I headed out to RallySA yesterday, and came home all geed up to do some work on the car, but without being able to turn on the air compressor and really get stuck into the engine bay i settled for doing this:
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Was basically a matter of sitting there with a few screwdrivers and sockets and figuring out which screw came out of which area to release the whole shebang.
Finally got it all out and this was the pile of screws and bolts to go back in:
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Dash looks half decent, and will get a clean up and sprayed black in the near future:
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And there was a crap load of other stuff which is probably going to be ditched.
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Unsure about the heater core at the moment, as im not sure if ill be able to reuse that box or if ill need to get a manually controlled one for the manual controls.
The annoying bit was disconnecting the hundreds of wires which go into making the climate control work. So glad all of that is gone.
The old starwars dash is also out:
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Awaiting me playing tracing time with it and the analog dash to figure out what needs to be repinned where in order to make the analog dash work.
I then got stuck into removing the cowl, and looking at what was under there:
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Honestly i was expecting the worst, to see rust at the bottom of that area and lots of crap filling it up.
But it really wasnt bad at all:
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No visible rust and i poked around a bit with a screw driver and couldnt see anything either.
So then without having much more time or stuff to do i got the engine ready for removal:
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And treated the rust on all the under dash bracketry:
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Seriously, i dont understand why Toyota didnt bother to paint those bars, in every Toyota ive had they have been rusted to all hell.
Sunday rolled around and brought with it some glorious sunshine. In addition to a few other progress bits which i wont post up until they are finished, i got stuck into the drivetrain.
No interim pics, but the engine bay now looks like this:
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With the 5M unceremonially dumped outside. The W box is sitting underneath the front bumper:
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As Gav was around we decided to drop the rear subframe so i can get started on the camber bolt mod for it. After a bit of shifting stuff around and undoing some bolts it came out nicely:
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Toyota wernt kidding around when they wanted to attach the snout of the diff to the subframe
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8xM10 bolts, 2 in each side AND 4 on top. Makes me wonder what the engineers were thinking when they thought a single snout bolt on the MX83 was a good idea.
In addition the rust conversion from yesterday turned out quite well:
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Its had a second coat and waiting for it to dry.
I bought a present for the car as well:
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12 cans at $1.50 each, quite worth it I think as the cans seem to do a much better job than the concentrate.
Next on the agenda is finishing off the subframe disassembly, testing the LSD, and starting the subframe mod for the camber adjustment. That should keep me busy until my 5 stud MS123 hubs arrive, and then i can start putting together the rear brake upgrade. While all thats happening ill be waiting on some shocks from the US and on some local suspension stuff for the front.
On the interior front im not going to do a huge amount for now, mainly checking the heater core and starting the manual heater control conversion, and also repinning the dash loom to use the analog dash.
That should keep me busy for now.