Ducked in to UPullIt on my late “lunch break” before heading home. While i was there i scored an MX83 brake master cylinder:
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Manual heater controls, with all their assorted cables:
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But most importantly i did some searching for studs for the rear of the Supra. Now because im running a disc under disc setup i need studs which are 5-6mm longer than the stock ones, which are 27mm exposed length. But Toyota use a 14.1mm knurl on the stud and are reasonably hard to find replacements. To the poitn that Nice studs have no stock of the longer NS3400s currently.
I had a heads up that some Mitsubishi commercial ones might fit as they are a 14.3mm knurl and as such will interference fit nicely in without too many problems. I also knew from the Toyota parts cattledog that Hiaces had longer studs in the rear, about 45mm overall length rather than the 40mm that the Supra ran.
So off i went hunting, and out of all the cars in the yard there was only one Hiace which didnt have rooted studs already, and i pulled those out. But there were about 5 econovans which lost their rear studs as well.
When i got home i took some measurements:
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It seems that the Hiace studs are 4-5mm longer than the MA61 ones and the Mitsubishi ones are 5-6mm longer than the MA61 ones. Both press into the hubs quite nicely and easily as seen here:
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That hub is running one of each studs, MA61, Hiace and Econovan
And here is a direct comparison of length:
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So thats my studs almost solved, i now just have to decide between the Hiace (which i only have 10 of) and the Econovan studs (which i have about 20-30 of).
On my way home i picked up some vinyl dye, which is absolute golden stuff:
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and then painted my dash:
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Should come up quite nicely once its dry.
And finally i pulled my JZA80 bellhousing out and confirmed fitment:
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All in all a fairly decent couple of hours. Sadly things will take a bit of a break for the next week or so, as my parents are in town for my birthday and i have some other things to do. Hopefully it will all start up again in the second week of September.