Saturday, August 22, 2015

Moser Rear End Assembly

 Moser 3-link with 8.8 ends and +1 on each side for wheel clearance.
Wildwood brake bracket and Moser axle retainer bracket.
Getting the bearing to seat into the housing and then getting the Wilwood bracket over the bearing was not an easy task. 
Here's the three brackets seated. Bolt is too close to the axle shaft to fit without grinding.
Notice the seats on the press in studs. These caused the rotors to not fit flush.
 Rotor is not sitting flat in this picture because of the stud seats. Once I grind out the rotor lug holes, they should sit flat and help to clean up this gap on the left side.
Bolt head out won't work. Going to have to go bolt head in and grind one side down.
The wheel spacers provided by Moser weren't big enough to fill the gap between the bearing and the retainer bracket. I have some larger ones coming in the mail from Moser. 
 Had to grind down the bolts to sit against the axle shaft.
 After grinding and adding the axle retainer bracket, they weren't long enough for my liking. I will be replacing them with some longer grade 8 bolts.
 The rotors would not sit flat because of the seats on the studs so I had to drill out the lug holes a bit to get them to sit. Here is the rotor backwards test fitting to see if they'll lay flat. After 30 minutes of light grinding, we are good to go.