Macrobb
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I finally sat down and swapped my new LuK 07-225 SMF kit into my '93, after (attempting to) weld the DMF solid.
Turns out I can now put one in in about 4-5 hours total, by myself. Though it does help to have an assistant for the 5 minutes of getting the ZF-5 back into place.
I'm /really/ happy so far. I picked up a PSI of boost at WOT(which makes me think that I didn't weld it correctly; something was probably still slipping), it feels much better, and I can rev it up to 3K and dump the clutch in second with no noticable slippage.
...Not that I do that often...
It was also a good thing that I did that this week; I found a problem left over from last weekend's clutch disk replacement. While working on that, I had an assistant. I had him pull off the driver's side rear tire and check the brakes; they were squeaking a little.
When he put it back on, apparently he misunderstood me because he only put the lug nuts on hand-tight.
So, I've been driving around for a week with loose lugnuts. They were all backed off by a good 1/8"!!!
Considering that Thursday night I drove down to the nearby city, 50 miles away and back... at 70MPH...
Yeah. Pretty thankful that nothing bad happened.
Turns out I can now put one in in about 4-5 hours total, by myself. Though it does help to have an assistant for the 5 minutes of getting the ZF-5 back into place.
I'm /really/ happy so far. I picked up a PSI of boost at WOT(which makes me think that I didn't weld it correctly; something was probably still slipping), it feels much better, and I can rev it up to 3K and dump the clutch in second with no noticable slippage.
...Not that I do that often...
It was also a good thing that I did that this week; I found a problem left over from last weekend's clutch disk replacement. While working on that, I had an assistant. I had him pull off the driver's side rear tire and check the brakes; they were squeaking a little.
When he put it back on, apparently he misunderstood me because he only put the lug nuts on hand-tight.
So, I've been driving around for a week with loose lugnuts. They were all backed off by a good 1/8"!!!
Considering that Thursday night I drove down to the nearby city, 50 miles away and back... at 70MPH...
Yeah. Pretty thankful that nothing bad happened.