The 'look at what I did today' thread

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 10:00 pm

You actually might have more cars than me now?

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:49 pm

The Prelude was wearing its road trip grime like a badge of honour, so I washed and waxed it this afternoon.

It rained.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 9:46 pm

woOtSalami · Post by **woOtSalami** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 10:23 pm

I brought the Lude to the local (best) tuner in germany today

toadster · Post by **toadster** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 5:57 pm

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woOtSalami wrote:I brought the Lude to the local (best) tuner in germany today

Sooooooooooooooo Glossy

Looks Luvly

Cheers

Toadster

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:06 pm

I roped my grandad into helping at the barn today. He has a decent impact gun and I needed one for separating the torque converter from the EJ20G engine I bought. He's also an automatic gearbox mechanic and life long petrol head so he's quite a handy person to have around whilst working!

Anyway it turned out I was being too gentle and that's why I couldn't remove the auto box from the block

that said he reckoned in all his years he'd never come across one that was fused onto the engine so solidly. It took a pounding before it even budged a millimetre. Half an hour of attacking it with hammers, screwdrivers and a pry bar finally left us with this:

Surprisingly, considering our common interest, it was the first time we had worked on a project together. Not to get too soppy but it was really nice to spend the time working with him

bizarrely, despite having never worked together, we both work in exactly the same way... Does spannering run in the genes?

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:58 pm

jjmartin349571 wrote: ... Does spannering run in the genes?

In a way, I think it does. My dad was the go-to man when I had mechanical problems in my youth.

Working together didn't always go smoothly, though. He'd sometimes do things that made no logical sense and I'd be too impatient, so would gripe. In the end I had to agree that his methods worked more often than mine.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:34 am

Sailor wrote:
jjmartin349571 wrote: ... Does spannering run in the genes?
In a way, I think it does. My dad was the go-to man when I had mechanical problems in my youth.

Working together didn't always go smoothly, though. He'd sometimes do things that made no logical sense and I'd be too impatient, so would gripe. In the end I had to agree that his methods worked more often than mine.

I just kept getting told I wasn't being tough enough with it

I ended up having to go ape jobby on it with a big hammer before it moved just the slightest bit. Then it was a case of hammering screwdrivers and a pry bar into the gap until it finally freed up. Turns out the two mating faces were fused with corrosion, and it was the same story for the aligning dowels. All the other gearboxes I've pulled have come away with almost zero effort though, so I was really questioning if I had missed something!

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 1:38 am

jjmartin349571 wrote: Turns out the two mating faces were fused with corrosion, and it was the same story for the aligning dowels. ... so I was really questioning if I had missed something!

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 12:59 pm

I removed the engine from the project scooby last night:

I did have help: