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This is what my veh looks like up to now

Hahahaha Bought the veh with 170 000 KMs on it,
Already racked up to 182 000 KMs on it... Not even 3 months latter!!! hahaha
I tell yeah, learnt to drive stick pretty fast! XD




With Winter tires and rims ATM





Inside






Very Stock and clean for now

[EDITED 04/04/09]

Things I NEED To Do:

- E-brake (let go on me!!! >.<)
- Figure/fix the front sound, sounds like something's 'loose' when I hit minor bumps
- Figure out and fix the ENNOYING Creaking in back when driving!


Things I Want To Do:
[Eventual Color Scheme for vehicle is Silver, carbon (color) and blue]

Something along those lines, the light gray replaced with chrome possibly (the silver)

- Buy and install new steering wheel
- Buy and install leather front/rear seats
- Buy and install Rims
- Buy and install Sound System
- Repaint Vehicle Dark Blue with a perl finish !




CURRENT PROJECT:

- 10-26-2008 -- Inspecting what parts I need for the E-brake, possibly re-installing if time allowes (Probably a GREAT Idea due to Snow call for MONDAY o.o)

- 04-01-2009 -- Fix Driver side door and rear 'quarter' panel. (Semi Fixed! (06-03-2009)
- 04-01-2009 -- New Paint job

- 04-04-2009 -- New Rotors and Brake Pads For the font end (Parts gotten, and ready to fix for tonight)

UPDATED 1/7/09

DEER DAMAGE

Initial Damage, I wish you could really see what it looked like :0



After a Bit of Plungering ATM, you can really see the chips and how the door handle is in and won't go down :S






Final Product till Spring!

Very stock and clean, indeed. It's nice to have one this way

hmm what's this stuffed into the corner of the dash... some type of furry mascot??

nice ride man

Damn Straight it is! lol Thanks! I'm actually proud of this one, it's just me! ! lol
and yeah, Stock for now! CLEAN FOREVER! hahaha

and yesh, the Mascott has a name! It's Puuuma! lol !!!!

Your front noise may be a stab link and the back is the hatch. Search around, it happens to everyone Next thing you know your ditsy will crap out and your intake will leak, and then your EGR will clog, but once you fix it for good, you'll never have these problems again!

Ryan wrote:Next thing you know your ditsy will crap out and your intake will leak, and then your EGR will clog,

Are these words of encouragement? It's a 95 so your disty will be fine. Mine has 286,000kms with no probs. (now I've said it it'll crap out for sure, damn you Ryan).

LoL Thanks guys,
I actually enjoy doing work on my vehicle. Crapper for the cash, but still enjoyable and stress relieving to do!
But knowing that a 95 has gone you that loooooong, it feels nice to know that I chose a grest veh.


Unfortunately in my plans for my veh I will need to have it painted,
as I believe the people who sold me the vehicle (As great as they really were!!! ) painted over some rust spots, I'll post some picts up latter on!

It's just small bubbles, but I'm hoping that I can stop it before it gets much worst!

The areas are all at the bottom edges of the veh, the underneath looks brilliant though, not too much rust!

I'm looking forward to working on my vehicle.

And thanks for the tip on the front end noise! Will need to check it out.
As this is my first vehicle, I don't know much other than the mech. class I took in Highschool. I really enjoyed it, and love mechanics, It's just such a shame that I don't have much time for everything!

The basics is where it starts at eh?

:D

Update!

Well, it's been a CRAPPY 2 months for me! haha.
In 2 months, 2 deers It's REALLY ticking me off man! hahaa
The first deer rolled over the front right corner, (NOV.14th/08) I was able to get most of the damage knocked out
the second deer hit the driver side right at the end of the door. (JAN 4/09)
the door and wheel well is dented in, and near the end of the door in dented in and my door handle won't go down. (I'm very Angry ATM and thinking of taking up Professional Deer hunting! lol)
Vehicle is still fully functional... annnd I still have Deer slobber on my driver window... uhhhg... I hate Bambi!!! well... Dislike VERY MUCH haha.

Paint chipped like mad on the driver door ! and yeah.... I'll get workin on her asap...
Still haven't been able to do the e-brake... Been busy with the recent passing of my brother (NOV.12.08) -- Shock to all of us in the family... But we're pulling through and I'm ok! But yeah.

My Poor Car is dented in -- Could've been worst though! I'll get picts up ASAP

*EDIT******************************
Hahahahahhaa I had a good laugh at this one --
I was hesitating on putting my window down... but hahaha
I tried it... and as I thought I didn't go down very far --- hahaha
BUT! My door now opens when I put my window down! How convenient! NOT !

Good laugh for me, looking forward to fixing this!

Well, The time has come... to show the dammage done to the vehicle!!! :0
Poor Poor thing!

To start,
my driver's side window, when I put her down, it would open my door. The window would push on the latch seeing as it was dented in.
Fixing this included taking the door appart and using a pry bar to push her back in place as much as possible.

The side panel is and will be a pain in the arse... As you can see in the photos, it is much better than what it was... but still... come spring I'm gonna need to take the siding out and push it all into place. Hopefully I won't see any dings... I can replace a door fine... the side panel may be a bit harder :S
See the photos at the top of the page :S

Saturday, and a wonderful day it was, was the day that I was supposed to change my rotors and brakes.
I'd been hearing horrible break sounds and discovered there was something wrong with my rotor.
I'd ordered the parts, picked them up and was happy :D
when I got to Straty, I took off the drivers wheel and brake. My brakes were fine, but with more investigation, it hit me then that the wrong rotors were given to me. I looked at the bill today and they gave me rotors for an MX-6, unfortunately, they are different bolt patterns
but either way,
I put everything back together, put my all seasons back on (in change from my winter) and proceeded to rotate the rest of my wheels (since it'd been nice for a month now) But nooooo! It Snowed today! :0! and they are calling for this stuff for 3 days stupid snow!

Either way, while rotating the rest of my tires, I discovered my passenger rear strut is busted, and now need to fix that. My question is, should I replace both sides at the same time? Or would it make that much of a difference?

other than that, everything still remains as is.
lots needs to be done Woot Woot!
:S
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sorry no phots!

The good news is, almost all the dents are out from the deer bang -- all that's left is changing my door :0! lol :D:D