the cables entering from the rear. 

So, that is the rear pretty much done. On to the fuel tank fitting next!