Well today Sap decided to tackle his beast and bring her back to her former glory.... man what a bitch.
This weekends projects are to swap the K-member, change the oil pan gasket, change the oil cooling jacket gasket, swap the shocks, swap the struts, change power steering hose and do an oil change. Of course things never go as planed on these cars and she decided to throw us a couple curve balls.
The rear strut rod bushings are shot but fortunatly he thought ahead and bought a set before coming out here to BFE. The can not being happy with no parts store runs decided that it would reward us with a broken engine mount.
Any of you that have had to replace these before know the joys of trying to locate one anywhere. Fortunatly I located a parts store that had one and it was only 52 miles away. :lol:
So we are no back after the journey of getting it and will resume tomorrow.
Here she is back up in the air and us multitasking by working on both cars at once.
Thanks for the alt idea!
Here you can see just how messed up his cradle was. When I removed the front brace it almost shot off like a spring.
These may be worn out, not sure.
One of the many leaks that will be addressed, the infamous power steering line leak. Im sure 50% of us have had to deal with this leak.
Just a nasty mess but soon to be nice again.
And the oil pan leak:
Finnaly lowering the cradle:
And the old with the ...... well, old.
Just a shot of the inside. Oil pickup was clean but engine shows signs of early on poor maintenence. Did a couple back to back oil changes to clean it out and shes getting refilled with Synthetic. Engine runs like a raped ape so I am sure shes fine.
Fuggin failed mount.
And $100 and 104 miles latter:
Next up was the struts. PITA getting the dang spring compressor in there.
And all pretty:
Both rear shocks were completly blown and the rear shock mounts were shot. Also one shocks lower bushing was about gone.
FIRE FIRE FIRE!!
