Well I suppose I have lurked around here long enough, its time to post up what im doing with the parts im buying on here. I purchased a vert for my cousin to drive to and from work last year, but he ended up skipping town and leaving me with it. I cant say that I was too sad about it, but it definitely needs some work. Previous owner sold it because he thought the fuel pump went out on it. After towing it back to my house me and Stevofthahill found out that the moron had run it out of gas. Tons of pictures follow:
Took the radiator, fan, V belts, water pump, and timing belt off
While waiting for seller to provide parts, we decided to remove the suspension:
No thanks to Bently, we tore apart the trunk before finding out that access to the RSM's are in the vert compartment
We have new RSM's, these are junk:
Unfortunately, these were the worst shocks I have ever seen and will also need replaced:
started swapping out suspension parts we had on hand
Things took a turn for the worst when we were changing out the shock towers. After taking off the bolt to swap the shock tower, I did a classic move out the "Shit not to do when working on cars" handbook. We thought the spring was completely unloaded, when in fact it was completely loaded and stuck on the strut assembly . I put my face right over it and went to lift it off the strut assembly, and it shot up off the ground and smashed me full force in the face
I thought I had broken my nose for sure, but luckily the coil hit me in the lip between my teeth and nose. We decided to get the control arm off and call it a night, as we had been putting about 7 hours a day in the car already.
May as well change the valve cover gasket while theres room to move
Put on new valve cover gasket, Water Pump, thermo housing & Thermo, belts, coolant hoses, throttle body gasket, random vacuum lines, air filter
At this point the car sat on the side of my house all summer as it was too hot to work on. I picked it back up this winter.
After taking a ton of bullshit off the motor in order to clear it to come out of the engine bay, its finally hanging in my garage. Next up:
Head was sent to the shop for pressure testing, block is soon to follow
the old nasty vert front finally came off in exchange for a nice looking plastic bumper "i" front and some euro smileys:
(Before car not mine, just used as an example. Completely forgot to take a before shot before ripping it apart)
Got the engine on the stand, pulled everything off the block. Head has some burning from what looks to be blowby maybe? I dunno, the intake manifold side's gaskets are crispy on the edges so if anyone knows something else that causes crispy gaskets let me know. Strangely enough, I can still see the honing marks in the block, which makes me wonder if the engine has been rebuilt anytime recently. From the condition of the head I wouldnt think so, but I dont know for sure. Im trying to decide if I want to send the block in for an acid bath or just clean it. Anyone sent their block in before? I dont even know where to send it.
Moar pics:
Have new seats to put in it, hoping to get the head back from the shop soon so I can start putting the engine back in.
Took the radiator, fan, V belts, water pump, and timing belt off
While waiting for seller to provide parts, we decided to remove the suspension:
No thanks to Bently, we tore apart the trunk before finding out that access to the RSM's are in the vert compartment
We have new RSM's, these are junk:
Unfortunately, these were the worst shocks I have ever seen and will also need replaced:
started swapping out suspension parts we had on hand
Things took a turn for the worst when we were changing out the shock towers. After taking off the bolt to swap the shock tower, I did a classic move out the "Shit not to do when working on cars" handbook. We thought the spring was completely unloaded, when in fact it was completely loaded and stuck on the strut assembly . I put my face right over it and went to lift it off the strut assembly, and it shot up off the ground and smashed me full force in the face
I thought I had broken my nose for sure, but luckily the coil hit me in the lip between my teeth and nose. We decided to get the control arm off and call it a night, as we had been putting about 7 hours a day in the car already.
May as well change the valve cover gasket while theres room to move
Put on new valve cover gasket, Water Pump, thermo housing & Thermo, belts, coolant hoses, throttle body gasket, random vacuum lines, air filter
At this point the car sat on the side of my house all summer as it was too hot to work on. I picked it back up this winter.
After taking a ton of bullshit off the motor in order to clear it to come out of the engine bay, its finally hanging in my garage. Next up:
Head was sent to the shop for pressure testing, block is soon to follow
the old nasty vert front finally came off in exchange for a nice looking plastic bumper "i" front and some euro smileys:
(Before car not mine, just used as an example. Completely forgot to take a before shot before ripping it apart)
Got the engine on the stand, pulled everything off the block. Head has some burning from what looks to be blowby maybe? I dunno, the intake manifold side's gaskets are crispy on the edges so if anyone knows something else that causes crispy gaskets let me know. Strangely enough, I can still see the honing marks in the block, which makes me wonder if the engine has been rebuilt anytime recently. From the condition of the head I wouldnt think so, but I dont know for sure. Im trying to decide if I want to send the block in for an acid bath or just clean it. Anyone sent their block in before? I dont even know where to send it.
Moar pics:
Have new seats to put in it, hoping to get the head back from the shop soon so I can start putting the engine back in.
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