So after a few hours of drinking we jacked up the diff a bit to relieve the mounts of its weight. We used a wood board, that I expertly snapped over my knee, to cushion it a bit.
One of the most useful tools we had was this portable craftsman impact gun. I am going out to get one and you should too. This thing is wildly effective at getting 40 year old bolts off of shitty old cars.
And this beauty. I think they call it a Mini-Ductor. Look at those nasty rusted bolts. This thing just sits on the nut and heats it until it starts to smoke (literally about 5-10 seconds), then a couple blasts with the impact gun and grab another beer. Almost too easy.
Once you get to where you are unbolting the last few things, you want to make sure that you take great car with the suspension/strut towers. If you are leaving everything assembled when you pull it out like we did, it is a good idea to plan it out a bit and strategically remove the strut tower bolts.
Once these are removed the diff wants to rock back and forth like a maniac so we left these for last. This way all you have to do when all of the underside bolts are removed, is pull these last few nuts off and lower it down off the jack.
There was a ton of shitty wiring from the stereo the PO installed, and a bunch of ventilation ducts that I no longer needed so I had to pull all of that shit out.
The Spedo and Tach were easy enough, although they do have to be removed from the front of the dash. Just a couple of mechanical attachments and wires, easy peasy. I do plan on keeping my Spedo and Odo but I don't think I'm going to run them. I'm not sure since it is the original odo and everything.
Z-Car Blog is one of my new favorite blogs. I stumbled across it after reading about Troy at RacingOnTheCheap.com finally getting his ultra-dope race goon on the track.
He mentioned the Z-Car Garage in San Jose so naturally I checked it out, and it turns out they have a really great Z blog.
Lots of great content over there so check them out now!
Here are some of my favorites form their coverage of JCCS.
No shortage of presence for Garage Autohero. I'm hearing a lot of really great things about them since their 510 blew up the Internet at last year's JCCS.
I'm certain that you guys will never tire of hearing about all of the mouse nests that I find haha. But these things have GOT to be running out of places they can hide.
Cleaned out the worthless nest and ever MORE worthless wiper system.
These are going to be re=wrapped in something black. I have tossed the idea of alacantara around but I think the texture is too soft for the look I am going for.
Now I am going to brush on some run of the mill paint stripper to peel up all of the paint and left over tar adhesive from the sound deadener. The stripper will leave the tar a nice soft goo that will be (relatively) easy to remove. I will apply it to the floors and the tranny tunnel, but not before I get my rust treatment chemicals in the mail.
I also picked up some brush wheels and stuff. Expect to see a decent write up of how I take care of my floors since it is such a common problem.
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