SM IE: Reassembling begins

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I start with the water pump turbine

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I install the ceramic seal…

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… and I can put it back in place on the housing that was just waiting for it

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Then I close with a used cover I bought

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I close a part of the cooling system, it’s easier to do it now than when the engine is back in the car

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While waiting for my preferred mechanics, I work on some details, here a protecting rubber I replaced

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Here I replace the gas cable, that had a damaged portion

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I put back some protecting steel sheets

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This gas inlet hose was extremely hard and need to be replaced

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The fitting broke when I removed it, so I use the one I had zinc platted for my other SM, I still have another one in stock

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There is also the LHM tank filler neck, that is always very hard

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So hard that it brakes into pieces during removal

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Here is a brand new part with which the cap can pop in and out easily

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Then Claude and Dominique come back home to end the clutch work. They start by putting the newly rectified flywheel back into place

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Then this is up to the clutch disk and pressure plate, the well knows pressure plate I should have ordered a lot sooner 😉

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Here the new “pusher” installed

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And the gearbox eventually joins the engine

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I have two helpers this day, so let’s put the drivetrain back into the car immediately

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This is done quickly. Here is an important step forward!

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Going on with “while I’m at it”, I work on the transmission boots that are damaged

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A special extracting device is required but a press can also do the trick. The one I can use at work, here, is too short to put the tri-axles back after the boot replacement…

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… so I chose to buy my own press! The return on investment will be very low but that way I can do the work myself

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Here the removal of a tri-axle

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I use sockets to press

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Here the opposite operation, I press on the whole transmission, I don’t like that but the effort is low (2 tons max indicated by the press)

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Then I put the transmissions back onto the car

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200 grams of grease on each side, this is easy, that’s exactly half of a cartridge

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Here it is. I don’t mention all the details, like a few Ligarex clamps that I had to redo because I made them the wrong side 😉

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I hope the grease will not leak like the last time I worked on the transmissions

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Same thing on the other side

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The handbrake calipers after disassembling, cleaning and reassembling, with new pads because the previous ones were not evenly used

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Putting back the calipers is easy but the cable is especially difficult to install without the dedicated tool

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To adjust the space between each pad and the disk, 0.1 mm spacers are needed. I don’t have that so I use a sheet of paper, cut to the required size, its thickness is 0.12 mm

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And finally I start to close the cooling circuit

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To put this cooling tube I had to remove one of the handbrake calipers I just reinstalled. Of course I had to do another adjustment after 😉