Rearend Install - Get Your Rear On

The bearings must be oiled before the center section is fully assembled. We used Tiger's 90 weight synthetic gear oil. When we break in the rear, we'll use regular petroleum based gear oil as directed by Tiger's instructions.

Rotating the bearing by hand helps disperse the oil in, around, and throughout the rollers. We repeated this same procedure for the bearing on the other side.

With all the components of the center section in place, we attached the right side bell and axletube.

Even though our new magnesium rearend is very light, it takes two people to put one in.

We slide one side through the frame....

Here we reattach the lift arm prior to putting in the birdcages.

To protect both the frame and the axletubes during installation, we wrapped the frame in cardboard.

Once the birdcages are installed on either side of the car...

...and the rear links are attched, we're almost ready to go.

With the rearend now installed and the axles in place, our next order of business is to install the hubs, but that's a project for tomorrow.