MartyJ
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Was a SA car. Then owned by aomeone who kept all reciepts for about 7 years. Didnt drive it much at all. Then a fellow bought it in a town 40 mins from Toowoomba. Then I bought it from him.
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Looks awesome man! Always wanted to put an 18RG in mine but just havent got the motivation for it atm. and its already running a 4age with 45mm webers carbs. Good to know a motor of about the same size will fit tho. :)
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Yea I have feared a head gasket, already got a couple of quotes on vrs sets. I will look into that cheers. Thanks heaps
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Getting a few over heating issues at the current point in time. Replaced the thermostat with no luck. Next I am flushing the system by taking out the thermostat and putting a fire hose down the neck into the block. This is to hopefully pick up the gunk on the bottom of the radiator and flush it through the top. Fingers crossed it works will update over the weekend. 3 weeks till Matsuri :P
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Update Been a while but I have sorted out the rear brakes now. Bought myself a welder and plan on fixing the rust sooner rather than later. Car is looking great. Hopefully it will be ready for a trip to matsuri !
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Haven't worked on the car lately, have been busy with Christmas. Have planned on buying a welder in the new year and fixing the rust myself to be able to learn another skill and have fun doing even more of the work myself. Should have some content in this thread next year
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All good, always great to spread the knowledge. Didn't know that myself actually, but I did use the red rubber grease as I have them all available at my workshop :) Hopefully I'm going to be working on the car tomorrow if all goes well at work.
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Took out the piston and gave it a bit of a clean up. Couldn't see any pits in it so greased it a bit and popped it back in. The rubber seal was broken but had a quoted price to get the rebuild kit of $75 for the pair of fronts. Put it all back in working just fine! Started replacing the rear wheel cylinders. Had to rush away so the work stopped for the day.
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So update. Took it for a drive today... Wasn't the best. When I fitted the RHF caliper the piston was seized and became worse over the drive. Ended up locking onto the rotor and slowing my car down! Engine working overtime started to overheat. Raced back to the workshop. Time to replace or rebuild calipers...
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Fitted the struts last night! sitting sweet. Right hand caliper was a little seized so I might rebuild them in the future with new pistons... or go AE86 Front struts. Sent it off to get a wheel alignment 20min ago so that everything is perfect after installing extended LCA's. Pictures of the camber will be up soon.
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Mad. Cheers Duffman!
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84 struts are the ones originally from the car. both are ke70's. Definitely didn't know that there was 3 different strut tops thou. And no they are on the right side.
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Forgot to post a starting photo haha
