Hold(en) my beer - Monaro, Ute and Commodore content
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SturdyHSV said:
I used POR-15, goes on nicely, slopped it on fairly thick with a brush and foam brushes, it's somewhere in the thread in more detail, from old pictures it looks like I started painting on 2nd Jan, although soaking it in the etch primer was before that.
Thanks - will check it out. I could leave the manifold natural but I like the stealth look. Incidentally, I had one of your ute's ancestors in Oz in the late 80's, similar to this:
It was beige, and had a 186ci I6 and 3 on the tree, and some rust.
some bloke said:
Incidentally, I had one of your ute's ancestors in Oz in the late 80's, similar to this:
It was beige, and had a 186ci I6 and 3 on the tree, and some rust.
It was beige, and had a 186ci I6 and 3 on the tree, and some rust.
Motivation has been lacking of late, but by Sunday afternoon I decided I needed to do 'something' as I know once I start I'll carry on happily for a few hours.
Plan was to reattach the bellhousing, and also loctite the clutch pressure plate bolts (as they've been in / out a couple of times since they were loctited now with all the alignment messing about). Nice small target.
Put the bellhousing on the gearbox, lightly tightened down all of the bolts, checked the torque spec for them (37lbft) and grabbed the torque wrench... batteries were flat
Only had AAAs to hand so that ended that incredibly brief run of form! 
The wagon finally has some fuel in it (there hasn't been much of a supply issue for a while around me, but have just used the girlfriend's car for a week or so). I thought I'd treat it to some E5, this was 143.9, which meant that I hit the £99 limit to top it up, which is a first I think.
Borderline thread resurrection at this point...
Motivation has been gone for most things of late, for whatever reason today I decided I had to get on with it so I'm back on it today, need to get it back inside as it's been a miserable sight out there in this weather
Right, time to get on!
First up is re-blue loctiting the clutch cover bolts, then mate engine / gearbox (this'll be easier as it's actually aligned this time...) and then really get the car back in the garage, which'll ideally be by putting engine in, but we'll see!
First up, cleaning the old loctite off and redoing them one at a time so the alignment doesn't change
Motivation has been gone for most things of late, for whatever reason today I decided I had to get on with it so I'm back on it today, need to get it back inside as it's been a miserable sight out there in this weather
Right, time to get on!
First up is re-blue loctiting the clutch cover bolts, then mate engine / gearbox (this'll be easier as it's actually aligned this time...) and then really get the car back in the garage, which'll ideally be by putting engine in, but we'll see!
First up, cleaning the old loctite off and redoing them one at a time so the alignment doesn't change
Well getting it back up the slope into the garage was as fun as I expected...
Bit of a spring clean first
Yeah, sounds about right...
So with a run up it was easy enough to get the front up
Then it was a case of jacking the engine / box high enough and trying to pull/push/roll/pray the back up.
This took about 25 attempts (it was 35 minutes of rocking), the last 10 of which involved a make shift pair of ramps made from old flooring, eventually a sort of horizontal leg squat off the garage wall against the car door frame was enough to get it up the slope.
So now try and sling the engine in so I can get the car inside
Fortunately this stuff isn't slightly scary at all...
Eventually it was enough in / resting on the mounts to get the transmission mount in place which should largely line the engine up (hopefully!) and it's basically back in!
Had to rest the manifold on to see how it'd look with the orange fuel rails etc.
Only casualties were during all the rocking I managed to run over the driver's side knock sensor connector and during the weird sump squat pulling attempts to get it in I split my jeans clean in half across the arse
Still, it's back inside at last and no longer rotting on the drive with a ground sheet over the engine bay, so I'm happy with that
Bit of a spring clean first
Yeah, sounds about right...
So with a run up it was easy enough to get the front up
Then it was a case of jacking the engine / box high enough and trying to pull/push/roll/pray the back up.
This took about 25 attempts (it was 35 minutes of rocking), the last 10 of which involved a make shift pair of ramps made from old flooring, eventually a sort of horizontal leg squat off the garage wall against the car door frame was enough to get it up the slope.
So now try and sling the engine in so I can get the car inside
Fortunately this stuff isn't slightly scary at all...
Eventually it was enough in / resting on the mounts to get the transmission mount in place which should largely line the engine up (hopefully!) and it's basically back in!
Had to rest the manifold on to see how it'd look with the orange fuel rails etc.
Only casualties were during all the rocking I managed to run over the driver's side knock sensor connector and during the weird sump squat pulling attempts to get it in I split my jeans clean in half across the arse
Still, it's back inside at last and no longer rotting on the drive with a ground sheet over the engine bay, so I'm happy with that
Just caught up on the last 12 months or so of this thread, great job.
Doesn't look that bad in the photos but the rear must have been 3 foot in the air.
SturdyHSV said:
I know that feeling from when I put an LS7 clutch in my old monaro, at least yours was inside and engine out the car. I split mine while still installed and on a sloping drive, I vowed never again. Doesn't look that bad in the photos but the rear must have been 3 foot in the air.
RenPug said:
I know that feeling from when I put an LS7 clutch in my old monaro, at least yours was inside and engine out the car. I split mine while still installed and on a sloping drive, I vowed never again.
Doesn't look that bad in the photos but the rear must have been 3 foot in the air.
Oh yep I know that pain too, helped a forum member swap the slave cylinder on his Monaro which is obviously also gearbox out.Doesn't look that bad in the photos but the rear must have been 3 foot in the air.
That's one was done at least on a relatively flat bit of the drive but yeah, the 3 ft hover car is scary high
Obviously meant time for a mini meet, and the compulsory 'bonnets up' that results
SturdyHSV said:
Oh yep I know that pain too, helped a forum member swap the slave cylinder on his Monaro which is obviously also gearbox out.
For some stupid reason that I can't recall now I didn't change the slave cylinder while I was in there, big mistake. It failed about 5 weeks later 
It went to the garage to have that replaced as I couldn't stand the thought of having to take it all apart again. Lesson learned from that one.SturdyHSV said:
What's that, about 20 litres displacement across 4 cars? Not bad going. After reading your thread I'm getting the itch for another, must be 10 years since I sold mine and I still regret selling.
djgritt said:
Great work after a break.
Sometimes you just need a little time away & winter hibernation to find fresh motivation.
Also, throwing my hat into the 'Monaro Clutch Change on a Driveway' gang. Great fun.
It really isn't fun. I'll have a go at most things but I hated that.Sometimes you just need a little time away & winter hibernation to find fresh motivation.
Also, throwing my hat into the 'Monaro Clutch Change on a Driveway' gang. Great fun.
I've just remembered as well, after I dropped the gearbox out I had to wait for some parts for a couple of days. Came back out a couple of days later, opened the drivers door and a black hissing thing launched off the parcel shelf, over my shoulder and out the door. Turned out a cat had found the hole the gearstick went through, I didn't cover it as it was about 4 foot off the floor, must have been warmer and comfier in there than outside. Absolutely crapped myself as it launched at me.
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