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Got a 3" downpipe made up ouf of the pieces I bought. Cost a lot to get welded as I first had to get it tacked, check it fits, make adjustment then get it fully welded. Hopefully thats the last time I need to touch it. It's a little tight to the brake booster. I've paid lots of attention to the...

It's failed its yearly safety test in the past for windscreen wiper falling off! :oops: It's always had a problem on one side with the pin falling out and it being very loose. The spring metal has been bent out of shape in the past and I thought I fixed it but it's still not great and it "judde...

My exhaust manifold turned up from a UK forum member with the weld fixed, T25 flange fitted and milled flat! :clap: I got carried away fiddling around with it, wrapping it and seeing how the oil and water lines will work. I made a new bracket to hold the dipstick tube, along with a new o-ring down o...

The cardboard box in the background does not contain a 6 bolt 4G64 crank, honestly! :twisted: No... probably not! Because that would be you having Unobtainium here in Europe... or wherethefuckelse... :shock: Find me one and I'll spank you for free... how-ever-long-you'd-like! It should be, I had my...

Started putting the diff back together. Chased the threads on the drive gear, this is essential. There is so much old threadlocker in the holes, they would give you a false torque reading. Put new Loctite 270 in. https://db3pap006files.storage.live.com/y4mExM-8HwCpkXaNefZ4NZSv_Pw7QRMtJU_gySKZBKY_F_d...

Now I was done with the Split / Removable bearing it was time to push on the proper bearing. Exactly the same make (Koyo) so fingers crossed their tolerances are tiny and I won't need to change that one shim between the pinion gear and bearing. I measured something like 0.15 or 0.2mm difference in s...

I got stuck in with the shims. Reading the contact pattern with the yellow grease stuff is a little tricky, its hard to know when its good or good enough :think: Changing the two LH/RH shims is pretty quick 15 minutes or so but doing that pinion one is a bit of a chore as you then have to pull the p...

Asked the neighbour for a favour to weld my old pinion spline coupler to an old length of metal tube, a useful tool to torque up that pinion nut! https://db3pap006files.storage.live.com/y4mJkg8J7s1QBfS_qLNXGb40o6QoK7-Yhb1H37VhvMech6btj4Ye3iDfkqLBdy-Tbs4ytgajdqiMJC0a2ubiHTmOLNmWcy4i0N18bkj9ReWpDALoz_...

New UJ's fitted and a quick coat of Matt Black. Actually the old UJs didn't look too bad, they seemed less "notchy" once I released the circlips. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1kEnPxZc-rIRgBuLWwwkMsiLOJJVY77bM Looks like I might be waiting for Shims from Japan for a fe...

Excellent build thread!!! You may hate life after a 4.22 diff ratio swap. Double the torque on a sohc & stock 5spd.... put the clock on it = disappointing results. May 'feel' quicker... for the 1st few feet Thanks! It would be better if my last set of images worked! Seems like OneDrive have cha...

Dissasembly of the torque tube and diff is pretty much as per FSM / Kevs guide so won't bore you with that. After cleaning up parts and scraping any loose rust off, I gave them a coat of 2 part epoxy paint (brushed on). The torque tube got a new bearing, the old one felt fine but as it had been cove...

...and to making things quicker,cheaper,easier when changing shims for the pinion height I took a brand new Koyo bearing and cut the cage off and put a slice through it with an angle grider. I was hoping to file it out by the 0.1mm-0.2mm required to prevent it being an interference fit but the harde...

In more preperation rebuilding the diff is measuring the drag on the pinion when selecting shims, specifically the "crush" shim that sits between the two taper bearings. The height of that shim sets how much bearing preload and thus the drag. I couldn't find a tool like Kev had so ended up...

As I intend to swap to 4.22 gears I need to correct the speedo. I don't know what happened but I could not unscrew the speedo cable from the speedo gear on the transmission. I tried everything and even got to the point of thinking it was one piece of metal! :crazy: I ended up having to slice the nut...

While waiting for the exhaust manifold to be repaired and modified for the T25 flange I started to look at something I have put off for 10 years - the rear differential :oops: I've always had a clunk from the driveshaft, diff fluid dripping from the torque tube flange, the (original?) CV boots are a...