doucheNozzle
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Damn dude, what a saga. I have to commend you for sticking with it and pushing through another engine build. Thanks for sharing your tribulations & lessons learned with the rest of us!
A few questions:
- What's up with the hinged contraption on the front edge of your bench the trans is sitting on? Some kind of homemade brake?
Yep, that?s a homemade brake that my brother and I made, initially to assist with fabricating a skid plate for his lowered e28.
- Can you share what combo of rear upper & lower arms & bushings you're using with the Kaplhenke spherical bearings? I bought some of the first batch of those from Ben but still haven't installed them.
For both torque rods and trailing arms, I have spherical bearing on the axle side and new Genuine Volvo rubber on the body side. The torque rods are the newer hybrid offering from Kaplhenke.
- What manner of E85-safe fuel hose did you go with, and is there an SAE spec for it?
It?s Aeroquip 2556 hose. I?ll take a look.
I'm looking forward to the G265 swap in my 242, along with a fresh-ish ZF rack and a new battery so I can start driving it again. I will look back at your thread for inspiration to get me moving on it again. Just did a Ford 9.75" axle rebuild which got me back into thinking about 8.8" stuff for both of my 240s. Good times.
Good work for not giving up on a trashed bottom end!
Tom, you will need some preload on those diff. carrier bearings. I built a Dana spreader which worked fine on my 1041 rear in my sedan. Some have tried to drive the assembly in, freeze it, etc. The greenbook recommends a spreader tool which of course is NLA. I'm happy to ship you my spreader if you'll cover the freight and return when done. My 1031 TrueTrac install is a couple years away, probably after I retire. LMK... pics of that device are in my sedan build thread.
missed this car.
Your garage... whoo boy. I covet.
Thanks, Chris! Added in some answers above. The getrag 265 swap with the redblock is pretty straight forward, especially if you have all of the swap kit parts in hand.
I'm in the middle of building new door panels, so i'll share some photos of that once I have it wrapped up. A combination of suede, textured hdpe, and gloss black aluminum. Not to the finish line, but I'm happy with how they are coming along.
Kudos for sticking with it, really admire your tenacity on this engine stuff. The shop also looks killer, really nice place to hang and get some work done.
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(you made me go back and catch up on your thread now you gotta answer to it)