Fixed more rust and shit on the hatch of the Golf and did the GTI-thing as an experiment just to have done it once to have some experience for when I'm doing it for real :v:
so to give you a better view, here's what it looked like before:
[img]http://puu.sh/Y3F6[/img]
and this is now:
[img]http://puu.sh/Y3xH[/img]
Also doing that black GTI-thing as an experiment is a good way to find out that you have to use a bit more expensive masking tape:
[t]http://puu.sh/Y3xP[/t]
I put it on normally, then stroke my fingers hard over it and then one more time with the nails and it still let paint through...
Good enough for now, will do it better (with better masking tape) when I'm gonna put some actual paint on
[QUOTE=ThermalArc;37370335]I think of road wrenching as the highest fucking challenge a AA can attempt.
I always carry my mastercraft toolbox (pretty complete) and a few wrench (10,12,14,15,17,18,19,21,22,24mm). Only got defeated by my supra one time, when the trans seized and the engine knocked to death :P[/QUOTE]
>try to change thermostat in the rain
>pouring rain and thunderstorm
>strip out 2nd bolt and crack the housing
>fuck
[QUOTE=slayer3032;37369499]I have AAA and I get 3 free tows a year anywhere I want within 100 miles. It also works for any vehicle I'm with so for instance when a friend of mine smacked a curb in his Integra and bent the subframe all I had to do is drive over, call up AAA, a tow truck came right out and dropped it off with just my signature and a look at my card. They'll even bring out gas, change the tire for you and pay for a locksmith. There's a bunch of places which give you discounts for being a member as well so it's pretty nice.
I don't think I'd call them to put a spare on though.[/QUOTE]
As long as you don't have Floridas AAA, they abuse they're trucks to the point of scrap. It's painful to see how bad it is.
[QUOTE=bradley;37371328]I've been defeated one time when a rad hose exploded and then my timing belt decided to jump, my dad had a friend with a truck so I got a free tow.
One of my proudest accomplishments is when I was driving my Civic towards another town, and it started to overheat. I pulled over, a pinhole had rubbed in a tiny rubber coolant lint that went to my IACV. I had some plastic tubing in the car that was the same ID, and I put it on there with some plastic zip ties, then poured a bottle of water someone had left in my car into the rad. It didn't need water for a good week after that when the plastic tubing got brittle and cracked. :P I replaced it with some good line after that.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=thattaco;37371736].
Nice.
Mine was in my 98 Tacoma 4x4.
I snapped a u joint in half.
With a crescent wrench I removed to 4 bolt that connect the shaft to the tranny. Tossed it in the bed. Locked the hubs and drove in fwd mode for a couple days. Till I could source a new slip yoke. It deformed bad from the metal gas tank skid plate.
My 81 Toyota pickup blew a heater hose in lowes parking lot. How nice that was. Just took me an hour to buy the hose and coolent and replace the hose. Had to walk 1/2 to Walmart to get the coolent.
I've only been stranded once and had to call a tow truck. it was 7 miles up a dirt road a i burnt up the auto tranny in my Lexus.[/QUOTE]
I've been defeated once and had a few road wrenches to call my own. My moms Olds Cutless Ciera had a severe problem with vapor lock, the fuel line was about 4 inches away from the exhaust that passed over the trans. FR V6 issues about on that car when it came to fuel lines it turns out so I just bent the line slightly just enough to stave it off till I could craft a shroud.
My defeat came when my roomie's Wagovan jumped a tooth on the timing belt, which is what started a few other issues that never got fixed all the way till it's unscheduled retirement. (a wild dodge ram appears, it uses ignore red light and SMASH! It's super effective!) The reason the belt jumped is because the prior owner decided Honda makes bad bolts, so they used one that was too long, then make a dipshit choice and cut and ground the bolt to fit. About 10mm of thread was all that held the bolt in so naturally, it ripped the threads out. |-------------------| <-- is how much thread thats ABSOLUTELY NEEDED to keep from that kinda booger up. The fix was easy, drill, tap, and helicoil, presto chango fixed.
weighed ma car, full tank, spare, tools, sub
[img]http://i49.tinypic.com/9ux3d0.jpg[/img]
I switched out my oil cap seal and dipstick seal, both of which were really bad.
Doesn't leak a drop now.
Also sucked in a cloud of chlorine gas while working on the pool, that ruins your day rather quick...
[editline]23rd August 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Ldesu;37372629]Fixed more rust and shit on the hatch of the Golf and did the GTI-thing as an experiment just to have done it once to have some experience for when I'm doing it for real :v:
so to give you a better view, here's what it looked like before:
[img]http://puu.sh/Y3F6[/img]
and this is now:
[img]http://puu.sh/Y3xH[/img]
Also doing that black GTI-thing as an experiment is a good way to find out that you have to use a bit more expensive masking tape:
[t]http://puu.sh/Y3xP[/t]
I put it on normally, then stroke my fingers hard over it and then one more time with the nails and it still let paint through...
Good enough for now, will do it better (with better masking tape) when I'm gonna put some actual paint on[/QUOTE]
Do you have something over there called plastidip?
It works wonders, you should try it out. You would be surprised how clean the lines can be.
pulled out my seats, vacuumed the floor, got rid of a bunch of that shitty ass spray in expanding foam (Great Stuff foam, i hate that shit), riveted in some little patches (mainly on the rear parcel tray where they sprayed that Great Stuff foam)
got the driver's side heater channel all patched up (just gotta finish popping some rivets into it), 3/4 of the passenger's side heater channel is patched up too (both inside channels are fine it's just the exterior of the channel that is rotted) and started spraying the underside with some undercoating, part to make it look a little cleaner and part to help prevent rust and the little surface rust from becoming rot.
also have my engine cover almost done.. the pieces are made it's just got to get tweaked a little more to make it fit right.
it's been an interesting couple days, going to have my buddy come by and tell me if he'll give me a sticker and if he's cool with it i'm going to go down and register the car and get him to inspect it this coming week.. i just want to get it on the road, i'm doing quite a few things the totally wrong way but if i can get it on the road until next year, i can get together some money (and more time) to do things the right way (like replacing the heater channels.. really that's the biggest thing)
[QUOTE=Siminov;37378180]I switched out my oil cap seal and dipstick seal, both of which were really bad.
Doesn't leak a drop now.
Also sucked in a cloud of chlorine gas while working on the pool, that ruins your day rather quick...
[editline]23rd August 2012[/editline]
Do you have something over there called plastidip?
It works wonders, you should try it out. You would be surprised how clean the lines can be.[/QUOTE]
No, it is sold in Norway, but not anywhere close to me
I want to plastidip my wheels from gold to white
[IMG]http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/375830_403617649702944_1907466584_n.jpg[/IMG]
fuck I need a drop but, WHERE'S THE ROOF.
ahaha a opening trunk latch is underrated; targa compartement
DON'T YOU DARE DO THAT, THERMALARC.
That gold is beautiful.
I'd kill for a set of those in 4x100.
why cant all wheels be 4x100
and have CB of atleast 60
wow, never knew it would make me happy to work on my own car.
either way, welded up quite a bit today, I'd say about 20% of the shit that I had to weld.
[img]http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/621793_10151356917938154_329740856_o.jpg[/img]
SOON.JEYPEG
1 week to install a fan.
New record?
[editline]24th August 2012[/editline]
i should probably clean it out in there some day
10min to install a fan
record?
just kidding, good job
Disassembled rear brakes and cleaned.
Also replaced handbrake cables.
[QUOTE=Concur;37388800][img]http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/621793_10151356917938154_329740856_o.jpg[/img]
SOON.JEYPEG
1 week to install a fan.
New record?
[editline]24th August 2012[/editline]
i should probably clean it out in there some day[/QUOTE]
Next weekend you should install a tensioner pulley.
Polished my car where needed, and waxed it today with my friend. It's decent work if you do it by hand. I'll probably take some pictures tomorrow, i didn't finish until it was dark.
Put a steering wheel in my car that I got for $10 off Craigslist. Looks alright compared to my worn out old one. Still waiting on a Pentastar horn cover for it.
I put the stock muffler back on my car after just not having the axleback since last winter, the sound of the motor mount inserts sounds cool as hell and is enough noise since my right ear didn't seem to like the exhaust ending shortly after the backseat anyways. I forgot how awesome just the intake noise of my car was!
Hopefully tomorrow I can try to figure out how to make the o2 sensor in the cat stop throwing codes and put some non-foulers on it or something.
shopping for a awesome electric fan.
I want thisss: [url]http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HFM-ZFU16S/[/url]
(I can't go dual)
finished putting together my ghetto heating system. the air makes it to the front defrost, though not like incredibly strong air it still makes it. wouldn't have bothered with it except for the fact that front defrosters are a must (legally and "oh god I can't see anything except ice and fogged windshield")
also made up some ghetto mudflaps for the rear tires since there's no fender behind them and they poke out of the wheel well (both of which are illegal unless the tread of the tire is behind a mudflap)
adjusted the carb, seems to idle better (it's now at 850 where it should be instead of >1k idle) and should hopefully do better on cold starts, before it seemed to be crazy lean and just basically die unless i kept on the gas for 30 seconds or so. find out tomorrow morning, my pops has a doctor appt so i'll have the morning to fuck off for a little while.
i should get my rear bumper fully mounted and a couple other little things since i registered the car last friday and i only have until next monday to get a sticker on it.. my buddy is going to let me know when the shop he works at is pretty dead and i should hopefully be able to pop in for a quick sticker.
it's great riding around in the bug, all kinds of comments and funny looks. i love the sound of the exhaust (one of the POs decided to take a couple Harley Davidson exhausts, weld them together and attach it to a 1 3/8" Baja Bug header, lol) and it's just a ton of fun even if the car only has a grand total of 60hp on a good day it's the most fun i've ever had in a car.. no power steering, just cables between me, the throttle and the clutch.. good stuff.
1jz flywheel is on the loose.
I'm putting the car on a ETAless stops.
Will try to remove the trans and retorque the bolts in a 10days timeline (I'm so fucking busy)
threw in some MIL eliminators on the cobra and ripped out the windshield tint
Drained the trans
removed the driveshaft.
unbolted slave, abs sensor
unbolted PP
unbolted starter.
removed shifter.
I'm ready to remove the transmission mount and unbolt the bellhousing. I'll be doing that this weekend I think
I got my back seats back in the civic. I love how simple it is, a total of 4 bolts and the bottom part and the top two sections come off. What wasn't easy was putting the fabric back onto the foam part of the seat, but it looks oem and fitted snug so i think i did good!
So I went JBFDLGNFDLKNGLKFNG all up on my gas tank.
Drained it.
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031910/VWCabby/2012-08-30%2013.58.03.jpg[/t]
Played "find the pump" May I note the PUMP was not attached to anything and was just rolling around in the tank.
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031910/VWCabby/2012-08-30%2016.30.10.jpg[/t]
(Dunked them in super clean overnight)
Found it! And guess what the floater does not work and the pump does not work. :suicide:
Time to buy a walbro 255 and head studs and a turbo manifold and some RCS injectors and a nice greddy or turbonetics t3 and a good front mount and some nice forged rods/pistons and some EFI management
[editline]30th August 2012[/editline]
Or just a stock fuel pump. Whatever.
[QUOTE=bradley;37473927]Time to buy a walbro 255 and head studs and a turbo manifold and some RCS injectors and a nice greddy or turbonetics t3 and a good front mount and some nice forged rods/pistons and some EFI management
[editline]30th August 2012[/editline]
Or just a stock fuel pump. Whatever.[/QUOTE]
[I]¿Qué?[/I]
[sp]Sarcasm![/sp]
or should i say : [I]Nani?[/I] (何?)
Messing with DP. Keep telling him to turbo that boat anchor in his Cabby and he is like "lol stock". But those things are turds.
retorqued the flywheel
when I torqued the pressure plate bolts I heard one snap, opposite to the one I was torquing.
so fuck it, i'm rocking 5/6 bolts on the PP
finished mounting my rear bumper, trying to pin point the leak in my tranny.. every time i park, there's a couple drops of gear oil on the ground but i'm not sure if it's just residual gear oil from spilling the shit EVERYWHERE or if it's actually from the tranny.
messed with the idea of doing a ghetto at-home alignment but gave up once i realized i would have to pull my gas tank (it's only like 5 bolts but still) just to set my tie rods so my steering wheel was straight (and ultimately my toe) and it'd just be a generally huge pain in the ass to do and would be nowhere near as accurate as a computer alignment
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