Originally Posted by
mrnizzles
^ ditto on the grease for screws in plastic. I used the white grease that came with the kit, the stuff I guess you put on the 'outside' of the diffs crown gears and pinions. There is plenty of the white grease, and putting it on screws made them go in SO MUCH EASIER!
Missed the latest round of the Norcal Series today.. i hate getting sick, weather is cold now too for some lame reason..
I'll have to catch up with all the latest action while sitting at work on Monday, lol
When Building the kit (and I have built quite a few) I found out that the best way is to tap the hard plastic holes, where the screw is going to tighten, about 2/3rd the way in no more. also I ream out the holes where the screw will just pass through. this makes is very easy to put the car together and it doesnt loosen up. If you do it right then with the power tool I have I can tighted down the screws at torque setting at 8 and loosen at 10. I also replace all the plastic nuts with aluminium locknuts.
I use the following items to build our cars;
3.02 curved reamer
M3, M4 and M5 L+R Taps.
High Quality hand tools - we use Xceed powertool bits
Torque adjustable power tool ( we use one that is Li-ion powered and can work while being charged.)
When Building diffs, I tap 1/2 of the hole with M3 Tap and then drill a hole from the other end with a 1mm drill bit so that any oil that gets in the screw hole gets ejected from the other side and doesnt cause any hydrolic locking.
if any questions feel free to ask.