What have you done to your car today?
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Finished putting a new differential in my car early this morning. Limited slip is a beautiful thing 
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Oh DA9 Teggy, budget doesn't matter, type of driving: obnoxiously brutal (only when pissing off the neighbors LoL), weather doesn't matter either. I wasn't specific, it's more of the tire size, the lower the profile the better but I'm not to sure if there's anything lower than 50R's on 16's.
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- P_Balance
Installed my clear turn signals and marker lights to replace my broken left signal and right marker.
Joey D
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That's coming along pretty nicely, the front bumper looks a lot better now that you painted it too.
And something I've always wanted to know, on a car with pop up headlights can you just make it do that lazy eye thing with the light switch or do you have to install something?
And something I've always wanted to know, on a car with pop up headlights can you just make it do that lazy eye thing with the light switch or do you have to install something?
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- P_Balance
On mine, I just had to pull out the manual headlight switch and snip a brown wire. Basically, it cuts the power to the relay for the lights, so they only move as long as the button is pressed in. This lets me put them wherever I want.
I can't have the lights on though when it's like that, because it resets itself and they come up the whole way.
EDIT: Should be doing my manual swap here in a few weeks. Can't wait.
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[EDIT - too slow]
The car does look nice, though đź‘Ť
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EDIT - 10.15
I finally got a day off that wasn't bitter cold or snowing (actually in the 60s!), so tonight a friend came over to grind/cut off the radiator support.
EDIT - 10.18
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Final disassembly before support work:
Old support cut off (always wear safety glasses when around a grinder! ... I got shot in the eye with a spark
)
New support welded on
This morning I had time to put a fender on and start with the plastic wheel well. Then it was dark by the time I got off work. Same crappy schedule all week. Little by little until my day off, I think Wednesday, I guess. And it's supposed to get cold and snowy again before then.
The car does look nice, though đź‘Ť
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EDIT - 10.15
I finally got a day off that wasn't bitter cold or snowing (actually in the 60s!), so tonight a friend came over to grind/cut off the radiator support.
EDIT - 10.18
Thumbnails link to larger pics
Final disassembly before support work:
Old support cut off (always wear safety glasses when around a grinder! ... I got shot in the eye with a spark
)
New support welded on
This morning I had time to put a fender on and start with the plastic wheel well. Then it was dark by the time I got off work. Same crappy schedule all week. Little by little until my day off, I think Wednesday, I guess. And it's supposed to get cold and snowy again before then.
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Wash, wax, mudflap removal, window cleaning, and then fried half my parking brake 
Rotary Junkie
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Oil change with a complementary speeding ticket on the way home from school >_>
At least the cop was nice to me as to how he acted and also took 11mph off the ticket (which made it still a 10mph over ticket on the freeway, do the math). Still, $160 oil change all in all plus whatever the insurance hit is gonna be.
At least the cop was nice to me as to how he acted and also took 11mph off the ticket (which made it still a 10mph over ticket on the freeway, do the math). Still, $160 oil change all in all plus whatever the insurance hit is gonna be.
Joey D
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You live in Michigan right? I wonder why the cop stopped you, 91 on the freeway isn't that fast.
Rotary Junkie
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I-96 Westbound just past Telegraph.
Kinda pisses me off seeing as I should've known better after seeing one cop on Telegraph shooting radar, going past him at circa 55mph indicated (50ish real) and him not doing anything...
Kinda pisses me off seeing as I should've known better after seeing one cop on Telegraph shooting radar, going past him at circa 55mph indicated (50ish real) and him not doing anything...
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Installed my clear turn signals and marker lights to replace my broken left signal and right marker.
Looking a lot better already, Maybe its just the photography but the car almost looks likr its a nice metallic maroon. Are you planning on a full respray or just the front bumper?
Wheels look cool too.
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Snapped an AC condenser mounting bolt. Yet another thing to add to my junkyard shopping list. All in all, I half-installed both the condenser and radiator (lines hooked up, but hit snags in mounting), then called it a night. Lots of taking things apart and rebuilding to get them in easier.
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Replaced the front and rear differential fluids on the Montero. Transfer case is next, along with the fuel filter and transmission. Stupid slushbox...
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Threw my snow tires on because the weather was in the negatives for a solid 2 weeks and I got sick of driving around on eggs for the first 15 minutes of driving. Since then, the weather has been in the high teens. 
Went out and sucked out the leaves from my quarter panels (don't ask me how they get there) and gave it a wash in order to have it oil sprayed tomorrow. I've come to realize that the birds in my neighbourhood hate me.
Went out and sucked out the leaves from my quarter panels (don't ask me how they get there) and gave it a wash in order to have it oil sprayed tomorrow. I've come to realize that the birds in my neighbourhood hate me.
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