My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)
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drive axles mount up any which way. I even swapped sides (left side is now on the right side) to help even out any wear the ball+cage has had from shock loading in the one direction (weird paranoid engineer overthinking type logic). The inverted hex bolts used for the axles like to get greasy threads so make sure they (the threads) are very clean before re-installing them and use blue threadlocker to prevent them from backing themselves out. It happens more than youd think after someone removes/replaces an axle.
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You're talking about the e-torx bolts right? I was thinking of switching the axles to the opposite sides too=) I will definitely be rebending all new brake lines for the subframe though. There are lots of bubbles at every bend=/ I now need to go through underneath and see if any others need to be done. All of the lines in the bay are being re-ran to put them out of sight=)
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Jake and I got the subframe bushing out today. They were in there insanely bad. I pressed the rubber out with a two jaw puller, and then pounded the sleeve out with an air chisel:) We then tried to air chisel the sleeve out if the diff cover. That didn't work very well. Jake ended up trying to cut it in half with a torch. It worked, but he just barely melted a tiny bit if the cover. It's okay. It was in a thick part:P I also got the trailing arm bushings out thanks to Brian (Snap). Not much else got done. There aren't many things I can do besides the bay as I want for the POR-15 to arrive. We will see what Wednesday brings:)
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I picked up some brake cleaner and a rust/paint stripper wheel Tuesday, so that I can prep the arms, subframe, and block for paint=)
Yesterday I worked on something that I have been putting off for weeks. Removing the lower half of the fusebox was where I stopped the relocation process. Yesterday I decided to do something about that.
I started by removing all of the relays from the lid:
I was then about to remove all of the wires for the fuses, but noticed something. Each section of fuses is clipped into the box. They were pressed in there really good, but I managed to get them out.
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this before, since I see people just stuffing the whole lid under the dash. That looks half assed to me. I will be making a mount for just the fuses and relays to sit on. The rest of the wires will be neatly bound up and set aside.
A friend luckily stopped by and gave me a hand stuffing the wires into the footwell. I was tugging on them lightly before he arrived, but it wasn't working well at all. With his help, we had the wires all pulled in within about 10 minutes. Here is how it sits now:
And the mess I have to sort out:
Saturday will be filled with grinding, scuffing, sorting, and all sorts of adjectives. I'm hoping to get the wires organized, and the parts prepped for paint. I may possibly even get primer down=) We will see.
Tah Tah for now
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I got out both days this weekend, but not for long at all=/
Saturday I was seperating my fusebox wiring. I put the fuses together in a bundle; relays together in another bundle; grounds into two seperate bundles; and I have a few other stray wires to sort out. I couldn't get any pictures due to the lighting. I need a real camera=( I then ran out of propane and left the shop. My feet were frozen and I decided to go out on a lake in the MK3 for a few hours. If my friend gets any video up soon, I will try to post it.
After all of those shenanigans, I returned Sunday afternoon after a nice lunch/breakfast. I had to get home before my girlfriend, so I only had an hour to
get anything done. I decided I would tackle at least one side of the block to prep for paint. I took pictures of both sides and then completed cleaning up the exhaust side.
Before:
After:
Wednesday I will be tackling the other side, as well as modifying my control arms/ cleaning them up for paint.
I'll throw this picture in just for fun. I'm trying to figure out if I want to just make a plastic panel to cover the fuse box hole, or if I actually want to weld a panel over it.
Any thoughts?
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I got a little bit done yesterday.
I started off by cleaning the other side of the block up with what was left of my drill mounted wire cup.
I need to get a wire wheel for the grinder and it should get the last bits of stubborn rust dust off.
I then put a cutting wheel on the grinder and slipped working on the trailing arms=P
Whoops. Well since I "wrecked" one of them, I figured I would do the other.
I then got the idea, why not wreck the spring seats on the body too? So I did.
More updates Saturday....or will it be sooner? =D
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Soooo.. Air ride? Haha. Is your ti a manual by the way?
Of course it is=) If it wasn't, a manual swap would have been the first thing on the list.
It does have a semi bad transmission though. It has the common problem with knocking out of first gear if you don't put it in gear before coming to a stop. It has to stay in gear then. If I take it out of gear at all while stopped, it will throw it out of first when I go to take off. In the case I do take it out of gear stopped, I have to go in reverse; drive backwards a bit; and put it in first gear. It also has a third gear knock very rarely. It has happened enough times to be a known issue though.
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