Driveshafts
- Unbrako 12.9 screws - check
- Schnorr washers (correct way up) - check
- Dog bone plates - check
- Proper grease - check!
Grease in a bag means squeezing it into the joints is slightly less messy than it could be. Bit like icing a cake, apparently.
Having already filled one side with grease and fitted it to the car, I remembered the gaskets... 2nd time lucky, all good now.
Naturally, given my recent form, this was going much too well and my luck couldn't hold. Sure enough:
The stretch bolt into the diff turned out to be rather less stretchy than I'd hoped (sheared when torquing it up - not mega torque, 44Nm IIRC).
Opinion differs as to how reusable these are. Mine turned out to have reached the end of its service life, I think... Replacements ordered from OPC
(Note - I do realise that the "nipple" on the end, needed for the "simplified" diff which unhelpfully self-destructs when you remove these bolts, is unacceptably worn. On my car the diff has been replaced by a Quaife LSD, so the nipples are redundant).