Suffered a bit of a hold up.. Without going into the whys & wherefore's my front ARB had the wrong sticker on it (orange) so I used an orange bush... this bush was meant for the rear ARB & I should have used a red one.. (obviously)  A few conversations with Derek which wavered dangerously toward me having to drain the cooling system & take off the front ARB... we reached a compromise... The orange ones will remain on the front & may possibly (or may not) degrade quicker than the red ones, in a few years I will know... & he will send me two orange ones for the back.. I was getting decidedly twitchy about the prospect of draining the cooling system & taking off the ARB...

So back to the build...

Rear suspension, all good but await the Orange bushes. Also my anti roll bar didn't come with the hexagonal extender. Derek has confirmed they no longer use this & I just need to spin the ends by 180 degrees & all will be fine, this is the way it is now done.

Hand brake cable... This has been the first occasion I almost threw the teddies out of the pram as getting the end piece over the arm on the caliper looked impossible... realised that I hadn't fully loosened off the white nut (I thought I had but obviously my tugging & pulling resulted in more slack being needed). Once I did this everything was fine. I have incorrectly routed the right hand pipe through a hole in the chasis next to the rear brake pipe. In my head this is an ideal routing as its well away from the half shaft, is fully secure & gives a nice curve to the cable. Derek disagrees & I need to route it along underneath the half shaft & attach with cable ties. ho hum. I will concede to this but wont be using cable ties & be using the team ivans method with p clips. 

http://www.elmwoodnet.co.uk/teamivans/?p=676

Bled the brakes, tried using my brake bleeding tool which I think struggled with dealing with an empty system. Drafted in the lads & did it the old way, I now have some pedal but ran out of fluid so I need to buy some more  & do it again... & again...

Filled the diff, needed more than 1l as does everyone else so I have no idea why CC only send out a 1L pack, fortunately I knew this, also had to buy an allen key socket to fit the filler cap, Amazon prime is my best friend! as mentioned by others this oil does stink... not pleasant.

Filled cooling system. No issues here, did it slowly & took off the top pipe to the heater & held it up high until water came out of the top heater connection. 

Filled the engine with oil, as per one of my previous posts I was informed that the engine was full of oil... it isn't...  would never have started the engine without checking the dip stick but a tad annoying...

Spent a few hours on the engine bay with a pile of cable ties, its now looking much neater but still a bit unsure re the massive plug that just hangs above the bell housing... I cant see way of improving this situation as its so cramped in there just getting a cable tie on it is a challenge & then what to tie it to....

I've sort of hit the wing projects & interior fit out quicker than I expected & need to get my head around the manual.. all the other projects attempted so far I've probably read a thousand times (not that its helped that much...). The blogs have proved invaluable it has to be said!