Figured it's time to start general upgrade/repair thread.
Posted a bit about my pinion seal leak, which turned out to be
leaking through pinion splines/flange. Did the RTV on the splines
thing and new pinion seal anyway.
Luckily, I did crush sleeve eliminator kit during gear swap, so just required
buzzing on a new nut, to a reasonable torque to retain pinion bearing pre-load.
Due to dad attending car shows virtually every night for years, never got to change diff oil after gear swap
(usually like to do oi @ 1000 miles or less).
Oil was really ugly, but no issues of major wear I can see. Cleaned up diff cover a bit.
Had replaced one muffler about 6 years ago, making the other one and it's pipes lacking.
Decided to put a new one in and clean/paint extension/tail pipe.
New muff no longer comes with "fox body" bracket.
Drilled out spot welds, Tack'd it to new muff.
POR-15'd the bracket and ext pipe to muff, then
covered with post POR-15 primer (ready for alum spray paint).
Love 4 posts working on exh.
Painted ends of new muff
Could only get one bolt on bracket. Other side was the same thing.
Just where the muff's "wanted to be" I guess
All buttoned up.
Next on to cleaning up the rear diff/calipers/rear susp arms while I'm in here.
Then upgrade fuel pump/wiring, and hopefully finally fix fuel gauge
(which hasn't worked in 10 years).
Posted a bit about my pinion seal leak, which turned out to be
leaking through pinion splines/flange. Did the RTV on the splines
thing and new pinion seal anyway.
Luckily, I did crush sleeve eliminator kit during gear swap, so just required
buzzing on a new nut, to a reasonable torque to retain pinion bearing pre-load.
Due to dad attending car shows virtually every night for years, never got to change diff oil after gear swap
(usually like to do oi @ 1000 miles or less).
Oil was really ugly, but no issues of major wear I can see. Cleaned up diff cover a bit.
Had replaced one muffler about 6 years ago, making the other one and it's pipes lacking.
Decided to put a new one in and clean/paint extension/tail pipe.
New muff no longer comes with "fox body" bracket.
Drilled out spot welds, Tack'd it to new muff.
POR-15'd the bracket and ext pipe to muff, then
covered with post POR-15 primer (ready for alum spray paint).
Love 4 posts working on exh.
Painted ends of new muff
Could only get one bolt on bracket. Other side was the same thing.
Just where the muff's "wanted to be" I guess
All buttoned up.
Next on to cleaning up the rear diff/calipers/rear susp arms while I'm in here.
Then upgrade fuel pump/wiring, and hopefully finally fix fuel gauge
(which hasn't worked in 10 years).
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