I did have the car body on stands with the rear trailing arms hanging down. Why should the crossmember move at all? My bushes are all new and I can't see any movement in them (body to crossmember ones). It was definitely not an R200 as I removed it from an auto Nov 1979 skyline, it is an open 3.9 R180. Another problem I had was trying to put the moustache bar back on. Due to the bulge on the bottom of the diff, towards the front, being bigger and going further forward than the R160 diff, the R180 would not slide far enough forward to allow the moustache bar to be slid onto the body studs without hitting the studs coming out of the rear diff casing. I had to bend the moustache bar out a bit temporarily to get it on. Anyone had this problem? At 20:27 26/09/2000 +1000, you wrote: >Have you got the rear springs fitted to the trailing arms? When fitted, the >springs should push the crossmember down enough at the rear for the R180 to >slip in, provided the car's weight is on the rear wheels. My guess is you >had the car body on stands with the rear trailing arms hanging when fitting >the diff. > >You haven't got an R200 by any chance? These require a bit of panel beating >to get them in. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, 25 September 2000 17:33 PM >Subject: R180. > > > > I installed an R180 over the weekend in my 1600. Did anyone else have to > > lower the rear subframe to get the diff to slide in. It was impossible >for > > it to fit as the back of the diff was hitting the spare wheel well as the > > input flange was catching on the lip on the body towards the front of the > > subframe. I had to lower the subframe by 5 cms to get it to slide in. --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
