Powertrain Complete!

I received the clutch release bearing in the week and the adapter it fits onto and after some fettling managed to get the two joined together. Today's job was to get the flywheel and clutch on and mount the gearbox with the release bearing on it's lever inside. Here's a photo of the flywheel with clutch attached.


With the spigot bearing inside the end of the crank I then fitted the gearbox, propshaft, and starter motor - see below.



The propshaft (below) was built for me by a company called Bailey Morris UK Limited. I phoned them with the distance between the differential plate and the oil seal on the gearbox and the layout of the holes on the differential plate and they built me the shaft in three days for £128. It looks great. The Type 9 gearbox has splines on a shaft that goes inside the gearbox so that end of the propshaft was a smooth collar on the outside with splines inside. They make the shaft with a length that means this end goes three-quarters of the way inside the gearbox so that it can slide in and out as the engine/diff flexes.