When I built my Cobra, I was fortunate enough to have the help of my good friend Ali without which it would have been an abandoned build for sure, so its great news that Ali is well up for helping this time around too along with my partner's father who knows Beetle's inside out having owned and rebuilt many over the years.
So the plan for today was to have another look through the kit supplied with a view to getting the rolling chassis onto axle stands to do a spanner check and maybe get the gearbox installed.
Sadly, after three hours work, other than the spanner check, virtually no progress had been made and we called it a day.
The Issues:
The forward gearbox mounting bracket is suitable for the chassis but not for the gearbox - the bracket is for a two pin gearbox but the box supplied requires a three pin bracket.
The front upper wishbone mounting bolts are too long and foul on the steering rack gaiters.
The rear wheel hubs dont have wheel locating spigots and there are no split pins holding the castle nuts in place.
The front wheels don't locate perfectly on the hub spigots and with the wheel nuts tightened the front left wheel fouls the brake calliper.
The rear gearbox mounting brackets were supplied (in duplicate) but there were no fasteners supplied. There was also some confusion as to whether the black gearbox shroud has been replaced with the stronger zinc coated part.
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