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Originally Posted by vanilla gorilla
He got into a slight front end collision, and got a new front bumper and had that painted. IIRC
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That's right, I had the front bumper painted, but that was all. That thing still looks brand new.
Big progress made today. I got there nice and early today after not being able to sleep last night and was excited rolling in. I finished mounting up the tranny to the block and getting the rest of the mounts in. I start hooking up the slave cylinder to the fork and adding in fluid. The slave and the fork look a little 'off'. Something about it didn't look right, and there was no play at all on the fork. I called Jason (my hero for the week BTW) and told me there should be play. I pulled the little rubber cover off and see the fork wedged between the pressure plate and the little pivot ball in not in place. I was pissed thinking I would have to pull the motor again. I seperated the tranny from the block as much as I could without releasing the whole thing, and after ~25 minutes of trying, got the fork on the pivot ball and on the TOB properly. You could just tell that it was in the right place then. Best pic I could get of it...
Once this was all fixed, I filled up and bled the clutch. My god this thing is stiff and feels like a clutch. The last 2 I had always had a soft touch, where you couldn't feel where it was being disengaged. This one it's obvious. Feels great. Have to workout my legs a little more though. City driving will be hard with it.
Once that was in, I had to reinstalled the alternator and the crank pulley (pulled off yesterday) and did the belts, rechecked timing, got the PS all up and hosed, and attached all the wiring. Those saying that it would take forever to find where each harness goes... I think I've done this too many times... took 2 minutes to hook them all up (I timed myself
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I then made my mounts for the FMIC and redid some of the piping. Drilled out the broken stud from yesterday and welding in a new stud. Did some painting. Basically got everything in the car. Made HUGE progress today.
So tomorrow, I'm taking the day off of work
and finishing her up and take the hoist back. I have to pick up some extra fuel line since some SS I ordered is still on backorder, reattached the lower cross member, fully installed the manifold, turbo, WG, and make a custom DP, and it's ready to fire up. MSns is not fully wired, so will use stock ECU for all control to begin with at idle here. I don't plan on it leaving the garage. Hopefully I have no leaks and it's perfect straight out the box. Wish me luck for tomorrow.
Pic at about 6pm tonight.
