Miles and I pulled the rear axle our of the Rapier today.

Man there’s a lot of rust on that little car, it’s really quite depressing. We made pretty quick work of it, considering all the bolts were rusted solid. Like a good little boy, for the past 3 days, I’ve been soaking all the fasteners with Kroil. That stuff is the best!

Afterwards, Miles quickly grew tired of playing the xylophone game with my wrenches and turned his attention to the complex workings of the floor jack.
uuuuUUUUP, DDDOOowwn, uuuuUUUUP, DDDOOowwn, good times!

Tags: axle
Categories: axle

Well, todays temps hit a nice dry 100 degrees, and I couldn’t think of a better thing to do than to pull the transmission out of the Rapier. Any sane person would have done this type of job in the morning, or at the very least pushed the car in the garage for some shade… but not me!
No siree BOB!!!
So just past noon, while the kids were at school, I wrestled that driveshaft and trans. Now, I suppose it would have been easier if I had removed the hood, and I imagine I woundn’t have gotten so much grease on my stomach if I was wearing some kind of shirt, but hey, it was hot, and I was in a zone, even if it was the dirtbag backyard mechanic zone.

I also pulled out the front and rear seats, and was disappointed to find a really rusty floor pan with and even scarier patch job. this might be a setback.

Tags: driveshaft,interior,transmission
Categories: transmission