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Thanks again for everyone's help, bolt successfully extracted, ordered replacement bolts and diff struts today so I should be back on the road by the weekend.

Sheared bolt exposed and center punched ready for some new left handed drill bits, fingers crossed it behaves.

This was checked less than 500 miles ago, but I'll paint mark and check more frequently going forwards, I'll check if I've got the right grade bolt if not the pack from redline sounds a good idea.

This looks exactly like my situation only the end of offending broken bolt has already gone somewhere.

Thanks for everyone's help, I think the way forward is removing the bolt the other side and trying to swing the diff out to ease access to it, none of the bolt is left in the bush thankfully.

At my service we unfortunately noticed the rear right bolt pictured supporting the diff has broken. I’ll be adding the strut supports to prevent it happening again. Any opinions on if it's possible to extract the bolt in situ with an easy out or is this definitely a diff out job? I know a few have suffered the same failure. Thanks

Thanks, I think If I moved to a 11" fan I'd mount it lower on the radiator so it should give me plenty of room even if I moved to one of the thicker anti roll bars.

I assumed that might be prohibitively expensive vs the other options?

Thanks, I'll lookup the dimensions of an 11" model to check clearance. Reading around there's a question If I even need the front ARB as lots of people don't run them.

My car currently isn't running a front ARB due to a lack of space, the car was originally an HPC retrofitted with a Duratec so doesn't have the cowling setup, it's running a 13" fan. What's my best plan of action please? Fit a smaller 10/11" fan that should free up enough space? Add some bigger spacers for the rad to move everything forward another 1.5 inches? Fit my existing fan on the other side of the radiator?Picture for reference ​

I missed out on that one sadly.

Does anyone have the above before I have my old set powder coated?

Thanks all, it looks like I’ll be good to go when the wiring loom is finished next week.

Thanks Jonathan, I’ve covered those so I’ll try to find the recent thread about cranking the engine without plugs. Any opinions about the fuel?

My Duratec car has been Sat up in the garage since October, I wanted to check if there’s anything else I should be considering before starting please? I’ll get some new fuel (should I drain anything remaining?) Battery has has been on a conditioner Car has new oil and coolant a month before storage, I’ll put a new set of plugs in.Looking forward to getting out in it again. kind regards Dan