Things inching forward. Lower arms mechanically cleaned and now soaking in Evaporust.
Author: searock
Garage updates 2
Beer!
Garage updates
The shelves are up! The garage is cleaned and it is rather nice place. Only my stock shocks stayed on the floor because I was way too tired to lift them on top of my part of the shelves.
Got the AW11 running again, after winter months. I tightened the battery ground cable and the car started on the first try.
Nothing really special here, the car runs without a hitch. 116601 kilometers on the odo.
The plugs looked great but there was this weird cream colored residue. Widrics four-doored GC8 on the background.
Suspension refurb
Got some of my spare parts from the barn. What I’m going to do is clean everything, paint them decently and put them back to the car.
Rear hubs and lower arm and whatnot
This trick seems to work, using puller you can push the old rubber out
Ready for the cleaning
Updates to blog
Some updates on the way!
Wheel hardware
How do you clean these things???
I’ve been brushing them with smooth brass brush and the sealant just sticks and wont leave. I might have tried Widric’s ultrasonic cleaner too and*cough* might have ruined it. Emphasis on might. Used xylene and for a long time, I was happy. Fumes get you high 🙂
Idea of going through 120 bolts and nuts by hand is driving me mad.
Blog updates
The blog is in need of upgrades. I’ve done some already and slowly going through the rest of the posts. Seems that the early posts have lost their galleries, but I’ll fix them in the near future.
A 1/10 scale AW11 rc car shell
Got one of these:
At the same time I got a 22B Impreza for Widric 🙂
Clutch and the clutch line
Realized some time back that I made a bunch of mistakes when I was building the clutch line.
I was reading about the different kind of pipe flaring tools, mostly differences between 37degrees and 45degrees flaring and found out that I should have used either double flare or bubble flare while building the clutch line.
Well, what can you say, this is learning.
I’m going to get back to the clutch piping when Im able. I need to get a decent tool for the pipes and some other stuff, but hope I’ll get it right this time. I should get it done bit faster now I have the experience 🙂
My head hurts
Still no progress with my head. I’m not any closer to getting medication as I was back in the autumn. Fuck the doctors.
Here is my head in a MRI scan
