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Car is currently off the road. After two years of night classes, exams and interviews I got into university to study Dentistry In 4.5 years time I will be a lot better off and finally will have a garage to work in

Unfortunately due to the course being so intensive it leaves little time to make money, which is why my car is currently off the road. That along with paying my fees.

However I am battling against the rust with the intention of running LPG with NA KLZE. Petrol is around £1.30 a litre here now, that's $7.94 for you US folks. LPG is around 70p a litre, so almost like your price of 'gas' Both sills are rotten. Wheel arches are doing their best. I've started with the rear subframe. The caged nuts that mount the trailing arms to the body have of course rusted and spun out. I'll worry about that later, it's too cold outside to be welding under the car.

I've removed the rear subframe, surprisingly easy! Currently removing all rust. I've removed all bushings and shells via burning out and splitting the shells, so no press required I will finally get the wytbusings in. I will be redoing all brake lines with copper and goodridge braided lines.

Your one of a kind for sure. Becoming a dentist and still working on the old axe. My buddy is a dentist and he won't do anything labour like at all. Says he can't afford to hurt his hands. True story.

I'm glad to know what happened to you. You seem like such a nice guy.. It's hard to imagine you causing so much fear and pain. Have you seen "Little Shop of Horrors"?
Grinding away all that rust will give you skills against plaque.

Daninski wrote:Your one of a kind for sure. Becoming a dentist and still working on the old axe. My buddy is a dentist and he won't do anything labour like at all. Says he can't afford to hurt his hands. True story.

I'm looking forward to being able to have a garage to work in! I'll be doing more tinkering than ever

fowljesse wrote:I'm glad to know what happened to you. You seem like such a nice guy.. It's hard to imagine you causing so much fear and pain. Have you seen "Little Shop of Horrors"?
Grinding away all that rust will give you skills against plaque.

Haha yes Jesse yeeeeears ago but I must see it again for inspiration I'll be a nice dentist, there to make the pain go away not create it!

VICTORY on one
-lots of heat
-grinded a thin slit 360 degrees where the nut had rust welded to the arm
-hammered
-put the 14mm middle in the VICE, spanner = fail
-massive wrench on the locking nuts then flat of the arm and voila! All freed up



Now this one is tricky, threads will be cleaned up first with a dremel thin cutting disc before further attempts on the locking nut. The alignment/tyre shop failed to free up any of these, so I'm happy to be making any progress.


After this one the assembly should be much easier. I did have to chop one link bolt though I'm going to see if my 323 gtx rear subframe has a compatible bolt to steal, as that projects not happening for a while!

Great job. I've been dreading the same project on my car.

Thanks very much I've got them bathing in some rust removing solution before they get the POR-15 treatment.

marcdh wrote:Thanks very much I've got them bathing in some rust removing solution before they get the POR-15 treatment.

Automatic transmission fluid actually works very well if you can submerge parts in it, its loaded with cleaners and such that help free stuff up

Everything is freed up now got most parts painted with por-15 with additional help from my lovely Gf! Looking forward to reassembling lovely clean painted parts with the wytbushings.

Oh man I cant wait to do this VERY project. I hope the por 15 really protects long term. If I had the tools/ time I wouldnt mind doing this every 10 years or so I guess. How lon did it take you? Good work!

what all was needed for the disty delete, coilpack obviously and a 36-1 crank pulley from what i'm reading. is there a write up anywhere?

Coil pack and mount
megasquirt with coil pack wasted spark set up
Blind cap for hole
36-1 klg4 pulley or dual trigger via leaving part of disty.

Probe talk would have the most info