Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[GDRRiley]

well I fixed one probolem but got 2 I still need to work on.

My dad Malibu had some vibrations on the front brakes after they got warm. after taking them off the back of the pads was bone dry and some rubbing spots were forming. got them covered in some anti seize and put them back on. Fixed it.

 

My other 2 issues are my civic has a squeaking power steering pump. I need to figure out whats up with it. And my GF CRV needs new pads if not rooters too.

[Bitter]

My 98 626 transformed it's muffler into a performance muffler this morning. I'll strap some sheet metal over the hole on the top to make it quieter and call it good enough. I already need a new front pipe because the flex section has a rip, that I will fix since I can smell a little exhaust sometimes.

[3 Lions]

 

[FuzzyYellow]

Wow! Crazy to see all you guys are still here. 
 

little update on my part, the Accord is gone, I sold to my teenage brother who’s taking great care of it, and the Tundra now looks like this. 
 

 

all new suspension, wheels, 33” tires, 4.56 Tacoma gears, axles, donor bed, doors and fenders, topper, etc. running great as my daily. Just crossed over 250k.

 

 

 

how y’all been?

 

 

 

[AlwaysFSX]

2 hours ago, FuzzyYellow said:

how y’all been?

Not dead yet.

You still busy?

[Jarsky]

Mechanically and service wise, got my R33 to where i'm happy with it until its next stage later next year when I do engine out. 

Next step is to have the wheel arches rolled to reduce the wheel rub, have the bodykit fitted and a respray; hoping to book it in after new years. 

 

This year the work i've done myself has consisted of:

 

- NRG Wheel & quick release/short hub installed

- CUBE Short shifter kit & brand new OEM shifter surround and knob

- Defi Advanced Controller + Boost & Oil Pressure gauges wired in and fitted to pillar

- New Pioneer touch screen stereo + 6.5"- 6.75" Rockford Fosgate speakers front & rear with custom brackets and foam baffles. 12" Rockford Fosgate sub with 1100w RMS monoblock amp

- Converted cluster to 320km/h (10k rpm) and fitted with NISMO dials

- Deep cleaned the seats and carpets

- New Walbro 255LPH fuel pump

- Removed and repaired fuel sender which wasn't working (due to the rail being varnished over the years and storing the car with fuel).

- Fitted new Rota Grid wheels with Achilles Atr Sport 2 tyres all around

- Fitted GTR OEM wing

- Polished out the yellowed headlights to practically brand new and ceramic coated.

- Polished scratches from windscreen with cerium oxide and replaced wipers with brand new arms.

- Replaced side mirrors with working electric folding mirrors

- Coil packs replaced with Splitfire Coilpacks (and Iridium spark plugs)

- Radiator replaced with 42MM thick alloy Fenix radiator with billet aluminum brackets

- GReddy Spec-LS Type-23F (100mm thick core vs the standard Type 24E 66mm) FMIC kit installed

- Repaired damaged Aircon lines, straightened out AC condenser and somehow found a brand new fan shroud to repair the OEM AC fan.

- Replaced timing belt, AC pulley belt, steering pump belt and alternator belt. Front main oil seal and front cam oil seals. 

- Washer bottle / Oil catch can combo (with new OEM washer motors)

- Replaced my old TEIN NR coilovers with TEIN Flex-Z fully adjustables

- Removed HICAS balljoints and fitted a Driftworks HICAS Eliminator Kit

- Replaced camber arms, toe arms, upper control arms, lower control arms, tension rods, traction rods (basically every single arm) with adjustable Driftworks arms

- Replaced OEM sway bars with Whiteline adjustable sway bars front/rear. 

- Replaced all brake rotors with DBA Heavy Duty 4000XS rotors, rebuilt all calipers with fresh seals and DBA performance brake pads

- Exedy Heavy Duty clutch, exedy chromoly flywheel, new throw out bearing etc....

- All the fluids (brake, power steering, coolant, gearbox oil, diff oil) have been done.

- Replaced many many bolts and screws and clips with brand new ones in the process of all the maintenance and work!

 

I'm sure there's a lot more i'm still missing out but that list is long enough 

 

 

[FuzzyYellow]

9 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Not dead yet.

You still busy?

yep! the last however long it's been has indeed been a wild ride. Been working in construction (this industry is nuts with the CORVIDS) got married 9 months ago, bought an '86 F250 with a 6.9IDI, sold that, and havin fun with the Tundra. and the wife likes the truck as much as I do. 

 

 

[bcredeur97]

2 hours ago, FuzzyYellow said:

yep! the last however long it's been has indeed been a wild ride. Been working in construction (this industry is nuts with the CORVIDS) got married 9 months ago, bought an '86 F250 with a 6.9IDI, sold that, and havin fun with the Tundra. and the wife likes the truck as much as I do. 

wow so awesome! I remember the price of Lumber shooting up recently. Messed with my dad's plans for building some houses...

Thanks for making me feel older jk

I still have the miata. Rebuilding the suspension on it (after I'll do interior and it'll basically be new car right?) I bought a cheap civic last year that's been nothing but trouble until recently. Waiting for the transmission input shaft bearing to explode or until I'm tired of it to replace with something much nicer. 

I've actually had a pretty good year all things considered. I'm really thankful. 

[AlwaysFSX]

6 hours ago, FuzzyYellow said:

yep! the last however long it's been has indeed been a wild ride. Been working in construction (this industry is nuts with the CORVIDS) got married 9 months ago, bought an '86 F250 with a 6.9IDI, sold that, and havin fun with the Tundra. and the wife likes the truck as much as I do. 

 

 

Hey congrats on the marriage!

[FuzzyYellow]

6 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

wow so awesome! I remember the price of Lumber shooting up recently. Messed with my dad's plans for building some houses...

Thanks for making me feel older jk

I still have the miata. Rebuilding the suspension on it (after I'll do interior and it'll basically be new car right?) I bought a cheap civic last year that's been nothing but trouble until recently. Waiting for the transmission input shaft bearing to explode or until I'm tired of it to replace with something much nicer. 

I've actually had a pretty good year all things considered. I'm really thankful. 

sad to hear the civic has been treating poorly. Still working for Tabasco?

[FuzzyYellow]

2 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Hey congrats on the marriage!

thanks brotha!

[bcredeur97]

3 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

sad to hear the civic has been treating poorly. Still working for Tabasco?

Yep lol 

[aDoomGuy]

Ahhhhh.. I found out why it smelled like engine inside the car. I have forgotten to connect the air tube to the airfilter housing, so the AC was sucking in air directly from the engine on the drivers side. lol oops...  

[bcredeur97]

5 hours ago, aDoomGuy said:

Ahhhhh.. I found out why it smelled like engine inside the car. I have forgotten to connect the air tube to the airfilter housing, so the AC was sucking in air directly from the engine on the drivers side. lol oops...  

you don’t like the smell of engine bay in the morning? 

[Bitter]

You're supposed to connect a tube from the air intake to the cabin to give you the vroom vroom engine sounds better.

[TVwazhere]

On 12/14/2020 at 2:58 PM, iDeFecZx said:

Dont mean it in a bad way lol

I think theres 4 others in here? And I used to have one myself

On 12/14/2020 at 3:00 PM, CPT_BEEMO said:

 I know dude! At least if I have an issue with the car someone here can help

Me, Real_phil, Ninjake, @Not_Sean (Who I follow on insta, he's still building the race car) and a few RS owners too like @Quibiss

 

[aDoomGuy]

1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

you don’t like the smell of engine bay in the morning? 

I do, I do just like the next guy....and actually it lead me to inspect the engine more closely and found a headgasket leak around cylinder 6 so that was where the smell was coming from. So that'll be fun to fix, right? 

[bcredeur97]

11 minutes ago, aDoomGuy said:

I do, I do just like the next guy....and actually it lead me to inspect the engine more closely and found a headgasket leak around cylinder 6 so that was where the smell was coming from. So that'll be fun to fix, right? 

Uh oh 

[aDoomGuy]

3 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Uh oh 

It's fine. She's an old lady and it's not a big leak but it's dripping on the exhaust manifoil casuing smell. I tightened some of the bolts for now and I got a whole bottle of engine oil ready to go. Gonna get that sorted next year. Also fuel pumps, new cigarette lighter and to test the cooling system for leaks there as well. Right and the arm in the wiper mechanism.

 

She keeps me entertained lol.

[3 Lions]

 

[bcredeur97]

I hate ball joints. Always hard to remove, and always manage to tear the boot when removing. 

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

I hate ball joints. Always hard to remove, and always manage to tear the boot when removing. 

https://www.amazon.com/OTC-6297-Ball-Joint-Separator/dp/B0015PN010

Those work good most times.

 

If not use hammer and pry bar method.

[aDoomGuy]

2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I hate ball joints. Always hard to remove, and always manage to tear the boot when removing. 

Yeah sometimes they are a real pain. Ugh.. I swapped out a couple of ball joints not long ago, one came out perfect but the other ...don't get me started on that one lol.

 

BTW, I made a mistake in my earlier post. Valve cover gasket it's apparently called in english not head gasket...

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

https://www.amazon.com/OTC-6297-Ball-Joint-Separator/dp/B0015PN010

Those work good most times.

 

If not use hammer and pry bar method.

Hah, yeah... I used the sledgehammer method. The ball joint came out eventually but the bolt thing of it was probably an inch or so shorter than it used to be. I went to a local shop to buy something like that in the link but the guy behind the counter said he had like 8 people come with broken pullers the last 2 weeks so I got another one that was too short... So I went with option 3. The sledgehammer hehe..

[bcredeur97]

4 hours ago, Bitter said:

https://www.amazon.com/OTC-6297-Ball-Joint-Separator/dp/B0015PN010

Those work good most times.

 

If not use hammer and pry bar method.

I use both those + 4lb engineer’s hammer if it’s pressing so hard things are starting to bend and it still won’t come out. Even then sometimes I struggle. 
 

a lot of it is the car is close to the ground when you don’t have a lift, it’s just hard to position yourself in a way to get *good* hits (also I’m pretty frail lol)

3 hours ago, aDoomGuy said:

Yeah sometimes they are a real pain. Ugh.. I swapped out a couple of ball joints not long ago, one came out perfect but the other ...don't get me started on that one lol.

 

BTW, I made a mistake in my earlier post. Valve cover gasket it's apparently called in english not head gasket...

Hah, yeah... I used the sledgehammer method. The ball joint came out eventually but the bolt thing of it was probably an inch or so shorter than it used to be. I went to a local shop to buy something like that in the link but the guy behind the counter said he had like 8 people come with broken pullers the last 2 weeks so I got another one that was too short... So I went with option 3. The sledgehammer hehe..

Lol you should def get one though, they are nice to have around and does help. Sometimes you need both That + hammer.

 

doesnt change the fact that they are extremely annoying to remove and I still manage to tear the boot with those (granted I’m usually working on old stuff that needs to be changed anyway) 

also yeah valve cover is a lot better than head gasket thanks for the clarification  

[Bitter]

I have a badass air hammer (Jiffy model #600 rivet gun) at work that'll rattle just about anything loose, not exactly a home tool though...

.498 shank tools aren't cheap but boy howdy do they get some work done and save your arms, wrists, and elbows! That's the big boy stuff that heavy machine mechanics use, so they'll bust just about anything on a car. I've rarely ran across something that won't come apart when set on by one my #600! I got my boss an Atlas Copco recoil-less one, it's  not quiet as strong but there's no feedback into his arm which is nice. Still hits about twice as hard as a regular air hammer or even a strong air hammer. The smaller one I have is a Chicago Pneumatic CP7150 which is a bit of a hotrod but has no trigger control, the rivet guns are nice cause they have a tease trigger you can slowly gently ease into the work with and hammer like you're tapping with a  small ballpeen hammer. I've used it to massage bent stuff back into place or to crack off part of an exhaust manifold, truly a versatile tool!

 

Also loud A F ! The CP 7150 with a needle scaler on the front sounds like a bunch of murder hornets hopped up on meth inside a 200W PA speaker.