so it's getting nice out and woodward ave. detroits main strip is loaded with tuned cars old and new. i just finished my rebuild, and have about 1200 miles on it. and i cant wait to see what the mods i've done give me. i've been nice to my s5 TII so far and everyone wants to race me. i've had lambos, camaros w/12" slicks, camed mustangs, sti's, you name it all pushing up on me. so im at a light with a fox body mustang and a unbadged sti both of them looking at me. fine i say to myself lets do this, the light goes green smoke, rubber, and race gas fill the air all around me as i try to figure out why my clutch won't engage. i replaced the master,slave and did a stainless line swap. what went wrong? i've got a new clutch and presure plate. i also checked the fork on install. the pilot barring locked up on me. nice !!!!!!!!!!!! check your parts all of them. this part is only $11.00 and it's going to cost me $200.00 to fix. im just glad it wasn't any thing big like the trans or clutch. i learned my lesson.

 

umm...okay...

 

LOL. You don't check your parts before you put them in? I figured that'd be common sense.

 

Wanna see something really scarey?
I'm an original owner of an"86 GXL and as far as I know my exhaust system was never worked on. Well, my cat went bad and I'm replacing it with a hi-flow and replacing all the pre-cats and "reactive" manifold with an RB header. Went to pull the stock manifold and get this.... the nuts holding the manifold onto the block were LESS THAN FINGER TIGHT!!!(ratchet couldn't even ratchet back)
To check that "part" you gotta remove the heat shields which I guarantee the bolts to be rusted to all hell.
Why would the manifold nuts start walking out? Perhaps dfferent heat expansion co-efficients between aluminum and cast iron? Dunno, but damn!

AND... combine that(flame front coming off the manifold) with a leaky pulsation dampner just above it and voila....Fourth of July!
Thankyou banjo bolt!

 

This should be in the lounge.

 

Uhhh, why? Is somebody's car going up in flames OT?

 

I don't see anything.