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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2017, 07:03:07 am »
Whoa, those are my old tires? Aka. Canuckrz's old tires?

I sold those to another WSC member.

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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2017, 03:48:20 pm »
I approve. Drive through #yeg and I'll fix your exhaust so good  O0

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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #27 on: April 16, 2017, 10:21:46 pm »
Today we did drum brakes. The spur for this was the fact that when the car was on the lift, standing on the brake pedal in drive did not stop the left rear wheel.

ENHANCE!


Well that's part of it for sure.

While we were in there, we also replaced the swaybar bushings in the front:


The swaybar bracket on this bushing was also seriously bent, looked like someone nailed a parking bollard or something with it hard enough to bend it. Had to hammer it straight just to get a new bushing into it.

Finally, we emptied out the RockAuto shipment that just came and replaced wiper blades and high beam bulbs (which turned out to be fine - we need to investigate to figure out if we just don't know how to turn on the high beams).

Next time we'll replace the brake lines with the RockAuto parts, replace the brake fluid with fresh stuff and bleed the entire system. After that, the only stuff left to do is small potatoes like putting a window in it so it doesn't fill with snow overnight anymore.

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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #28 on: April 17, 2017, 09:12:17 am »
Who did you pay to have this thing pass inspection :o
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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #29 on: April 17, 2017, 09:13:22 am »
Who did you pay to have this thing pass inspection :o
What province do you think this is?

That reminds me, it's registered and insured.

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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #30 on: April 17, 2017, 09:49:47 am »
the alternator harness caught fire and the alternator boiled a battery dead.

I lol'd pretty hard when I read this, because:


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The Motorcraft 2G internally- regulated alternator (known as “firestarter” and “flame-thrower” among enthusiasts) was introduced in 1982 on full-sized Fords and Mercurys, later working into the Mustang beginning in 1986, with 5.0 liters and fuel injection.

What man put together, man can rend asunder and then also put it together sometimes what's all this left over stuff
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« Reply #31 on: April 17, 2017, 09:52:11 am »
Yeah, if you need a spare 2G for your Mustang I have two nice rebuilt units.

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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #32 on: April 17, 2017, 10:30:53 am »
I think i put a 3g in there I stole off the scrap 2.3.
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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2017, 10:26:06 pm »
Went to replace the brake lines today. Good thing, since the left-front rubber line (probably original) was leaking from a teeny split.

Sheared off the left-front hardline so had to replace that as well. Missed our chance to drop the thing off for glass replacement while swearing at the broken hardline and the seized-solid rear axle distribution block.

Bled the brakes, all seems well.

Turns out that the Town Car has a 'feature' on the headlight multiswitch that enables the exterior lighting at all times. I think I figured out how to disable it so now it won't eat the battery trying to light the moon while parked and off. Next step is to figure out how to disable the radar-controlled high beams so I can have manually controlled high beams again.

Cleaned a bunch of spiderwebs out of the interior while doing the brake bleed.

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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #34 on: April 26, 2017, 09:08:32 am »
Turns out the headlight multiswitch is in fact broken so it will continue to eat the battery at all times. Also, the high beams don't work because the radar high beam module has failed internally or something and won't even let me control the high beams manually anymore.

Regardless, I drove it into town to get our junkyard window installed. It was such a pain in the assay to get it out that there's no way I was going to install it myself, especially with a door card filled with broken glass.

On dirt, this thing controls great. On the road, not so much. Even small turns like below 30 km/h are door-handles-on-the-road, gonna-tip-gonna-tip patience fests. The brakes are awful (probably needs a re-bleed at the very least).

Dropped off:


The next morning:


In the end, all's well that ends well:


Next step is to try and trick a detailer into cleaning the interior on this thing so I don't keep feeling like my throat and lungs are sealing up every time I turn the heater on. It's got like the hentaivirus or something.

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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #35 on: April 26, 2017, 09:44:03 am »
Yeah, I'm thinking of just taking Chica through Bubbles when I'm back.

Let them detail the uckfayer, because ain't care about dat paint job.
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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #36 on: April 26, 2017, 09:46:49 am »
Make it an Itasha car.
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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #37 on: April 26, 2017, 09:48:52 am »
Top Gear car wash does a good job. Haplo90 took his truck through there, and had them do the interior detail after he bought it, and it was pretty impressive.
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« Reply #38 on: May 06, 2017, 10:53:54 pm »
Our detailer told us he is taking this "as a challenge" and has reportedly issued a record number of shampoos to the seats.

He's had it all week. I am afraid.

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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #39 on: May 07, 2017, 04:24:14 am »
Our detailer told us he is taking this "as a challenge" and has reportedly issued a record number of shampoos to the seats.

He's had it all week. I am afraid.

Let him know there might be a Civic coming his way.

I'm curious to know what a "record number" is to him.
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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #40 on: May 07, 2017, 01:14:16 pm »
Who did you end up taking it to again?
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Re: The Small Town Car
« Reply #41 on: May 09, 2017, 04:06:05 pm »
Apparently he is now completed the detailing. We are picking it up tonight, apparently it has achieved a ridiculous number of shampoos (exact amount TBD).

Who did you end up taking it to again?
Nik from "In the NIK of Time" in Airdrie.

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« Reply #42 on: May 09, 2017, 04:14:18 pm »
Apparently he is now completed the detailing. We are picking it up tonight, apparently it has achieved a ridiculous number of shampoos (exact amount Turd).
Nik from "In the NIK of Time" in Airdrie.

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« Reply #43 on: May 09, 2017, 09:05:30 pm »
Five shampoos. It's a record.

The car is so clean now you can see where the fabric on the front seats is getting threadbare. Total cost of detail job: $236.25

Now I need to wash the exterior because it looks like it just came out of a barn.

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« Reply #44 on: May 09, 2017, 11:58:00 pm »
Nik from "In the NIK of Time" in Airdrie.

Whoa cool.  Never heard of him/them, but 5.0 stars on google is pretty good, albeit, only 17 reviews from local Airdronians. 

Got any before/after shots?

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Holy moly, 60 5* reviews on fb.  These guys are on fire.
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« Reply #45 on: May 10, 2017, 07:24:11 am »
I didn't take before/after pictures of the Town Car since it's so dark inside.

That said, Nik also did the Celica for last year's rally:

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« Reply #46 on: May 10, 2017, 08:40:13 am »
Can he make my car smell less like mothballs?? 🤔🤔

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« Reply #47 on: May 10, 2017, 08:41:39 am »
Can he make my car smell less like mothballs?? 🤔🤔
Yes, probably.

Also try an Air Sponge.

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« Reply #48 on: May 10, 2017, 10:03:24 am »
Yes, probably.

Also try an Air Sponge.

Also try cat urin.
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« Reply #49 on: May 10, 2017, 10:04:58 am »
I didn't take before/after pictures of the Town Car since it's so dark inside.

That said, Nik also did the Celica for last year's rally:

Ah yes, I do remember those pictures.  Very nice, very nice.

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