It makes me feel so incredibly self-conscious that unless I’m virtually paralytic on alcohol, it’s just not something I ever do. As a slight aside, I should point out that I hate dancing. Things were getting drastic so the blowtorch was fired up to heat the casing, and hey presto, we finally had movement. We’d come prepared with a reverse drill bit but the damn bolt still wasn’t budging. For half of a bolt.Īfter a night of ever-increasing despair, we called it quits and reconvened the next day to tackle the stubborn thing with a fresh head. If I couldn’t get it out, I’d need an entire new diff. Hours passed by as we tried everything to get it loose and eventually the decision was taken to drill it out. No wonder it had felt terrible to drive! Of the two broken bolts, the remnants of the first were easily removed with the aid of a chisel, but the second was sheared off way below the surface and didn’t want to budge. It’s in here that the front diff lives.Īfter stripping that down to get to the front diff, it was immediately obvious what the problem was: out of four bolts, two had sheared off whilst the other two were finger loose. So, after removing the wheels, hubs, driveshafts, exhaust, and prop, the transfer box was eventually removed. Nope, nothing is ever that simple with my car! All symptoms were pointing towards the front diff bolts – it’s a common issue with Evos, but though replacing the bolts themselves is cheap, getting to them is not the easiest of jobs. Hoping (but not really believing) that it might be easily/cheaply solved with a driveshaft swap, that was first attempted but to no avail. Sure enough, a few weeks later the the car developed an increasingly nasty knock on full right lock. The normally precise handling of the Evo just didn’t feel up to scratch and I was beginning to worry that something was up. Although Rod seemed entertained enough by the car (although was later much less impressed by the fuel bill), doubts were niggling in my mind. Back in April, Rod stopped over in the UK and we made some of our Speedhunters visits in the ‘heave ho’. It’s always great to read how others are going with interesting projects, but back on home territory there have been times when it’s felt like Project Evo was going backwards. Whilst I’ve been reading the other team members’ progress with their own cars with interest, I’ve felt a touch of the green-eyed monster creeping in. It’s been a while since I published my initial Project Evo post and for good reason.
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