Not like a rock
05-24-2005, 06:46 PM
/rant
rrrrgh. I've had my 5spd SE-i for almost a year now, and have driven it a whopping five kilometers. lately I've been working on installing my lowering equipment. I thought it would take a day, maybe a weekend at most, but its going on a month and a half (I only get a couple hours here an there to work on it). The back was easy, but the front had rusted damper fork bolts from hell. No problem, nothing a torch, grinder, hacksaw and 8lb BFH can't fix. so that took care of the springs/struts.
Unfortunately, I had to take a torch to the hub nut because it was rusted on that bad, so the next part may have been my fault, or it may have already been f@cked up from someone else. Anyway, the threads on the outbound end of the axle are all stripped to hell with huge chunks missing.
So I was like, no prob...I'll just get a new axle. The great thing about new parts is that the more you have, the closer your car is to being new. No complaints about new parts here. After nearly stripping the threads on my balljoint puller to get the joint appart, I was finally able to try pulling the axle out...and I just finished spending six hours trying to get it out at the transmission side. I can get a screw-driver wedged in, but it just won't budge.
Before I forget: Both rear brake pistons are siezed, the front brake pads had about 2mm of pad left, and there were no cotter pins in the lower ball joints on either side, and the cone filter turns out to have a huge rusted gash in it. If I hadn't already spent 2 grand on restorative bodywork, I'd drag this MF out in the bush and burn it.
Used cars are like girls: They are always messed up from someone else's neglect, but it's up to you to fix them.
/end rant
rrrrgh. I've had my 5spd SE-i for almost a year now, and have driven it a whopping five kilometers. lately I've been working on installing my lowering equipment. I thought it would take a day, maybe a weekend at most, but its going on a month and a half (I only get a couple hours here an there to work on it). The back was easy, but the front had rusted damper fork bolts from hell. No problem, nothing a torch, grinder, hacksaw and 8lb BFH can't fix. so that took care of the springs/struts.
Unfortunately, I had to take a torch to the hub nut because it was rusted on that bad, so the next part may have been my fault, or it may have already been f@cked up from someone else. Anyway, the threads on the outbound end of the axle are all stripped to hell with huge chunks missing.
So I was like, no prob...I'll just get a new axle. The great thing about new parts is that the more you have, the closer your car is to being new. No complaints about new parts here. After nearly stripping the threads on my balljoint puller to get the joint appart, I was finally able to try pulling the axle out...and I just finished spending six hours trying to get it out at the transmission side. I can get a screw-driver wedged in, but it just won't budge.
Before I forget: Both rear brake pistons are siezed, the front brake pads had about 2mm of pad left, and there were no cotter pins in the lower ball joints on either side, and the cone filter turns out to have a huge rusted gash in it. If I hadn't already spent 2 grand on restorative bodywork, I'd drag this MF out in the bush and burn it.
Used cars are like girls: They are always messed up from someone else's neglect, but it's up to you to fix them.
/end rant