Quote Originally Posted by randyr View Post
I wasn't worried....I knew you'd come around eventually...

I'm glad to finally get the rear end back under there. I've debated just bolting the axles back in without the 3rd member until I can find the one I need but I don't know if that would screw up the wheel bearings if I rolled it around the garage very much. What do you think? Even if I put the old 3rd member back in I wasn't planning to fill it with gear lube. It would just be there to have 4 wheels on it.

Hope you got your brakes figured out. And hope your wife is feeling better...
I think I would probably put a little grease on the gears and slip that middlin' 80# block of iron in place with a few nuts. It probably wouldn't hurt the bearings with it out, but since I'm the cautious type dislike chancing damage to a hundred bucks worth of bearings for the sake of a few minutes.

I'm going to fix the caliper leak in the morning, then go through the bedding in process a time or two. After the discussion with Dave S and Steve and other and doing some thinking, I'm guessing that I never got enough heat in the brakes with the light car to do a break in.

My wife ....don't know! She had colon resection surgery 4-5 years ago, and has had occasional innard problems ever since. The surgeon's technique is suspect. Or maybe it's just a 'bug'. To her doctor in the morning.