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Mooseykins posted:Does it shift smoothly from 4th into 3rd with the engine off and clutch pedal up, and with the engine idling/car stationary and with the clutch in? Yep - fine in both of those situations. Loads of gearboxes on ebay. I can spend £100, or go upmarket at £150 or even £200!
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Tomarse posted:Yep - fine in both of those situations. Yeah, probably the sychros then.  Gawd, i wish mine was that cheap. When i did the van i couldn't even get a used box for it because it's a rare spec, cost £1,400 for an overhaul and it's still not right.
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VW mounting the starter to the pressure plate instead of the flywheel must be a holdover from the Beetle or something where bellhousing clearance is tight so they can install the starter body 'backwards'. That would explain why the Corvair also does it, considering both of them are rear end-engined slot cars. Getting to the point where you have a hollow input shaft that also actuates a secondary pressure plate hurts my head to a degree that I think I need to lie down for a bit.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:VW mounting the starter to the pressure plate instead of the flywheel must be a holdover from the Beetle or something where bellhousing clearance is tight so they can install the starter body 'backwards'. That would explain why the Corvair also does it, considering both of them are rear end-engined slot cars. No idea, totally rear end-backwards system, and it's not like they pioneered FWD gearboxes or anything, so no idea why they felt the need to do it so differently to a goddamn clutch fork and thrust bearing. Seat Safety Switch posted:Getting to the point where you have a hollow input shaft that also actuates a secondary pressure plate hurts my head to a degree that I think I need to lie down for a bit. It's such wonderful Germanic engineering that despite it's pointless over-complication it still actually works! 
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I think they really wanted to keep the starter on the "ordinary" side, especially since they are about the size of a Folger's can and the drive sits squarely in the middle of it. I ordered the new nose, drive, lever, and bushings but was really tempted to just get a gear reduction starter. Something like 10lbs lighter and since I run an electronic ignition I wouldn't need the coil resistance wire bypass built into the solenoid on the OEM style. Both it and a completely rebuilt OEM unit cost about $250-$300, so I opted to try the more frugal route.
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Second coat of paint is on. Kind of looks worse than the first but we'll wait and see how it looks at coat 5. No pics because I left my phone in the apartment while painting.
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This is more what I did for my ride today. Took advantage of the 50+ degree weather to clean and reorganize the garage a little, to make sure the Civic has a nice neat place to sleep and I have a clean place to work.
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Mar 10, 2015 16:14
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Pretty sure your garage is at least the size of my house.  Can't even squeeze the Avalon into our garage unless we park it with the front bumper against the wall, and the garage door will clear the rear bumper by about an inch.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:This is more what I did for my ride today. Took advantage of the 50+ degree weather to clean and reorganize the garage a little, to make sure the Civic has a nice neat place to sleep and I have a clean place to work. How do you like the newest gen si?
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some texas redneck posted:Pretty sure your garage is at least the size of my house. two cars one stall  
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PaintVagrant posted:How do you like the newest gen si? I bought it because its drivetrain is almost identical to the car that replaced it, an Acura TSX (and because I generally love Honda). That being said, the TSX was a better-looking car but I prefer the interior, suspension and just the general light feeling of the Si. It's a nicely-put together car but not the prettiest thing on the block. some texas redneck posted:Pretty sure your garage is at least the size of my house. This garage could fit four small cars if the work bench wasn't there (I'm not getting rid of the work bench!). As-is, I can fit both the Genesis and the Civic in here if one is against the back wall and the other is about an inch from the first car. Additionally it holds my garden tractor, snow blower, several sets of tires, and a bunch of other stuff. It's one of the main reasons I bought the house.  The detached garage where the Genesis lives is also a car-and-a-half sized stall. I apologize for the blurriness but my hands were still shaking from almost two hours of chopping 5" thick ice in the driveway. 
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Replaced the fuel filler neck in my WJ. Thankfully it broke while my mother in law was about to give it to me and agreed to pay for the part. Probably the easiest fuel filler neck I have done.
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Got it back from the garage with new bushes, wishbones and balljoints. It no longer feels like the front of the car isn't really attached and doesn't clunk when I have to hop it up and down kerbs. 
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Went to check my oil after work saw my pcv hose was split on both ends then spent an hour running to parts stores trying to find 15/32 hose. next time ill  first
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Mar 11, 2015 15:16
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Replaced the alternator belt, this has to add at least 30 hp!  HKS belt from Japan, cost about 1/10 of what I paid for the car. afen fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Mar 11, 2015 21:36
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As promised, pictures of the Explorer with the new wheels and tires. Before:  After:   
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drat, not that there was anything wrong with it before but that made it look so much better. I love the unique/cragar/us wheel type of wheels.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:As promised, pictures of the Explorer with the new wheels and tires.After: Please add nudge bars. 
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Three coats. I need to work on the vertical surfaces a bit, still getting a few too many runs.  Three to go and then I learn how to wet sand.
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 Tore my starter down last night, the whole thing was caked with a good layer of grease and dust from the brushes. It was a good 1/8 - 1/4" thick in most places. I received in the mail a new housing, new bendix drive, new bushings, new pole shoe insulators, new brushes, new solenoid lever, and a new solenoid. This thing is going to sparkle! The pole shoe bolts were in so tight I shattered an impact bit trying to loosen them, so I employed the hydraulic press, a roller thrust bearing, and a T handle to hold the bit in while I cranked on em. Worked quite well. I also decided to splurge and get the urethane bushings on order anyways, as a RX7 is going to be bogarting the lift this weekend and I wanted something to dream about instead of pulling the drivetrain to inspect it 
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Got the Pitmann arm swapped out today, woo. All that's left to swap out before I can start reassembling the steering is the idler arm.
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Mar 14, 2015 00:24
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(Yesterday) Turned it into a mobile welding vehicle, to do some on-site welding for a friend.  Then filled her up with diesel. That works out about $5.98/G. 
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Mounted brand new headlight glass on the other station wagon ($$$): Gave her a quick polish as well: 
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afen posted:Gave her a quick polish as well:
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Imperador do Brasil posted:As promised, pictures of the Explorer with the new wheels and tires. Looks awesome.
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Seriously. afen's wagon is my favorite Audi. 
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Did rear struts on the MSP today. Took a couple pics but just noticed that they're blurry, so imagine dirty blue struts with red springs, and then clean new struts with slightly less dirty red springs. The upper spring insulators were gacked, luckily the upper mounts I got had new ones in the bag. Probably was the source of the clunking whenever my rears went over bumps. Struts themselves were not nearly as chucked as the fronts I did last summer (only a few thousand miles ago) but it was definitely time. Also replaced the sway bar links (and nuts since one backed off and fell out an unknown while back ;the threads were hammered on that link and I've basically been riding with disconnected sway bar for X months now) and greased the bushings. Also also finally flushed the original brake fluid from 2003; I am a bad car owner but at least it's done now.
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Unfortunately, I have to have a new power brake booster put in today. Ouch, said my wallet.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Unfortunately, I have to have a new power brake booster put in today. What car is it? Boosters are pretty much always a loving nightmare job. People used to call up for quotes to change them and i'd often just decline the work. It takes loving hours, and they don't want to pay. Edit: on RHD FWD cars. There's an engine in the way.
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Mooseykins posted:What car is it? 1996 Camry. I have to pay. It's not something I would ever take on myself. Besides, I enjoy being able to stop. Mister Kingdom fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Getting to the two or three bolts or nuts obscured by the steering column under the dash is always a stone cold bitch. Possible but oh god I hate it. Had the dash out for a manual swap and heater core replacement last time, so it was downright pleasant compare to the usual pain 
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My C10 is the only thing I've ever done a booster on and it has all of the fasteners on the engine side of the firewall. It's still a pain in the dick.
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IOwnCalculus posted:My C10 is the only thing I've ever done a booster on and it has all of the fasteners on the engine side of the firewall. It's still a pain in the dick. The mechanic said it would be a three-hour job. Update: Well, apparently there was a communication problem with the mechanic. It wasn't the booster, instead it was the master cylinder. Mister Kingdom fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Installed new front shocks, finished installing/reinstalling all of the steering components, and finished replacing the remaining ancient coolant hoses. Then took it for a quick test drive all of 2 houses worth of road down and confirmed that yep, the alignment is hilariously bad. So before I actually try to drive this thing to an alignment shop I'm going to have to do a wee bit more adjustment on those tie rods.
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Swapped to the summer tires, finally. This winter just would not end. We have a couple nights ahead in the forecast below freezing, but gently caress it. Stupid squishy snow tires.
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SperginMcBadposter posted:Did babby's first oil change today. A Fram filter?
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Changed the oil on my landy. It's only done about 3000 miles since it was last changed but it has been 2 1/2 years and it was starting to take longer than I liked for the pressure light to go out on cold startup. Is now much better. Oil looked minging (as is normal for an old diesel) but the magnetic drain plug was nice and clean 
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Weighed my PTE car last week and came in 90 lbs light with 1/2 a tank of gas. I was hoping to put off making ballast until after the race next weekend. So much for that plan. First stop was the steel warehouse, this place was massive. This was just their non-plate selections. Behind me was about 1/3 that amount of space in various types of plate.  I got a 4'x8' sheet of 3/16 steel. Someone in the local car club Took what I didn't need. I ended up with a 4'x14" piece that I cut into a 17.5"x15" piece. A 4.5" angle grinder made quick work of the sheet.  To mount it to the car I'm reusing my passenger seat mounts since I don't need a passenger seat anymore.  Drilled the holes for the mounting bolts. Exceeding the duty cycle of my drill significantly.  Tacked the mounting bars into place. It wasn't as dark as it seems, the light threw my camera off.  Lots of welding. 3/16 is about the limit of what my welder can do on a 20A 110V circuit. Too bad I run it into a 15A circuit. Lots of breaker trips happened.   Towards the end I got tired of resetting the breaker.  And here is the finished product. Final weight was 100.2lbs.  FatCow fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Giblet Plus! posted:A Fram filter? What about it?
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