More of the same...

The work we did last night was prep work. We cut out the dash for the front down bars, cleaned the floors and started cutting the plates. It was a short night for us, maybe 90 minutes of work. It looks like we’ll put this cage in with a hand cutoff tool, wire brush drill attachment and small welder! Actually, I have a car friend at work that has a nice 230V mig welder he’ll let me borrow when it’s time to melt the cage.

Still no word on the sketchy weber…

Carb and Welding

The evening started with a nice drizzle and power outage. Lights were out for about 30 minutes. After that we got to serious work.

We pulled the carb off and checked the float and float needle. It looked good, but we made some adjustments to the position to allow more gas into the bowl before the float cut it off. We were able to get the car running, but after we ran through the gas in the bowl, it wouldn’t refill. Same damn problem we’ve been having since the rebuild. I have no idea what’s wrong, but I’m done messing with this carb. I did find a used weber on the Celica forums for $30. I’ll need an adapter plate, filter and maybe linkage. But it’s Lemony!

We got the plates welded in after working on the carb and wrapped up right around 9pm. I did the welding. It’s not pretty, but it’s in there.

Brakes done!

The new rotors are on. The pads are in. The shoes are changed. The sensors connected. Now I need to bleed them. Some fresh Dot 4 Super Blue will finish the brake refresh.

And then I need to fix this.

Front right axle

To look like this.

Front left axle

I replaced the front right cv joint boot because it was torn. I had a heck of a time getting the axle shaft back in. Looks like I didn't finish the job. Oh well, gotta pull the whole thing out and try again.