Early Maintainance

[nsrmotorsports]

Last night, I was cruising around just gettin a feel for ol' girl. Everything was good, stayed off boost most of the night. I decided to go home down Fry Rd and take that to US-290. I had just made the turn off of I-10 onto Fry Rd when i heard a loud pop when i pushed the clutch in to get to 2nd. I had enough speed to pull into the parking lost at O'Reilys. My clutch pedal was all the way to the floor. I started looking around and i found a piece of the clutch saftey switch with the bearing in the middle lying on the floor. I looked at the piece it just snapped on the corner. That's when i realized that there is no quick fix. I spent $105 to get a flatbead tow truck to tow me back to the house. This morning woke up early enough to examine, and discovered that the rest of the piece was a pain to remove.

 

[nsrmotorsports]

Well, problem solved. I went early this morning to Escobars Imports and picked up the connector from the clutch master cylinder to the clutch pedal. It was pretty cheap, cost me $10. Probably install it on Saturday, also going to replace front 02 sensor and egr valve to get to pass inspection.

 

[nsrmotorsports]

About 2 weeks after the Master Cylinder was replaced, the pressure from the new cylinder caused a major leak on the slave cylinder. I had to jack up the car and replace the slave cylinder under the transmission. Pretty simple job yeah, but when the car is so low that you can't get the jack under it makes it more work. I had to remove the front bumper to fit the floor jack under it. Replaced the bad part with brand new OE style slave cylinder. I just had to remove clutch line, un-bolt the cylinder and swap the new one in. Then just went thru the normal bleeding so the pressure in the clutch pedal would return. After that project was completed i replaced the battery cables due to just wear and tear and the positive was actually touching one of the accessory cables and shorting out my car. At first i was like wtf is going on. My car would start fine and as soon as I take off it would die. I just adjusted the bolt and made sure it was far enough away from the other positve cables and that fixed the issue.