At long last, my rear subframe on my Mini is now fully assembled and ready for fitment. Its been delayed on a number of things which has been bugging for a while, but last night my girlfriend and me finally managed to get the subby all together.

First of all, last week my order from the nice blokes at KAD came which included a super-sexy internal gear linkage kit (photos coming soon!) and a pair of rear camber and tracking brackets which support the outer-side of the radius arms. Without them, I can’t really assemble much!

The main problem we had when trying to assemble this is the fact that the radius arm just didn’t sit correctly – when trying to fit the camber bracket the bolt holes did not line up, no matter what order or what we did. If you’re reading this and this is a job you’re going to undertake anytime soon, then you’ll notice you must fit a rubber o-ring over each end of the radius arm, along with a large thick washer to prevent dust getting into the radius arm shaft.

However, these little buggers of rubbers caused all my nightmares. At last I figured out that the radius arm wasn’t being pushed down as far as it needed to be because of these o-ring rubbers, so instead of trying to attach the rubbers onto each end of the radius arm first, I instead fitted the rubbers onto the outside of the washer, then fitted the o-ring & washer onto the end of the arm. That’ll be it then!

Anyway, without further ado, some photos!

And a quick photo of my current working environment!