When you do pull it, you get the best access to any wiring changes you might need to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
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When you do pull it, you get the best access to any wiring changes you might need to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
Yeah, that's part of the plan if I ever start:D
What D/P?Quote:
Originally Posted by DK77
Nothing to the Stealth or the GP for that matter. My mom asked me to check out her Caliber though. Said the brakes started grinding last night. I find a minor gouge stripe around the left front before I even get the wheels off. Go to break the lug nuts loose and start cussing. The mother effers who put her tires on last summer impacted the sh!t out of the lug nuts when they put them back on. I had to use a cheater pipe on the breaker bar to break them loose. When the lug nut squeaks and pops as it breaks free that means its too f@cking tight.
I told my mom that if she goes back there to get tires that she needs to tell Jimmy that if they impact the lug nuts like that again I will personally go down there and punch them in the face.
Anyway, I got the lug nuts off and went to take the caliper bolts off. Took left front off no problem. Go to right front and top bolt breaks free. Bottom bolt just breaks.
I ended up having to take the caliper bracket off and run over to my uncle's place and heat the ever living hell out of it with a torch to get the rest of the bolt out. Got online, ordered the pads and the bolt kit. Ran to Advance to pick it up and I guess the system made an error so I got a free upgrade from the silver pads to the gold ones.
Came back, put the brakes back together and anti-seized the hell out of the slider bolts.
My mom asked me if I would rotate the tires while I was working on the car anyway, so I plan on that too. I grab the cheater pipe and go to the left rear and got 4 of the 5 broke loose. The 5th stripped the cheap ass chrome cap off it and it is giving me a hell of a time trying to get something else hammered onto it so I can get it broken loose. Of course it started raining so I had to come inside because I was getting soaked.
If the rain doesn't stop in the next hour or so I am just going to go out, put it all back together and worry about that damn lug nut and rotating tires until another day.
Got any more pics familyman? You have an auto right? Any info on that hood vent?
What pics you looking for? I'm tearing dash apart right and have some exterior enhancements coming next week, so I'll take a few more pics after that is complete. Here is one Vira took at NG (I photochopped a billboard out of the background)...
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/8-...k=w983-h553-no
Hood vent is from a Ford GT500. 2" section out of middle to fit in cowl.
Nothing in particular, just was interested in seeing your car :) Looking good!
AEM gauges in dash. AEM datastream gauge on left and the other two are widebands. I'll use the datastream for boost, coolant, and battery volts mostly. I was planning on keeping my autometer oil pressure gauge on a-pillar and add a trans temp gauge there also, but I'm actually thinking about ditching those both and just buy aem sensors and run it through aem to the datastream gauge so I can setup custom warning for trans temp and fuel cut for oil pressure.
Had to cut a small hole in clear cover so I could hit the buttons on datastream. It looks pretty good in person because the hole I cut matches the trim on gauge for the buttons.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-o...25283%2529.JPG
Next will be to install this little guy in the instrument cluster, under speedo....
http://www.forcedfour.com/IMG_7389.JPG
Here's another pic for a size reference (not my car)....
http://www.forcedfour.com/IMAG0507_web.jpg
Also re-glued dash with gorilla glue and installed new vents. Finally! Been bugging me since I bought the car a few years ago.
Pulling dash wasn't bad. Thanks 316! It's all of the crap that I am doing now that it's out.
Dash installed. AEM gauges, oil pres and trans temp below radio, forcedfour gear indicator lower center of cluster next to where high beam light is....
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...25281%2529.JPG
Lit up. Car not running but had just a little before as coolant temp is 174;). In first gear:D. Radio needs replaced. Hate the green backlighting but that's what came with the car. Problem will be rectified, hopefully soon!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...25281%2529.JPG
One more of gear indicator....
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...no/photo+3.JPG
One more trick....:D.............
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yejt1-tAazg
Moved my ARC2. My favorite location yet!
http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/a...psl3venkkg.jpg