What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (97 Viewers)

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Spent the day yesterday doing @Dr Gil brakes. Tore everything apart on one side to get at the hub and rotor. Noticed that the other knuckle was a mess so I figured I'd look for my spare rebuild kit. It always seems stupid not to just go ahead and rebuild the knuckle if you have to take the hub and rotor off any way. Well I stopped there and decided to put together the new caliper and pads from @beno. Once I took apart his old caliper for the pins and hardware I noticed the thickness of the pads, 5mm. What's min you may ask? 1mm. Ugh. I go and check the rotor, 31mm. What's min? 30mm. Ugh. This dude is fine. Caliper compresses fine. So I take a look at the other side. 6mm on the pads and 30.8 on the rotor. Dammit. Call Gil and we agree, just put it all back together.

Checked the rears, well within spec. Hmm, why am I doing this again? Turns out we just heard what we thought was the wear sensors scratching the rotor and just jumped on it. Totally unnecessary. Oh well.
 
But now it's my turn. FlowMaster exhaust which I need to VHT first plus I need to drill the hole for the EGT probe. All new OEM gaskets and exhaust hardware. I'm sure I will be fine but fxxx it.

Finally going to take the time and drain my coolant for the umpteenth time and install new OEM water pump, @landtank fan clutch (Orange hub) and reinstall the shroud.

Then of course replace my accelerator cable since mine sticks at WOT.

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New front window runs. (Stopped the slight loose window rattle when partway down)

New rear hatch rubber weatherstripping ( stopped the occasional exhaust smell that seeped in at times.)
 
NLXTACY said:
View attachment 1027083 View attachment 1027084 Spent the day yesterday doing @Dr Gil brakes. Tore everything apart on one side to get at the hub and rotor. Noticed that the other knuckle was a mess so I figured I'd look for my spare rebuild kit. It always seems stupid not to just go ahead and rebuild the knuckle if you have to take the hub and rotor off any way. Well I stopped there and decided to put together the new caliper and pads from @beno. Once I took apart his old caliper for the pins and hardware I noticed the thickness of the pads, 5mm. What's min you may ask? 1mm. Ugh. I go and check the rotor, 31mm. What's min? 30mm. Ugh. This dude is fine. Caliper compresses fine. So I take a look at the other side. 6mm on the pads and 30.8 on the rotor. Dammit. Call Gil and we agree, just put it all back together.

Checked the rears, well within spec. Hmm, why am I doing this again? Turns out we just heard what we thought was the wear sensors scratching the rotor and just jumped on it. Totally unnecessary. Oh well.
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There's something about new calipers that gives me wood. I probably need to get out more!
 
NLXTACY said:
View attachment 1027083 View attachment 1027084 Spent the day yesterday doing @Dr Gil brakes. Tore everything apart on one side to get at the hub and rotor. Noticed that the other knuckle was a mess so I figured I'd look for my spare rebuild kit. It always seems stupid not to just go ahead and rebuild the knuckle if you have to take the hub and rotor off any way. Well I stopped there and decided to put together the new caliper and pads from @beno. Once I took apart his old caliper for the pins and hardware I noticed the thickness of the pads, 5mm. What's min you may ask? 1mm. Ugh. I go and check the rotor, 31mm. What's min? 30mm. Ugh. This dude is fine. Caliper compresses fine. So I take a look at the other side. 6mm on the pads and 30.8 on the rotor. Dammit. Call Gil and we agree, just put it all back together.

Checked the rears, well within spec. Hmm, why am I doing this again? Turns out we just heard what we thought was the wear sensors scratching the rotor and just jumped on it. Totally unnecessary. Oh well.
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I love this. "Ho hum, just have some calipers, rotors, rebuild kit laying around..." Classic.
 
120mm said:
Broke down again. This time in Gila Bend, AZ, just after having the Birfield replaced in San Diego. Really loud buzzing (tire rotation speed) noise coming from the same side I had replaced last week. Crap.
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When Man A Fre was still in business they did a crap job on my Birfs noise came back,took my rig to Yota Masters and they did it right, great prices to !
 
NLXTACY said:
Wait, you mean you don't have those as spares? I don't understand. :flipoff2:
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Nope. But I got plenty of room to "store" them for ya! :flipoff2:
 
NLXTACY said:
But now it's my turn. FlowMaster exhaust which I need to VHT first plus I need to drill the hole for the EGT probe. All new OEM gaskets and exhaust hardware. I'm sure I will be fine but **** it.

Finally going to take the time and drain my coolant for the umpteenth time and install new OEM water pump, @landtank fan clutch (Orange hub) and reinstall the shroud.

Then of course replace my accelerator cable since mine sticks at WOT.

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I love it! You're a glutton for punishment...just like me. Have fun, that looks like a 12 pack project to me.:beer:
 
NLXTACY said:
But now it's my turn. FlowMaster exhaust which I need to VHT first plus I need to drill the hole for the EGT probe. All new OEM gaskets and exhaust hardware. I'm sure I will be fine but **** it.

Finally going to take the time and drain my coolant for the umpteenth time and install new OEM water pump, @landtank fan clutch (Orange hub) and reinstall the shroud.

Then of course replace my accelerator cable since mine sticks at WOT.

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I say keep thing interesting and leave the sticky throttle cable
 
Before and After going up to Big Bear Super Bowl Weekend. Washing it was a pain, frozen snow turned to sticky mud.
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Replaced my accelerator cable. Something that looked like it should have been a 10 min job took me 90 mins with a 30 min frustration break in between. Ugh. Should not have been that difficult. Should have waited til the kid got home so he could just hold it in place. :(

On another note...it wasn't my modded throttle body or the accelerator cable that was the problem, even though my cable looked like ass. The problem was the SC bypass valve was catching some of the wiring harness at WOT. :doh:
 
Got my new winch installed after work today. Bumper was tweaked a little from a few months ago. Had to deploy the BFH to get all the holes back in alignment.
 
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