Sly's Panthers

[gadget73]

thats what I thought. I'm missing the second non-moving knob then. Its not actually hooked to anything in my car. It never had that system anyway. Its only there to fill the hole in. I may later remove it and put in a 3.5mm headphone socket or something which would actually be more useful. Then I have to figure out what to do with the remote mirror hole. Don't have that on my car either, twin power mirrors.


BTW, my headlight knob definitely does not have a set screw. Had it out over the weekend. The premium sound knob has a spring clip that releases it, NFC what the headlight knob uses. Appears to be glued but I can't confirm that.

[sly]

odd. both of my boxes have set screws on the headlight knobs.

just double checked the premium sound knob... yup... spring clip.

update on the Mark: needs an axle. pitted and the bearing is shot. pushed the bearing out and shoved the seal free. $300

bah.

[gadget73]

kinda figured that. tis the way the 8.5/8.8 fails.

[1987cp]

On my '79, I reused my pitted axles Slydawg said were shot. Not recommending it, just saying. Got all smooth and quiet with new bearings, though.

[Lincolnmania]

need i remind everyone again the results of a failed axle?

[packman]

I hate to threadjack, but how does one tell when the axle has seen better days? Both axles I pulled from the donor rear are black in the middle (powdercoated?) and shiney on the ends. I don't see any lines like you would on a bad main bearing. Is that the way to tell the condition of an axle?



Packman

[sly]

if the area that the bearing runs on has any scoring or pits, or if the axle is not straight or the splines are ground off... it's trash. If it's smooth at the bearing locations, straight and true, and the splines are good, you're golden.

[sly]

the axle vent was clean... ish. pretty much the bearing and/or axle crapped and when I curb checked the right rear under load, it managed to push the bearing and seal enough to leak the life blood out of the axle. Then I drove another 100 miles on it. oh well. it's done, I'm 3 bills lighter and I'll be getting the car tonight after rush hour lets up a bit.

[sly]

just went and got the Mark. drives better... doesn't sound like I hit the washboard at the edge of the road when slowing from over 65mph now. I'll need to get gas tomorrow though. it's about on E.

[gadget73]

yeah they don't survive well when the dino juice runs out.

[sly]

seems this bearing ate itself well before the oil leaked though. I've been wondering which wheel was grinding for about 2 months now. FOUND IT!

[1987cp]

yeah they don't survive well when the dino juice runs out.

Reminds me, I've got to check all my diff lube levels when I get a chance. I'm thinking it'll be lots easy to dump lube in there if I use a hose so I can lift the bottle clear of the mufflers?

Should probably also find out what weight is recommended ... partial bottles I had laying around included one of 80W90 and one of 85W120.

[gadget73]

80w90 is fine, 85w120 should also do the job fine. They sell pumps that screw into the top of the bottle and you just stick the hose into the fill plug and pump the gear lube in. Works much better than trying to fight the bottle up there. Failing that, a hose should do the job if you can find a position for the bottle that clears stuff.

[sly]

Relay mod done to AC blower. blows much gooder now. not quite twice as much... but damn near at least a third better.



the only tricky part was getting the trigger wire attached to the fat orange wire originally going to the blower. The wire into the harness actually slid out of the harness. made that one real easy to solder up.

me likes muchly.

[sly]

new meats on the Mark... vibration is all but gone up to 75mph now.

215/70/R15 Cooper tires. Very much better.

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