Project winter beater

[DSMINMN]

I got the battery relocation done and got the car running.

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/617055_10200125822815397_1587475877_o.jpg

http://youtu.be/b8a3ITqU4-w

Then this morning I went back to our shop and found this.

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/665407_10200129270021575_403214104_o.jpg

An axle seal is leaking. Kind of pissed about having to take this apart again but its whatever I guess.

[goodhart]

That thing is insanely clean. You should just get a honda for a rusty winter beater haha

[DSMINMN]

That thing is insanely clean. You should just get a honda for a rusty winter beater haha

This has its fair amount of rust. Nothing terrible though. I plan to wash it at least once a week if not every two weeks. Plus I'll be undercoating/chip guarding the whole underside. Plus I can't stand Honduhs.

[DSMINMN]

As of last night around 12:20, I drove this beeatch around our shop.

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/463601_10200179184629409_268509550_o.jpg

After having the stupid output shaft seal break I said to hell with it and replaced the front wheel bearings and seals, as well as both output shaft seals. I threw some new rotors on it as well, seeing as how the previous owner put new brake pads on but left the nasty rotors.

Gotta love the taped on headlights to see where the hell I was going. lol

[DSMINMN]

I suppose I should update this and get some pictures up too.

The Colt is almost done. Besides having a low idle issue it runs. It isn't getting shit for MPG right now, but it threw a CEL about two hours into driving it. I mostly finished it last night, so you can imagine I drove it all over hell. Lol

One thing I do need is to put the speedometer gear into the transmission. I was driving around Brained/Baxter area last night, and if you've ever been there on a Saturday night from 10pm on you would know how nerve racking it was. We probably seen 5-7 people pulled over in an hour. Plus 15 cops/state-patrol in that time. Sketchy.

[Halon]

Looks like a pretty nice beater!

[DSMINMN]

Well here is the car as of now, thawing out the frozen coolant.

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/photobucket-38894-1356888491183.jpg

I let a friend add the coolant when we initially started it because he said he knew what he was doing. Evidently he didn't. Thank God nothing (as far as I can tell), is wrecked. I may need a new rad. cap, but that is it.

[turbotalon1g]

Good luck to you, nice to see you are getting it done.

[DSMINMN]

Thanks guys. It isn't the prettiest thing but it's a car. lol After this and some tires, I hope I can square away the CEL and idle problem for good.

[DSMINMN]

After the car was "finished" it had run very rich. So much so it dumped most of the gas into the oil. So I set out so solve the problem. A coolant temperature sensor didn't do it, nor did a new o2 sensor.

What I found though was this.

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/photobucket-9233-1358227477587.png

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/photobucket-38999-1358227502338.png

In that diagram, what Mitsubishi calls a "gas filter" was causing a vacuum leak. Not only that but it was supposed to have a nipple on it to connect to what was the MAP sensor. Here I had the MAP sensor connected to a different vacuum line off of the throttle body. A little JB Weld solved that up until this past week when it started breaking off of the rubber vacuum line.

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/photobucket-17930-1358309941677.jpg

These things are a PITA to even find if you wanted to buy a new one. After a little searching on Google I found one from Toyota. After spending $35.xx I sure hope it's right.

Last night I grabbed some Plasti-Dip I had and dipped the front bumper. All I can say is this stuff impressed me. It goes on so smooth even after one cans nozzle gets half clogged and spays like undercoating. Lol

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/photobucket-50586-1359270364695.jpg

http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/imports4life/photobucket-17974-1359270363682.jpg