Sort of got a lot done, but sort of didn't, overall I'd say win.
The day consisted of:
- Starting the car - Evan hadn't heard it run without "hunting for idle".
- Talking about the front of the car - all the bits that are toast are off now, find and replace time.
- Swapping out the track rod on the LHS front. This looked to be a pig but wasn't once we had 'the persuader' (tm), a 32mm spanner to undo it.
- Figuring out how to do the fan, it's just engineering now.
- Talking a bit more (a lot really).
- A compression test - consistent 130psi across all six, which is not factory standard, but consistent is good.
- Deciding to take the rear hub off to sort the two sheared wheel nuts.
This is where we ran aground. Many sweaty hours trying to drift the hub off the axle have proved fruitless.
To cut a long story short I now posses a reasonably expensive single use device which may do the job. Time will tell (a lot of time told us that it wouldn't work without it).
Once that's fixed I can actually drive the car, albeit with a locked diff and ruined bushes at the rear, which I will do to make sure I have all the gears I should have.
I can't wait.
Special mention to the Matilda Garage near Beerwha too - thanks for the Commodore Resting At Peace - and the new battery. (in joke*).
I'll maybe post up a pick of the old track rod, if only to show the healthy bend in it... This car has had a hard life.
(* You too can have your own personal in-joke, cost, one day of greasing up with Andrew).
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