Banpeis project

[Ivan141]

You sure you were working on the right bolts? Usually only the bolts holding the brake saddle in place are on that tight. Also a valuable lesson learned: never use a ratchet to undo bolts that need lots of force to get loose. Best thing to use is the solid bar that often comes in ratchet kits (on which you can use ordinary sockets), or a ring-ended wrench. Then slide a longer piece of pipe over that (the breaker-bar) and you can use mucho force to get the bolt off. I still remember me and my brother using a 2 meter long bit of exhaust piping to get some bolts loose on the volvo.

[banpei]

Ivan141 Wrote:You sure you were working on the right bolts? Usually only the bolts holding the brake saddle in place are on that tight. Also a valuable lesson learned: never use a ratchet to undo bolts that need lots of force to get loose. Best thing to use is the solid bar that often comes in ratchet kits (on which you can use ordinary sockets), or a ring-ended wrench. Then slide a longer piece of pipe over that (the breaker-bar) and you can use mucho force to get the bolt off. I still remember me and my brother using a 2 meter long bit of exhaust piping to get some bolts loose on the volvo.

Yep. They are the right bolts: large bolt (12) at the bottom of the caliper.

Unfortunately I didn't have anything but the ratchet in my kit. I did have a set of "pijpsleutels" but the right size was gone: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 were all there. So apparently 12 was gone to somewhere unknown...
I definetly need better tools than this.

[Mux213]

Banpei, tools are the bizzzness

Just run off to the local gamma and get your self a size 12 ring wrench, the are only euro anythings. Also get some WD40 and really soak the bolt in it a couple of times, that usually helps..

[robokill]

yo ban keep it up you btw interested in a new shelf ???? i am building one caus mine is busted if your interested pm me ok

[banpei]

Okay, this is stupid:
I recharged the battery for 24hours. Mux came over here tonight and suggested we should try starting the car just to be sure. We put the battery in the car. Lights worked perfectly, console lights were lit but the car wouldn't start and only make half a revolution while starting. Mux started to frown by now...

Then we put Mux his battery in the car and it made a huge spark because we didn't bolt the battery in and the bolt made contact with something else (probably the starter-relay). Then the second time it just started perfectly without hesitating.

Turns out the battery is charging just up to a level which is still okay for everything in the car except to start it. This is sooooo stupid.

First thing to do in the morning is to get a new battery and drive the car as much as I can!

[Mux213]

Hehehehe, sure was stupid alright, here we were thinking the starter had given out because it had been acting all bad for awhile before it finally died... turns out it was the battery that was the cause of it all along... offcourse when a battery gets older it just doesn't charge fully anymore. Everything in your car works fine if it still gives out 8 or 10 volts or something, but you need all 12 volts to get the car spinning

[jamiemirror]

24 hours ?
The reference is ~10 hours at the 1/10 of the capacity. I.e. if you have 55Ah - charge at 5.5A for 10hours. The battery can be overcharged - this is not good !

[banpei]

jamiemirror Wrote:24 hours ?
The reference is ~10 hours at the 1/10 of the capacity. I.e. if you have 55Ah - charge at 5.5A for 10hours. The battery can be overcharged - this is not good !

This charger was slow-charge. The charger indicated 20h - 24h charging so I followed directions of the charger.

Bought a new battery this morning and I'm going to put it in the hachi tonight.

[banpei]

Battery has been changed and I've driven the car the whole saturday.

Good news: after cleaning it out on friday evening the car was a lot better than before and my GF likes it much better now.

She still thinks the suspension needs to be changed which I also agree upon. For normal driving it is way too stiff (speedbumps suck with it), however taking highspeed turns on the highway is a lot more fun than with the mitsu. With the mitsu I always have to be below the reccomended speed and with the hachi I drove with ease 10 to 20 km/h higherthan reccomended without her even noticing: she still told me the car cornered much smoother than the mitsu.

[Mux213]

Good to hear banpei...

We'll get the suspension set a bit softer in the near future so your girlfriend will complain a little less. You don't need such hard suspension anyways for what you use the car for