Showing posts with label chean exhaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chean exhaust. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

More Wheels' problem T_T

Yesterday, after mango install his bucket sit in Chean's place Ah Xiang told me that i might had a problem with my rear wheel bearing. As i sat on the driver sit and start reversing the car, yes. It doesn't willingly to move. As it jerk a bit whenever i release the throttler. So i took it to my mech, Ah Choi, and had him took out the wheels bearing to check, and get mango's LSD a oil change.
As we take off the rim, and start to remove the brake hub, which would be fairly easy to take off, refuse to come out.... and after 30 minutes of struggling we decide to ply it out by all means...
And to my suprise, something fall off when the hub was finally coming out... *_* one piece of the brake shoe...
A big chunk of the brake material strip off the brake shoe. And we check the brake piston and it was leaking slightly as well. The brake fluid should be the culprid causing the problem. Which means a new brake pump and new brake shoe change is in order...
Then Ah Choi's worker take out his secret weapon~ to take out the axle shaft.
Axleshaft removed and inspecting the housing
The bearing feels tight and a bit cracky when rotating, best to change that as well ^_^
So i took the old sa
And get the new shinny parts~
Then to the foundry to cut out the old bearing and jack in the new bearing.
new bearing in place and ready to be installed
This is how an 'drift' (welded) axle oil would look like after just two trip to Kg Gajah and some occational fun around the neighbourhood. Just little under 1000KM of trip on ODO.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Bucket Seat installation ^.^

After tune up mango and all, one thing clearly is my mango is throwing my all over the place in my seat ^.^ So it's time to pay someone a visits ^.^ a chair (bucket seat) specialist~
CSL Cushion in Juru inter junction area.
ant this is what i acquire from him, a seat adjustment bracket for my sparco
My Sparco finally awaken after long sleep ~ hoho~ it's time for him to come in service. So i taken my sparco and the bracket and i went to Chean's shop (chean exhaust) to install the bracket on to mango.
And mango had a shocking suprise for me hidden underneigh the seat.....one of the seat's mounting point was broken, totaly broke off from the body *_* ouch~!
So a new mounting point is in order, so i went back to my factory and dig out a piece of Square pipe. Bring it back to Chean's place and had his brother to fabricate thus weld back on where the old point should be... by the time all this was done, it's time for me to went back to my factory. So i leave the work to Ah Xiang and will come pick mango up tomorrow...

With the Sparco in place ^.^

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Out the 4-2-1~ In the 4-1~ ^.^ For more mid end torque?

After driving mango around for a while, i discover that mango's 4age-20v wasn't revving nicely durnig 3k~5k. Than McGuyver said it might be the 4-2-1 mango currently using is not breathing well. since the cam had higher lift and more air going into the engine. So something had to be done to the exhaust ^_^. A trip to chean exhaust is indeed.
So i retrieve the custom made 4age-20V 4-1 header for FR setting with ceramic coating! 
and took out the old 4-2-1 sr20-mod-ed with 4age-20v FF-header.
everything took out fairy easy with lot's of hand space in mango's engine chamber ^.^ 
but my O2 sensor wasn't happy to go into the header... for it's from sr20.... some cutting is in order. (sorry, no photo for the cutting part :P
the curve fit in nicely ^.^ big hurry for the japs.




bending the 2.5" soft-pipe to fit into the 2.2" pipe i'm using from front to rear. 
Everything fits in and working nicely~ and mango-sings~!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Finally ~ Mango on his feet again~ ^.^

Finally, it's all done and ready for installation into my mango (TE72)^.^ first, install the bracket, then the rotor with the wheel bearing hub. be-careful not to lock your bearing nut too tight, for it will cause your bearing to wear out too fast or even worst, JAM~ 

for what some old for-man teach me, you tighten it with your hand till it's tight, then release around 1/12 round reverse then it will do :P~ (no responsibility bear here for any accident or injury cause by following the above instruction)
all sit in nicely and firm
on to the knuckle and screw on the new Brisk break hose, (courtesy of Chean Exhaust)
thanks a lot bro ;)
My 14" watanabe RS fits in nicely, leaving only 6mm of clearance around the caliper and the rim ^.^ 
Brisk performance metal hose. Good value for the price to pay ;)
Somehow, every time i remove something from the car, i would find more faulty items/parts. this time, i found out the steering rod ball-joint had a worn thread due to exceed assemble and dissembling. 

Now i'm still try to figure out the reason my brake was responding kinda of weird, it's responding better on the right compare to the left. It tent to lock-up when pressing on the brake too hard. Anyone would have any advice for me??? ^_^~