How's My Back End

[Guest mcramsay]

I would appreciate if you could look at these photos of the rear mechanicals of my marlin, I'm at the point of putting the boot floor on after one bit of wiring tomorrow, just wanted to make sure there are no obvious failure points I may have overlooked

 

 

 

 

 

[cb750]

If it is fuel hose then I would use a metal adaptor to go from the braid to rubber. If you try to clamp the rubber to the braid with no reinforcement the clamp could just crush the braided hose.

[tractor]

thats a very clean ass end

[Guest mcramsay]

The braided hose is the rear brake lines, I have split rubber fuel pipe lengthways and put it over the braided lines on parts they might rub on the suspension, so the cable ties are just holding the rubber on,

[Guest Neil.Pritchard]

Hi , Peter is still doing camber wedges . Got mine last week

Cheers Neil.

[Guest 2b cruising]

Picture two.

Shows one brake line passing a little near to the welded bracket.

For how easy it is to adjust by fitting a rubber guard around it with more split pipe then remove after test if you want.

Either that or a twin clip holding both pipes at that point would hold the outer pipe further away than it is now.

Excellent work you are doing. QUALITY STUFF.

[Guest mcramsay]

Good shout, will add a bit more protection, the rear of the car is an e39 5 series Ali subframe which carries the diff driveshafts and distension arms, all cleaned up and pained with aluminium paint. Came up a treat last year when I done all the work! It's looking a bit dusty now though. Good thing about the subframe and is I can drop the whole rear end of the suspension and diff by splitting the prop and undoing 4 bolts

[Guest mcramsay]

Suspension arms ... Damn autocorrect

[Guest 2b cruising]

Must be quite a light car at the rear.

M engine, it's going to go like,shti off a shovel.

[Guest mcramsay]

Yea very light, the diff is in a cast iron case and weighs a fair bit! Traction is going to be a big issue!