Tuesday, August 12, 2008

ton's to do but so little $$$$ T-T

finally~ the wire was in proper order. all tidy and warp in thick tape. (thanks McGuyVer for all that work well done)
and the battery also had move to the back to reduce the front's weight.
front crocked bumper removed to make space for "possible" compatible bumper which i will install later.
and the aluminum air intake box which was suppose to be for open throtter also taken out and install back the original silver top air intake box with custom air reservoir at the pipe.

after all that only to find out that my front wheel bearing is worn and start making noise~ lot's of them..... T-T
so bearing change is in order~
use a piece of hard metal, (preferable absorber shaft :P) gently (at first) hit the bearing housing out from the disc hub.
then install the new bearing, there's two sizes, the big one in the inner and smaller one at the exterior. the AE86 bearing can be share with KE70's.
then fill in lot's and lot's of wheel bearing grease. and make sure there isn't any dirt around the bearing to make sure it will last..

After take mango for a few laps around the factory to let the new bearing run in. But still, i still can hear the humming noise coming under the car, so i ask my worker listen while i drive pass the factory, and they all conclude that the noise might be coming from the speed- gearbox (T50)
and i send mango to Ah Heng's place to had a check up, ah heng is the gearbox specialist in my place. And after a test drive, he conform that my gearbox bearing is a gonner as well.
my mango's T50 gearbox was taking a part to remove the bearing so we could order new bearing for him. 
At the mean while, i take a look at my TRD 3 spoke racing clutch to see if it's still in working condition. ^.^ it still looks fine to me (actually i dunno how to differentiate among good and bad cluches :P) 
And yet more bad news T-T the crash on last Kg Gajah trip might had chip-ed off part of mango's main-bone structure which is already rusted. .. which means more works to do.....

4 comments:

ScAvEnGeR said...

Ooh... Nice... Build is getting along really well eh bro?

Hope to see you out there hot and in action at the next event ya :)

印奴 said...

希望工厂的生意能再好些咯!!!

Kae Huang Tan said...

scav: i'm also very happy that mango is healing very well ;) but still got a lot to do before he is able to roar all over the place happily ^-^ had to take some times to get every setting right~

i think he should be ok by the end of the year.

ScAvEnGeR said...

Right on bro... That's GREAT news.