My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)
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Here is how far the welder got yesterday. Should be done today or Monday=)
My CA Tuned front brake lines and clutch line came and they look great. I forgot to upload a picture to my photobucket though=/
I assembled my calipers last night. All of them except for one went together great. There is one that I cannot get the piston past the o-ring and it is frustrating the hell out of me. I will be trying at it more today.
Carrier bushings in
Inner seal in
All three that are done
Here is how far the other front goes in
I tried doing it all sorts of ways and then finally managed to get it stuck. I will hopefully figure it out but I know for sure the o-ring is the issue.
Side note: one of the axles gave out on my daily as I pulled into work today so I am both unsure of how I am getting home, how I am getting to the shop tomorrow, and what I am going to do for a daily in general.
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I pulled the o-ring out yesterday and made sure the piston fits in the bore and it is smooth as butter. Something with the o-ring is keeping it from nicely sliding in=/
The axle went from being no issue, to clunking very quiet intermittently, to clunking under load very audibly in under 5 minutes...lol I am thinking an engine or trans mount wore out and made an intermittent vibration that I have been having and after it doing it a few times, caused the axle to wear out
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Not much was done this weekend. John and I spent Saturday trying to fix my daily. We assumed it was the passenger side axle, due to axle grease being spun around by the inner cv. After replacing it nothing has changed. The issue has to be something diff or trans related and since the car got hit by the semi, it isn't worth fixing. Hopefully we are either missing something easy, or something pops up for sale at a reasonable price instead of all of the over inflated crap currently.
Anyways, onto the car that matters. Subframe got finished Friday=)
Then primered
And then painted
My ECS Tuning order shipped out Friday as well and should be here today or tomorrow. Once that comes I can assemble my front hubs, attach my caliper carriers, and get my calipers finished with their new bleeders.
I was looking through my phone pictures Saturday morning and happened across this one. Eventually the car will be finished...
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I hope that's hashtag wrinkle black paint on the subframe
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My ECS order arrived yesterday. I started right away on assembling my hubs and installing my speed bleeders.
(the lighting was terrible for all of these phone pictures so I apologize in advance)
Here is where I started, bare freshly powdercoated knuckles.
I then took these rear dust covers
and fitted them to the knuckles.
After that I opened up these guys
and tapped them on with a mallet
Well, I only got one fully down. Reason is that I am an idiot and was tapping on the outer races/hubs instead of waiting to grab my socket and tapping them on from the inner race. From the multiple people I have asked, there shouldn't be any damage to the bearings since I wasn't bashing on them like Bam Bam with a wooden club. The use of a rubber mallet also saved me. I am waiting to do the other one until tonight when I will have my socket=)
After all of that I installed my speed bleeders.
I don't have any installed pictures because the sun went down and the lights in my living room are terrible.
I did however only install 3 successfully. The fourth one I threaded in by hand like the previous 3. However, after slowly threading it in with a wrench, it felt like it wasn't going any further or tightening. I backed it out to see this:
I am not quite sure how the threads stripped without applying any more torque than a simple turn of the wrench. I sent ECS an email about it, but I will probably just need to order a new one. I also made sure to take a cotton swab and get the stripped threads out of the bleeder hole so that they don't go into the bore=)
Never a dull moment I guess. More updates tomorrow I am hoping.
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ECS is sending me a replacement bleeder free of charge. That right there is why I always order through them=) Great customer service.
On a side note, I picked everything up from the shop at lunch. I should be getting the stubborn hub down on the knuckle tonight, as well as bolting the calipers and rotors on to get an idea of how it will all come together.
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The parts keep coming. I dig it
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I wanna see this thing this spring!!!
1984 BMW 528e - SETA and manual swapped! M50 to come!!!
1988 BMW 528e - Need parts?
1991 Chevy C1500 (mighty 350 with TBI and Wisconsin weight reduction package)
1996 Mazda Miata (SOLD!!!)
1996 BMW 325i (Donor car)
1998 Chevrolet Corvette (BEAST)
2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee (BROKEN)
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I got my other hub sat down, as well as my Motorsport Hardware studs and Adams Rotors (with ECS's stainless hold down bolts)
Hubs on
Studs in
Rotors on
The dust cap is just sitting on there to get an idea on how they will look.
I do have an issue though. When I hand tighten the hub nuts as far as I can with the socket, they spin very very tight. I looked into it and it seems SKF didn't relief the back side of the bearing to accodomate the OEM inner dust cap. It seems the SKF unit I have is sealed itself, so I might just need to dremel out my new inner dust covers or somehow bend them enough to not make contact. This guy had the same issue last year: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?2054474-SKF-front-hub-doesn-t-fit-E36-Seems-there-maybe-a-problem-with-part-number-matching
Good thing the front wheels aren't in a rush to go back on=)
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