Family man's ae86

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You know those days you should have just stayed asleep ?

Yeah this week. All of it.

So I figured things out, made some progress on the throwout bearing.... the clip supplied was not in anyway gonna work properly. Did some bending and tweaking and got it apples.

Then pulled the clutch to check I had the plate the right way round..... yes.

Putting backtogether I snapped the head n off a bolt. Fuck my life.

12 hours of fuckery later, I had drilled the bolt out and salvaged the thread. Go for reinstall 2.....

Second bolt head snapped. Fml. Closer inspection (yes I should have done this first ) showed damage to the end of the bolts. The depth of the whole is correct but im guessing the thread doesn't go all the way down.

And the bolts should have been supplied with spring washers. Without these, the bolts were bottoming out.

So another few hours spent drilling the 2nd bolt out

Hopefully today grab a new set of bolts and washers and throw it back together for good.

My wide band turned up this week also, so I'll weld the bung in and have that fitted up hopefully. Then I can start fiddling and making it reliable (hopefully)

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Took the chance to tidy up a small coolant leak at the back.

I dunno if it was the stock gasket failing or the welds I did when modifying the fitting for the water routing, so I spooged both.

Hopefully this has sorted the rear end leak. Also fitted a new water temp sender fr the dash, so see how that goes.

Waiting on some cash to organise the fan and shroud setup, hopefully that won't be too far away

Also, the difference between the various quality #stainlesssteel offerings.

The water pipe under the throttles was made from 2 different suppliers of stainless.... cant recall the designations, but I think the straight was 316...

But the bend is an absolute disaster for corrosion resistance.... :/

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