Pinky II

[Rambo]

i'm still getting the loud whining noise

That'll be Dico's Missus !!

[Dico]

Your not far wrong

My duties are done now though. Well at least foe this month
Its adictive this working on your car thing.

[Monty]

So it`s turned out that it wasn`t the gearbox that was whining and it`s turned out it was both front bearings which have gone, even thou there was no play or even getting hot and another mechanic said it was the gearbox.

So i swapped hubs with Pinky1 and all is quite, eventually i`m going to have new bearing fitted to the original hubs and get them back on. It`s handy having a spare car

At least now i`ve got a good spare engine and gearbox

Next job is to fit the stiffy and a new exhaust system, but i`m going to let my dam hands heal 1st

[Paul.P]

Well done Monty, bet your glad youv'e sorted that out finally !.
Now about that spare engine........................?

[Dave Eds]

and that spare gearbox

[Monty]

Engine is already spoken for

Gearbox i will be keeping for awhile, unless someone is really desperate.

Well i`ve got the New Lockwood dials fitted + a new Phantom 20psi (1.37 bar) Turbo gauge.




Can u see anything different about these pic`s?

[Doug]

nice, now you can really watch the gauge move around thru vacuum to boost and such !

[Enright]

Eh? A certain big orange thing has gawn!

Does the new boost/vac gauge come with it's own transducer or something?

How does it plumb in?

Oh BTW, I like the positioning - much more sensible nearer the wheel.

[Doug]

I'd bet it has a vacuum line that goes straight to it from the intake manifold -- thus no need for a separate transducer as it has one in it!

[Sy V]

Correct - just like mine. Warning though Monty; you won't be able to take your eyes off it now you get vacuum and pressure readings. The needle flies around like crazy - great fun but watching it's addictive!

[TommyK]

Forgive my laziness, but what's the diameter of that meter/gauge?
2 1/16 or 2 5/8?

[Monty]

Forgive my laziness, but what's the diameter of that meter/gauge?
2 1/16 or 2 5/8?

Tommy, the gauge is 52mm diameter.

Sy u`r right very difficult to keep watching the gauge, what vacuum reading are u getting on u`rs on tick over mine is near the 20 mark but haven`t a clue if thats normal

[Monty]

The Big Stiffy project

Once it stop raining today, thought i`d get started. Things were going well, the nut`s from the precast to the turbo came of easly leaving the studs in the turbo. The hardest part was undoing the nuts on the flange were the exhaust meets the precat (1 stud snapped). I then undone the PAS and pushed it to one side, I thought to myself this is easy then i tried pulling the cast part from the turbo but the dam thing hit the PAS and no matter what i did i couldn`t get pass the studs (see pic`s) So it was remove the PAS or snap the stud and guess which i choose. U`ve guessed it and the stud snapped right flush with the bloody turbo Anyways got the lump out, then it was on to the turbo the bottom bolt was a pain the whole stud was tight and took me 3/4 hour to remove, after that it was easy.
Tomorrow i`ve got to remove the studs and drill the broken one out then port the wastegate.
Think i`ll order a curry and have some beers

[Dico]

I reckon if you'd have 'wiggled' it a bit more it would have come

Good effort though, enjoy the curry

[Doug]

I reckon if you'd have 'wiggled' it a bit more it would have come

took the words, er ah . . . ., right out of Stef's mouth

[Paul.P]

Hope you can drill it out Monty, about 10 drill bits later, i had to have mine machined out !

[Sy V]

Good work Jay, -20's the same as Stripey.

[Monty]

Got started today on removing that broken stud, well thats Pinky off the road for a while tried to drilling and using a stud remover but no joy, so thought i`d carry on drilling starting with a small drill then keep stepping up a size at a time. Then i snapped a drill bit so it needs to go to a Engineers work shop. Got the wastegate ported thou

[John_W]

... tried to drilling and using a stud remover but no joy, so thought i'd carry on drilling starting with a small drill then keep stepping up a size at a time. Then i snapped a drill bit so it needs to go to a Engineers work shop.

Yup, that's my experience with drilling out studs too.

One refinement you don't seem to have tried is to shear off the left-hand-thread "easy-out" (now there's a neme which needs to go before the consumer complaints commision) in the drilled hole.

I've used this method a couple of times and it's always good for slamming the garage door and going down the pub.

John

[GeoffSmith]

Jay,

Bad luck. I know it's a bit late and after the event but it doesn't look like you were in the centre of the bolt anyway, which is what you should be aiming for. The more central, the bigger the hole and the bigger the EZ out so less likelyhood of breaking that as well. After a few previous unsuccessful attempts, the last couple of times I've been successful, but only by:-
Carefully centre punching a good deep indentation right in the centre of the bolt first. Clamping the offending item square on a drill stand (cheap Black and Decker one) to keep the drill at right angles and to be able to apply a controlled and steady pressure. Carefully aligning the drill and very slowly applying pressure. Using an EZ out (after plenty of penetrating oil and a bit of heat).
Second time, the bolt was in a recess so I had an aluminium drill guide turned up to keep the first drill central. I slowly increased the drill size until there was just the thread left which I unpicked with tweezers.

Hope you manage to recover it.

Geoff