Eric.
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That's what happens when you try to be cool and leave your numbers on till the next day...
Lazy. It should have fallen off halfway through the event, the car was wet when I put the tape on. Ugh.
What have you done to your car today?
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Lazy. It should have fallen off halfway through the event, the car was wet when I put the tape on. Ugh.
nobuffalo
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That could be what did it, after that tape gets wet and dries, i'm pretty sure it's really difficult to remove(like the adhesive hardens on or something). All in all, your paint still sucks, not trying to talk crap. You said it was down to bare metal? So did it peel the primer off too or was there none to begin with?!
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Insulation tape FTW
Rotary Junkie
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Changed the spark plugs and in the process found out my valve cover o-rings on cyls 2 & 3 are bad.
Beautiful. Runs fine now (smoked for a while because half the plug well was full of oil which wound up in the cylinder) but what do?
Beautiful. Runs fine now (smoked for a while because half the plug well was full of oil which wound up in the cylinder) but what do?
nobuffalo
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Crank the engine with the plugs out? Might have blown some of it out.
Rotary Junkie
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It's burned off now anyway. Just curious if I should replace the VC gasket and o-rings ASAP or if it's okay to wait.
Eric.
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Little thing called rain.
Yeah, not original paint. But, at the quarter panels where its flaking and a few spots on the drivers door, the original paint can be seen. I don't know if this door was stripped before being painted or not since it went straight to metal. Looks like there is primer on the back of the paint though.
Oh well.
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It never ceases to amaze me how dodgy the previous people to have worked on my car before I bought it were. I ordered my new distributer rotor and seals from Toyota today, should be here tomorrow so tonight I concentrated on doing the bushes in the front. On one of the corners, the front bush on the control arm had been replaced, but not the rear, and on the other side neither had been replaced, weird, you'd think they'd do them all.
I'm glad they didn't. The bushing housing had been abused like you wouldn't believe. Instead of pressing the old bush out properly, or punching out the centre, it looks like they pryed the thing or just hit anywhere where they felt like with a hammer, in short, there were rough sharp edges all around it, protruding into the housing, on the bushes that came out of it were big grooves where they had been rubbing on them.
It took a lot of filing and emery tape to get the housing back to where it fit the new bush nicely. So, one corner finished (well not quite, have to reassemble it but won't take long, was over it tonight). I probably won't get time to work on it tomorrow night, off to see the new Transformers movie I think, but hopefully I'll have the front end done, plus the distributer by the weekend so I can drop it back down and see if that noise has dissapeared from the steering. Will be interesting to see if there is a noticable change in the feel at the front of the car.
I'm glad they didn't. The bushing housing had been abused like you wouldn't believe. Instead of pressing the old bush out properly, or punching out the centre, it looks like they pryed the thing or just hit anywhere where they felt like with a hammer, in short, there were rough sharp edges all around it, protruding into the housing, on the bushes that came out of it were big grooves where they had been rubbing on them.
It took a lot of filing and emery tape to get the housing back to where it fit the new bush nicely. So, one corner finished (well not quite, have to reassemble it but won't take long, was over it tonight). I probably won't get time to work on it tomorrow night, off to see the new Transformers movie I think, but hopefully I'll have the front end done, plus the distributer by the weekend so I can drop it back down and see if that noise has dissapeared from the steering. Will be interesting to see if there is a noticable change in the feel at the front of the car.
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Today I cleaned the car until it looked like this (look at that beautiful orange peel!)
Also, We're thinking of getting a new rear bumper for the corolla and a few dupli color spray cans the exact same OEM color and spray it since the bumper right now is quite heavily damaged and slightly discolored. My question is, Would a well painted bumper look good even though it's painted with a rattle can of paint? How well would the paint match provided it was well done?
Also, We're thinking of getting a new rear bumper for the corolla and a few dupli color spray cans the exact same OEM color and spray it since the bumper right now is quite heavily damaged and slightly discolored. My question is, Would a well painted bumper look good even though it's painted with a rattle can of paint? How well would the paint match provided it was well done?
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If u REALLY take your time, sand the bumper, use a primer first, 3 coats from the duplicolor, then a clearcoat on top, you might be fine. That's how I repainting my factory Honda spoiler, and it turned out fine. It doesn't look professional but it will be passable. The more prep you do and the slower u go the better you'll be.
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Thanks, it will definitely be cheaper, and will definitely look better than the discolored bumper. Next thing to do after that is painting the wheel covers so it looks better
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Keef
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Yeah screw that. If I'm buying a car that expensive it had better have an amazing finish. I've seen a few high-end BMWs and Benzes lately that have fantastic paint, and it lasts forever too.
EDIT: Right now I'm trimming some upholstery foam to make a butt pad for my bucket seat. I never liked the way the seat's padding fit around my ribs. A certain thicker portion of them was supposed to be around my stomach but sits too high. So this pad is meant to raise myself up so that cushion fits where it's supposed to. It feels better already but I'm not quite finished yet.
EDIT: Right now I'm trimming some upholstery foam to make a butt pad for my bucket seat. I never liked the way the seat's padding fit around my ribs. A certain thicker portion of them was supposed to be around my stomach but sits too high. So this pad is meant to raise myself up so that cushion fits where it's supposed to. It feels better already but I'm not quite finished yet.
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nobuffalo
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Nothing, drove it. Just got wind that Shaikh from fatcatmotorsports is gonna be attending the Solo Autocross here in Houston on July 3rd, this Sunday! How convenient, as I just emailed him yesterday with some questions about a few of his products. Gotta bring home another 1st in STS!
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Welded a 5 by 1 cm plate into the floor on the passengerside, the only rusthole I could find. Not bad for a car from 1983. Painted the last part of the floor , I've put the almost new rear seat in, tried to fix my taillight with superglue (the way BMW designed it is a big FAIL.) Hope it works.
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Did my first oil change on the GTI today. I needed a bunch of tools that I didn't have, but fortunately my buddy has everything anybody could possibly need. A 19mm socket, 36 mm socket and the 1/2" drive socket wrench to go with. Much more of a pain to do that anything else I've changed the oil on.
Body shops are even worse... I can always tell where work was done to my car, even years after.
Body shops are even worse... I can always tell where work was done to my car, even years after.
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Cleaned the headlights on my dads 00 altima wit ha 12 dollar kit from pepboys. Results are fantastec. Gonna do my mom's van tomorrow.
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The desert sage IS250 looks better and it's a darker color, Orange peel in white is not very noticeable. I don't have any problem at all with the finish, I love how it looks, but it's interesting to see that it has some orange peel (which I would not have noticed unless it had been pointed out to me) while the IS doesn't. It probably has to do with some restrictions to the type of paint or how it's applied (maybe using more environmentally friendly methods?) at the factory.
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Yesterday evening my mate and I started work on the car again, got the other control arm out, pressed out the old bushings (turns out my hydraulic hole punch makes quite the bushing remover!) and fitted the new ones - three problems though, the first being the thread on one of the bolts holding on the rear bushing housing to the chassis was stuffed, completely. The second is that the little metal sleve that goes inside the bushing and fits over the pin on the arm doesn't fit the pin. Not a problem with the sleves, they all fit the other pins properly (once you remove the paint from them) so it's a slighly oversized pin. The last problem is the washers that come supplied with the bushings are too big and touch the underside of the car. To overcome this we took the ones for the front bushes (small with heaps of room around them) and put them on the rear and vice versa.
The other two problems resulted in a trip to the shops this morning for a new 12mm bolt, had to get a cap screw instead of a bolt as the factory bolts have a strength rating of 10, the replacement bolts they had only had a rating of 8.8 and the cap screws had a rating of 12.something. Also got a tap to clean the thread in the chassis and a bottle of loctite. For the pin, bought some sanding belt and will use it to get the pin down a little bit.
Didn't get a chance to work on it this afternoon, I was helping my mate with his bike, he's building a bobber and we were adapting and welding brackets for the new tank and seat.
The other two problems resulted in a trip to the shops this morning for a new 12mm bolt, had to get a cap screw instead of a bolt as the factory bolts have a strength rating of 10, the replacement bolts they had only had a rating of 8.8 and the cap screws had a rating of 12.something. Also got a tap to clean the thread in the chassis and a bottle of loctite. For the pin, bought some sanding belt and will use it to get the pin down a little bit.
Didn't get a chance to work on it this afternoon, I was helping my mate with his bike, he's building a bobber and we were adapting and welding brackets for the new tank and seat.
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IIRC Lexus has won awards the past few years for having the best paint quality.
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