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Originally Posted by iNeon
Worse than this?!?
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I don't really think either one of us is doing real well in the battery tray department......
btw, that is my jack you can see through the battery tray. Not a good sign....
Had a very relaxing day out in the driveway this afternoon. Had to go install a fan control module in my sainted mother's car this morning, so didn't start on "un-named" car until early afternoon.
Secured the front on jack stands, with back ups of course. Makes me feel better.
There was no real way to go spray off car first as it is a 'dragger', but it wasn't too terrible. Had to clear a lot of spider webs, though.
Got the radiator drained. Drained the tranny. Weird not to have a real drain plug. It is messy draining from the dipstick banjo, but that is the only way. Removed both tranny lines to radiator also. Then I pulled radiator and condenser. Removed exhaust system. Nice when it comes out all in one piece. I thought those bolts/nuts were gonna give me trouble, but no worries....
Car isn't in quite as good a shape as I had hoped. A few of the boots to some of the front end components were torn, but there wasn't any slop I could find. We'll see, if it's ever drivable.
Some kind of nasty pea green soup came out of the radiator. Yuk!
Seems like I did more, but with at least a hundred trips out from under the car, then back under the car, then out from under the car, yada yada yada........
Loosened the driveshaft bolts to the rear end, but have to research how that whole thing comes apart. The center carrier doesn't look like much. The flex disk bolts on the tranny side look like they are fairly hard to get to. I will study that one tonight.
Mosquitoes finally chased me inside....
Cleaned up my work area and called it a day. Beautiful day, almost perfect! High was in low 80's I believe.
No hurry.........
BTW, when removing the drive shaft, do I remove flex plates with shaft, or undo other bolts and just remove the shaft, leaving flex plates mounted. And, how does it come apart at the center carrier bearing?