Sometimes, with new wheels, the paint or coating trapped under the conical portion of the lugs wears off and creates a little looser fit than originally installed.
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Sometimes, with new wheels, the paint or coating trapped under the conical portion of the lugs wears off and creates a little looser fit than originally installed.
Notified that my fuel pressure gauge and crank position sensor came in today. I'll install the sensor first, as I despise touching fuel lines on vehicles. Being in an exploding Miata will do that to you.
so will being doused in the face by gas... experiences, I've had a few
I done gone and fixed it!
YES! What was the issue after all?
Edit: Nevermind, figured you updated your build thread with the culprit.
Easy fix, thankfully. Guess I can return the fuel pressure test kit
Nice! Really happy for you Tony!
Thanks for all the diagnostic helps, friends
I also picked up some sand paper. Going to try to get those head headlights polished and clear coated. Thinking about painting the buckets as well. My wife said white, but I'm thinking black.
Insulated my trans tunnel. Easier in some ways than I expected!
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I had an extra 1/2 sheet, so I basically covered the entire tunnel from the AC floor drain to the front of the shifter, and a little extra on the driver’s side to almost the e-brake.
Excellent job, but I guess it involved a lot of cursing to maneuver everything around the gearbox. I plan to do mine when the box is out for a clutch job later this year. Have already bought Thermo Tec 13500 for it; but that embossed aluminum sheet you used looks OEM.
Spent the best part of the day redesigning/reengineering the Kraftwerks Rotrex kit bits; while machining quality is OK, some design choices are questionable, so I will be re-making a good chunk of it.
Actually, no, the material is pretty easy to shape and manipulate. Gotta wear gloves, the edges of the material are sharp.
The only concern was pulling the adhesive backing off. I was g-e-n-t-l-y but firmly pulling it back with the paint stir stick/rope rigging, thinking it would slip off the backing, but it didn’t. The freshly cleaned tunnel was making the adhesive pretty grabby, so just some focus and moving methodically was the right move.
Doing it another time, I probably would have started from the driver side and worked towards the passenger side.
You have a lift?
No, the new floor jack lifts the car a LOT higher than the old one. Only lifted the passenger side, I was at the max height for my jackstands, so maybe 22-24” high?