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Reply With Quotewell continuing to tick things off the list...
Rebuilt the clutch slave cylinder.
I bought a rebuild kit in a little blue box - but the rubber looked so cheap and nasty that I just pulled the piston out of the original, cleaned it up, put in some rubber grease and put it all back together. It wasn't leaking, but the cylinder was fairly cruddy. I'll keep the cheap rubber as a backup if this one fails.
Rebuilt the two rear brake calipers
Once again, those little tin retainers are a pain in the ass. You need 4 to replace 2, as you will bend two trying to get them in place. Three of the pistons were in bad condition and one was clearly newish - so that has also gone into the spares box. These calipers are not the AP originals and look to have bene replaced only in the past few years - but they must have been dunked in sea water a few times as they were in pretty bad condition. All cleaned up ok though.
Replaced the rear brake line that I cut through with an angle grinder
Yes, I was a bit hasty cutting through some rusty bolts for the rear sway bar and sliced through the brake line. $35 later I've got a shiny new replacement in place.
Replaced the 4 bolts ontop of the rear axle to A frame
These little suckers were rusted badly - the 12 point heads were almost rounded as a result. One had been 'repaired' by glueing a large hex bolt over the 12 point head - clever solution really. the challenge here is you cant buy these 12 point bolts soI had to go to a bolt shop and get the best solution using a standard hex and a washer under it - as the bolt hole is recessed into the axle housing only 1/2 the bolt head remains for the spanner/ socket - which is not enough to get the torque onto it.
Pulled the seat frames out of the molasses bath
They have been in for over a month now as I was busy on other tasks - certainly cleaned all the rust out of them, they will be KBS coated now, then the new seat foams will go in.
Soaked the turbo intercooler in diesel and flushed it out.
This was full of crud, so im hoping this clean out will help somewhere with 'performance'
Cut a few gaskets
The last order I was sent the wrong gaskets for the rear stub axles- they sent front gaskets instead - I had the old one and some gasket paper, courtesy of Toxic Avenger, so I cut out a few gaskets and put those in.
Put in another order for parts - little things hold up bit events - for example the plastic retainer for the clutch to slave arm was broken - its a 12 cent part, but without it you cant mate the gearbox to the engine ( which was scheduled to be done last weekend) . In another example - we did the timing belt last weekend, but couldn't complete that task as I need to replace the O-ring behind the crankshaft pulley and the seal behind the camshaft - so I end up with lots of tasks 1/2 done as I try to make the best of the available time to work on moving some part of the project forward.
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finally, a 'rolling chassis'
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Keeping it simple is complicated.
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