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May. 14th, 2025 04:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyDespite all the awful things going on in the world, it's nice to know that Kasuga Ayumu (Osaka from Azumanga Daioh) is now also a character in Yotsuba&. It's like finding out someone who seemed to fall off the face of the earth decades ago is alive and well.
Nozomi's clutch work has begun! It was tricky to jockey her into the garage without a working clutch, but I did it. The first step was to remove the wheels and all the top-side items that are in the way, such as the air filter box, battery, and disconnecting small things from the gearbox. The hard stuff is underneath, which involves disconnecting the knuckles, driveshafts, the subframe, 3 out of 4 of the motor mounts, and maybe the starter. Then the gearbox itself can be unbolted from the engine to access the clutch parts. (I have an engine hoist for heavy stuff.) Impact tools are an absolute necessity, especially when going up against the motor mount bolts, subframe bolts, and those 36mm axle nuts. Instead of pushing and pulling with all my strength, a quick pull on a trigger and it's off in seconds.
I've had to throw just about everything at this job, and I got as far as pulling the driveshafts before discovering one of them just would not want to come out, no matter what. It's kinda stuck to the middle shaft, but the bolts holding that on are blocked by the stuck part. Otherwise I would just take it off as one assembly. There is a tool to get me out of that, so that's on order now. It'll give me a chance to work on other bits while I wait.
Historically, the re-assembly usually goes faster, or at least easier. Fasteners and threaded parts get cleaned up or replaced, especially if the heads are starting to round off or the threads are too mangled. Instead of fussing with electrical connectors and wasting time trying to unplug them at weird angles, they'll just click back in. Old broken and worn out parts that fight the whole way out get replaced by new parts that are willing to go in. Well, usually.
Sometimes it takes longer because of opportunity for other things. I have the subframe and front spindles out, so I might as well do the lower ball joints. I'll be taking off the flywheel, so I might as well also do the rear main seal that's directly behind it. The starter has been getting a little weird, so that'll get replaced since I can reach it now. Assorted other parts that are a nightmare when they're half-buried in the car then are easy to reach with a bunch of other large parts out of the way.
I hear there is a new Japanese grocery store that opened up in the Tyson's Corner area. It doesn't look like something on the scale of a Mitsuwa Market or Uwajimaya but next time I'm in that area as I eventually will, I'll stop and check it out.
Nozomi's clutch work has begun! It was tricky to jockey her into the garage without a working clutch, but I did it. The first step was to remove the wheels and all the top-side items that are in the way, such as the air filter box, battery, and disconnecting small things from the gearbox. The hard stuff is underneath, which involves disconnecting the knuckles, driveshafts, the subframe, 3 out of 4 of the motor mounts, and maybe the starter. Then the gearbox itself can be unbolted from the engine to access the clutch parts. (I have an engine hoist for heavy stuff.) Impact tools are an absolute necessity, especially when going up against the motor mount bolts, subframe bolts, and those 36mm axle nuts. Instead of pushing and pulling with all my strength, a quick pull on a trigger and it's off in seconds.
I've had to throw just about everything at this job, and I got as far as pulling the driveshafts before discovering one of them just would not want to come out, no matter what. It's kinda stuck to the middle shaft, but the bolts holding that on are blocked by the stuck part. Otherwise I would just take it off as one assembly. There is a tool to get me out of that, so that's on order now. It'll give me a chance to work on other bits while I wait.
Historically, the re-assembly usually goes faster, or at least easier. Fasteners and threaded parts get cleaned up or replaced, especially if the heads are starting to round off or the threads are too mangled. Instead of fussing with electrical connectors and wasting time trying to unplug them at weird angles, they'll just click back in. Old broken and worn out parts that fight the whole way out get replaced by new parts that are willing to go in. Well, usually.
Sometimes it takes longer because of opportunity for other things. I have the subframe and front spindles out, so I might as well do the lower ball joints. I'll be taking off the flywheel, so I might as well also do the rear main seal that's directly behind it. The starter has been getting a little weird, so that'll get replaced since I can reach it now. Assorted other parts that are a nightmare when they're half-buried in the car then are easy to reach with a bunch of other large parts out of the way.
I hear there is a new Japanese grocery store that opened up in the Tyson's Corner area. It doesn't look like something on the scale of a Mitsuwa Market or Uwajimaya but next time I'm in that area as I eventually will, I'll stop and check it out.
