Simon Oaten
Daily Driver
excellent work
What about the plastic bushing between the two pedal pivots?
As for the clutch spring install..
Bernice
Really nice looking workOh yeah, we got it together…
Used a fairly inert ‘universal’ kind of grease.
It’s Red Grease. It’s red, so it must be good for the application right?
Nice to contrast with black parts and white bushing.
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A sort of side benefit for powder coating pedal assembly is that the bushing fits super tight into the big mounting bracket.
Instead of cleaning away the powder from the ID of the bracket holes i decided to leave it and instead drive the bushing home tight.
Should help keep it from spinning.
Masters are not-quite-rebuildable, used for mock up and labeled accordingly.
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Calipers:
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Anxious to see if any of this stuff actually holds fluid!
Oh yeah, we got it together…
Used a fairly inert ‘universal’ kind of grease.
It’s Red Grease. It’s red, so it must be good for the application right?
Nice to contrast with black parts and white bushing.
View attachment 84361
A sort of side benefit for powder coating pedal assembly is that the bushing fits super tight into the big mounting bracket.
Instead of cleaning away the powder from the ID of the bracket holes i decided to leave it and instead drive the bushing home tight.
Should help keep it from spinning.
Masters are not-quite-rebuildable, used for mock up and labeled accordingly.
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That's always a hard one, I stripped a harness of unneeded stuff when I built a turbo-diesel Isuzu Trooper (I miss that one). It was a bunch of work that helped simplify diagnosing later as half of it was redundant wiring and connectors for RHD models. I wasn't trying to lose curb weight on that one just gaining insight and understanding which can be a tremendous help later when something frustrating comes up (as it will inevitably). Simplify so say I.And then the question keeps nagging me;
Do we strip down useless ancillary parts of the harness?
Power windows, door buzzer, stupid box that reminds you to change the cat...
Given the increased propensity for battery drain or confusion,
Less is best.
Given Murphy, the thing most likely to give issues is the one you touched last.
Let sleeping dogs lie,
Or simplify?
Maybe some reinforcement plates where the cracks were in the shifter area on the tunnel....Today was a huge one.
Got the car up on stands and attacked the passenger compartment.
Even after months of airing out it still has that smell...
First thing was to grind down our past weld repairs.
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Rats had been living large on the rear package tray.
Thick gooey sound insulation had absorbed their loveliness.
It was seemingly bulletproof.
Chiseling it away was a battle I'd been putting off for months.
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Water (rat water?) had caused the seal to fail and rust in seams.
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Chisel away failed seam seal until getting to solid areas.
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Twisted-knot wire wheels on angle grinders,
Rolocs and wire straight wheels and cup brushes on die grinders,
Sandpaper, Scotch-Brite, phosphate wash.
Hours and hours of loud work,
Compressor hammering away, clouds of airborne foul rat grime...
Way up under the dash was rusty crusty and just gross.
Some of that stuff will forever be in our nose, ears and eyes.
No pics. I'd rather forget.
Eventually we get to what he calls origami.
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Weather was perfect for some primer and paint,
But,
We're both just BEAT!
One more paint session tomorrow and we're moving on to assembly.