The T-18 LSD is going into the house~ ^^~

Received a call in the morning from McGuyver. He had removed his welded Differential, and only to remember that i want to see the LSD going in his axle. So he call-ed me to hurry to his place.

Both differential was on the floor when i arrived. And he already fix-ed the ring gear onto the limited slip diff~ say he it was a really tight fit, so no worries on the center alignment problem. 

 checking the bearing of the drive shaft if there's any abnormany~ 

 then we started the assembling~ ⋯⋯(^.^)

 The tedious part is to set the pressure of the bearing at the both side and at the same time giving a proper clearance between the drive pinion and the ring gear so it wouldn't press agains each others too hard~ and causes wearing at high rates.

 a shot of the old welded diff~ will keep it for future small fun thrashing car project~ ⋯⋯(^_^)

 secured the nuts when we finally gets the satisfying clearance.

A last look at it before it going in McGuyver's TE72's KE axle~ 

What's your color???

You can said we were too bored or just too mischief ~ XD~ Were working on something idiotic this afternoon. (just some small tricks my bro were doing to 'repay' McGuyver for painting his car's brake caliper awfully ugly~ ^^

enjoy the pic~ hahaha~ 

 BTW, we only used cheap spray can color~ :P dun wan to spend too much for the little fun~ 

 And the final layer was on~ XD

 Looks like candy floss~ nice~ yum yum~

 lotus???

He will be so shocked when he come and collect his absorbers~ XD wakakaka~ 

Progress~ progress~

Going to McGuyver's place this morning~ and saw his car were on stands all 4 corners~ he had taken out all the brakes and links for servicing~

 And he slightly painted the rear axle (he is very picky on how the car looks

 And set everything in for a new sets of absorbers for the front~

 What else i would let him runs on? APM? Mando? NO~!!!! Surely it had to be a pure TKA breed~ lol~ Genuine Touge spec Special.Absorers.Modification absorbers from TKA~ XD~ (sorry for some self-AD here~ :P)

 Well... as we were planing to use the slotted rotor which was taken out from my AE86's knuckle~ but seems like it won't fit on KE70's knuckle so idea abandoned~

 We revert back to use the original KE70's brakes~ since McGuyver will still runs his 4K under the hood for a while, we think it should be able to deliver enough breaking power with a servo and pad upgrades~ And off we go to Penang island to pick up some 'nice' parts for his car~ ^^

 All and all~ it's time to fill up the tummy for it's pass lunch time~ And~ we drove to the only Burger King in Penang~ about the location...... sorry i can't tell the places's name. Just let you know it's close to M-Power's shop and in between the sea and Jelutong highway~

 Love their burgers but there's only one outlet in the island~ non off-shore around north malaysia~ (>_<)

 McGuyver~ giving the 'what you wan?' stare~~~~ XD~

 With a full stomach we set to the designated location we were heading~  My old friend Yus's place~ @Lorong KG Rawa near Volvo service centre~

 And pick this bugger up(i had bought it actually)~ a AE86 T285 axle with a faulty LSD~ will try to open up later to check for the problem~ (though my true intension was to took the ring gear set to use for my Mango (^^) )

And after a few hours of chit-chat and going around a few friend's shops (also chit-chatting) and taking a hefty dinner @ Char Ling Park~ and we head for home ~  a tired but enjoy-able day....

*p.s. actually feeling a bit bad to had my bro handling the factory for a whole day (>_<) ~~~

Berry gets all his blood vessel changed~

Because all the dial and light on berry wasn't working AT ALL~! so a trip to McGuyver's place is a must *_*......
on the road berry go~ i had to tow him there though berry still can run on his 4 wheels~ but without the signal and brake indicator, it's extremely dangerous to make the 20km hike~
Arriving at Mcguyver's operation factory~ at Bukit Minyak. Mcguyver is now using a friends premises and accepting all model of car for repair (the expertise was still in 4ag engine, 20v, 16v, supercharged and on~)  
putting berry down and he will stay there for a few weeks untill all the wiring was done.

mango strip-ed down~

Two days after i send mango to Mcguyver's place, i got a SOS from him. So i went and saw this~ 

and this~ 
and this~ 
Mango had completely strip-ed down. all the interior was taken out, wiring were out as well and the last thing to took out is~
the heart of the sweet mango~ ^.^ 
Since we dun have much proper tools, so the only way we were to get the engine out was jack up the empty chassis and drag the heart out under it. 
and few minutes of extreme labour, it was out ~ *_*  4age-20v sure was heavy.  
and now mango was ready to send to the body shop for a make over. i doubt most of his panel needed changing and reinforce. lot's more to do on the body. * we stop for cup of coffee before putting back the cross-member.

Plug hunting~

Just some boring day to do some boring parts hunting in Chop shop~
Some one is happy ^.^ where on earth you gonna see so much Iridium plug except in the warehouse.
More plugs
This is what we were filtering~ VK -> economical iridium, not really powerful. we were going for IK -> power series. Not much were found, only a few sets of IK16 and a few IK20. 

Anyone who were interesting in some nice plug, call Ah Yong (Mc-Guyver)017-4235200

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.....