Finch Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 (edited) Just as things started looking up.. It all goes to sh*t again.. I broke a driveshaft on the deck' on a hill start this morning what the f**k?! Edited October 21, 2016 by Finch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 Took Apex 1hr20 to find me, got the car home found the shaft was well and truly f**ked, by the looks it's been on it's way out for a while and I just happened to be the unlucky son of a gun to find it out. Mondeo pulled out on us on a national speed limit road. Driver in front brakes hard, I brake hard, stop, as I went to pull away after the stop I got MASSIVE wheel spin and a knocking like I've spun a rod at this point I was like "I f**king hate cars" I turned car off, turned on in neutral revved hearing no-knock thank god. In gear it knocks, first thought is clutch has gone. I stick my head under bonnet to see the above site on drivers side. F**k was exclaimed many many times this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 The damage done: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_broon Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Seems to have been quite a few people had that happen over the years. That does look well and truly fooked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 1 hour ago, dr_broon said: Seems to have been quite a few people had that happen over the years. That does look well and truly fooked. New one was £70, went and picked it up at 5pm having had a lift from my best friends wife, I'll be swapping that tomorrow hopefully. might be mid day before thats done. Got a fair amount of beer to drink 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 The initial thoughts were to clean up the Deck' make it safe and sell it on.. I will now be keeping it instead. I am going to clean it up, do all the restorative works on it (scuffs, scratches, dents, paint peel etc fixed) and use it as a daily. I am however focusing now on Betty; The 1.4 Sport. I've started stockpiling parts for a winter build ready for the new year! Today I got a shipment from Nengun and Yesterday I had one from RHDJapan... I'm keeping the majority of them under wraps until I can get some serious time to do all the work needed. I sent the old block off to the scrapyard however I did save the Sump and the Rocker for some work later on down the line The one thing I will reveal is this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 bit of a s**tter the past couple of months but glad your keeping it! crap about the shaft, i had the same thing at the end of my road and thought i f**kd the engine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Chandler said: bit of a s**tter the past couple of months but glad your keeping it! crap about the shaft, i had the same thing at the end of my road and thought i f**kd the engine It has been indeed - this was like a week after getting the deck so I was in a right PI5SY mood! now I have both cars running, I will be getting them both up to Manchester in the next few weeks so I can work on the MB at night/weekends and the deck for use daily when I need a car I'm going to start undersealing and rust treating the deck for now, then do a wing change and bonnet paint when I get a few hours. Chandler you said you'd gone ARP headstuds IIRC? Did you torque to 60ft-lb do you know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 1 minute ago, Finch said: It has been indeed - this was like a week after getting the deck so I was in a right PI5SY mood! now I have both cars running, I will be getting them both up to Manchester in the next few weeks so I can work on the MB at night/weekends and the deck for use daily when I need a car I'm going to start undersealing and rust treating the deck for now, then do a wing change and bonnet paint when I get a few hours. Chandler you said you'd gone ARP headstuds IIRC? Did you torque to 60ft-lb do you know? ye man something along those lines. i read the instructions as you gotta torque em up in 3 stages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 6 minutes ago, Chandler said: ye man something along those lines. i read the instructions as you gotta torque em up in 3 stages There seams to be a tonne of mixed info on the D-series. I did mine to 65 on the d16z6 I used to have, but there seems to be a load of different info can't be simple like all Bs or SRs and have a single set of data!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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