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Another order from the UK, this time for the driveline on the s13. I'm a big fan of replacing things while you're in there, and this is no exception. </div>
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I picked up a single plate paddle clutch by Exedy through Driftworks, and the matching lightweight chromoly flywheel, also from Driftworks. I love the instructions on the back of the clutch. <i><span style="color: yellow;">Only in Japan. </span></i><br />
<i><br /></i>This was one of the only clutch and flywheel combinations I could find for the CA18DET. There are many misleading articles and threads online about using SR clutches on the CA, requiring some amount of shimming, likely modification of the bell housing, and many crossing of fingers. I wanted something that bolted on and was guaranteed to work. I even called competition clutches who sold a clutch for a CA, possibly a FWD CA, and wouldn't guarantee it's function, but were fine with me ordering it and letting them know. <i>Nope</i>.<br />
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I pulled off the pressure plate and inspected. There was some circumferential scoring but nothing too deep. There was a significant amount of dust covering everything, but seemed normal. All in all it didn't look too bad.<br />
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The disc also didn't seem too bad as far as thickness of the pad goes and apparent remaining life. I was still glad to be replacing this while the motor was out though.<br />
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The pilot bushing was actually broken, however. I'm not sure if this occurred when I removed the transmission or at some other time in it's life. Either way, it would be replaced.<br />
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The flywheel itself seemed to have uniform corrosion on the inside web, as well as a bit of surface rust on the outside where the clutch pressure plate did not contact. Again, not a lot of damage on the working surface of where the clutch disc sat.<br />
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As a perfect example of fix it while you're in there, once the flywheel is removed, the rear main seal is exposed and <i>NOW IS THE TIME TO REPLACE IT</i>. I don't care if it's leaking or not. Mine did seem to have a bit of excess oil around it which could have been from environment of the 100k miles it had already traveled, but I was not going to take that chance.<br />
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I removed the bracket cover, rear main seal and bushing housing, cleaning off all the old gasket material, pressed the old seal out, installed the new seal, installed the assembly back on the car, and used ample amounts of RTV to seal the new cover.<br />
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I laid the clutch pressure plate over the flywheel to figure out which holes the pins needed to be installed for my application. I then very carefully pressed them in with a tapping mallet. They are definitely an interference fit.<br />
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At this point I installed the flywheel with the new ARP bolts, I believe for a Ford Pinto, with blue Loctite and the thread fastener ARP goop as instructed, tightening to recommended torque in a star pattern.<br />
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Double check your clutch disc is facing the correct direction, in this case with the protruding center section facing aft.<br />
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I installed the new pilot bearing, centered the clutch disc with an alignment tool, and bolted down the pressure plate, again in a star pattern with blue Loctite to the correct torque. <span style="color: magenta;">And of course she's pink.</span><br />
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There was no cut & patch or weld & grind on the underside of the repairs. Well, to be fair there was a little grind, but it was nothing compared to the top. Usually if you seal something from one side, that implies it's sealed from the other side.</div>
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To finish the repair completely, however, and to be utterly sure the cabin was sealed even though it had already been weld, ground, weld, ground, <i>etc</i>, and then epoxy, sand, paint on the inside, I performed a similar process on the outside.<br />
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After taking an excessive amount of photos trying to catch details that will again never be able to be captured, I ground down any excess to the forward repair. This would later be covered with several layers so it was not critical how it looked, probably less so than the inside. If it wasn't apparent already, I will still always opt for doing the correct process, otherwise it won't come out how you want and you will be left wanting and wish you did more.<br />
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I then hit the rear of the transmission tunnel where the cuts and tears were.<br />
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Repeating what I did on the inside, I bought more epoxy and bonded it to the body. I also filled the mid bearing mount location. You can see clearly when the drive shaft ripped from the car, the mid bearing came with it, including the captured nuts inside the chassis mounts. Even if I were to get some new nuts and weld them back into the mount, they would have to be perfectly aligned with themselves and the chassis for the shaft not to vibrate and turn on an axis relatively inline with that of the transmission and differential. In the current circumstances I did not think this was a likely outcome, and since I needed a new prop shaft anyways, I would opt for a single piece, not requiring a mid bearing.<br />
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I went back with a few layers of thicker underbody paint to make things match. The flash highlights everything so you can see the differences in body, but in normal light, even when touching it, it looks amazing. <i>It looks like an underside of a car. </i><br />
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Before getting out from under the car, I took a few shots of the empty engine bay and the old mounts, which would soon be replaced with driftfreaq mounts. These are similar to the mounts I made for my Datsun. The molds are better, they're not semi-solid, there's a heat shield for the exhaust side, and more importantly, I did not have to make them.<br />
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Until this point I had been driving the s14a with a Bride racing seat. It was reclinable, but not the most comfortable seat for daily activities, especially when other cars currently fit that bill. The racecar bill. </div>
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4 bolts and the seat easily removes.<br />
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I installed the rear deck lid. I think it looks much better having all the interior pieces in place, as well as not showing off not matching chassis colors, and because this chassis specifically is a coupe with a rear support structure already, I don't know how many benefits from an additional strut tower bar there are, especially for street duties.<br />
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Roper made it inside first, but Jake was working his way back to the house as well. At least he had already thrown up the grass.<br />
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Once both cats were back inside, however, they took turns loving the new seat.<br />
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4 more, and the car had a matching, and much comfier, not to mention cleaner, interior. I would end up selling the seat and rail on eBay, and the rear bar locally. They're not going back in the car and I'm not a hoarder.<br />
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I was missing one of the dash vent tubes around the cluster that connect the inner ac ducting to the vent itself.<br />
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I then installed the main dash, which took much longer than it would seem based on this apparent photo progression. But the dash is in. I actually put it in twice as there was a plug I could not locate later, and it was tucked behind a vent tube, inaccessible to any human.<br />
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After this, I laid out the carpet to assess damages. You can see the rare original RHD center console in the photos as well. It was completely destroyed when the driveshaft spun into the cabin.<br />
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He sanded, clear coated, and buffed both pieces.<br />
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A few days later the hood was ready as well.<br />
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It looked amazing in the sun.<br />
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I took this opportunity to install my new sunshade. It is an expandable roman shade style blind that connects in the middle with velcro and attached on either side with 3m mounts. I liked it so much that I bought them for all my cars.<br />
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Nobody is perfect, and the day I leave my window cracked to cool down the car, it pours. The water would quickly dry, although it was a frustrating afternoon.<br />
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Thankfully however, someone decided to buy my old hood. He met me at a local chick-fil-a, but then did not have adequate safety straps, so we went to a local auto store and picked some up to make his ride home hopefully a little less adventurous.<br />
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Upon my return home, my luck had also returned.<i> That's life</i>.<br />
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I bought more than several tubes of epoxy, mixed the active components, and spread it out over the freshly ground interior repairs. The weld /grind /weld process had completely sealed the cabin, and because it did not need to be aesthetically pleasing, everything else was bonus. Obviously, I wasn't going to leave it the way it was, even though I alone would know what lay beneath the carpets. And possibly anyone else reading this blog, but either way, I continued down my planned route. </div>
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Aft and forward, fabricated fit, welded solid, ground flush, epoxy sealed.<br />
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Finally, I painted the repaired areas red. Usually I would have gone with a clear coat at this juncture, and I did debate this, but this car is going to be an OEM driver, not a showcase for repairs or raw modifications. For once I wanted to match the surrounding paint and body, and <i>finish</i> the work.<br />
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Since this portion of the car was not going to be exposed or displayed under a white inspection light in a raw state, I decided it was a good application for the MIG setting on my newly acquired welder. Also, the patch panel was not perfect, so TIG would have been a bit difficult. </div>
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Once the entire repair area of the shifter hole was welded, I ground the welds flush. Flush is a relative term in this instance, really I was simply cleaning up the seams with rough machining before epoxy and paint.<br />
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This was also an iterative process. In certain locations, namely on the driver side where the prop shaft had torn under the seat rail, I had to weld, grind, and repeat until the body was completely sealed.<br />
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Make sure when grinding to cover things that molten metal shards could damage, like glass.<br />
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I'm going to apologize ahead of time for this entry, but there is an excessive amount of photos of relatively the same views. This is mostly because I was trying to best capture the damage and repair of said damage as the subsequent steps would render photos of this stage impossible. It is also because I'm too lazy to sort through them and it is much easier to just post the entire directory.<br />
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Once I was satisfied with the front half of the transmission tunnel, I turned my efforts to the rear. This is where the prop shaft had ripped the bearing tearing into the tunnel. Another theory I have is that maybe these cuts were made during removal of the shaft after failure, as it is unlikely it buckled causing this type of damage in this location.<br />
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It was fairly straight forward to weld these together. Using body hammers and anvils these were able to close on their own as they were cuts, not gaping holes.<br />
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At this point all the welding and grinding was complete on the interior of the car. This was a major accomplishment. The interior cabin was just that. It was now sealed once again from the elements.<br />
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The damage is extremely tragic, but again, I'm not going to get into specifics until later when I can legally include everything in one entry and be done with it. A towing company in the States is going to get the best blog review I've done to date, mark my words.<br />
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Josh and David at NSP came to the rescue again with a cut from one of their s13's, which thankfully is identical in this area to that of a RHD chassis. They even helped with the saws-all. After bringing it back to the house and test fitting, I spent the better part of a day trimming it to fit. <i>It is an extremely iterative process</i>.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">Test fit, mark, remove, cut, repeat well into the night.</span><br />
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Trimming the body, the new donor panel, and grinding the edges in preparation for weld took a very long time, and I was exhausted. Some days you just have to hit the grind and do the work.<br />
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After a day's worth of labor, I think she was already looking 100 times better though. Just think of where we started at the beginning of the weekend... <i>wait, I'll show you the horror one last time... </i><br />
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<i>I mean seriously... the Jaws theme music is resonating in my head.</i><br />
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After an awkward conversation with my mate at work regarding my temporary use of my old mig welder I sold him, I decided to buy my own. I wanted one that tig welded this time, and after some searching found an incredible deal on craigslist from a guy who had just split with his wife and wanted cash. I wasn't intending to spend this much, but when he showed me everything for sale, I warned him about my now-soon-to-be-low-ball offer as that was all the cash I had to spend. </div>
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For $1400, if I recall correctly, I bought a hardly used Thermal Arc 211i with a few accessories. It came with two industrial sized bottles, both filled, one co2 mix and one argon; a tool box full of cups of all sizes and torch kits, some in brand new packaging; line plumbing and crimping tools, connectors galore; about 5 full tig torches; at least 3 regulators, one a dual feed; a set of slag hammers; enough air line to sink a ship; the mig gun, ground, 110 and 240 adapters, a 110 extension cord; an extremely large spool of unused mig wire, 10 lb (?); a fire blanket; a home made but very stout cart with casters for the bottle/welder/accessories; two masks, one solar auto adjusting; a Milwaukee chop saw with about (10) new 14" cut off blades; an empty oxyacetylene torch with bottles, tips, and cart; two packages of unused flux core sticks; two packages of mild steel tig wire; an entire tray of various diameters and grades of stainless tig wire...</div>
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It was a nice day out.<br />
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I took some photos to remember how the fuel rail was mounted after all my measuring. Avid readers will recall, I bought this JGY rail a long time ago, used, and it came with mounts which didn't seem to sit perfectly. I was able to get it working and drove with those mounts for years, but part of my getting a new rail was to get new mounts. After I received the new rail, the new fuel system was not ready to go in, but I utilized the new mounts in the correct orientation on the correct holes for my injectors.<br />
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As you can see (compare to pictures above on the plenum side) the bolt hole on the rail side is much closer to the end of the bracket. This would be my excuse, and hopefully motivation, to try and locate the new rail, <i>in a box somewhere</i>, and give it a run before the 24o gets rebuilt. The gift rail would come with the full size pressure gage on it, as well as barb fittings and a Nismo FPR, ready to rock. <span style="color: yellow;">Happy Bday.</span><br />
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As some of you may have noticed, my s14a was slightly modified when I bought it, which is fine. It was the lease modified car I could find at the time in London, which is fine. She came with blacked out tail lights, which is not fine. I don't need any excuses to get pulled over, there are enough valid ones of those without adding.</div>
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I bought these black Kouki lights from a friend, Will, <i>and we are to this day arguing if they are black or almost black</i>, but I finally decided they had been sitting on my coffee table long enough. That and I needed a break from the s13, more emotionally than anything.</div>
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I took the car over to Haydn's garage the night before a local show, the floor of which is still masked off for halloween haunted house festivities. </div>
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It took a lot of time to remove the first lens. I was extremely careful not to break any tabs.<br />
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UKDM on the left and top, USDM on the right and bottom.<br />
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The UKDM and USDM Kouki lights are slightly diffeent as the UK versions do not have the cut out for the third marker light. In the UK all function is done by the two main lights. Inside the car, the chassis literally doesn't have a spot where you could access this light cut out even if you wanted to. It's just a solid panel of the main body.<br />
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Filled the washer reservoir, which then drained in a day. As it turned out, the s13 has the same issue. <span style="color: yellow;">I believe customs broke both reservoirs during entry and drained all contents. </span> <br />
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welshmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263926431840228186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3079426489592858048.post-4897649699084442062015-08-12T19:39:00.000-07:002015-08-12T19:40:01.483-07:00heavier snow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I believe I stated this before, but the s14a was never intended to be more than an engine donor for a Datsun, but through a series of unfortunate events, this one has pulled though and I've since grown attached. <i>I have a feeling the pair will stay together. </i><br />
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And the 620 with the house.<br />
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Regular readers, if there is such a thing, may notice this entry is out of order. There are a few that occurred concurrently to the s13 receive in and disassembly, and I wanted to get those done and out before moving on to repairing. I'll catch up now and then get into how I spent the next 6 months in my garage as a direct result of a redneck tow truck driver.<br />
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I dreaded even approaching the garage at this point. The wing outside was a foreboding warning as to what was within.<br />
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There were various rips and tears towards the rear of the transmission tunnel near the e-brake assembly which I could only surmise was from the driveshaft finally bending under the extreme loads.<br />
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The mid-bearing mounts were literally torn from the chassis.<br />
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This is the underside view of the previous photos, aft transmission tunnel where the e-brake transitions from inside to outside.<br />
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The side of the transmission tunnel, even this far back, looked like the inside of a coffin in which someone was buried alive.<br />
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The damage gets worse the more forward, obviously taking the brunt of the driveshaft as it spun around until failure under the car at highway speeds. <i>It must have made a hell of a sound.</i><br />
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It was indeed as glorious as it looks. The tuna, and subsequent sake. Cheers.<br />
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I still can't believe this car made it half way around the world from Felixstowe, UK to Charleston, SC only to get seriously damaged the last 300 miles from home. </div>
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This is my 1994 nissan 200sx s13 from the UK sitting in my garage in the States. Full European spec, in perfect drive-able condition when she boarded the boat. </div>
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Without going too much into the case before it's resolved, I'll just go over the facts. My s13 was delivered in this state.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">It arrived via a <i><b>COMMERCIAL HAULING COMPANY</b></i> on the back of a <b><i>UHAUL TOW DOLLY</i></b> with <i><b>THE REAR WHEELS ROLLING ON THE GROUND</b></i>.</span><br />
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The transmission tunnel was destroyed. The drive shaft was missing entirely. The tires were flat spotted. The mid-bearing of the drive shaft was violently removed. There were dents under the petrol tank. The underside of the transmission tunnel appeared to have been hit thousands of times. The center console was destroyed. The main carpet was ripped. The radio face plate was missing.<br />
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The tow truck driver picked up both cars at 11am that day from customs, not to be delivered until midnight that night, a 13 hour drive that normally takes 3.5 from the port.<br />
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The s14a thankfully arrived with all four wheels off the ground, albeit on an ATV tilt-up, single axle trailer. Due to the inadequate size of said trailer, however, side rails were touching the wheels. Based on the size of the drivers, there is no way they had been able to steer it from the inside to get the car onto the trailer and open the door sufficiently, or at all, to exit. I can only imagine how it was loaded.<br />
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Based on the damages to the s13 however, there was not much to say about scratches on wheels of the s14a.<br />
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Break time, all the caffeines would be needed for the upcoming weeks.<br />
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As all s13's with OEM wings, water comes to rest between it and the truck lid, causing rust. Mine was no exception.<br />
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