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Old 03-06-2017, 05:50 PM
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they are not oem but centered up enough to not look like crap. ended up not using the corner stud on the press fitting thingy and enlarged the mounts and its passable
Old 03-07-2017, 07:21 AM
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Bolted up a Norris Motorsports catch can to my newly acquired V. Excuse the dirty motor, that's next on the agenda!

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Got new drive shaftWhat did you do to your V today?-20170308_220753.jpg

Its just laying on the rear crossmember. I havent bolted it in yet. Its got 1410 U joints up front and 1350 in the rear.

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Old 03-09-2017, 09:44 AM
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Washed bird **** off of it for about the million'th time. We have some ******* birds
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Originally Posted by BaMaDuDe87
Washed bird **** off of it for about the million'th time. We have some ******* birds
Same, my parking lot at work is surrounded by large hollies with red berries that the birds gorge themselves on this time of year and **** them all over my car.
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Had a handy-man at the house installing a new hot water heater, so I took advantage of having an extra body around. He and I moved my spare T56 down into the basement and up onto a clear workbench so I can get to work on rebuilding it. (Ideally I would do it in the garage, but it looks like a bomb went off in there , whereas the basement is pretty orderly and has an 8' long work bench I can use.)

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Mocked up my wheels and tire

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Old 03-10-2017, 03:39 PM
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Ported my tb, but in the last pass, i put in one minor scratch with the hand deburrer, damn that sucks...









Made a bronze shifter linkage connector:







And the toe rods finally correct assembled in the daylight...





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Old 03-10-2017, 04:36 PM
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You or your machinist do good work. But you've gotta get rid of the welded pin and e-clip for it to reduce the slop.
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Yes, it's me, thx FuzzyLog1c...

But where is there a pin to weld, can u show me on a pic pls?

Will do also the shifter cup inside made von bronze in the t-56,
hope there would be no more slop in his lifetime...

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Started prepping it for the spring detail and pulled out something with more Hp
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Originally Posted by Choppy_Idle
Yes, it's me, thx FuzzyLog1c...

But where is there a pin to weld, can u show me on a pic pls?

Will do also the shifter cup inside made von bronze in the t-56,
hope there would be no more slop in his lifetime...

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Old 03-11-2017, 06:35 AM
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Ah ok, thx a lot, more then words ever can tell me...

What about the vibes and rattling sound now in the shifter?

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Originally Posted by vroom_vroom
Started prepping it for the spring detail and pulled out something with more Hp
Second gen?
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Originally Posted by jmilz28
Second gen?
Yup one very angry 77 ta.I love how nice people become when I have it out. They let you into traffic, no one rides your *** or acts like a total douche.
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Made a bronze shifter cup with the right specs, so that all fits together inside the tranny, checked also shifting and it works good but the rest slop side by side comes from the 6mm diam hardened pin in the connector from the shifter linkage arm, there is the hole from the linkage coming out the trans slightly bigger 0.05mm, rest is now slop free...











And the CAGS deleted forever...







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Originally Posted by Choppy_Idle
Ah ok, thx a lot, more then words ever can tell me...

What about the vibes and rattling sound now in the shifter?

Regards
Ronald
Unless you have a fully isolated upper stalk (e.g. the press-fit Delrin design I did a while back), you'll get a fair amount of gear intermesh frequency in the cabin. Can be annoying. Goes away when you put your hand on the stalk.

Since you did the CAGS delete, be aware that you either need to splice a 2.2k resistor in the end of your harness or get a CAGS resistor fuse. Otherwise you'll get a diagnostic code, even if CAGS has been tuned out. You can also Google "CAGS resistor" to see some of the implementations other people have come up with.

Lastly, get rid of the snap ring on the shifter linkage and replace the solid pin with a stainless roll pin. That'll eliminate a fair amount of the side-to-side slop. You'll never get it all out, but this will help.

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Old 03-13-2017, 03:39 AM
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Ok, the cags was additional deleted in my mail order tune and I have the cags eliminate also connected in line, so there were 2 systems working against the cags, one will help, I hope so...

Yes, I would also try a roll pin, but my chief on work tell me, it would be too thin, should use a solid pin, how long and hard did u use your roll pin now in the car?

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This is just a build up of some of the stuff I have done over the last few days.




Fully removeable ashtray wide band mount. I am making and selling these so if you want one pm me.





Painted satin black stalk, along with homemade shift boot out of black suede.





got my powdercoated wheels on, just need to install my coilovers a assortment of bushings and some other junk. Soon I will be tig welding up a full exhaust for the car.
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Fixed and deadened the arm rest, sound deadening under back seat, front floorboards, trunk, new battery and big 3. Whew!


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