Progress Thread Therapy Car-- Freshening Up the Lower Intake

Olivethefet · Jun 12, 2020

I've got shims left over from rebuilding the clutch packs in the diff. Should I keep them?

General karthief · Jun 12, 2020

Sure, you'll likely never need them but you know, just in case.
You may do another one.

Olivethefet · Jun 14, 2020

I got to take the car out for a short drive this afternoon. I have a working speedometer! Also I can do strong two wheel burnouts!

General karthief · Jun 15, 2020

Sure you can, there is no evidence, not even the obligatory gas station shot. For all we know you could have been pulling wheelies in the parking lot!

Olivethefet · Jun 16, 2020

Fine! I'll get a gas station pic the next time I'm out. Only problem is I buy ethanol free gas and store it in 5 gallon cans, so technically the gas station for that car is the shop....

Olivethefet · Jun 16, 2020

I've got to give some positive feed back to LMR. I contacted them about the speedometer drive gear retainer. They responded back with an email that I could reply to. I sent them pictures of the retainers. They gave me a full refund and are looking into the issue with the manufacture.

Olivethefet · Jun 19, 2020

I cant drink coffee, shift gears, while doing a burnout, and film it. I know I suck. But I can take a picture to prove it moves! Lol.

The speedometer works!

And hanging out at the office.

Olivethefet · Jun 21, 2020

Took the car out again. Everything went great but I still have that noise coming from the rear brakes. I'm going to pull the drums, again, and see if I can find anything wrong, again. If everything looks good I might try a new set of shoes.

Rdub6 · Jun 21, 2020

Olivethefet said:
Took the car out again. Everything went great but I still have that noise coming from the rear brakes. I'm going to pull the drums, again, and see if I can find anything wrong, again. If everything looks good I might try a new set of shoes.

Damn... good luck man! I’m sure you’ll get it.

Olivethefet · Jun 22, 2020

Oh, apparently the sending unit in the gas tank is hanging. I was riding around yesterday thinking "Hey, I'm getting pretty decent gas mileage!" Nope, no I wasn't. I rolled up to the shop and shut the car down. Moved the lawnmower out of the way. Got back in the car fired it back up and the gas gauge had gone from just under half a tank to about an eighth of a tank! I'll just add that to the list of things I should do something about LOL. Good thing these cars have such a massive gas tank!

Pulling the tank was on the list anyway. I need to replace the fuel lines, inspect the tank, replace the seals and what not anyway.

Willybill32 · Jun 22, 2020

Olivethefet said:
Took the car out again. Everything went great but I still have that noise coming from the rear brakes. I'm going to pull the drums, again, and see if I can find anything wrong, again. If everything looks good I might try a new set of shoes.

Maybe you should just go ahead with the rear disc conversion...

Olivethefet · Jun 22, 2020

Willybill32 said:
Maybe you should just go ahead with the rear disc conversion...

Actually that is a great option. Biggest problem there is money. I need a MC, spindles, I want to upgrade the front calipers, rear calipers, axles bc I want to upgrade to 5 lug, and of course wheels and tires. I have started to collect parts for this project though. I mean, I've got a Cobra booster. I guess saying I'm collecting parts is exaggerating a bit as I only have one part....

Option number 2 is I quit doing whatever dumb crap I'm doing and just fix the stupid thing! Option 2 is also cheaper.

Willybill32 · Jun 22, 2020

Olivethefet said:
Actually that is a great option. Biggest problem there is money. I need a MC, spindles, I want to upgrade the front calipers, rear calipers, axles bc I want to upgrade to 5 lug, and of course wheels and tires. I have started to collect parts for this project though. I mean, I've got a Cobra booster. I guess saying I'm collecting parts is exaggerating a bit as I only have one part....

Option number 2 is I quit doing whatever dumb crap I'm doing and just fix the stupid thing! Option 2 is also cheaper.

Well, doing the 5-lug conversion definitely makes it a bigger job. One reason why I’m still running 4-lug setup.

Olivethefet · Jun 22, 2020

Yeah, the 4 lug rout would be easier, but I like the options that the 5 lug setup opens up. I'm not planning to upgrade the axles to 31 spline or anything like that. I have no intention of putting this car on any kind of track. I also don't really see myself trying to push stupid high HP numbers out of it either. If there is a strong reason to upgrade to 31's I'm all ears. I just dont want to have to change the differential.

General karthief · Jun 22, 2020

Bragging rights and because 'racecar'.

Olivethefet · Jun 24, 2020

Here are some pictures of the right rear brake. There is a lot of brake dust considering that this has only been together for less than 200 miles. Seems like odd ware as well.

General karthief · Jun 24, 2020

My brain screams when I see pics of you brakes, don't know why, likely just my brain, it does things I can't explain.
One thing that I would advise would be to take the green and white spring ends and squeeze the ends around where it wraps the stud at the top, you want it to wrap the stud as much as possible.

Olivethefet · Jun 24, 2020

I'm sorry that my brakes make your brain hurt General! I dont like the way those springs look either. I'll get that fixed.

Olivethefet · Jun 26, 2020

OK, so in an effort to make the General happy, I dont want him to come steal my car, I spent some time redoing the springs and retainers on my right rear brake. I swear I'm not doing this to try to make my car safer, or fix the annoying scrubbing noise. This is all the result of one person not like how my stuff looks.

And now for your viewing pleasure. More pictures of my boring ass drum brakes! Exciting I know.

If anyone sees something that I'm missing by all means point it out. To me this looks a lot better than it did.

stanglx2002 · Jun 26, 2020

Do they work?

Progress Thread Therapy Car-- Freshening Up the Lower Intake

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wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair

I will own your nuts! LOL

wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair

I will own your nuts! LOL

I will own your nuts! LOL

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So while I wait to figure out my rear end issues

I will own your nuts! LOL

But at least it's tight!

I will own your nuts! LOL

But at least it's tight!

I will own your nuts! LOL

wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair

I will own your nuts! LOL

wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair

I will own your nuts! LOL

I will own your nuts! LOL

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