What have you done to your P5 today?
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DRoyarcher
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thanks guys... I'm pretty sure I didn't tighten the allen back down... I'll give that a go and see what happens... *fingers crossed* I WANT MY P5 BACK!!!! I miss her.....
CheeseHelmet
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You don't really "tighten it down", you tighten it till the pad touches the rotor then turn it back 1/3 to 1/2 of a turn. It's best to loosen the parking brake cable before you do this (10mm bolt on the left of the parking brake lever) and it's a good idea to do both wheels at the same time so that the parking brake engages evenly.
GlowstickNinja
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I have done the rear brakes many times on my P5, I have found that if you take a large C clamp and squeze the piston with the back of the caliper just a bit, this helps loosen up that pesky allen bolt. But when I mean a little bit, I really do mean very little. Also, I use the end of a screwdriver, I know....I know, to tap the alllen wrench into the allen bolt inside the caliper.
ProjectBlack
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Replacing right motor mount...ugh...noises will stop today!!!!!!!!!
CheeseHelmet
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^I need buttons like that.
Evan, you might be interested in my new line of lightweight, performance racing seats. I just put one in my car:
Today I took justanothermp5's advice and picked up a block (12kg!) of dry ice to remove the old sound-deadening material from the floor panels. It worked like a charm, it just takes a couple minutes and the material becomes brittle enough that you can just chisel it off. Sadly I found even more holes, this is going to be a huge pain to fix...
Here's a couple on the driver's side in the back:
The heaviest rust formed along the weld that joins the floor pan with the pan that goes over the gas tank. It's 2011, you'd think we'd have figured this s*** out by now...
Evan, you might be interested in my new line of lightweight, performance racing seats. I just put one in my car:
Today I took justanothermp5's advice and picked up a block (12kg!) of dry ice to remove the old sound-deadening material from the floor panels. It worked like a charm, it just takes a couple minutes and the material becomes brittle enough that you can just chisel it off. Sadly I found even more holes, this is going to be a huge pain to fix...
Here's a couple on the driver's side in the back:
The heaviest rust formed along the weld that joins the floor pan with the pan that goes over the gas tank. It's 2011, you'd think we'd have figured this s*** out by now...
LOL! I LOVE that racing seat, Cheese! Well done, mate! Hahaha!
But at the same time, I'm sorry to hear about your rust holes... I'm sure mine is gonna be nasty too when I gut it this winter. So what are your plans for the rust holes? Repair them? How? Weld in new panels?
But at the same time, I'm sorry to hear about your rust holes... I'm sure mine is gonna be nasty too when I gut it this winter. So what are your plans for the rust holes? Repair them? How? Weld in new panels?
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ProjectBlack
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Lewis7789 - I love the button labels. AWESOME! I think I would absolutely love rush hour if I had buttons like that that actually worked!
ProjectBlack
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Replaced right motor mount...still making noise. Just ordered a new end link for the right even though I replaced that when I did the Tokico installation. ugh...
...quickly running out of ideas and options here...
...quickly running out of ideas and options here...
CheeseHelmet
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Yup, I got a nice piece of 16 gauge sheet metal that should be big enough to take care of all of the holes. My welding experience is limited so we'll see how well it comes together.
The plan is to preserve as much of the original floor metal as possible, I'm going to cut out around the holes until I hit relatively rust-free metal then weld-in new metal. Afterwards everything will get a liberal coating of POR-15, the underside will get some asphalt undercoating and then I'll get some of that "peel and seal" to cover everything up and provide sound deadening.
I'm open to suggestions though, I'm doing this all by the seat of my pants so tips would be appreciated
CheeseHelmet
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Balljoint?
ProjectBlack
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^ ....hmmmm...interesting, and the things I'm feeling are pretty consistent with something like that. Good idea.
ProjectBlack
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So, that means I would have to replace the entire lower control arm, right? I don't think there is a ball joint you can buy separately...
