With our new tools at hand, we were finally able to recommence the tasks which had been holding us up. Despite the cramped workspace under the car, Joel was able to remove 3 of the 4 bolts on the flange pinning the prop shaft to the differential. The 4th bolt proved to be more difficult as both the head of the bolt and the nut deformed under the pressure of the spanner, and we finally resigned ourselves to cutting the head off the bolt using the Dremmel. Once this had been done and the remainder of the bolt hammered out using a screwdriver, we lowered the prop shaft and withdrew it to the rear, thereby completely detaching it from the car.
We've decided that this particular task should be a "one-off". In other words we'll completely clean, paint and oil the prop-shaft while it's off, so we don't have to re-detach it in the future.
Our next task was to try the advice given to us on the forums of morrisdownunder.com to detach the speedo cable from the gearbox. It turned out the advice was completely solid, and it was a simple thing to unscrew the cable itself from the brass fitting, as opposed to attempting to unbolt the large brass fitting from the gearbox manifold.
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