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dubshow wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:29 pm
Melon wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:27 pm

Looks like ABS.
I thought that too but its 4 lines. 2 lines for the front if 2 rotors but the rear only has one rotor, right?
2 for the Boppity
2 for the Boopity
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Melon wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:27 pm
dubshow wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:16 pm interesting use of space. are those high pressure fuel lines?
Looks like ABS.
It’s definitely for ABS. Haven’t studied enough to see which goes where. Could be something unique to cornering ABS
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Fiesta roles over 100k in the way home from the Smokey’s and the throw out bearing decided to give up around the same time.

:dillerman: wanted $1600 to do it.

TOB and clutch on order. I haven’t done a FWD clutch since college days, but at I least I have a garage and quickjacks as opposed to laying on my back in a snow covered, rock driveway.
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Haven’t updated ya’ll on the Fiesta. The job has been done, but there’s a bit of a story to go along with it.

While fighting with a CV shaft, the car fell 90% of the way of the quickjacks. The rubber blocks that the car sits on rolled while I was underneath prying on things causing the entire car to shift to the left about 8-10”. Fortunate in terms my life, a corner of the driver’s side rocker panel dug into the quick jack and prevented it from coming completely off. I don’t know if the passenger side would have held or not had it come completely off - it was at least was further under the car after it shifted - but it was easily the closest my life has ever come to ending while working on a car.

For reference, I’ve had an arm swing out on a 2-post lift while a car was in the air, and a hydraulic jack fail while changing a tire.

Anyways I finished the job. Onto the pics.

Transmission out from the bottom. The subframe does not need to removed on the Fiesta
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Toasted TOB/Slave assembly
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Fresh OEM bits. For those curious, the clutch that came out of the car had probably 30% left
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Transmission back in. I did this entire job solo. To aid installation, I removed the hood and used my ceiling hoist to hold and adjust the position of the engine. I used a motorcycle jack to lift the transmission up, then bench pressed it in the final few inches. Fortunately the clutch was aligned and after a few seconds of vigorous wiggling and twisting the input shaft splines aligned and the trans slid home.
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Damaged rocker. Fortunately this is covered with the plastic body piece, which broke every clip that was holding it on when the catastrophe occurred. I knocked this back in as best I could, applied primer, paint, and clear to prevent corrosion, and clearanced some of the inside of the cover with a Dremel.
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Clip explosion
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New clips installed, 3M adhesives applies. Not great, not terrible for a car with 100k farts
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It’s back on the road now and working properly. I did find a torn balljoint boot that I’ll address soon - loaded/complete OEM replacement control arms are only about $60 and can be removed and installed in about 30 min.

All told, I did this job in about 11.5, I’m told Ford pays 9. Nice knowing that I can still sling some wrenches if I have to.




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Holy crap dude
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Big Brain Bradley wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:55 am Holy crap dude
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Glad it's still a 2 Zilch household.
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Dang man, glad you’re OK. That is scary.
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I also see that Tapa doesn't let you post the big pics without paying now. :disappoint:
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dang Trav... I can relate when fumbling with e30 on quickjack the entire care tilted fwd with no diff or trans installed. Scared the shit out of me that it was balanced at the front doors on a block.
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dubshow wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:41 am dang Trav... I can relate when fumbling with e30 on quickjack the entire care tilted fwd with no diff or trans installed. Scared the shit out of me that it was balanced at the front doors on a block.
Can confirm, this does happen.
When I had the front end out, I would lift the car by hand to impress Lady :melon:

She was, in fact, unimpressed.
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Melon wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:42 am
dubshow wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:41 am dang Trav... I can relate when fumbling with e30 on quickjack the entire care tilted fwd with no diff or trans installed. Scared the shit out of me that it was balanced at the front doors on a block.
Can confirm, this does happen.
When I had the front end out, I would lift the car by hand to impress Lady :melon:

She was, in fact, unimpressed.
Well I'm sure you're used to that by now :zing: :roasted:
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4zilch wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:44 am
Melon wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:42 am

Can confirm, this does happen.
When I had the front end out, I would lift the car by hand to impress Lady :melon:

She was, in fact, unimpressed.
Well I'm sure you're used to that by now :zing: :roasted:
Don't make me slap you. :meatspin:

Only thing she was unimpressed with was with your smoked :meat: :sass:
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Melon wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:48 am
4zilch wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:44 am

Well I'm sure you're used to that by now :zing: :roasted:
Don't make me slap you. :meatspin:

Only thing she was unimpressed with was with your smoked :meat: :sass:
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Officially completed my transition to becoming “local” as I transferred titles and registration to TN.

Of note, Indiana charges excise tax ( :wasteful: tax) on the things that use roads, the tax is based on the value of vehicles as determined by some unknown book value. The renewal is annual and the value does decrease every year. And registering 4 plated things (2 bikes, 100k mile shit box, and hazard fraught trailer) was slated to cost me $428 in Indiana. TN (not taking into account the 1 time title fees) cost a whopping $86, and I could have saved $19 by not registering the trailer (not required TN unless you take it out of state).

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Any plans for personal plates?
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Melon wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:16 pm :truckyeah:

Any plans for personal plates?
No SFT3RD.

I might somewhere down the road if the mood strikes. For now they’re all randoms
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Nothing new here. Changed the oil on the fist and the fiat. Discovered the fiesta has some stuck caliper slides on the LF to address. Still need to do control arms (cheaper than pressing bushings). Cabinets might get here at the end of the week.
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Double post. :ban:
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4zilch wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:00 pm Nothing new here. Changed the oil on the fist and the fiat. Discovered the fiesta has some stuck caliper slides on the LF to address. Still need to do control arms (cheaper than pressing bushings). Cabinets might get here at the end of the week.
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Hello. Is this where the party is?
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stripethree wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2019 9:26 pm Hello. Is this where the party is?
In my pants? :yesth:
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stripethree wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2019 9:26 pm Hello. Is this where the party is?
:howdy:
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4zilch wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:28 am In my pants? :yesth:
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