What did you do to your FB today?
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From: London, Ontario, Canada
Depending on what the wife and budget say, why not keep the crash victim for an all out racer and leave the other for a mild, fun street car. Oh and the sunroof thing, once you shell out the money for a glass roof piece you'll be thrilled to have it. I love having the sun shining through the roof.
I haven't done any work. Got a new job and to put it in perspective, it has varying start times and I saw waking up at 3am to start at 4:30 as sleeping in. Still getting used to the early start times so I'm pretty much done by the time I get home.
I haven't done any work. Got a new job and to put it in perspective, it has varying start times and I saw waking up at 3am to start at 4:30 as sleeping in. Still getting used to the early start times so I'm pretty much done by the time I get home.
It was warm enough to start stripping parts for my upcoming repaint/color change (back to stock sunrise red) on my T2 FB. Can't wait for weather warm enough to paint in!
lol
I bead blasted my transmision case and shot it with some clear. Not a spiffy as DivinDriver's polished tranny, but looks ok. Now I'm waiting on the transmission main shaft nut that I had to get the dealer to order so I can put it all together.......
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From: palmetto
removal and replacement
Today I removed my paul yaw race modified nikki carb and manifold (which ill be selling now) to install my barely used rb holley intake kit that I purchased from a forum member
No work done, but I did get word of an orphan (see attached). It's a GSL, '85 I believe, drives but needs a tuneup.
I had decided to keep my chassis, and just deal with the damage from the crash a couple of years ago. It's not sever, but I know it's there and it bugs me horribly. Right now I've got her pretty torn down, with most of my race parts off of her anyway (for a winter refresh). So, she's stripped down and I'm staring at the bent metal every day, feeling down, when all of a sudden I hear about a nice, red, possible replacement. Is God trying to tell me something?
The only drawback I see is that it has a sunroof...
With a bit of work, I'm pretty sure I could swap parts around, end up with a solid/pristine chassis again, then sell the original and double my money in the process. However, time is always the one thing I never have enough of (okay, add money to that list as well). But, I could probably swing this and finish it before the race season starts up.
On the downside, I do feel a lot of loyalty for my first ever chassis. Thinking of replacing her makes me feel sad inside.
lol
I had decided to keep my chassis, and just deal with the damage from the crash a couple of years ago. It's not sever, but I know it's there and it bugs me horribly. Right now I've got her pretty torn down, with most of my race parts off of her anyway (for a winter refresh). So, she's stripped down and I'm staring at the bent metal every day, feeling down, when all of a sudden I hear about a nice, red, possible replacement. Is God trying to tell me something?
The only drawback I see is that it has a sunroof...
With a bit of work, I'm pretty sure I could swap parts around, end up with a solid/pristine chassis again, then sell the original and double my money in the process. However, time is always the one thing I never have enough of (okay, add money to that list as well). But, I could probably swing this and finish it before the race season starts up.
On the downside, I do feel a lot of loyalty for my first ever chassis. Thinking of replacing her makes me feel sad inside.
lol
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From: Grand Rapids Michigan
Depending on what the wife and budget say, why not keep the crash victim for an all out racer and leave the other for a mild, fun street car. Oh and the sunroof thing, once you shell out the money for a glass roof piece you'll be thrilled to have it. I love having the sun shining through the roof.
I haven't done any work. Got a new job and to put it in perspective, it has varying start times and I saw waking up at 3am to start at 4:30 as sleeping in. Still getting used to the early start times so I'm pretty much done by the time I get home.
I haven't done any work. Got a new job and to put it in perspective, it has varying start times and I saw waking up at 3am to start at 4:30 as sleeping in. Still getting used to the early start times so I'm pretty much done by the time I get home.
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From: Grand Rapids Michigan
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!!!!!
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From: Jacksonville, Florida
Finished replacing my 30+ year old suspension including new ST springs/sway bar and Tokico blues. Thanks to forum members for the technical knowledge and a helping hand when I needed it. Wow, what an improvement!
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From: Chino Hills, CA
And a hot tip on how to solo the imfamous three-handed mid-housing operation, where you have to raise the e-shaft an inch or so while also carefully guiding the center housing in place, without scraping anything...
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From: PA
Just did minor work the last two days:
1. Changed the diff oil in my FB.
2. My son's FB clutch slave abruptly died about 4 miles from home, so we swapped it out with one off a spare used transmission that I have until the new one on order arrives.
1. Changed the diff oil in my FB.
2. My son's FB clutch slave abruptly died about 4 miles from home, so we swapped it out with one off a spare used transmission that I have until the new one on order arrives.
Why am I doing this?
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From: GA
Was planning on continuing to bead blast and paint all the miscellaneous screws/nuts/bolts I have removed from the car as the temperature was not going to be cooperative and let me prime the rest of the body today....however, the weatherman was wrong, and it got a bit warmer than forecast, so about 2pm today I decided to tape off the little bit that needed to be taped off on the car, backed her out of the shop, masked off the engine bay (the only big part i have to worry about overspray getting on) and reprimed the spots I have been working on, plus got the pass side door and fender in prime...that means the entire car is now primed, so now its time to start on getting truly ready to spray paint on the body.
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From: London, Ontario, Canada
I don't have any pics of my bar... oddly enough, since I have pics of damn near everything else. What are you needing to see? I can tell you right now you'll have to chop up your RB filter top as well as move your charcoal canister if your still using it. Those were two things that got in the way of the passenger side firewall bar.
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From: Chino Hills, CA
I was up til just before midnight last night, getting the keg put together. Went to sleep expecting to maybe be installing the engine and trans back in the chassis today.
Instead, I just spent the last several hours tearing it all apart again, trying to discover what was salvageable after disaster struck.
Details forthcoming in my build thread, but the short version seems to be that the rear inner oil rings didn't retract evenly in their bores (even though I had checked them by hand) over the spring ends.
when I rotated the engine by hand, it seemed stiffer than usual for a fresh assembly, but not horribly so. Then, about the third go-round, the oil rings both started chewing into the side housings. Jammed and stopped rotating.
My near-unobtanium Cali-specific EGR midplate looks to be toast, and possibly my rear plate too. Ironically, the expensive but replaceable oil rings look to still be just fine. That's tough stuff they're made of, to cut nitrided cast iron like cheese & come away without a scratch.
Needless to say, not the best of days.
Instead, I just spent the last several hours tearing it all apart again, trying to discover what was salvageable after disaster struck.
Details forthcoming in my build thread, but the short version seems to be that the rear inner oil rings didn't retract evenly in their bores (even though I had checked them by hand) over the spring ends.
when I rotated the engine by hand, it seemed stiffer than usual for a fresh assembly, but not horribly so. Then, about the third go-round, the oil rings both started chewing into the side housings. Jammed and stopped rotating.
My near-unobtanium Cali-specific EGR midplate looks to be toast, and possibly my rear plate too. Ironically, the expensive but replaceable oil rings look to still be just fine. That's tough stuff they're made of, to cut nitrided cast iron like cheese & come away without a scratch.
Needless to say, not the best of days.
Why am I doing this?
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From: GA
I was up til just before midnight last night, getting the keg put together. Went to sleep expecting to maybe be installing the engine and trans back in the chassis today.
Instead, I just spent the last several hours tearing it all apart again, trying to discover what was salvageable after disaster struck.
Details forthcoming in my build thread, but the short version seems to be that the rear inner oil rings didn't retract evenly in their bores (even though I had checked them by hand) over the spring ends.
when I rotated the engine by hand, it seemed stiffer than usual for a fresh assembly, but not horribly so. Then, about the third go-round, the oil rings both started chewing into the side housings. Jammed and stopped rotating.
My near-unobtanium Cali-specific EGR midplate looks to be toast, and possibly my rear plate too. Ironically, the expensive but replaceable oil rings look to still be just fine. That's tough stuff they're made of, to cut nitrided cast iron like cheese & come away without a scratch.
Needless to say, not the best of days.
Instead, I just spent the last several hours tearing it all apart again, trying to discover what was salvageable after disaster struck.
Details forthcoming in my build thread, but the short version seems to be that the rear inner oil rings didn't retract evenly in their bores (even though I had checked them by hand) over the spring ends.
when I rotated the engine by hand, it seemed stiffer than usual for a fresh assembly, but not horribly so. Then, about the third go-round, the oil rings both started chewing into the side housings. Jammed and stopped rotating.
My near-unobtanium Cali-specific EGR midplate looks to be toast, and possibly my rear plate too. Ironically, the expensive but replaceable oil rings look to still be just fine. That's tough stuff they're made of, to cut nitrided cast iron like cheese & come away without a scratch.
Needless to say, not the best of days.
