What did you do to your V today?
#1243
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Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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pulled the front bumper and lights to fix a dead bulb - found out since I have aftermarket lights I don't have HID, and found that the drivers bulb had shorted out and melted the connection (!!), had to splice in a new pig tail to fix it. Did score some free headlight bulbs from local parts store though!
Also pulled all grilles to get them plasti-dipped, car looks a bit funny now.
Found some vertical movement in passenger front tire, so will be doing a new wheel bearing soonest.
Also pulled all grilles to get them plasti-dipped, car looks a bit funny now.
Found some vertical movement in passenger front tire, so will be doing a new wheel bearing soonest.
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I finished the bottom side holes with grommets, so it looks ok.
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#1253
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All my slop is side to side and has maybe 1-1.5" of play when in gear. I've already replaced trans and support/slider bushings with revshift when I did the hurst shifter.
I've also got the vibrations around 2100rpm whether in gear or not which I believe is caused by my stock flywheel. Whenever the vibrations get to me or my clutch finally goes out I'll be doing the roll pin too. Hopefully that'll take care of the slop.
for what it's worth, I believe it's the flywheel causing the vibrations in my case because one day i lugged the engine a little too much around the neighborhood. After I did that my vibes went away for a few weeks. My theory is my lugging caused the dual mass springs to actually get 'unhung' and do what they're supposed to do.
#1254
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Thx man, you have also to get rid of the plastics into the connector to eliminate the side by side play, there would be the biggest gap in the gear shift linkage!
Greetz
Ron
Greetz
Ron
Last edited by Choppy_Idle; 03-21-2017 at 03:33 PM.
#1257
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I bought my first one (04) and in the past few days took delivery of it. First thing I have done, which I did today was get the windows tinted. My rear dif has a leak in it that I have to track down and get taken care of soon.
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Originally Posted by BudRacing
Curious what you're replacing it with. You're talking about the sprung bolts, right?