Abby

[cavey]

Just a bit reluctant to start a project topic, since there's not much to tell yet. And she's in pretty good knick, so not too much work has to be done.

But anyways... pictures will come later, way later Just felt the need to start a page, tell something about the maintenance and future upgrades.

Last saturday I went over to a friend to change the timing belt and tension pulley. Following the instructions from Mux and the 4AGE manual, we managed to change the belt in a bloody 6 hour shift.

It was hell to get the pulley of without a pulley-puller. Various contraptions weren't strong enough and just buckled under the tension. A trip to the car-parts-shop didn't help either (bought pulley puller didn't work on the 4-spoke pulley from the 4AGE). Finally, we managed to find some metal L-bar, cut it up, drilled holes, and that piece was finally strong enough to take the tension.

Only thing is, there's a small bolt wedged within the crank-space. It was used as some kind of spacer since we didn't have long enough bolts. Luckily it is wedged pretty much dead-center, but still, kinda sucks. Hopefully it doesn't make the crank that unbalanced (since the pulley goes over the same area, and that pully is unbalanced).

Yeah, long story No pictures of the process unfortunately. No digicam's available (and my cellphone takes crappy crappy pictures (noise)).

Oh, yeah, the abby bit... well, had a talk with my girlfriend the other day, and we came up with names for the car. We gave her two names, but unfortunately we both forgot the second name. I just remember the second one started with E. AE... cheesy I know. Anyways Abby (abigail) stuck. I thought the car kinda resembled the fiery nature of Abby Sciuto (NCIS ).

So there, Abby, cavey's 86


taken a couple of weeks ago @metropolis, antwerp (carpark )
Cellphone, crappy sensor... lots of noise

[banpei]

Welcome Abby!

[gjuro]

Hi cavey, nice AE86

[DJexor]

finally a project thread from cavey! nice car man!

[EE80Liftback]

I don't quite see the link with NCIS's Abby (probably my lack of imagination) but very nice car!

Sorry to go offtopic but I'm still wondering miksi sinä puhut Suomea?

[Eric]

Lower it

[cavey]

EE80Liftback Wrote:I don't quite see the link with NCIS's Abby (probably my lack of imagination) but very nice car!

Sorry to go offtopic but I'm still wondering miksi sinä puhut Suomea?

Hehehe, doesn't matter, the name just popped in my head and I thought it suited the car. The name probably popped in my head because I'm a small fan of Abby from NCIS. She's a bit peculiar, and this car is a bit peculiar as well. Also has some feistiness. For me not such a long stretch


Puhun suomea koska olin asunut suomessa. Puoli vuotta. Uitwisselings student

muistan pieni suomen kieli.

but I suck at finnish. I can kinda read it better than write it. Speaking and hearing ... just so-so.

@Eric: Hrmz........ all in good time, she sits a bit high yeah

[EE80Liftback]

I as was already thinking you would most likely have been an uitwisselings student. Were you in TKK, University of Helsinki or some where else? I work in TKK.

[cavey]

I was in Turku through the Turun AMK doing my thesis project (and I'm still trying to finish the damn paper... 5 years later bit too much partying, finnish style)

Still have plenty of friends in Finland, actually going there again for a short trip beginning of October. Friend is getting married near Tre

Dunno whether we'll have time to do some visiting though But I'd like to return again to finland for some holidays and just meet some of the finnish AE86 crew. I know there are at least a couple orso from the Turku area

[cavey]

Did some much needed interior cleaning this weekend. Normally I would not clean a car on the inside this thoroughly, but I got inspired by DJexor's Interior cleaning project thread.

Attached some pictures, didn't take pictures of yesterday's session, the pre-cleaning state, so only some pictures of today: pre-vacuumcleaning, found some rust spot on the inside of the wheelarch, backseating and well, just watch the pictures