After I got the suspension on and all buttoned up, I was just looking at the road wheels from front to back from the rear and noticed that the front adjuster wheels looked toed out
after looking at it closer and taking a strait edge to it from the hull to the outer edge of the wheel i discovered that the front axles were bent
. I had a couple of extras that came with the carrier and I dug them up and swapped them out with the ones I had on. The right side replacement was perfect
but the left side was the same as the one I had on it. As the left side was not as bad as the right I just went ahead and made a small shim at the rear bottom of the adjustment and it came out pretty good
The next part I started to work on was the conduit as I thought I would get that out of my way. As the conduit that came with the carrier was very rusty (like through) I was lucky to do a trade with Dave in Saskatchewan with a lot better stuff. The removal of the older smaller wire was pretty easy, but the starter cable that went to the starter was rusted/stuck to the inside of the conduit
. I first tried to remove the cable buy clamping the conduit in the vice a hooking a come along to the cable and pulling it out with a lot of effort which it did come but it left all of the rubber shielding still attached to the conduit, Long story short I had to cut the conduit in half so I could access it to remove the shielding. Now that was done it just needed a clean up YAY. I was missing all of the rear conduit from the transmission back so luckily a friend of Doug's has a MK1 and had that piece of conduit that we could borrow to make one for ourselves. I was lucky I had a friend with a Hausfeld tubing bender that made quick work of that and just have to thread the ends. Had to make up a few of the sleeves to join the conduit as well as the jam nuts.