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Old 04-16-2008, 06:39 PM
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What a weekend!

Just thought I would tell everyone about my weekend and ask a few questions. Did a lot of mechanical work. It started Thursday when I found coolant under my car. A quick search on the org and I found the problem and how to fix it. Mad props to all those who have helped put the how to's this together.

First let me introduce my partner in crime! He's a car guy all the way through.



Replaced the water pump. The o rings were really bad and starting to leak. It took me about 2 hours to do it all. Here's the pictures of the new and old ones.


Durring the process I found that the horn was in the way so I decided to do the free (accept for time) Horn mod. I hear you have to do this anyways if you plan on putting a turbo in, which I am. Check it!


I'm going to make one another suggestion to anyone who is doing this. Make sure you change your oil gasket at the same time. I know it say to change the oil in the how to, but I just decided to do the gasket on a whim. Good thing, after removing the oil pan I found another half a quart of coolant sitting in the bottom. Oh the fun of working on the car.


After all this, we climbed into the car and drove 4 hours to Utah. I really wanted to test the thing... When I was down there I finally got my fuel filter in and cleaned the throttle body.

Next week i'm doing the control arms, inner and outer tie rod ends, bla bla bla almost everything up front. All the bushings are bad so i decided to do the whole thing. Any suggestions to make it easer?
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Old 04-16-2008, 06:45 PM
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ah the joys of a water pump, i remember doing that. for me, the chain tensioner was the worst part. glad you got it fixed.
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Old 04-16-2008, 06:55 PM
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Great work man.I bet your partner did most of it.
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Old 04-16-2008, 06:57 PM
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child labour FTL.


j/k my girl looks to be about the same age as your son. She helps daddy when she can. It feels really good to spend the time bonding with them.
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Old 04-16-2008, 07:29 PM
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Nice work...I was on CL last week and could have sworn that this was your car for sale... check the listing, as the last picture looks like its your sig...

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/car/638879672.html
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" 4 wheel independant suspension"..... tisk tisk tisk. lol
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Originally Posted by 99BlackMaxMS
Nice work...I was on CL last week and could have sworn that this was your car for sale... check the listing, as the last picture looks like its your sig...

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/car/638879672.html
Ya, thats my picture all right. It's stright off my car domain page. Check it!
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2963383
I just sent him a message asking him to remove the image.
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Fantastic!

He replied this morning and said it must have been a craiglist error and that he fixed it. Now theres 2 pictures of my car on there. What a moron! I sent him another email asking him to call craigslist to get it fixed, but I'm sure he'll just pull another picture from someone else's page.
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he's simply playing the ****. Apparently he is too lazy to take pics of his own car if there is even a car or his doenst look that clean and nice, so he tries to fool people.
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