Maybe its just me, but I like seeing cars not meant for offroading, turned into offroaders. My opinion on thin whitewalls... Most of the time it just sucks.
Yeah, it can be cool, but I’m not cutting up my nice, almost all-original Eagle to make it into something I’d never use. I want to make this thing drivable on a day-to-day basis.
I melted the turn signal switch Which is great because all the power to the lights runs through that switch Which is great because here in australia they priced like gold $180-200 Which is great because the new bearings front and rear will cost about $200- not including the mechanic to install them nor the uni's Which is great because the corolla needs new tires to be drivable- $500 All because i wanted a working cigar lighter, and i dont even smoke... I did replace the upper ball joints though, that was successful
Ok fixed it This little bastard wasn't making proper contact at each end, and replaced the suspect spade terminal in the headlight socket (the one with melted plastic) Now here's some pictures of the upper ball joint replacement. Note i am now using a nyloc nut instead of the castellated nut and pin, the reason being that there's a slight difference between the American and aus b/joints, i bought the Moog stuff ages ago (remember the lower b/joint fiasco) thinking they're direct bolt on swaps The 8 foot pole idea worked quite well, don't look at the brake hose, just dont And here's that elusive "impossible to get" 13/16 ball joint socket- 20 bucks on ebay
Old Blue loves bubble baths Yanked the Tonneau cover (it was shrunk, ripped and looked like my ballsack ) Looks much better in my opinion (don't look at the rust)
Trust me, my truck has more rust. Besides, I've seen much worse vehicles. I once saw a 90s-2000s Escape with enough rust on the trunk you could see the gasket. Plus, the rear bumper was hanging on by a thread (both metaphorically and literally). I didn't know New York was so lax about your car's condition.
My car has minor rust on the driver's side upper windshield corner, and the rear bumper support is rusting away.
The drive chain and engine case decided to tango and considering the Suzuki engine case is Aluminum, the chain won Literally tore a bolt out of the side and put a .50 cal sized hole into the crankcase I literally cried over this EDIT: New cases ordered, involuntary engine rebuild is a go
No clue. Im guessing the rear axle carrier shifted way forward and made the chain go limp and it may have jumped around inside the chain case and sprocket guard
Replaced the idler arm, even though that was already replaced a year ago... Any one know if its normal for new rubber bushes in these things squeak a bit before settling in or are they supposed to be greased with a rubber grease?
Suzuki progress update/shitpost She's torn apart, other than the hole in the drivers side (like compared to a car), everything looks amazing The head and weird rocker head had a nice date with my new parts washer, they don't look like 4,700 mile equipment. Honestly extremely impressed with Suzuki's build quality, even after all my gripes with their weird design and such (notice the double valve springs. Shows this design of engine was definitly a motorcycle kind of engine before being adapted to an ATV setup) This poor thing, its been apart like this now for a second time mhm yessir m...yep uh-huh "That damn Suzuki took my spot in the garage!" (Context: Old Blue was king of that area before the whole calamity with the Suzuki)
So i broke this, no idea what it is or does, the snapped off end is soldered onto a terminal for the (incorrect) voltage regulator, and the other end is soldered straight to the body (that is a connector I jammed on the body side wire). Some kind of emi/rmf noise cancellation device? Or maybe a capacitor to reduce charging spikes from the alternator? Just drove about for a little bit and nothing out of the ordinary so.... Any of you lot have any ideas ?
