The guys in the shop were a little bored yesterday, and got a kick out of Nates animation, so they figured a Brad and Joe conversation would be good to add.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090421205458398

 

its almost like i am standing there...

 

I think Drew and I solved the clutch mystery.

We pulled the bellhousing last night and when I did, I noticed there were no dowels on the block to align the bellhousing. Apparently, the guy he bought the motor from removed them (kinda weird).

When we originally mated the tranny/engine, we had the transmission and bellhousing together, so the input shaft aligned everything. When Drew was pulling the car into storage last year, he bumped a lip on his barn on the underside of the car, and that's when the slave failed. As best we can tell, because of the lack of dowels, the transmission shifted slightly when it was bumped, which caused the slave to fail.

Jump to this spring, we pulled the trans off the bellhousing, rebuilt it, replaced the slave and reinstalled it to the bellhousing (which was still misaligned). Bleed clutch and the new slave fails just like the old one (when we pulled the slave out, it was jammed all the way out. Even with no fluid we had to use a vise to get it to actuate freely). I have a spare motor with dowels on it that I pulled off, and we will put them on Drew's motor, get the alignment taken care of and reinstall everything (with a new slave, again) and I think all will be fine. The pressure plate, clutch disc and flywheel all looked fine.

The joys of wrenching...

 

Wow! Some of you guys in this forum seem to really know your stuff and I assume that comes from doing all your own work, which is pretty cool.

 

Did your legs survive??

 

Not many splines there, looks like a FORD clutch.

 

This is mostly for Blake and Nick, but OMG... everyone should watch it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsY4...layer_embedded

 

I'm just too cheap to pay others for labor. Thus I have to figure out what I'm doing (or at least do a good job pretending).

 

Legs made it, bellhousing was pretty pissed off. had that all welded up and then i broke the transmission. I am currently installing a McLeod steel bellhousing. That should keep my legs and feet protected should this ever happne again.

 

You better call the dentist..... why is that? Cause i'm gonna knock your teeth out of your ****** head!

 

One of the guys on v8rx7forum.com made that, it's absolutely hilarious.

I decided to pull the trigger on a 8.8" IRS diff swap for the 7, does anyone know someone with a totaled Thunderbird or Lincoln MK-VIII? I niid the diff housing and cover out of it

 

That"s funny ****!

 

Good find Ben! Laughed my *** off throughout it.

 

[QUOTE=digitalsolo;11462855]**** a wrench, get a MityVac. Doing Azar's clutch tonight with a MityVac. Manual bleeding sucks!

Hell, come over and do mine to, that way I don't have to buy one

 

Funny as hell!!!

"not enough torque to pull the panties off your drunken sister" --LOLLERZZZ

 

I have a one man bleeder Darren, not as cool as a mityvac, but it gets the job done. Simple and effective without having air seep in when bleeding.

 

So my wife showed me this. I thought it was funny as hell!

http://new.music.yahoo.com/eminem/vi...you--208585920

 

I know a couple of guys have seen this already, but I was just seeing how you guys think I did on this on Photoshop for the very 1st time for a class that I'm taking now.

 

I saw this and I just had to post this, because I know some of you guys would get a kick out of this Camaro!
https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...-car-show.html

 

Photoshop looks pretty good guy who's name I don't know.

Ben,

That video was made by a guy on V8RX7Forum.com. It's hilarious!