Progress Thread Prime's 87 T-top Gt

Prime Lord · Apr 29, 2025

Noobz347 said:
You should swap the bearing retainer. Yours looks like ass in the image.

I don't recall it being very hard.

It all looks like ass right now.

Prime Lord · Apr 29, 2025

It's covered in oil. Needs a good cleaning. Imma see what it looks like after before spending more dollars.

Prime Lord · Apr 29, 2025

And yeah. There's a ¼" of compacted oil on the housing. s dirty, yo.

limp · Apr 30, 2025

Last time I took dirty engine items to the car wash the owner was there.. Told me to take my stuff elsewhere....

Prime Lord · Apr 30, 2025

Prime Lord · May 1, 2025

Ordered passenger side floor pan. A bunch of urethane parts. There's more to come.

AeroCoupe · May 1, 2025

Man that is one hell of an improvement.

Prime Lord · May 1, 2025

Car wash pressure washer did a pretty good job on the bellhousing. Still some areas I need to hit with the brass brush but it's WAY better.

Prime Lord · May 1, 2025

Oh. And. Sigh.

Ordered a new bearing retainer.

Prime Lord · May 4, 2025

Blocking plate and flywheel installed. New ARP bolts torqued to spec. I RTVd the plate to the block. Picked up some ¾" bolts to hold it temporarily while the RTV sets up. I figured that'd make it way easier to install the bellhousing and put some extra schmuts behind the back of the oil pan.

Prime Lord · May 5, 2025

One more thing back together.

Prime Lord · May 5, 2025

Next project is the hole in the floor. Got a new floor pan there's only two bad spots so I'm just going to cut those out rather than deal with the entire subframe structure. I'll cut it back to the subframe and weld to it.

Prime Lord · May 6, 2025

Bellhousing installed and torqued. I figured that'd make it easier to cover with canvas and protect everything while welding the floor.

Noobz347 · May 6, 2025

Prime Lord said:
Bellhousing installed and torqued. I figured that'd make it easier to cover with canvas and protect everything while welding the floor.

Check for index/runout?

Did you put the friction plate in with, "The Tool"?

Prime Lord · May 7, 2025

Noobz347 said:
Check for index/runout?

Did you put the friction plate in with, "The Tool"?

This isn't my first rodeo. Hah.

Prime Lord · May 7, 2025

Everything went together perfectly. The throwout bearing looks wonky because I slid it all the way to the inside of the retainer so it'd stay in place while I did everything else.

Prime Lord · May 7, 2025

New motor mounts will be here tomorrow. If I'm this far in, I want to make sure everything is right.

Noobz347 · May 7, 2025

Prime Lord · May 7, 2025

If only

Prime Lord · May 11, 2025

Pulling stuff apart. The cooling fan was straight cracked in half but still on the clutch. The power steering can't leak if it's not attached. Haven't opened the cooling system yet. Trying ot hold off on that till the new shows up so I can do the radiator and AC condenser at the same time.

Progress Thread Prime's 87 T-top Gt

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wrap a little cheese around it and its a done

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lube between the nut and the face. I know my lubes

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