Trackspeed build plan
#221
So decided to do the brakes. Put some Hawk pads and ATE 200 flush. My parking brake is AIDS. Only the right one will lock. The drivers side is fucked.
1. I double checked my 4mm allen adjusters twice and didn't work. Ok then.
2. Adjusted the cables at the rear brackets. I gave the working one slack and the bad one less slack. NOPE.
3. Disconnected the good one completely and sorry, go **** yourself still too much slack on the bad one.
4. Opened up the parking brake handle and adjusted the slack out at the lever and the bad one just started to work a little so it seems the caliper or parking brake mechanism on the drivers side is bad.
So **** it car. You win. One operating parking brake wheel is how it is going to be.
1. I double checked my 4mm allen adjusters twice and didn't work. Ok then.
2. Adjusted the cables at the rear brackets. I gave the working one slack and the bad one less slack. NOPE.
3. Disconnected the good one completely and sorry, go **** yourself still too much slack on the bad one.
4. Opened up the parking brake handle and adjusted the slack out at the lever and the bad one just started to work a little so it seems the caliper or parking brake mechanism on the drivers side is bad.
So **** it car. You win. One operating parking brake wheel is how it is going to be.
#223
If you mean the 4mm allen adjusters behind the 14mm inspection bolt no I did not take them all the way out. They did however lock the wheel when I adjusted them all the way in and work as described when I backed them off roughly 1/2 to 1/3rd turn. Interesting though. I can check that next time its off the ground.
#231
So I think I have my coolant thing figured out. My overflow is just too small. I found some math online. When I had a stock radiator I did a diy overflow out of a bottle and relocated it so I would have more room for stuff. The bottle probably holds 12 oz tops the way I have it set up. Now that I have a big *** track speed radiator that along with the engine holds at least 8 quarts. Using the math below.
8ish x 32 x .18 = 46ish ounces. So I think it is expanding into the small *** overflow and pushing it out on to the street to poison animals and ****. Then it sucks it all back in but has less than before. I am going to try a 32 ounce hateraid bottle which is still a little small and see if I can stop killing the planet.
"Surge tank volumes are dependent on total system volume. A general rule of thumb is that you should have 12% of total volume for draw-down and 6% of total volume for expansion. Our trucks have a coolant system volume of 12.8 quarts. Do a little math and it comes out to 1.54 quarts of draw-down volume and .77 quarts of expansion volume, for a total surge tank size of 2.31 quarts."
8ish x 32 x .18 = 46ish ounces. So I think it is expanding into the small *** overflow and pushing it out on to the street to poison animals and ****. Then it sucks it all back in but has less than before. I am going to try a 32 ounce hateraid bottle which is still a little small and see if I can stop killing the planet.
"Surge tank volumes are dependent on total system volume. A general rule of thumb is that you should have 12% of total volume for draw-down and 6% of total volume for expansion. Our trucks have a coolant system volume of 12.8 quarts. Do a little math and it comes out to 1.54 quarts of draw-down volume and .77 quarts of expansion volume, for a total surge tank size of 2.31 quarts."
#237
I know, right? I'd leave it like that for a track day because my exhaust is so quiet I'd want people to have another audible indicator of my cars position
It does sound like you are losing coolant. I'll not be a moron and read back through the last couple pages before asking stupid questions.
It does sound like you are losing coolant. I'll not be a moron and read back through the last couple pages before asking stupid questions.