Racing Puma 330 Summer Project
#1
Posted 27 April 2016 - 08:54 PM
fair few things to sort out on this one.. the rear brakes, bearings, ABS, splash guards etc was all in a bit of a bad way..
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#2
Posted 27 April 2016 - 08:57 PM
Chris
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#3
Posted 28 April 2016 - 07:28 AM
Hopefully the Alcons will be OK.
#4
Posted 07 May 2016 - 08:52 PM
Both front control arms had all bushes and ball joints in a hell of a state... someone had blasted the front bolt on so hard it had wrecked the bolt and bush too..
Had to painstakingly drill out all the ball joint rivets..
Clean them up a bit and then replace all parts..
Then had a look at the brakes...
As we know the FRP uses 28mm discs.. these were 22 lol
I'll come back to that one another day...
then over to the knuckle with 3 studs in it
had to take this apart... fit a new bearing, new ABS ring and fitted 4 nice new studs to the drive flange after a good cleanup..
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#5
Posted 07 May 2016 - 08:58 PM
The Offside shafts don't appear to have any boot straps at all, or much grease in there...(it's all spun out and coated the car!)
Someones done a great mod to the airbox too...
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#6
Posted 08 May 2016 - 08:46 AM
Good job to re use the ball joints, I did mine as new ones from Ford did not fit the bolt holes did not line up at all with the wishbone.
#7
Posted 08 May 2016 - 09:13 AM
The broken stud was a result of fitting a crap quality security nut..that was probably then over tightened with an impact gun (like every other nut on the car) which then ruined the nut.. someone then had to drill out the nut and stud and break it..
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#8
Posted 17 May 2016 - 08:25 PM
Spent HOURS drilling bolts and bleed screws out the front calipers as I think they had never been serviced before other than a seal kit change..lol
Had to drill off the front of the cap head as it was soo fused it just rounded off straight away... I presumed of course the front half of the caliper would then slide past the bolt so I could then separate the two halfs..wrong!.. they bolt was so utterly fused/corrosded in the front half too I had to drill out the whole bolt without damaging any threads... no mean feat
made new templates to drill out the threaded lower part of the bolts...
When I finally got the calipers separated I then found the bleed screws were fused too.. one of those snapped in half too... on the drilling table again..
Then to remove the pad retaining rails (which had never been off before).. and start scraping at the powdery corrosion
Eventually.. the calipers are looking a viable product again!..
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#9
Posted 17 May 2016 - 08:32 PM
put some grease in the boot and a new strap on...
looked at the tripod bearing side and uncovered the worst bodge ever!
Previous owner had clearly broken the shaft at the end and instead of sourcing a new one someone has welded the tripod bearing to the end of the broken shaft...
eek!
new drive shaft on order..
The intermediate bearing also needs doing and the CV end on the NS too.. crikey me..
More to follow...
Havn't even got the engine out yet..lol
Chris
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#10
Posted 17 May 2016 - 08:56 PM
#11
Posted 21 May 2016 - 05:13 PM
driveshafts now sorted...
It's got a spider bearing that goes right over the bar now..
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#12
Posted 21 May 2016 - 05:21 PM
Both cam seals leaking -- Bottom crank seal leaking -- usual cam cover leaking and the inlet is saturated in oil as they all are to varying degrees ..this one is particularly bad, the airbox not being used has made this worse..
this next one looks a right mess, but to be honest most are a similar story after this many years
It looks worse than normal because driveshaft boots have opened and splattered green grease everywhere... what a mess. />
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#13
Posted 21 May 2016 - 05:22 PM
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#14
Posted 21 May 2016 - 06:17 PM
Looking so much better now.
#16
Posted 27 May 2016 - 08:32 PM
330 is pretty much finished now...
all back in and tested... installed a new airbox and pipe etc and a Bosch coil pack and it sounds soooooo sweet
Front toe geometry corrected...
Just needs some new boots now for the icing on the cake
What a big job that was..
Chris
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#17
Posted 28 May 2016 - 06:45 AM
eldoodarino, on 17 May 2016 - 08:25 PM, said:
What you using behind the pad rail Chris?
Tiger seal?
Polyurethane adhesive?
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#19
Posted 03 June 2016 - 06:31 PM
#20
Posted 04 June 2016 - 08:20 AM
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