I Only Wanted The Wheels.... by 72clubman

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So the fibre washer on the OS was a little worn....

All built up with a competition diff pin, new planets, and all new washers. 

Oh and a new cage and output shafts. 

The old diff pin didn't seem to have any wear, the planets did, but something (maybe the bush in the diff cage) caused the output shaft to eat through the fibre washer and start on the diff cage! 

I also put new diff bearings on, why not while it's out! 

The crown wheel looks like it's new! As does the gearbox internals that I can see which is always nice :)

10-21-2014

Well if anyone was wondering I managed to get it all back together on sunday evening and drove it back to where I'm living. Always a bit nerve wracking driving a car 150 miles after the engine was on the floor a couple of hours before! 

While the engine was out I thought I'd address an oil leak that had reared it's head! 

Just a small easy one then. Oh and my dad didn't like the look of the end core plug, he then poked a hole in the core plug with a screwdriver. It was very close to breaking through! Luckily I had a spare. 

 So I do have a 3.44 diff, always nice to know for sure.

All Prepped to go back in. 

The picture taking stopped at that point as it started to get a little dark. 

I also put on a new gear selector coupling, as my old one you could shake! The roll pins now locate in it keeping it secure and it has improved the gearchange.

Only problem is it still has a road speed dependent noise! No fecking idea what it is. (The only thing left is something beyond the crownwheel in the gearbox (but not engine speed related) or the drivers side wheel bearing (which is rock solid) The passenger side I changed with a new hub recently. 

Oh and I tried to adjust my clutch properly since I found a cracked master cylinder lid, and now it crunches again,so I need to sort that! 

There's always something to do!

Drives nicely though, feels really tight and together. 

10-25-2014

I have been most neglectful on the cleaning front! Haven't washed the poor girl in weeks!

So it's just gratuitous pictures I'm afraid.








I also had a good clean of the interior.I do love the GT dash.

11-3-2014

After months of attempted fixes I can finally say I've cured my cars horrible grinding noise!

It was the drivers side wheel bearing. Which as it turns out was disgusting! 

Badly pitted with bits floating! 

It's now noise free and lovely! 

I also got a lovely present! 

No more regressing valves for me!

Now it'd be a shame to put standard rockers on it now wouldn't it....

& finally on my way last night I hit a massive milestone! 

Well 99,999.9 miles to be precise! 

11-7-2014

Thankyou :) Im really happy how it's turned out.

I have been a little worried recently though. I've had a really nasty noise develop over the last few days when it was warm at idle which I thought was the beginnings of a bottom end knock.
So I went digging and found it was my front subframe mounting moving around! All tightened up and it now is back to being lovely.
Although I'd be lying if I said I couldn't hear a rear wheel bearing.

While I was doing this I did get a guy come up who was very interested in the GT. He offered me a very respectable offer, more than its worth! which caught me off guard! I don't think I could ever sell it though but we did exchange numbers if I change my mind...

I was looking at it today and I think the stickers are going to have to come off though. I've had my fun!