Thread: Paint

Originally Posted by Homestar

Drink lots of water, work slower than normal and take breaks. It sucks and I'm glad I don't do that any more. I do find that if I push myself to go out and work on the cars when it's hot - once I'm out there apart from sweating a lot, I don't have too many dramas. Keep a cool bottle of water close - once you're done for the day a nice cool shower and then a beer fixes everything.

Sounds like fun. I find if it's 40degrees outside ... its way over 50degrees in the shed

I installed a fuel pump and hooked up the wiring on the weekend. The motor seems happy enough to run ( yay ). It doesn't want to idle, but that is probably because there is no coolant in there or exhaust on it. I'll put the exhaust on and bolt up the driveshafts hopefully over the next night or so ... that way at least I can move it around.... and move it out the shed to fill/bleed the cooling system. Filling and bleeding the clutch will no doubt be a "fun" job too.

I think you may set a record this week by being hotter in Ballarat than Melbourne for the entire week...

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Sounds like fun. I find if it's 40degrees outside ... its way over 50degrees in the shed

I installed a fuel pump and hooked up the wiring on the weekend. The motor seems happy enough to run ( yay ). It doesn't want to idle, but that is probably because there is no coolant in there or exhaust on it. I'll put the exhaust on and bolt up the driveshafts hopefully over the next night or so ... that way at least I can move it around.... and move it out the shed to fill/bleed the cooling system. Filling and bleeding the clutch will no doubt be a "fun" job too.

The clutch is a power bleeder or vacuum bleeder job. Manually forget it unless you remove the slave cylinder and rotate it to get bleeder to top there’s plenty on the forum about this. I’ve got a cheap vacuum bleeder it worked but wasn’t quick

Yeah, bit of a ***** but last time I did one I let it gravity bleed - a bit by accident - left the slave bleeder open then forgot about it for several hours. Ran back to it and found fluid dripping out - nipped it up and had a clutch. Got lucky I think.

I have a compressor here.... so I wonder if something like this would work.

1 X Brake & Clutch Bleeder Kit Car/Van Fluid Bleeding Vacuum Tool AU | eBay

It should work

The clutch will be the next "fun" thing. I keep having plans of how much I'll get done ................ Then achieve sweet FA while I go in bloody circles.

Eg: The engineers must have been giggling with glee when they made up the Y pipe. I spent quite a bit of time chasing all the threads, wire brushing the flanges ( even ran a file over them to see if they were flat). the left bank had studs, the right bolts ... I fought that bastard of a thing for nearly 2hours before I finally had it installed ( how in the hell can you drop the flange bolts .... and they don't hit the ground... but disappear never to be seen again .... FFS: there is *only* a diff under that area, and no the missing fastener isn't on the diff). Why the hell didn't I fit studs to the right hand side manifold while it was off ?? I have a bunch of M8 x 1.25 studs there that would have worked perfectly too (beats the **** out of trying to line up the bolts surrounded by heat shields up in an area you hands can't fit)...... Oh, this is a great time to find you didn't bolt the heat shields back on when the motor was on the floor .... and it would have been a 15second task. It is a LOT more fun laying under the car trying to line the bastards up .... dropping the bolts ... loosing them ... etc.

Is there a way of getting the exhausts on/off these cars without cutting them in half behind the main muffler? I'm currently going through the cut up bits of crap exhaust trying to cobble together something that will work. Just to make it more fun, make sure none of the cuts are even. using a sabre saw to cut exhausts guarantees 100% NOTHING will line up for re-assembly.

last time I was at an exhaust place, they used one of these:

Trade Grade Chain Exhaust Tube Pipe Cutter Multi Wheel Blade Christmas Sale | eBay



makes for an even cut everywhere you use it. That would take all the fun out of it though I guess.

seeya,
Shane L.

Factory exhausts have a 2 or 3 bolt flange in front of the main muffler, easy enough to undo. Rear pipes can be curled in if the diff is hanging. I butt join exhausts all the time, although serviceable flares can be made with a big hammer and the horn of a decent size anvil.