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I know I can drive my car year round where i'm at....unless we end up under water for a couple of days.....

point proven.

Chee La! Are you dooooooone yet?

I want to drivvvvve it!

It's still way too cold to be doing anything in the northern states. Winter is finally here.

hahaha yeah. I haven't stepped foot in the garage for a month now I think... yeah wayyyyyyyyyy too cold to do anything outside. This winter came late and it was harsh. Deep freeze of -55 followed by a short thaw to melt all the snow JUST so the temps could drop again and freeze all that water and then mother nature said that wasn't enough yet, so rain, wind, sleet and more ice were added. Even with my heater on it's still freaking cold because the barn is so airy.

I'mma just sit here and sip on my whiskey until it's warmer. lol

Finally got out to the garage yesterday. It was a whopping 32 degrees so that's Wisconsin warm I guess. Spent the day putting my celi back together. Before my long winter break, I left the car up on jacks with the axle out as I needed to change out the ripped seal so that mean also draining the transmission fluid as well.

Got in the garage, and cleaned up the mess that was left over winter as well as putting some things away just to make more room. changed out the axle seal, put the axles back on, bolted it in, attached the brakes and spindles to the strut etc., pumped fluid back into trans, bled the clutch, put my spacers back on, wheels, and hood as well. Finally got it off the jack stands and back on all 4 wheels and aired them up. Feels good.

what's left to do?
- I still have to drill the holes for the side mount. Need a better drill/drill bit but it shouldn't be too hard.
- wiring: I believe I have to wire this missing wire for the manual start from the starter fuse to ID1 so I need to dig under the dash and find out where that is exactly. hopefully that will solve my no start issue as my harness is completely converted to manual and the AT path basically goes nowhere. (correct me if I'm wrong)
per this thread: http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=92362
- check over/add/make new grounds and battery terminals.
- get the 2 exhaust gaskets for the header to b-pipe and an extra nut.
- fab a new exhaust from b-pipe back.
- fix the AC line bolt that I snapped but that's minor and I can do without A/C for now.

really hope that's all I need to do.

here's a pic because we all love pics

Meh.

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Man you gotta hurry up man. It's averaging 40's now, that's grilling weather. Fishing season is near, meets are coming up fast.
(We still gotta do a Midwest or at least MN/WI Celica meet sometime.)

LOL...yesterday was 30*, woke up today... snow..... FML!!! Winter's still thawing out man. soon though. Grilling weather is any weather hahaha

That's raci....oh wait.

look fast

messed around with it this past weekend.
decided to forego the whole clutch start safety switch and just wired it into the neutral start and was able to crank it with the key now but yet another roadblock. started leaking fuel. checked and it was leaking from at the fuel rail by the banjo bolt. so gonna order some washers and hopefully it'll get fuel and start.

One step closer is always good. Don't mess around with those fuel leaks!

I fall off the face of the Earth, come back a different person, and you still aren't done? What gives?

hopefully that banjo bolt comes off easier for you than it did for me.

haha yes, not gonna mess around but fixed the leak yesterday so no more worries about that.

um...... yeah.... I know .... just this damn mother nature won't stop crapping on Wisconsin. Snow in the forecast tomorrow and Friday by the way so I think if I DON'T work on the car it'll be sunny but if I work on the damn car, it'll snow.




It was loose and missing a washer?. lol I must've put that on my to do list and totally forgot. Luckily the parts BEAMS had them so I just switched the two and no more leak but still no spark so gonna try and figure that out.

-ECU getting power and grounded
-CEL on
-COR is working
-EA1 wires are good and plug is on tight

Will slowly go through the check list for spark once the snow passes through.... ugh.

meh