DunneDriftin's R32 Skyline

[podge]

nice job ive adjustable upper camber arms here if ya dont have them
when i had the liner i always knew when i had steering problems as the top used to blow of the cap and onto the manifold

[Dunnedriftin]

Right well just getting the car ready and doing the last few finishing touches late last night for portlaois this sunday...

Gearbox oil was ontop of the list, dunno when it was last changed but it was getting done for piece of mind! Anyway i stuck her up onto the lift and went about loosening the bung to let the gear oil out, wasnt budging at all so this was a bad start

So i ended up with a big power bar along with this bad boy... 4 foot pole to loosen up the gear oil bung!!!!



After getting the bung loose and got a container to let the oil into here is what it looked like, say its been a while since its been changed!!



Also looks like somebody was grinding a few gears



Anyway after i got the oil out & put in some fresh oil i went to let the car down But it wouldnt come down! The car got stuck on the ramp and then i tried everything i could 11pm at night, car stuck on the ramp, not comming down because the safety latch clicked in & the ramp wont go any higher to realese it

Here it is...



Was freeking out at this stage, it would only happen to me! So after a while i decided to try 1 thing that could only let it down.... Find which ever end is overhanging the ramp more, shake the fook out the car up and down (fook me is it dangerous!!) and then run and hit the button to let the car down...... And it worked! Thank fook cause i was fooked otherwise!

So need to get some spacers for the front of the car, as the inside of the wheel is rubbing the brake hose holder, Give the car & engine bay a wash to make sure 100% theres no leaks & possibley i might go at bleeding the handbrake again to try get a decent bit of pressure!

[dbyrneae86]

Jesus your on the ball, wont be headin portlaois,you going out on the 5th in mondello ?

[Dunnedriftin]

Jesus your on the ball, wont be headin portlaois,you going out on the 5th in mondello ?

Nope i wont be there... im heading to goldstone hopefully Gotta get off this and go finish the car before it gets dark!!

[mo_yassin]

That looks like some proper manky gearbox oil

[Dunnedriftin]

That looks like some proper manky gearbox oil

You wanna believe it!!

[git]

have them there ring later

[babyeater690]

this is savage love a good r32

[Dunnedriftin]

Well went today to wash the car as it could do with it after oil sprayed all over the window & bonnet after the last day in mondello & the work iv done on it latly with the steering rack...

It was that cold the car was frozen and due to no heating i couldnt get any of the windows to de-ice so that wasnt a good start! Went to use the powerwasher and it had frozen up so that was the end of washing the car





Anyway with no clear windows i managed to get into the garage onto the ramp...

After fitting the 180sx steering rack to the R32 subframe i had got it tracked by Wez @ WKD Imports. After fitting the rack i had extra lock before i had got the wheels aligned but even after i got the wheels aligned i ended up with extra lock on the wheels so nothing to complain about

But still had 1 problem, the wheels where rubbing the inside of the brake hose & brake hose mounting so i had to go get spacers to try sort this out!




On with some 6 mm spacer (3mm each) it was just the right about to on each wheel & dosnt interfear with the arch's thankfully!

This just shows how close everything is now after i fitted the spacers!!





Anyway after sorting the rubbing issues and everything was ok it was time to let the car down but i noticed a small spillage / leak on the floor My worst night mare was seeing another leak from the car



Lucky enough i double checked all the pipes and i lowered the car back down to the ground and ony solution i came up with was when i was moving the rack side to side when i was checking the rubbing of the wheels it pushed the fluid out of the bottle as it was 'wet' again...



So that put my nerves at rest! i couldnt bear another leak from the car for a while!

So this is how she stands tonight... Im ready for sunday!

[sil80drifter]

glad to hear it dude