Sadly very litle progress this last weekend, as i was out most of Saturday shooting the IPRA races at the HQ Enduro, that said i still managed to squeeze in a bit of time, here and there.
First of all my little $70 shop press grew some legs.
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Now its actually usable without being a complete midget. Yes i know i was welding gal, but for half the price of the blue at the same sizes i didnt care. Especially when it was just that press. All of $80 now.
Next up i pulled the rack end off a spare MX83 rack, which was a complete pain, as the person who had built the MX83 rack had stuffed up and got the crimp washer caught in the threads of the rack and so i was having to fight against galled metal in the threads. Anyway after pulling it off ive confirmed that the MX83 rack ends fit perfectly in the MA61 rack, and add the extra length needed for the 325mm LCAs:
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By that point on Friday night it was getting a bit late to start anything new, so i resigned myself to just pulling apart the Aircon and heater boxes to give them a good clean, and in the case of the aircon remove the core:
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Now nice and empty:
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Ill probably glue some plastic in there too to seal off the holes, and maybe enlarge the hole that the wiring loom goes through from the engine bay.
The heater core now looks like this:
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The actual core itself has a couple of little cracks around the necks of the inlet and outlet and ill need to solder it up. Pretty easy though, so ill get around to doing that later.
On the Saturday after going out to Mallala and before the quiz night Gav (Gavatron) thought i was being a weeny little man and not being able to use the slide hammer hard enough to get the stub axle out, so he had a go:
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The stub axle merely sniggered at him, and called both of us weeny.
Finally i borrowed a rad off a friend to check on fitment and have confirmed good fitment and ordered one off eBay… what is it you ask. Well that will come later:
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Thats about it for now. The eccentric bolts have shipped from BMA Auto in the US, and should be here soonish. Im also waiting on a big order of shocks from SummitRacing in the states and hopefully that will arrive sometime in September, as they are backordered, although i notice that the rears have arrived in their warehouse, so maybe it will come early.
Next on the agenda is to finish cleaning the crossmembers and stuff and get it back in the car so i can start fitting up the rest of the parts i already have.