Planned to change starter motor, put the car on stands to drop the steering rack to make life easier only to discover one of the rack bolts spins and spins without coming out Decided to take manifold out instead and got starter motor out and new one wired up and installed but then discovered I didn't have any gasket goo for the manifold Came back from the shops, installed everything back up and then wondered why the car sounded like a truck and was smoking a little then realised I hadn't tightened the manifold to exhaust pipe flange bolts up tightly
[yesterday] couple of small shrinks, hammer and dolly, lay a tonne of filler, started sanding it back. not doing anything today, tulip festival then bbq then sit and relax for the rest of the day
Today i disconnected almost everything in the vp, all thats left is to disconnect tail shaft, disconnect power steering, an the motor/box is ready to pull out.. Tomorrow im getting the vn to the same point then all thats left is to get an engine hoist an swap em over.. Getting closer to having the manual in yay
Replaced the intake manifold gaskets on the VX .Prick of a job , some one done a bodge job of it before and it took hours to get the old gasket and a couple of litres of old sealer off the manifold and heads . The whole job took about 7 hours . Put it all back together now the auto seems to slip when changing gears . Any suggestions ?
Got the new one running for the first time in 10 years... YouTube - XC AMS 302c Got a bit of work ahead of me!
Cleaned out all the empty envelopes and bills and crap, vacuumed it, participated in the Cruising game here on the forum :yeah: and then dropped it off to the panel shop to get the boot replaced and rear bumper fixed and resprayed... stupid carpark hit and runs! Lucky I got your rego, asshole!:upyours:
walked outside looked at the car and thought "i should wash it.. but im driving to sydney tomorrow and it will only get dirty again" walked back inside... whenever i park my car in shopping centres i have a piece of paper and a pen i write down the rego of all cars near me and their make and colour. (no i dont take it there much and i know its a bit over the top) the one time i didnt when i went to the club i saw a guy get in his green hatchback of somesort hit my car with his door.. by the time i got up jumped the fence and ran out he was already gone and security had me.. i advised them of the situation i was let go but told to go home... little prick if i ever see that car again >.< NO I WAS NOT DRINKING
put new spark plugs and opened the CAI box and found out why my car was lacking power , dirty and clogged filter . so I put the Pod filter on (yes i know gay) until i could be bothered to go get a filter. Took it for a drive , Hello power !
Washed 5000 bugs off the windscreen after a weekend in the country. Changed a headlight globe temporarily to a spare from the shed, found out the spare was blown. Swore Swore at the new coolant leak, kicked the tyre
I sold it! Well I sold it Saturday actually! Nice project man! They don't build them like that anymore! Looks clean too
cleaned some very questionable crap from the inside of my windscreen, never know with second hand cars
