Positive news. I have received my suspension arm.



Dropped it round my local garage for them to press out the old bush and replace it with the poly bush.

Tracked down the circlip at my local Toyota garage:



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Will hopefully be able to pick it up tomorrow or the next day.

Negative news- no spannering today as all of the above took all of my lunch break. Could be worse!

Admin finally done. Got the new suspension arm fitted with the old poly bush & picked up the circlip from Toyota. Not enjoying the admin part of the build.. but it's gotta get done and I'm grateful that I can at least.

Great progress today.
I've finally finished the drive shafts.



Then I finished off taking the gearbox off. The keen eyed among you will notice that I forgot to remove something...







Soo yeah.. trusting it will be ok!




Next up is finally fitting the clutch... putting the gearbox back on and actually starting the rest of the turbo build! 

I hope you haven't bent it, 'cos it will snap when in use.

Quote from: Carolyn on July 27, 2023, 13:27I hope you haven't bent it, 'cos it will snap when in use.

Hmm... what do you reckon:

My one and only (so far) experience with "hard" brake lines was with a Mk1 Anglia around 1978, when a short section needed replacing for some reason or other.
I do know that once bent it does not like to be unbent!
I was in a motor factor shop and the assistant was "sucking his teeth" when another customer said " No worries". I had the old part with me and the Good Samaritan said " Follow me home and I'll sort it"
I did and he did.
He had copper/ nickel tubing and a bending tool/ jig and using the old section as a pattern made me up a new 'un.
I know there was only an argument about him accepting any payment, can't recall how that ended but my lasting impression was that there are some good people in the World.

No biggie.  I thought it was a gear cable that was the issue.

Quote from: Carolyn on July 27, 2023, 14:11No biggie.  I thought it was a gear cable that was the issue.

Yeah those were trapped initially... think I managed to resolve it before any damage occurred..

Evening update- derusted new suspension arm and did another coat of primer. Bought myself a cleaning kit for the spray gun which has lots of nice little pipe cleaners in it- cleaning time now under 15mins. Still don't really have a clue what I'm doing in terms of spray pattern etc.. but paint is coming out and going where I want to so that's ok with me.

Next up will be wet sanding down and then the black paint.

Removed the clutch today :-)
discovered there's some special grease that you're supposed to put on different sections of the clutch fork and release bearing?? Does anyone know if you can use any of the following:
- Red grease
- Moly CV grease
- Copper grease
- Standard lithium based grease

Otherwise I'm going to have to go any buy some..

Didn't any come with your clutch?

In any case we just used lithium on mine

Quote from: shnazzle on July 28, 2023, 17:04Didn't any come with your clutch?

In any case we just used lithium on mine

Hmm will recheck the box!

Quote from: shnazzle on July 28, 2023, 17:04Didn't any come with your clutch?

In any case we just used lithium on mine

Nope- nothing but the disc, plate and bearing.   Might see if CV grease is ok..

I'd go with lithium

Quote from: Carolyn on July 28, 2023, 19:03I'd go with lithium

Soooo... would this do?





I don't know what the definition of "good" temperature tolerance is..

Stuff it- bought some high temp castrol grease.. it's lithium based..

Did a light sand on the suspension arms. Reckon I'll try paint them next.



Then (because snr mgmt wasn't back yet) I went to the garage and cleaned and sanded the sticky out bit with 1000 grit.



150k miles of wear is rather apparent.. no idea if you're supposed to keep going until it's perfectly smooth???







Decided to clean the forky thing. Again, quite a lot of wear.



Then applied the castrol high temp grease. Hope it's alright stuff- The YouTube vids I've seen all seem to have a darker sort of CV grease colour being used.. whereas this stuff is the usual clearish yellow.
Applied it to the sticky out bit, the inside of bearing, and the fork on both sides.



Next up will be sticking the clutch on.

Argh.. bit of a frustrating one..
Cleaned the flywheel.



Got the clutch all lined up, and my bolts all done with the loctite stuff.

Popped the clutch on...










And crap... some how it dropped... so that will be my tomorrow. Again.

@jvanzyl
Unfortunately Sod's Law applies at every possible opportunity!
Referring to your first photo above, of the flywheel, showing multipoint bolt heads - these are a type of fixing I don't recall seeing previously.
While I have seen internal  multipoint socket heads and the www shows these to be used on VW's I 've not seen external multipoint bolt heads, although I do have a socket to suit. (This I found on the road while out walking),
Where else, I wonder, would this tool be used.

Quote from: Joesson on July 31, 2023, 14:21@jvanzyl
Unfortunately Sod's Law applies at every possible opportunity!
Referring to your first photo above, of the flywheel, showing multipoint bolt heads - these are a type of fixing I don't recall seeing previously.
While I have seen internal  multipoint socket heads and the www shows these to be used on VW's I 've not seen external multipoint bolt heads, although I do have a socket to suit. (This I found on the road while out walking),
Where else, I wonder, would this tool be used.

Ah these are ARP bolts.. no idea if there are the same as stock. The flywheel is a lightened one and I think I got the bolts at the same time.

Quote from: jvanzyl on July 31, 2023, 14:54Ah these are ARP bolts.. no idea if there are the same as stock. The flywheel is a lightened one and I think I got the bolts at the same time.

You did.  I remember bolting up twice.  Once on your old engine and once on the engine we put in at my place.

Quote from: Carolyn on July 31, 2023, 15:50You did.  I remember bolting up twice.  Once on your old engine and once on the engine we put in at my place.

A favour not forgotten! :-)

Todays update - Success!

Managed to get the clutch on - applied extra tightness to the alignment tool...

Couldn't quite get a decent picture of it due to the offset of the camera and the flash.. but it's on!

Wow what a mission... spent an hour of sweating trying to get the gearbox up into the right position and failed.. I essentially need to re-lift the engine, get the jack under it and support the weight, then shove it towards the front of the car (still on the jack) and lower it slightly so it's at an angle.
THEN with the engine on the jack and without the jack support plate interfering (somehow) with the edge of the transmission I need to pick up the transmission with the crane and get it into place and attach it.. that's the theory anyway..

Nope the engine isn't at an angle, try again.


Great  the engine is at the right angle..


But now the stand it's resting on is in the way




I'm bit concerned that in all this process I broke a bit of plastic somewhere.. I heard something ping off when the engine dropped (at some point).. will need to take a careful look round the back..

I literally just witnessed a miracle... it was dawning me as a lay under the car tonight with 1.5" crooked gap between the gearbox and the engine, of how unqualified I was with all this.

And then, as I acknowledged and muttered that it was only going to happen if God did it - it literally SLID into place with barely any effort from me! Bear in mind I was drenched in sweat for the second time today and had been heaving away at this thing for the past hour.

Hallelujah!       

Coveralls are now in the wash.. they stink and have gone from Navy blue to a brown sort of muddy colour.. tomorrow will be something that doesn't involve needing them on.. maybe painting!









Next up on the car will be reconnecting gearbox stuff/ starter etc and all the engine mounts.