06-20-2004, 10:10 PM
figured I should give an update on what's been going on.
Rex and I swapped the shocks from the parts car onto his quite some time ago.
The driveshaft has been removed and is ready to go onto the hatch.
Transmission is almost completely off, there are two bolts at the very top that are extremely hard to get to and that is what is still holding the tranny on.
Today we took all of the calipers off of the parts car. I'm going to sandblast them and rebuild them and put them on the hatch as a set of fresh and new brakes and try to sell the set from the hatch to recoop some costs.
Today I also drained the hatch's radiator and filled it up with some of the radiator cleaner. I'll drive it a couple days with that in it (once the car is driveable), then put in fluid and be done with it.
I also gravity bled the brake system today, so there is fresh fluid everywhere on the car (except passenger rear where the bleeder valve is seized :evil: )
Things that still need to be done to get driveable:
Transfer brake and clutch pedals to hatch. These things are an absolute bitch to get to.
Swap of clutch master cylinder.
Remove tranny from coupe.
Remove tranny and driveshaft from hatch.
Install tranny and driveshaft on hatch.
Put exhaust on hatch. I have it, but don't want to take it off when doing swap, so it's just sitting under the car.
Rex and I swapped the shocks from the parts car onto his quite some time ago.
The driveshaft has been removed and is ready to go onto the hatch.
Transmission is almost completely off, there are two bolts at the very top that are extremely hard to get to and that is what is still holding the tranny on.
Today we took all of the calipers off of the parts car. I'm going to sandblast them and rebuild them and put them on the hatch as a set of fresh and new brakes and try to sell the set from the hatch to recoop some costs.
Today I also drained the hatch's radiator and filled it up with some of the radiator cleaner. I'll drive it a couple days with that in it (once the car is driveable), then put in fluid and be done with it.
I also gravity bled the brake system today, so there is fresh fluid everywhere on the car (except passenger rear where the bleeder valve is seized :evil: )
Things that still need to be done to get driveable:
Transfer brake and clutch pedals to hatch. These things are an absolute bitch to get to.
Swap of clutch master cylinder.
Remove tranny from coupe.
Remove tranny and driveshaft from hatch.
Install tranny and driveshaft on hatch.
Put exhaust on hatch. I have it, but don't want to take it off when doing swap, so it's just sitting under the car.