Davey's 4th Gen BA8

[DaveyBa8]

Put the prelude of the road yesterday have bought a cheap 1ltr run around so I can work on the car. Snapped a random photo, car wasn't cleaned though.

[DaveyBa8]

Well decided I would pull this out this evening by myself


And this is how as I didn't have a crane haha.


Slide it straight out the front on a pallet, I'll be cleaning this up then renting an engine crane and doing the swap in a day.

[DaveyBa8]

Moneys tight but the battle continues where it can, seeing as the engine is out i thought i would get cleaning bits and pieces, starting with the starter.
from this:

To this:

To This:

[DaveyBa8]

Decided id take the box of and give it a good cleaning it really really needed it, was filled with dirt, grease, oil, underseal.
so it went from this:


To this:


And this is what i have been using, i strongly recommend this stuff its fantastic, i got this stuff in Halfords.

[DaveyBa8]

Stripped down the front of the engine to:

To this:

To this:


i have loads of wee brackets of the gearbox all primed up now. made a jar using All brite aluminium cleaner, it stripped these back to bare metal in 6 hours.
from this:

To this:


Using this method i found that it needed drying super quick, or it will start rusting again, i used a hair dryer. and etch primed as soon as i could.

[Doggo]

This will be cleeeean

[honda-hardy]

great work, as i advise everyone, tighten the seat of your fitv. undo the 2 screws that cover it. tighten it clockwise till it stops.
this helps with the future posibility of hunting idle.

[DaveyBa8]

This will be cleeeean

I hope so man, find it tough with no garage but bring on the summer,

great work, as i advise everyone, tighten the seat of your fitv. undo the 2 screws that cover it. tighten it clockwise till it stops.
this helps with the future posibility of hunting idle.

Thanks for the advise man , Ive a skunk 2 inatke manifold here, so the intake side will be stripped and cleaned to,

I have 5ltrs of 2k black paint and lacquer, ive ordered a wee mini spray gun for the compressor so i will save a bunch on rattle cans and have a stronger paint and finish.

[kris_aka_edu]

Wow this is some serious work! Getting some great ideas for mine. Touching up old looking stuff makes everything looks so much better! Keep it up!

[NafemanNathan]

Great work mate That Gunk is amazing isn't it? You know it's good when the top layer of skin on your hand is flaking off a couple days after you've used it without gloves anyway