New bits.
Also fitted the new front suspension bushes - the old ones came out of the car looking like this. Note how they are pushed forward in the arms...
Getting the arms back in was a mongrel of a job. Basically, the rear hole on the front mount is impossible to see and very difficult to even feel. Plus the Chinabay bushes came with crush tubes that were way too short. In the end, I made some spacers from some old crush tubes, removed the rear bush to get the front bush in then wrestled the rear bush into place.
Oh, and holding the nut while doing up the front bolt was “interesting” - the arm itself got in the way of any sort of ratchet or breaker bar, so I ended up with a deep impact socket and an old allen key in the hole in the side of the socket and then tighten the bolt. Not the approved method, I am sure!
Also cleaned out the clutch master and slave cylinders. The master cylinder was full of gunge, the slave was clean. A chance conversation with a workmate has scored me a new master cylinder at a good price, so I will fit the new one instead.
Despite my whinge about the suspension bushes, the car is a pleasure to work on. Nothing over tightened, no bodgy bolts, nothing rounded off, etc. A lack of power steering and AC both help to keep things simple too.
I picked up the new clutch at 4:15 yesterday, and had it fitted and it pretty much back together by 5:30 or so - the only things I didn’t do were related to being able to reinstall the hydraulics.
Have a set of Bilstein struts an their way to me. They should be here by now, so am not sure if I can get them in for the weekend.
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Here’s me using a “dead” thread as a notepad because I don’t have any paper in front of me.
R100 Rusty, 1200 pink, 1200 coupe, 1300 2-door sedan. =4
Capella. Yellow import, yellow S4, coupe DR RE, green S3 RX2, white S4 RX2, frog, =6
808: Wait Oh Ate, Sam’s blue coupe, red wagon, Ty/Umby, Snot Monster, Rainer yellow 76, Kagan RX3, SIK10A, Dikwit purple coupe, black $100 coupe, Adam purple coupe, ex-turbo yellow, blue Barnacle Bill. JEL458 rally. =14
929: KNS359, gold Dapto sedan, Tahn Rusty, silver Damo, red 12A sedan, brown 12A sedan, Paulie Merc sedan, HIZ599 purple wagon, Gil white, FMGeorge white sedan, Steve D white sedan, bloatware, bloat 2, brown Wagon. Candy red RX4 coupe =16
121: warner cousin, blue RX5, John B Picton, green 121 Tahmoor, 121L Mal, Baboon, brown auto, brown John Groom, Noel gold/white, racing Bubble. =11
626: 2x coupe. =2
RX7: Silver S1.5, rally car, red car, grey car. =4
323: yellow TQS889, purple Luke, brown emphysema, 10A orange, blue Ray 2-door, white 2-door, white Jen 4-door, Rachael crashed, rusty wagon. =9
1500: Harvey, yellow. =2
MX5: Bootmat NA, Nardo NC. =2
Later: Blue 6, grey crashed 3, =2
(74)
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Volvos…
122S
Aqua blue 144, dark blue 74 144, white 142, beige 142, orange 142 Kershaw, Kelvin, Besser, Hagar, orange 144 Ralph/Tom, white 142 Ralph/Tom, 144GL =11
Rally 164, red 164, white parts 164, Vince 73, Raybak 70, orange 73. =6
242: Blue UHQ961, YRF242, yellow Pedo, Alistair beige, green Shepparton, Derek, Rusty John Struth, Phil, =8
244: V8, beige Jibba’s mate, blue Keiran, Hippy, Elena, rally, GLE Paul Melling, beige 75 wino, bluemobile, Bash maroon, Pat Ryan, silver Petey, yellow race, Dalton turbo DL, Ben/Barrett DL =15
245: Teh Wagon, green 76, TID888, Katrina Gall gold, yelow 76 Vince, Little Red Wagon, blue 85, =7
700: Petey 760T, Boorowa 760T, red Windsor, white Windsor/Anna, Truefo, Truefo2, white 16V Myke, maroon 89 760 GLE =8
940: Maroon, blue 16V, blue 16V wagon, Sally, Rally, Wino grey ex-turbo, maroon wreck, =7
960: S90 Duncan, grey Mehmet, white rusty central coast, white import William, grey Goulburn, freebie Newcastle, =6
P80: blue XC, C70, white 850 Tony Jones, maroon 850 Birko, grey manual William, T5 blown head gasket?, William V70 LPT, =7
P2: Matty P XC, Superwagon, S60 T5 crashed. =3
360: Hodgkin, Winks. =2
x40: Silver T4, green T4, yellow T4 wagon, Cue Ball, 8-ball, silver Ph2 T4 BHG, silver NA PH2, black Ph2 T4 crook engine, white tidy T4 Russell Vale, black NA Tom drove, green 2.0 sedan Bywong, green 2.0 wagon, white early NA wagon, red T4 wagon, Lidija/Ballast, =15
(170)
Mitsubishi:
La coupe, CA Blake McC, CB Peter Pint, CC SCC race, CE coupe Ballast, maroon CC sedan for Jumbuck, CE sedan Yass, CH wrecks, black x2, blue CE sedan Tony, red LC Kirilee, purple LC Matt Ra. =12
GC coupe Mick Lukey, GC coupe Daniel Wy, green GC, Adam Roc wagon, Davetrees GA rally, Paul Rally, Js rally, brown sedan, Cowra wrecker white sedan, yellow sedan Adelaide Ethan/MattFerg, Mitch green GB, Petey orange GC, Anna good GC, brown GD, Trent gold GD. GE aborted rally car, Scorpion parts car =18
Mirages: Blue rally, Damage, Heimage, Annage, Kidage, Ellage, Roadage, Hardage, annage parts, Crashage. =10
Magnas: Nan wagon, Stockingbingal shitter, Adam maroon, Crookwell blue crashed, black 380 wreck, Yuzhen white nice, Blake white wagon, Narry 3.0 white sedan =8
Pajeros: Silver NP, Baron gold NS. =2
(218)
FORDS.
Maroon EL wagon, BF blue wagon, red ute, Warner ute, The Frikken Laser, black parts Laser, red Laser, Heimo Festiva, black XR4, race XR4, =9
(230)
OTHER SHIT:
Fiat 850, Fiat 124, Afletta brown, Alfetta gold, Paulie Daepoo, Fat Bastard Daepoo, Jumbuck, Gran’s SB1 Civic, Sadnut, Noddy the Micra, Yaris =12
MERCEDES: Black CL203, Kirin, Lori, Groldie, Blue 180E, TFT, #6, Angus C C220, Albury C180. =11
BMW: Silver rally, the twin, Sam, Liam, Wino blue, 323Ci, black 316ti, grey E46ti, silver manual E46ti, white E46ti, Boormat 318is, Andrew auto 316i, Greg manual 316i, Greg auto 316i, Bootmat 318ti, race 318ti, silver 120i Myke, grey crashed 120i, Shona 316i auto, X5. John Carn 2002, Holder 2002, yellow 2002 , Damo red 318ti, Wino blue coupe, Andrew 318iS coupe =26
HOLDEN: LH rally car, VL rally car, VL parts, LC, Gemini rally yellow and red. =6
(281).
