Had a few ke's before but never a registered one. So taking some parts from my 82 model to fix this APR 84 ive decided to build.

 

Picked this car up from Toowoomba with 225xxxkm's on the clock. Just a little 4k Auto. The interior is just immaculate! I fell in love with it and for $700 I couldn't complain. Log Books and receipts for the last 11 Years. The grandma took good care! Receipts showed she had only done 7000kms in those years and that the car was originally from South Australia.

 

Plans are to get her on the road. I have the parts to make it a 5 speed but I love getting a laugh out of people when I talk it up as having a 3 speed tri-matic haha.

 

Also could go with Quad headlights as I have those laying around as well but we will see!

 

 

 

Got started on the KE on Saturday just been. Took out the struts and LCA's with no dramas. Put the xt130 LCA's in and adjusted the caster arm to match. Problem was I couldn't release the tie rod end...

 

My mechanic helped me out yesterday (Monday) so I got those adjusted.

 

Everything was smooth again doing wheel bearings and cleaning up the rotors until I found out that the strut tops on the 82 model were 5mm different to the 84.. Oh well now I need to compress the spring and change the tops.

 

 

(Only thing changed since I got the car are the rims and tires as I sold the old jelly beans and bought MA61's with Yokohama Advan A50 Semi slicks!!!)

Edited November 24, 201510 yr by MartyJ

First time in the workshop. I am a proud father haha

Parts to go in

Forgot to post a starting photo haha

Edited November 24, 201510 yr by MartyJ

In regards to the strut tops. Did you have them on the wrong side? If I recall they are differert left to right.

There's 3 different strut top bolt patterns. I'd say the 84 struts would be from an AE71 so that may be why they were different?

 

Edit: around the other way.

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.

These are the 3 dimensions.

 

 

This is why on some E7 the AE86 strut tops will work, but on others they won't.

Mad. Cheers Duffman!

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.

Edited November 27, 201510 yr by MartyJ

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...

Edited November 27, 201510 yr by MartyJ

Usually just a bit of crap in the caliper is most likely, pistons usually tend to keep quite well,

 

cheers!

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.

Just a quick caveat for the viewers at home - never use petroleum-based grease on brake components, as this will rapidly destroy the rubber parts of your braking system. Use only silicon or synthetic lubricants specifically marked for use on brakes.

 

Only good things come out of Toowoomba.

Edited November 30, 201510 yr by Mechanical Sympathy

What about rubber grease? That's what I use in mine and never had a drama?