Dieselmiata's teardown/rebuild of a 92
01-03-2012, 10:32 PM
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I took a break from polishing and broke out the trusty old pickle fork. Disconnected the suspension inner workings and am starting the cleanup process. EVERY PART ON THIS CAR is coated in a nice 1/4" layer of Texas dust.
But I'll take dust over rust any day. It's gonna look great after I clean and paint everything. I also put the injectors and fuel rail back on. It stands out a little more than I hoped. but we'll see after I get everything else put back together. On another note, during my reassembly of the crank boss, I found that my clutch is weak and in need of replacement. Time to drop the tranny...
But I'll take dust over rust any day. It's gonna look great after I clean and paint everything. I also put the injectors and fuel rail back on. It stands out a little more than I hoped. but we'll see after I get everything else put back together. On another note, during my reassembly of the crank boss, I found that my clutch is weak and in need of replacement. Time to drop the tranny...
I like it
01-05-2012, 12:14 AM
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01-05-2012, 08:21 AM
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Looks great! I reallly wish I had the time to paint my control arms when I put in my bushings, but unfortunately I needed to get the car running as quickly as possible.
Maybe during some downtime, I will take everything apart, clean it and paint it. It would be nice to clean and paint the subframes too!
Maybe during some downtime, I will take everything apart, clean it and paint it. It would be nice to clean and paint the subframes too!
01-12-2012, 09:27 PM
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Moar stuff!
Been a while since I updated, so here's what I've been up to:
Hard to see in the crappy pic (i'm not an artist) but my beltline moldings were in really crappy shape, so I pulled them off, used a razor blade to scrape all the old rubber off, and plasti-dipped them. Turned out better than I had hoped.
My control arms were in pretty poor shape,
So I pulled out my weapons of mass de-rust-ion
Here is prepped, before paint:
And afterwards!
Shaved and polished my taillights, but they're pretty faded from 20 years of Texas sun so I may wind up finding new ones.
Calipers cleaned/wire wheeled/painted. Looks new, right!
Fresh undercoating, hells yeah.
Dashboard is almost ready to come out.
And I decided to give the 95 a bath. She needed it. Sad really, I've kinda been neglecting her ever since the red headed **** came into my life.
Hard to see in the crappy pic (i'm not an artist) but my beltline moldings were in really crappy shape, so I pulled them off, used a razor blade to scrape all the old rubber off, and plasti-dipped them. Turned out better than I had hoped.
My control arms were in pretty poor shape,
So I pulled out my weapons of mass de-rust-ion
Here is prepped, before paint:
And afterwards!
Shaved and polished my taillights, but they're pretty faded from 20 years of Texas sun so I may wind up finding new ones.
Calipers cleaned/wire wheeled/painted. Looks new, right!
Fresh undercoating, hells yeah.
Dashboard is almost ready to come out.
And I decided to give the 95 a bath. She needed it. Sad really, I've kinda been neglecting her ever since the red headed **** came into my life.
