pete25r's bugeye progress by pete25r

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why I excreted a brick when I changed my diff fluid the other day.

Mark told me about a place that would have a used diff for me. A short-ish but fun road trip up and down 95 later...

cleaned it up a little, gunna put it on tomorrow.

7-13-2013

putting it in was so much fun. I have access to a lift, a transmission jack and some other fun stuff. That made swapping the "new" one in easier.

As the story of my life goes I found another problem as I fixed one. 

I've got a whole in the top of my exhaust a little before the muffler. Its about the size of a 50 cent piece. Rear CV joint rubs it on bumps and whatever. It looks like it was damaged that way before or the prepared for such scraping by welding on a extra piece of stainless there.

I'm looking into getting some longer hangers and the whole patched. Hopefully that'll fix it up.

7-17-2013

this week-end I have a "fun" install scheduled. Might be a double-fun install if A) my order from TiC shows up soon(always does, they're quick) B) the big items I'm installing don't take me too long.

The items being replaced don't NEED to be replace but hey why not?

info and pics after install

3k views! I feel special now.. or where you guys just eyeballing my rear sway. I feel kinda dirty now....

7-20-2013

went by a muffler shop yesterday and got my exhaust leakage fixed. car sounds so much better now. the man at the shop told me he had to cut out a piece, weld in a new piece and run it the way it was supposed to go. it's a got room now, no more bumpage on the rear axle. oh yeh, kartboy long hangers got slapped on there too.

this morning I got my Konis done did. I got the Totally Awesome package deal thing from TIC(see pic in #66 for big ole box). It was all put together, group N tophats and RCE black springs. Install was pretty simple. I can see Mark having no problems doing it since he got that one broken bolt welded. The only problem I had was I had to take the rear sway off, well detach one side of the endlinks, so that my rear knuckles could drop low enough to get the struts out. Well ok I had a minor problem just before that one. Either Superman or Godzilla tightened the two bolts that hold the rear strut to the knuckle. I had to use a big nasty breaker, wired a wrench to the strut, and called on the powers of Greyskull to get them loose. The medium sized impact air gun couldn't break it loose, them dudes was ON there.

front strut - and yes I need to paint over that crappy paint job the PO did on the brake calipers. Hard to see in this picture but it was yellow then painted over with silver. 

front spring

left the rear seats out, well not bolted up, so I can tweak up the shocks

I've driven all of like 3 miles with the new awesome-sauce struts. Got them set to full soft on the front and three clicks (knob bumps) firm on the rear. The rear felt too soft on the way back from the install place. I'll get them tuned up next week.