Reply With QuoteLooks so good & your working on it already.
Also is that antenna going to stay? its pretty massive :|
And so it begins.....
Needed some work, so spent a day taking off most of the paint because when i wiped it down with wax and grease remover the rag turned white from the last coat that was on it. This wasn't a good start, and realising it wouldn't last long if i'd sprayed over the top, i stripped it back to it's primer with 240g dry paper, which got me to a solid base.
I etch primed the whole gate, then a quick guide coat (the light black), once dried i rubbed it back with 400g wet'n'dry (wet) to see an imperfections, not that many !! yay !!
So after rubbing the guide coat, i gave it it's 4 coats of hi-fill and another guide coat, which is where we're at now.
I want to let this set for a while before i attack it with it's next rub back.
Looks so good & your working on it already.
Also is that antenna going to stay? its pretty massive :|
Looking good!
Thanks guys. Antenna doesn't bother me, i do have a shorter one off an Alfa 159 if it starts to bother me later.
Not much happening, because we're going on holidays soon, but managed to find a nice steering wheel laying around at work, so here's a piccy.
Also a teaser pic coming up soon, which will give things away, as to where she heading. I'll post it before i go away.
look good buddy.id love to have a closer look at the bay in real life as i plan to run A/C and powersteering with my 20v also, its pretty full on in there.
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ahh Trent i see what my old p/s pump is going into. This thing is rad
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Yeah Vaughn thought I'd get a spare, I case this one dies.
Phi the bay is tidy, who ever did the conversion did a great job, pity it's not going to last......
Great learning tip for an young punters out there, when you buy a car, slowly go over the whole car yourself to both see what's done and how it's been done.
The only complaint I have about the car is a noisy whine in the diff when under load, if I backed off it was quiet. So I thought before I went on holidays I'd pull the diff out and have it checked over, so when I get back it's done, and there is no down time with it considering it's my daily run about.
First thing I found was the nuts on the passenger side axle retainer plate weren't tight, and the ones on the drivers side, well someone had put the spring washers under the retainer plate, so the plate wasn't holding the axle in properly. Glad I found that now before an axle dicided to fly out at speed!!!
any ways, I spoke to Craft Diffs today and they reckon they can fix the diff centre to stop the whine, but are more concerned about the damage on the retaining plate, and that the bearings are very hard to get.
Anyways, I'll keep you posted. Also checked the ratio too, which is a 4.7777777778 to 1.
Oohhh before I forget can anyone suggest a speedo gear that will bring the speedo back to its true reading because at 100kph it says I'm doing 135kph on the speedo. Can you help me solve this?
Take it to a workshop with a dyno, (powertune is down the road from ASV) and get it checked properly, they will give you a percentage that the speedo is out by, then you buy what ever cog from toyota or whoever that equals it out.
Or even better Just compare the dash speedo to a GPS. Then work out the percentage it is out by and get it done.
The place that sells VDO gauges in milperra does speedo recalibrations..
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