Help sorting my diff

[yonner]

lol thats rock and roll

hijac - breaking a car = how do i drop the back subframe aredy removed the all the bolts i can see whares the rest of em?

might just cut the floor out with me new plasma cutter :d

[nikp]

Hello - me and my girlfriend have just twigged - were you at rotorstock and didn\'t get off the startign line!?  We saw a silver FD that didn\'t get very far and wondered what the problem was!

[gsb876]

The silver rx7 that didn\'t get off the line was indeed the very car this thread is about

[bnaellis]

Ouch state of that diff, Looks sim,ilar to some of mine well done:D

[Tintin]

Anybody anymore thoughts about relocating the fuel filter ? going  to pick the diff up off pip tomorrow ,

I\'m probably going to get a filter from him as well and just leave it as it is unless anyone has an opinion

[FD3SNuttah]

well you wont be needing to change the fuel filter very often?

i wouldnt bother moving it myself, i think you have enough of a mission already looking at the state of that diff!  :rollin

[Donato]

Nice job mate, you certainly dont do things by halves! Well except your diff which you certainly halved! :rollin

Why dont you speak to pip or someone about relocating the filter, im sure he will be able to tell you straight away what to do and what you need.

Cheers

Donato

P.s, not being cheeky mate but remember to inflate your tyres before you test the new one...

[Tintin]

Originally posted by Donato
Nice job mate, you certainly dont do things by halves! Well except your diff which you certainly halved! :rollin

Why dont you speak to pip or someone about relocating the filter, im sure he will be able to tell you straight away what to do and what you need.

Cheers

Donato

P.s, not being cheeky mate but remember to inflate your tyres before you test the new one...

Spoke to Pip today when he told me the diff had arrived , he suggests leaving it where it is so as not to have any problems with vapour lock , I\'ll probably need to change the diff again before the filter needs changing next anyway :rollin :rollin :rollin


Don\'t worry I aint gonna forget about the tires :cool

[Tintin]

Right got the diff now , looks in quite good nick

Fuel filter done , hopefully get the diff on tomorrow , Pip reckons a diff brace would be a worthwhile investment as he thinks it would probably stop it happening again , any thoughts

He was also well impressed at the pics of the old diff , even took my phone to show the other lads  :cool

[Warthog]

Diff brace seems to work for me, also gearbox and engine. :wave

[Tintin]

a few quickies about the CAT , had to take it off so I could get the powerplant frame down ( made it a hell of alot easier to get the new diff in place on my own )

I\'m planning on putting a decat pipe on when pip gets some more in stock and I want to know what do I do with the air pipe ( think thats what it is ) that comes out of the CAT secondly how do I disconnect the heat sensor from the CAT , tried un bolting it but the nuts are rusted on and the whole thing starts to turn , don\'t want to snap it off so I stopped . There is some heat shrink sleeving around the end of the cable that comes to it , if I cut this off can I just unplug it didn\'t want to try in case I can\'t

You may think why am I bothered about breaking it if I\'m ditching it anyway , I just don\'t want any warning lights or abnormal running while I wait for the decat , don\'t know when pips gonna have them in stock again as the guy who makes them has broke his bender

While I remember I found a great idea for relocating the fuel filter , just extend the pipes and mount it on the back of the rear sub frame , unfortunatley I only found out after I got the bloody diff back in place

One more thing , whats the easiest thing to use to fill the diff up and don\'t say oil

[nikp]

Dunno about a lot of your question, but as to filling the diff up with oil, how about one of those old style hand held oil hand pump things!? If you know what i mean!?

[Kieron]

Glad you got the new one on mate! will you be about this weekend? (JapShow)

[Donato]

a few quickies about the CAT , had to take it off so I could get the powerplant frame down ( made it a hell of alot easier to get the new diff in place on my own )

I\'m planning on putting a decat pipe on when pip gets some more in stock and I want to know what do I do with the air pipe ( think thats what it is ) that comes out of the CAT secondly how do I disconnect the heat sensor from the CAT , tried un bolting it but the nuts are rusted on and the whole thing starts to turn , don\'t want to snap it off so I stopped . There is some heat shrink sleeving around the end of the cable that comes to it , if I cut this off can I just unplug it didn\'t want to try in case I can\'t

You may think why am I bothered about breaking it if I\'m ditching it anyway , I just don\'t want any warning lights or abnormal running while I wait for the decat , don\'t know when pips gonna have them in stock again as the guy who makes them has broke his bender

While I remember I found a great idea for relocating the fuel filter , just extend the pipes and mount it on the back of the rear sub frame , unfortunatley I only found out after I got the bloody diff back in place

One more thing , whats the easiest thing to use to fill the diff up and don\'t say oil

Broken bender eh? where is bish when you need him!!

I assume you are going to connect everything back up whilst running with the cat???

The heat sensor can be cut and insulated with tape and shoved out the road somwhere, if you are not going to remove the airpump but are removing the cat, my guess would be dissconnecting the air pump electrically and blanking off the end of the air pipe. I cant remember exactly as i removed my airpump when rebuilding removed the pipe and blanked off the bit at the inlet...

Filling the diff, get a big hole cutter that an electrician would use, randomly drill holes in the floor till you find the diff and fill with oil!  :rollin  

You can relocate the fuel filter the next time you break a diff... :eek

[Tintin]

I\'ll remove the air pump when I get down and dirty with the engine , I\'ll just blank it off for now and unplug it and I\'ll cut off the heat sensor when I get the new decat

As for filling the diff I think i\'ll go with nikp\'s idea , although I have got plenty of holesaws if I get stuck  

Kieron , things are going well so i may be down at pod on this weekend , probably won\'t be runnung on the strip though

Just gotta find somewhere that stocks decent quality oil , halfrauds didn\'t have a great selection , only had there own brand in 75/90 , any suggestions