Ill be right behind you with the VOD, Im going back in right now to see why its leaking massively from the back of my 2 year old pump.
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Ill be right behind you with the VOD, Im going back in right now to see why its leaking massively from the back of my 2 year old pump.
Gave up trying to fix the air conditioning. Put the wheel back on, put the car back on the ground, cleaned up the garage, put everything away, closed everything up. Good night, moon.
Was going to do some D work but wife comes home and says here car is making grinding noise when she steps on brakes. Sure enough one front pad was only steel left. Funny they only put the "low pad" noise maker on the outside pad. The inside one was the bad one. So new rotors and pads installed but I have some air in the line since the pedal goes to low.
It's funny all break systems have separate lines for two brakes for redundancy but it you are bleeding one brake the pedal goes all the way to the floor. It's done that on every car I've ever owned.
I was stuck at my desk all day due to work. Sundays are usually slow so I brought the tpanel into my office to see if I could sand out the scratches by hand.
The right hand area is where I hadn't sanded yet. The left is a couple of hours of work.
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My arms gave out before I could get rid of any of the really deep scratches. Maybe next sunday I'll pull the panel into the office again and spend another 8 hours working on it. I might just have to bite the bullet and get a wolfwheel thought. Some of these are really deep.
Before
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After
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I spent awhile trying to figure out how to do this. I found that 220 gets rid of the minor scratches that 80 just wasn't touching. So I went 220, 180, 80, green scotch brite w/ barkeeper's friend, then blending pad.
Hell of a lot better. Keep working at it. During this project though, I bet a wolfwheel will be pretty much a necessity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenny_Z
+1, a great improvement! :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by pezzonovante88
Great news and bad news. The great news is with the panel back on the car and in sunlight you have to lean on the car and get up close to see the remaining scratches. The bad news is that I had to adjust the louvers because the previous owner broke the filler panel connected to the tpanel so I fixed it which threw off alignment. The louver was hitting the stainless. It's adjusted fine and looks good but when I lowered the louvers I dropped it a little too fast onto my wrenches which re-broke my engine cover. The one I spent weeks fixing. I'm guessing the heat warped and the shock snapped it because it broke in a little further up from the patch. This time I'm going add in a support brace made of metal.
Today I replaced the radiator.
Fired right up, then died instantly (Fuel mixture unit was apart yesterday, so this was expected, not a problem), fired right up again and stayed running. I immediately go to the back to check for fuel leaks since I didn't have washers on hand to replace the old ones... yup, leaking.
The coolant fill/bleed will have to wait a few days until I get new ones.
rewired the stereo and got rid of the ground loops that was causing the altinator noise. But still have a power drain on the battery and now have to figure out what is drawing power when the car is off. Fun Fun Fun.
My new radiator arrived today. Looks like real good construction. Great looking TIG welds.