Anyone wrenching this weekend?

[rancid240]

Yah, weather for SoCal is kind of iffy, but I got to get this shat done. Definitely dont want to waste part of spring break doing it. Ever feel like if you pack one more thing in your car its going to explode? Check out the pics. I am going to do 300zx brake/mc/ebrake swap, 5 lug swap, wheel/tires, JIC RUCA (do you adjust jics alone or have a tech do it? I doubt some guy at discount tire will know how) Any tips for a first timer (I am doing all of this for the first time, bleeding brakes etc I have read up heavily on it) but any helpful tips are appreciated.

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[jjwilks240]

make sure you get those rotors re-surfaced before you put them on

have someone there to help you, source all the tools out first

go buy a can of liquid wrench/ brake fluid/ anti seize compound before you start.

[MakotoS13]

Anyone wrenching this weekend?

always

[nokuntrol]

make sure you have jack stands for long projects.

[infinitexsound]

bleedin brakes is as easy as changin oil... always wrenching all day every day.. dont strip any bolts...?!?!?!??!

[s13gonwild]

story of my life..i can NEVER keep my hands clean dammit..and i dont beleave in wearing gloves when i work...its like wearing a condom during sex...JUST AINT THE SAME.

[timmybgood]

what do you mean weather is iffy in socal? lastnight at 5am there was 3 inches fresh snow on the ground. i wake up and its all gone. ohio fcuking sucks dude.

but thats a whole lot of stuff in your car

get brake cleaner, anti-squeel stuff, pb blaster, and big piece of pipe for a breaker bar.

have fun

[kandyflip445]

Anti-squeel= dielectric compound if you wanna save a couple cents to a couple dollars. ;)

You put it on the shim. Not the pad for the ppl that are about to mess up. :fart:

[MakotoS13]

bleedin brakes is as easy as changin oil... always wrenching all day every day.. dont strip any bolts...?!?!?!??!

i've never stripped any bolts working on anything UNTIL THIS CAR.

its a nightmare i tell ya.

[Ritz S14]

bleedin brakes is as easy as changin oil... always wrenching all day every day.. dont strip any bolts...?!?!?!??!

Not wrenching..but doing some body work with this guy ^^

[s13driver]

i just finish wrenching my car... and i m tired as dead.... gotta take advantage of today as the weather is gonna be bad for the next couple days... stupid snow...

[IGSDann]

I'm putting on some SS Brake lines and replacing my fog light bulbs.

[thx247]

fuck wrenching

(re-installing motor this week)

[mhjrSR]

swaping subframe and exhuast on sunday

[infinitexsound]

Smog Tech
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Originally Posted by infinitexsound
bleedin brakes is as easy as changin oil... always wrenching all day every day.. dont strip any bolts...?!?!?!??!

Not wrenching..but doing some body work with this guy ^^

he's talkin about me..... slave driver why dont u cast a whip already... :mrmeph: j/k V its all good man , i thought u said its not okay to talk about the secret weapon...im confused :tweak: see u tomorrow mornin ill remember to take the 880 since 580 goes the other way..

[bleach8484]

I finished rebuilding my SR yesterday, and im taking everything out of the engine bay today so i can shoot some paint in there before i install the motor... What a PITA!! :rant:

[Johny5]

i just finished installing my tire flies the other day, i stripped one of my valvestems though.

the only wrenching i have going for me now is with my mouse :\ search-search-orderorder-print

[Ritz S14]

the only wrenching i have going for me now is with my wrist :\ search-search-jerk-squirt

We all know about that one. :rofl:

[Johny5]

lol duh, "post pics girls" thread on other forum owns me. miko lee please?

[blu808]

Make sure to use new cotter pins on the hub nuts.

Yes thats alot of stuff in your car.

[rancid240]

dude that weekend sucked.

Got to work on saturday at around 1pm, managed to finish swapping the rear and the passenger side to 5 lug, 300zx brakes, SS lines, JIC rear upper arms. Realized I will never buy used tires online again. Three had patches and one still had a nail fresh in it. Started today at 8am. Finished bleeding and everything then realized that throwing on s14 LCAs really does fark up your schematics. So i adjusted the tie rods accordingly, and thought I was done. Took a break, went to dinner than realized that my rear passenger tire were rubbing the fenders when I hit a big bump at city speed, so I had to go back and adjust the upper arm and fight with it to get it to mount. I had to place my feet on the rotors and push as hard as possible so that my friend could hammer in the mounting bolt. 8pm I leave and then realized that now my driver side tire is rubbing at highway speed, I said fuck it and drove home (50 miles). Good thing was that it wasnt chewing up the tire like the other side, just marking it.

Moral of the story is that things take 3 times as long when its your first time.

[p11driver]

damn steve, sounds like you had alota fun :)
I installed my pilow mounts last weekend, and gona do 5 lugs this week.

[Stock-S13]

Wait so the S13 Tie Rods need to be exteneded to accomedate the s14 LCA's? If so let me know what size wrench you used its 22mm open wrench right?

dude that weekend sucked.

Got to work on saturday at around 1pm, managed to finish swapping the rear and the passenger side to 5 lug, 300zx brakes, SS lines, JIC rear upper arms. Realized I will never buy used tires online again. Three had patches and one still had a nail fresh in it. Started today at 8am. Finished bleeding and everything then realized that throwing on s14 LCAs really does fark up your schematics. So i adjusted the tie rods accordingly, and thought I was done. Took a break, went to dinner than realized that my rear passenger tire were rubbing the fenders when I hit a big bump at city speed, so I had to go back and adjust the upper arm and fight with it to get it to mount. I had to place my feet on the rotors and push as hard as possible so that my friend could hammer in the mounting bolt. 8pm I leave and then realized that now my driver side tire is rubbing at highway speed, I said fuck it and drove home (50 miles). Good thing was that it wasnt chewing up the tire like the other side, just marking it.

Moral of the story is that things take 3 times as long when its your first time.

[Antihero983]

i just finished installing my tire flies the other day, i stripped one of my valvestems though.

the only wrenching i have going for me now is with my mouse :\ search-search-orderorder-print

tireflies? PLEEEEEASE tell me you are kidding. :hammer:

[rancid240]

Wait so the S13 Tie Rods need to be exteneded to accomedate the s14 LCA's? If so let me know what size wrench you used its 22mm open wrench right?
Yah I think it was a 22mm and a 3/4, or are those the same size? Just search for tie rod install.

[Ritz S14]

22 is more like 7/8. 3/4 is more like 19mm.. Sounds like a 19mm3/4" though.

[420sx]

well by friday the front clip is gonna be at my house, so i will start the swap sunday. so yea, lotsa wrenching

[superman0234]

ya, did a ton of wrenching this week. Replaced rear pads and rotors for the first time, what a pita that job was! Then I trouble shot my engine cuz it has been running really shitty since i removed and reattached my valve cover on friday. Ended up replacing plugs and wires, getting new bolts for the valve cover, and finally discovered it was the distrubutor cap. Replaced that, bled the brakes, take it for a test drive to find that both the rear brakes are rubbing, get home to red hot rotors and smoking brakes. Wait for them to cool down and readjust them. All good now, but my rotors now have that blue and multicoloredness to them like some exhaust tips. Probally not good, but looks cool as hell lol.

[rancid240]

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[infinitexsound]

nice parking spot... espacially when u come back from a late nite drink frenzy..... how many vomit stain's or pissin stains is there behind ur car?

[Flybert]

Steve, are you sure it was your brake calipers in the rear that were causing the overheating back there. I know when I did my five lug in the rear, I accidently over torqued my axel nuts using an impact gun and I was getting a lot of heat from the bearings. Make sure to torque them to 160 lbs/ft so you don't have any problems like I did. BTW, I forgot to show you pics of the wheels on the car. It sucks because the wheels leak air out of the faces and I have to replace the silicone on them. I burned off 2 of the tires at a drift event on sunday so that is a good excuse to pull off 2 of the tires. Here are the pics.

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[rancid240]

godamn those look sick. I didnt say anything about the brakes overheating? I torqued the nuts down by hand (no impact wrench all weekend yo).

That sucks about the air leaking, the seals looked perfect. How fast is the leak? I heard that replacing the silicone is easy, just sucks that your going to have to mount and demount. How is the finish holding up?

Cant....stop....staring...too...much...bling

[rancid240]

nice parking spot... espacially when u come back from a late nite drink frenzy..... how many vomit stain's or pissin stains is there behind ur car?

None surprisingly. One spilled drink and lots of automatic tranny fluid from my roomates car. It gets really dirty back there because I am adjacent to the dryer machines.

[Flybert]

The finish is holding up nicely. I managed to slightly ding the inside of one of the wheels at the track sunday. It's a little smaller than that one ding that was on there already. Went off course and the lip is so exposed that coming back on, I must have hit the corner of the pavement with it. I'm gonna turn up the boost and run 235/40 in the rear next time. The 235 might be just big enough to protect the rears from off course excursions as well as give me mad grip for really stable manjis down the straights.

As for the leaks, 1 leaks BAD, 2 leak kinda slow, and one holds air pretty good. I'm probably gonna pull off the tires next weekend or something. The guy that works the tire shop at WSIR said that he sees the whole 3 piece wheel leakage all the time. He told me to remove the silicone. Fill it in with the high temp red stuff and smoothe it out with my finger. Than mount the tire and fill it up with air so that the silicone gets blown into the gaps if there are any. I might just smear silicone over the existing stuff but I'm gonna talk to a wheel shop today and see how they do it.

[rancid240]

As for the leaks, 1 leaks BAD, 2 leak kinda slow, and one holds air pretty good. I'm probably gonna pull off the tires next weekend or something. The guy that works the tire shop at WSIR said that he sees the whole 3 piece wheel leakage all the time. He told me to remove the silicone. Fill it in with the high temp red stuff and smoothe it out with my finger. Than mount the tire and fill it up with air so that the silicone gets blown into the gaps if there are any. I might just smear silicone over the existing stuff but I'm gonna talk to a wheel shop today and see how they do it.

I heard that you are suppose to remove all of the pre-existing silicone. Maybe check the bolts also? I hand tightened them, but its worth a shot to check.

[Flybert]

Yeah, therewere only 3 loose bolts and they weren't leaking from those ones. They were leaking from the other bolts.

[vegita319]

Yeah, therewere only 3 loose bolts and they weren't leaking from those ones. They were leaking from the other bolts.

damn those wheels look sick. Whats the offset and sizes of the wheel and tires man?

[420sx]

godamn those look sick. I didnt say anything about the brakes overheating? I torqued the nuts down by hand (no impact wrench all weekend yo).

Cant....stop....staring...too...much...bling

er.... you should ALWAYS torque stuff down by hand w/ torque wrench. fucka bunch of air toolz shit.

[rancid240]

damn those wheels look sick. Whats the offset and sizes of the wheel and tires man?

I dont know the tire sizes but the wheels are 17x9 +17

er.... you should ALWAYS torque stuff down by hand w/ torque wrench. fucka bunch of air toolz shit.

Yah, but it cant be beat for breaking off those nuts that havent been touched for 15 years