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Top Strut Mounting
With the paint all dry now and the replacement parts having arrived from James Paddocks, it’s time to get started putting it all back together. Starting at 
the top of the strut, the first job was to fit the top strut sleeve and bush. The sleeve is simply tapped in and the bush pushed into the sleeve after a healthy layer of grease.
Strut and Insert
Next I looked at building the strut itself. The original strut had a large washer at the bottom to adjust for manufacturing tolerances. BL didn’t work in thousands of an inch back in the seventies in seems. This washer was at least 3mm. The new damper didn’t need the additional washer at the bottom. Neither would it fit properly with the
original strut threaded cap. The new strut did come with a new threaded cap but I don’t have a 40mm pin wrench to tighten it with. The law of sod applies again. I’ve found one in Machine Mart (Adjustable Pin Wrench) and will fetch it in the morning.
Front Hub
To fill some available time, I then started building the hub and the stub axle assembly. As I didn’t need to replace the bearings, this didn’t take long. Packed it full of new grease, tightened it up 
and dropped in a new split pin, then put the dust cover back on. The dust cover was already dented – I haven’t the £6 on a new one as it is only an unseen dust cap, and I have repainted it.