- Coolant leak - Replaced clamp, leak is fixed.
- IACV sticky - Might have just been air in the system from the coolant leak, giving this a bit more time before I blame it as the culprit.
- Passenger Axle - Replaced, vibrations are greatly improved. There are still some but it's 100x better than before. I'm going to find a set of OEM axles next time I head to Spokane in the junkyard and have raxles.com rebuild them. I don't want to have any issues with axles down the road. OEM or bust.
- V-Band clamp on exhaust with flex pipe - V-Band clamp and flanges will show up on Saturday. I'm going to make an appointment for Monday to get the exhaust done.
- Add transmission fluid - Added transmission fluid and went for a drive. The new axle seal seems to be holding in the transmission fluid. I need to go for a longer drive to actually confirm this. But after about 8 miles driving around town last night, there was no fluid on the transmission housing.
I still have a few other outstanding issues that I didn't list before.
- Replace ground wire to engine.
- Add another ground wire to engine.
- Add ground wire from battery to engine.
- Finish scrubbing oil/dirt/nastiness from the bottom of the floor pan on the passenger side. I currently have this about 60% done. But I would like to finish cleaning off the new oil since it softened up the stuff already on there a bit.
- Finish cleaning off the back end of the cat back. I probably have this about 50% done currently.
- Prothane bushings into rear wagon control arms. Still need to purchase the bushings.
- Replace rear lower shock bushings. I have a new set of Energy Suspension bushings for the front upper control arms to replace the current ones. I just need to take the rear shocks out again. It honestly shouldn't take more than a few minutes per side to swap these. My current ones are showing a bit of wear on the bottom side.
- Install Cheddas Auto extended rear top hats. While doing this I'll get the lower bushings replaced.
- Replace 3 of my Bilstein shocks. As somehow the asshats that stole the car made 3 of them leak.
- Replace bushings in the trailing arms. These are the last bushings left on this car to replace. The larger front bushing is going to receive a set of HardRace bushings. The smaller ones where the knuckle bolts onto the trailing arm will receive a set of Febest bushings. Apalileo found these replacements somehow. A few years ago when doing a different set of trailing arms I couldn't find these bushings for the life of me. In fact I have a trailing arm that I thought was worthless because I press the small bushings out of it, and then couldn't find any replacements for it.
I think that about sums up the issues that I have with the car for the time being. Now this doesn't account for any new projects or plans for the car by any means. These are just the items that I feel are outstanding and need to be taken care of in the next few months. None of them needing to get done right at this moment, so I don't really feel like I'm in a rush. Now I do have a decent sized tote with a bunch of projects for Lola to start working on once the drive to accomplish some of this stuff returns. I really want to enjoy the car at this point instead of feeling like I have to work on it all the time to make it enjoyable.
I do have to mention this though. As I took both cars apart and put new Lola back together, I added a ton of things, or changed things with the stock parts to reduce an vibrations/noises that the interior makes while driving. This iteration of Lola is so much better to drive than the first attempt. The cabin is so much quieter than before. Now I'm not saying that it's quite in the cabin, but there aren't a ton of little annoying noises that annoy you while driving.
I will mention I do have one spot that is making noise during driving. The drivers door panel is rubbing the dashboard somehow and making an awful noise. To alleviate this problem though I'm just going to add a strip of felt to separate the vinyl from rubbing on each other and making the noise. Once I have that done I guess I'll find out at that point if I have any other awful sounds.
- IACV sticky - Might have just been air in the system from the coolant leak, giving this a bit more time before I blame it as the culprit.
- Passenger Axle - Replaced, vibrations are greatly improved. There are still some but it's 100x better than before. I'm going to find a set of OEM axles next time I head to Spokane in the junkyard and have raxles.com rebuild them. I don't want to have any issues with axles down the road. OEM or bust.
- V-Band clamp on exhaust with flex pipe - V-Band clamp and flanges will show up on Saturday. I'm going to make an appointment for Monday to get the exhaust done.
- Add transmission fluid - Added transmission fluid and went for a drive. The new axle seal seems to be holding in the transmission fluid. I need to go for a longer drive to actually confirm this. But after about 8 miles driving around town last night, there was no fluid on the transmission housing.
I still have a few other outstanding issues that I didn't list before.
- Replace ground wire to engine.
- Add another ground wire to engine.
- Add ground wire from battery to engine.
- Finish scrubbing oil/dirt/nastiness from the bottom of the floor pan on the passenger side. I currently have this about 60% done. But I would like to finish cleaning off the new oil since it softened up the stuff already on there a bit.
- Finish cleaning off the back end of the cat back. I probably have this about 50% done currently.
- Prothane bushings into rear wagon control arms. Still need to purchase the bushings.
- Replace rear lower shock bushings. I have a new set of Energy Suspension bushings for the front upper control arms to replace the current ones. I just need to take the rear shocks out again. It honestly shouldn't take more than a few minutes per side to swap these. My current ones are showing a bit of wear on the bottom side.
- Install Cheddas Auto extended rear top hats. While doing this I'll get the lower bushings replaced.
- Replace 3 of my Bilstein shocks. As somehow the asshats that stole the car made 3 of them leak.
- Replace bushings in the trailing arms. These are the last bushings left on this car to replace. The larger front bushing is going to receive a set of HardRace bushings. The smaller ones where the knuckle bolts onto the trailing arm will receive a set of Febest bushings. Apalileo found these replacements somehow. A few years ago when doing a different set of trailing arms I couldn't find these bushings for the life of me. In fact I have a trailing arm that I thought was worthless because I press the small bushings out of it, and then couldn't find any replacements for it.
I think that about sums up the issues that I have with the car for the time being. Now this doesn't account for any new projects or plans for the car by any means. These are just the items that I feel are outstanding and need to be taken care of in the next few months. None of them needing to get done right at this moment, so I don't really feel like I'm in a rush. Now I do have a decent sized tote with a bunch of projects for Lola to start working on once the drive to accomplish some of this stuff returns. I really want to enjoy the car at this point instead of feeling like I have to work on it all the time to make it enjoyable.
I do have to mention this though. As I took both cars apart and put new Lola back together, I added a ton of things, or changed things with the stock parts to reduce an vibrations/noises that the interior makes while driving. This iteration of Lola is so much better to drive than the first attempt. The cabin is so much quieter than before. Now I'm not saying that it's quite in the cabin, but there aren't a ton of little annoying noises that annoy you while driving.
I will mention I do have one spot that is making noise during driving. The drivers door panel is rubbing the dashboard somehow and making an awful noise. To alleviate this problem though I'm just going to add a strip of felt to separate the vinyl from rubbing on each other and making the noise. Once I have that done I guess I'll find out at that point if I have any other awful sounds.
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