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[s14brent]

Not the update I'd love to share, but i'll start from the end of the last post. TLDR: Don't 0 out DTM style heims (irp or mrt)




secondary calipers need to be bled again.....shouldnt take too long.



motul 2l bottles are the devil. I may switch to torco RGO 85w140 + their type F modifier moving forward per Ray @ kaazusa



i had to run out to HF and get a set of their metric line service wrenches. I should have stopped here and realized there wasnt much thread left on the adjusters. I will say adjusting toe/camber is so much nicer this way.




made it to the alignment shop......but barely.....heard a giant clunk passing over the rail road tracks nearby.....turns out i ripped out the adjuster :(



^ from here.....to there v



I will be taking it all apart again (dropping out the rear subframe) and starting over. This is just.....fantastic. I was really hoping to make it to the IFO drift event on Sunday. I'm hoping to get it all back together before end of month/year, and have another alignment setup in January. Just thankful nothing was seriously damaged. I'm annoyed, MRT has apparently revised this part and made the adjuster longer to match the outer heim.......but its the same cost for shipping as it is the part.....I'm going to see if my parts are reusable first and then decide if i should order an entire spare assembly to keep as a spare/backup or just the two revised pieces while the subframe is down/out again.

[econti]

Man that sucks. Could've been way worse though on the positive

[Northern]

brutal, but that first line had me prepared for worse haha, so I'm glad it wasn't.

[2mAn]

Yea Im glad it didnt break while you were sideways somewhere... pain in the azz for sure but could've been a LOT worse

[s14brent]

Man that sucks. Could've been way worse though on the positive

100%

brutal, but that first line had me prepared for worse haha, so I'm glad it wasn't.

Sorry about that.....nothing catastrophic, just highly inconvenient

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big a** die showed up. I actually ordered a few of these to see which one would show up first LOL.....



it did cut a decent amount but its only on the maybe the top 6-8 threads. I'll place an order with MRT in january for a full set of spares to keep on hand. (they didnt have any spare parts for sale for cyber monday so i figured i could wait).



I decided to leave 6-3/4 threads on the rod side exposed with the re-threaded piece all the way in. The rod is long enough that this will cover all the adjustments needed and not run into the same issue as before.



I did take the time to clean the torringtons again.....hate doing this, one year i'll end up removing them LOL



rear subframe is back up thanks to help from a friend this time around. I also got 27mm/32/36mm wrenches so i can put some torque on the locking nuts this time around (and a bottle of the orange loctite).
I probably won't have time to work on the car until maybe thursday only this week. I need to find my rearswaybar endlinks again, somehow they got lost in the abyss. I'll also try to upgrade some more hardware "while i'm there" but theres no deadline now, might put off an alignment until January - I think the next thing to tackle is the front subframe and install the harperfab oil pan. I was thinking maybe an oil evacuator might be a good purchase since the oil in the car is relatively fresh.