My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)
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I removed the lower dash on the driver side today, allowing me to work on the fusebox delete. I removed the brake booster with the help of Jake (StewCrew). I couldn't figure out how to get the clevis pin out. Then Jake got it out. I was trying to pull it out the wrong direction:P lol We also attempted to put some snows on my mk3, but it is too racecar to fit 14" bottle caps up front. Dat big brake setup hits the barrel. I then had to get home because my girlfriend got sick. More progress on Wednesday.
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StewCrew said:
The line "the mk3 is just too racecar to fit 14"s" makes me laugh every time. Lookin forward to Wednesday!
I had to mention it;) I think I even cracked myself up.
Edit: I quick stopped in today and got the fusebox fully unbolted. Now to pull the wires and then relocate the beast under the dash
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I might be building two sets of wheels for the car now. I can get a sweet deal on some OZ Breytons from the homeland=)
I'm either going to build them wider, or flip them. Here is a picture of them for those who do not know what they look like:
They're pretty rare, but I have seen them on a few e36's. I've always had a soft spot for them=P We will see what happens.
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Earl said:
I might be building two sets of wheels for the car now. I can get a sweet deal on some OZ Breytons from the homeland=)
I'm either going to build them wider, or flip them. Here is a picture of them for those who do not know what they look like:
They're pretty rare, but I have seen them on a few e36's. I've always had a soft spot for them=P We will see what happens.
Very nice! Reminds me of those AMG wheels that came on older Mercs. Those are gonna look good!
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Rowleym said:
I like. Really makes me want air ride in my next vehicle. Does anyone do static in the rear, air in the front?
I think they either do full static or full air usually. I was debating going air in the rear a while back, since the rear is hard to get down on the Compact. I opted against going half an half=)
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I got out to the shop last night and worked on a few more things.
I got most of the spot welds roughly smoothed out. The 60 grit wheels wasn't ideal, but it took them down quick.
You're probably wondering about the plastic bag in the last picture (You probably aren't but I'm going to explain it anyways)
I managed to get the lower half of the box out. This left me with a mess of wires. I do not want these wires full of dust/debris.
I will hopefully be removing all of the fuses from the box, labelling them properly, pushing them through the firewall, and placing
them back into the box this weekend. It's not going to be fun. Here is the said mess of wires:
That makes it looks like less too. That ball of wire is massive....
I did this all while waiting for Jake to show up, and swap some tires with me. Once him and his friend Brian arrived, my neighbor arrived home. He went into the garage and grab a bag of chicken feed, spreading it across the driveway. I found it quite odd to do that in winter. He might have better luck in Spring. We did not see any chickens arrive.
After that we decided to test out the tires by putting the MK3 through a snowbank. We succeeded in the fact we had too much fun....but we got it stuck really good. I'm glad that I had a spare extension cord. It worked very well for pulling me out with Jakes e46=) We decided to do that only after about 15 minutes of trying to rock the car while pinning it to win it......it's a race car doe!
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Earl said:
I did this all while waiting for Jake to show up, and swap some tires with me. Once him and his friend Brian arrived, my neighbor arrived home. He went into the garage and grab a bag of chicken feed, spreading it across the driveway. I found it quite odd to do that in winter. He might have better luck in Spring. We did not see any chickens arrive.
After that we decided to test out the tires by putting the MK3 through a snowbank. We succeeded in the fact we had too much fun....but we got it stuck really good. I'm glad that I had a spare extension cord. It worked very well for pulling me out with Jakes e46=) We decided to do that only after about 15 minutes of trying to rock the car while pinning it to win it......it's a race car doe!
We wanted chickens... we got no chickens....
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So I was not in the mood to do wiring today. I then decided to go pickup an engine stand, and tear the motor down.
I started off by picking up, and then assembling, this engine stand from Harbor Freight. $50=)
I then finished removing the wiring harness from the engine.
Once that was done I started removing the accessories (alternator, power steering pump, a/c compressor) This led me to find most of my oil leaks as well.
I noticed a wet spot by cylinder 4 under the head. I'm going to do a compression test Wednesday. I also went to take off the trans and realized that I do not own any e-torx sockets=/ My bushings are still stuck in Polish customs, and my COP kit first shipped yesterday.
More updates to follow after Wednesday.
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