Three weeks ago Sunnie the Brumby was in for some long overdue work - usual wear and tear items were replaced:
The front right bearing was making noise, this was the catalyst for the work.
The front shafts were clicking, front discs had a lip and some interesting grooves.
While “in there” I swapped out ball joints and tie rod ends as I can’t remember the last time these were done and I didn’t want to be pulling the front end apart again any time soon!
I went for sealed bearings and did the usual - wash out the factory packed grease, dried them then repacked with some fresh high temp bearing grease, then replaced only one seal:
The seal was orientated to the outside of the hub, spacer put in place and some extra grease added to avoid the grease exiting the bearing to the otherwise empty space between the bearings:
This little tool was totally awesome and I wish I’d got onto it years ago. No more pliers for me - so easy that hand brake equipped calipers are no longer seen as a PITA to reset. I did have to get a 3/8th adapter to use it with my half inch drive kit:
Put it all back together and it looks something like this:
And then repeat on the other side!
After this Sunnie copped a new set of front tyres and an alignment. Then we did the pick-a-part circuit in melbs (oh - and found out one of the new shafts was clicky right out the driveway after it was installed!).
Since there was a 50% off gearbox week at PAP I decided I’d grab an L 5spd for Sunnie, and I knew that in Campbellfield there was the perfect candidate that I saw the weekend before. I got there and the guys at the yard had removed and probably crushed it that day. Spewing.
I grabbed another carb from a brumby at Centre road as Sunnie’s one has a lot of shaft play. I did the swap once back at home with a minor clean out. I should’ve thought about how to blow all the little ports and what not out with air as I just cleaned up what I could and went from there - only to have the car not run properly on the open road.
So I was forced to again strip the carb down, made up a little nozzle from a selly’s caulking gun tube with a car’s air valve to use with my little air compressor, then blew everything out that I could. I even mustered up the courage to remove and clean the jets being very careful not to mix them up! Playing with the carb really made me appreciate the EFI system, I'm such a convert from back in the old days!
Took it for another drive and it was the same if not worse - gave it a number of foot to floor runs where it would accelerate then proceed to die. This told me the secondary was opening (wasn’t previously) but then it was being starved of fuel so no bang to make things go.
I turned around did a couple more then whoosh, we were off - and now we’ve only got a small idle issue to deal with as I’ve not tuned the auto choke. Otherwise we’re pretty happy with the swap. Now to check the change in fuel economy if any.
Cheers
Bennie