I was painting my charge pipe and intake yellow to match the car since the where blue lol

 

After many months I FINALLY fixed my passenger door that wouldn't open lol, was super easy I should have done it much sooner

 

Way to be lazy
What did you end up doing? My butterknife tricket?

 

Lol nope, at the end of the door facing the rear I pulled the panel off the top (CAREFULLY) and wedged a block of wood in between the panel and metal door.

Slid my hand between the two, found the door release cable, followed it to the latch assembly (this is all blind touch lol) and felt for a little metal tab thingy that's supposed to move when you pull the handle but can get stuck... You gotta feel around that latch for a metal tab thingy and give it a flick and the door thunked open lol

 

Slather that bitch with some WD-40. My hood's latch seized up at the end of last winter and I sprayed the bejeezus out of it with WD-40. No problems since.

 

Waiting on parts for new/used engine... Cracked the le5 block. Coolant is gone. Coolant mixed with oil.

 

you almost never heard of that happening with le5's, and now all of a sudden it seems like it's every other day. People must just be pushing le5s harder in recent days.

 

Well I wasn't pushing a lot. Probably high 200's to the wheels.
It cracked at full boost (15psi) when I was going ~120mph down México highway.

 

who did the tuning?

 

High 2's Michael you need to find out how to make that kind of power.

 

ItalianJoe
The car been turbo for roughly 8 years.

 

I know

 

Dropped the trans this morning. The TOB was completely done and fell apart. Is it possible to blow it up by pressure bleeding it?

When Pepboys had my car, they tried to pressure bleed it to get the pedal back, as the pedal fell to the floor when they tried to move it. Just wondering if I could blame them, or if the TOB was already not long for this world and pressure bleeding was the final straw. They said it started leaking fluid out of the bell housing when they started to bleed it.

 

I've done the traditional two person pedal pump bleeding over 5 times and never had an issue.

 

I've never had the option of being able to use 2 people....
The seal can blow if done wrong but that should make the bearing fall into pieces I wouldn't think.

 

Today I spent most of the day figuring out why I have no sound from my speakers, Radio and Amp have power but no sound, I wonder if one of the speakers is bad if all of them wont work.

 

I have a vacuum bleeder so I can do it the GM method. Could always get my GF to help me out for the 2 person method if needed.

I kinda expected that the bearing wouldn't explode with pressure bleeding. Guess it was just unlucky it broke at Pepboys. Time to start looking at TOB brands to purchase. RockAuto has a LUK clutch/flywheel/TOB kit for only $165, which is super cheap.

 

SS TC stock clutch kit with TOB from CED gets my vote.

 

I wonder how big of a difference in "forgiveness" or firmness of the clutch is with these kits vs stocker.

 

no but possibly if the amp is getting something weird it would shut down/not work completely. Did you check for blown fuses?

 

Did some work on my car took off the axle back portion of my exhaust and made it into a turboxs GT exhaust, the car is so much quieter but since I have a big turbo it still has a nice sound to it.


Also installed some new stuff for the rear springs to eliminate sounds

 

Replaced intake and exhuast camshaft position sensors p0013, also started on front pad and rotor replacment, but had to stop due to a caliper pin being fused to the brembo, will have to complete another day.

 

Be careful. I ran into that issue except all 4 pins driver and passenger were seized in the calipers. Tried using punches and flattened about 6 of them. Had to drill them all out.

 

what size cobalt coated bit did you use?

 

Installed brand new morimoto d2s HID kit on my retros. I'm surprised the Ebay hid kit lasted so long lol

Next step is to mount tires on the new wheel set up