Vlad's rides thread

[immortality]

At least (in the end) it was a quick death.........

I thought too its M78 but its M75 as per stamping on the gears.

I think the pinion length is same as M78 but in M75 form.

Isn't the M78 a bit of a misnomer?

[vlad01]

At least (in the end) it was a quick death.........

I thought too its M78 but its M75 as per stamping on the gears.

I think the pinion length is same as M78 but in M75 form.

Isn't the M78 a bit of a misnomer?

Not that I know of. The falcon gear of the later years have gears stamped 0578 which is called "M78"

My gears all are marked 0575

[immortality]

Yeah, well it's a misnomer when it comes to Commodores except maybe HSV as a mate recently had a diff built with parts that were originally from a HSV fitted with a Hydratrac diff and it had the larger pinion bearing which seems to be the only difference with the M78 gear sets.

[vlad01]

I got the call, its ready for pickup. will go and grab it Friday along with the axles from the other place.

[Forced666]

if i had a gun, thats what i would of done to my last laptop. Instead it was hurtled across the room and jump on several times haha

[vlad01]

I got 2 iphones and a kodak cd burner from that old PC to blow away still.

[wozza]

I got 2 iphones and a kodak cd burner from that old PC to blow away still.

I find Iphone's respond better to C4 rather than lead

[vlad01]

do you reckon you can retrieve a lead selfie on the phone some how?

[wozza]

na iphone's to slow for that Prob be more fun to use a high speed camera filming the lead selfie...

[vlad01]

Some updates finally.


Got the diff back a few weeks ago.

sanded it down to smooth the blasting roughness. Got a new cover from pick a part.

Gasket sorted blah blah.

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Also axles were shorten 7.5mm each. Pretty nice job.

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Assembled and primed again after a good clean.

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And top coat of epoxy.

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Shiny!!!

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Then the extra Xmas decorations hung up lol.

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Finally got my sump done. Only took 18 months to machine the hole lol, hard to find a machine shop willing to do it straight away. Anyway good timing as this completes the whole drive train just as the diff is being finished.

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Was enlarging the holes to 8mm to fit the 5/16" bolts used on the buick, where they are 1/4" on the ecotec
Then the battery died half way lol. I used a step drill to pilot and center the first part of the hole, then a spot weld drill bit to "machine through" the rest of the way. Due to the spot weld bit design it acts like a hone as can be seen how the drill is fully anchored into the hole. Leaves a perfect straight clean hole without needing a mill.

They got to be pretty accurate as 5/16 in a 8mm hole virtually pins the sump in place from the tight tolerance, ideal for keeping it all nice and rigid.

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masked up for blasting. Will be ready for pickup tomorrow.

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One axles done.

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One more being done.

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Oppsy! Exploded my pressing tool

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And pretty much done for now.

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Time to celebrate with this new turbo for the lawnmower and some target practice.

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Intel insi.... I mean outside!

Literally shot the CPU? out of it. was laying next to the laptop after a few rounds at it.

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