What Grinds My Gears.

[rian]

About to install my brand new heavy duty clutch kit that cost me heaps of money, so I pull the gearbox off the 4AGE that came in the donor car to find it has the same clutch and it looks new as well, gahhh wasted money!

 

And I can't be bothered to drive to the local auto store to buy a clutch aligning tool, not sure if I will regret this decision.

[Willis]

Spewing, Rian. Spare clutch is alright though. You may need it ;)

 

You want me to just post that dimmer up for you, dude?

[irokin]

not sure if I will regret this decision.

 

Definitely.

[It's_AUDM_Yo]

About to install my brand new heavy duty clutch kit that cost me heaps of money, so I pull the gearbox off the 4AGE that came in the donor car to find it has the same clutch and it looks new as well, gahhh wasted money!

 

And I can't be bothered to drive to the local auto store to buy a clutch aligning tool, not sure if I will regret this decision.

 

What clutch is it?

I have a feeling the clutch in mine maybe no good.

So I may be keen on it.

[rian]

Spewing, Rian. Spare clutch is alright though. You may need it ;)

 

You want me to just post that dimmer up for you, dude?

 

Ohh shit I keep forgetting! I'll come down tomorrow?

 

By the way I checked out those brakes and one of them is disassembled, I forgot I pulled it apart when I was going to rebuild it and never put it back together. But I'll bring down all the AE86 stuff I can find.

[rian]

What clutch is it?

I have a feeling the clutch in mine maybe no good.

So I may be keen on it.

 

Exedy heavy duty to suit 200mm bigport flywheel. I'm pretty sure RWD and FWD 4AGE clutches are the same, I'll confirm that in a sec. If I decide I have no use for it I'll bring it up with me when I go to Brisbane on the weekend?

 

Edit: it seems that the FWD and RWD clutch plates are the same but the RWD pressure plate is thicker than the FWD pressure plate.

 

Second Edit: ^I got that wrong, the clutch plates are a little bit different and the FWD pressure plate is thicker than the RWD pressure plate (FWD is 36mm thick, RWD is 34mm thick).

Edited July 3, 2012 by rian

[Willis]

Ohh shit I keep forgetting! I'll come down tomorrow?

 

By the way I checked out those brakes and one of them is disassembled, I forgot I pulled it apart when I was going to rebuild it and never put it back together. But I'll bring down all the AE86 stuff I can find.

 

that's all good man, I can throw them back together :)

 

I'm here all day tomorrow so that's all good. What time were you thinking dude?

 

Muchly appreciated man!

[rian]

Was thinking around lunchtime if not before?

 

I'll give you a call when I get out of the surf. Also after inspecting them, the brakes will definitely need a rebuild lol. Soz.

Edited July 3, 2012 by rian

[Willis]

All good man, can't really complain hahaha. Well you've got my number so just give us a ring. Apparently the surf's been alright lately hey.

[rian]

I missed that big swell we had because of exams :(

[dbr11k]

Getting up bright and early and working on the corolla all day, thinking I have 2 days off, and then getting called into night shift at 6 o'clock ... 12 hour shifts are a drag when you've already been awake 20 hours :(

[CorollaNut68]

WGMG? Sitting here in the States with my 69 and reading and seeing all you guys down there with seemingly parts galore, all kinds of swapping and re-building going on, racing, tossing k engines about like they grow on trees, swap meets, jamborees, drive-ins....geez. Although I can't find parts and participate in all those nifty events, my one consolation is...around here.....I GOT THE ONLY ONE!. Everywhere I go, I'm constantly answering questions...I mean right now it's fuggin ugly, 3 colors of primer, half beat to hell and people still love it, people still try to race me everywhere I go, I don't race it no more, too hard to find stuff if something breaks...Just in the last couple of weeks I've been challenged by hopped up Hondas, a freakin $65,000 Roush Mustang (damn that was fast), today a damn Ferrari on the freeway pulls up and wants to play.......I have looked.....there is no giant RACE ME sign anywhere on the car....maybe traction bars are enough to make people crazy

I don't know...It IS a pretty tuff lookin lil car...

[Twinky]

Clutch aligning tools are useless... Well the one I got was useless anyway, I ended up using verniers to centre the clutch.

 

WGMG:

 

5 minutes out from work the car starts struggling to rev above 2000rpm and holding steady rpm at all is a struggle.

It was just missing, coughing and spluttering but was still drivable so I limped it into work. My train of thought at the time was

Oh shit! It's finally happened.... Blown head gasket or the supercharger rotors are screwed. So at morning tea I went out and checked the coolant

and oil. No contamination so that almost rules out head gasket. Didn't have a compression tester so couldn't be sure.

 

I thought damn! Must be the supercharger! I look down at it and there is oil everywhere around the charger and leaking out of it.

I thought ʞ©$ɟ it has lost all of it's oil supply and shat it's pants. So I undo the intake forward of the charger to check the rotors

and yes it is full of oil, but this wasn't the chargers oil this was engine oil... Dirty engine oil.. I look at the oil breather and it is forcing a buttload of oil

up the breather. So my next thought was the engine is choking with oil and the plugs have fouled! Well that's an easy fix.

 

Upon further inspection of the intake I saw oil dripping out of the pressure side of the supercharger in between the flange. All I had in there was silicone

gasket crap as I thought the two faces were good and straight, but I was wrong. So down to the auto store I went, got new plugs, oil, filter, some gasket

paper/cork stuff and a buttload of de greaser.

 

Left work early and limped the poor bugger home. I decided it was time for a total engine bay clean so I unbolted everything that I could with out too much fuss,

covered some holes and away I went spraying everything down with degreaser. Got the hose out and washed it all off to reveal a nice and tidy engine bay!

I got to work on cleaning the parts by hand that I had earlier taken off and sat them there to dry when I was done.

 

Got a call from the missus to say that there was a BBQ at my in laws and that I needed to stop everything on the car and get ready to go. So I thought

to myself that sure I could do with a break and some good food. Got to the house only to be greeted by the missus saying that my mother in law has

burnt her face trying to light the barby for too long and letting the gas fill the area all ending with a big bang and her having to go to the hospital for burns.

 

So with the BBQ short lived I went back to work on the beast, as I was admiring the clean engine bay I saw some grime underneath the supercharger mount

so I decided to take it off and give that a quick clean. As I was unscrewing the mount I didn't even get three turns out of the bolt and it came off......

Along with an earth strap for the ignition module....... ʞ©$ɟ me I lost my shit. This one little bolt that wasn't tightened properly by me was the cause of all this mess.

So there I was at 10pm and finally sourced the issue.

 

The good thing, found an oil path issue, found a gasket issue and got a fresh engine bay.

 

All in a days work

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Sounds like when I lost all power to my engine, stripped the car looking for the problem, rewired everything, then at the last moment found out it was a fusable link that looked fine but was blown. So a 5 second fix turned into a weekend rewiring session. But in the end it all worked out for the better :y:

[irokin]

Clutch aligning tools are useless... Well the one I got was useless anyway, I ended up using verniers to centre the clutch.

 

They can be hit and miss. On my SR20 it works perfectly (large input shaft, close tolerances) but on a K motor it failed miserably so we gutted another gearbox for the input shaft.