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Might be keen sunday afternoon haha, work sat and goin to a 21st sat nite.

I think that's shocking how some cambelts only have a 20,000kms/12 month warranty. Cambelts are meant to last 100,000kms usually, and even so alot of them are over-engineered to reduce costly failures such as you have endured.

Cross fingers it only slipped a couple teeth and there's no damage to the valves. PS: My over the internet diagnosis is awesome

So the steering is all back together and had a wheel alignment done. Man what an improvement! It handles so much better and it steers far more acurately! It feels like a totally different car.

Sigma most likely, as the Galant VX-S sale didn't go through. Also the VX-S is a 2L DOHC.

The result of this weekend's work: I'm happy with the height for now, but the rear has to come down sometime soon though. It's heaps stiffer in the front, which is exactly what I wanted. Can't wait til tomorrow to drive it and see how it feels.

Yeah 4G62 is SOHC 1800, found in Cordias, some Sigmas, Chariots etc. 4G37 is also SOHC 1800 but they look the same as the 4G32 just like how a 4G62 looks like a 4G63.

I was going to take pics of the bare strut while it was all apart but I completely forgot. They are welded to the strut.

haha yeah I painted the old galant's calipers with them in place, had newspaper and cardboard everywhere but managed to get overspray on the discs. At about that time I gave up hence why I only pained one side Pete

Fully. Was going to do the rears but couldn't be fucked pulling them off especially with the hassle of the brake pads falling out and putting them back in etc. Will do it another day.

Yuh, even more so than my old GLX which has a 4G37.

Here's some pics from progress over the weekend: Front suspension all apart: New sway bar bushes: Shocks, old vs. new: Rotors freshly machined: Strut back together with kings and refitted + calipers painted for bling : Big ups to Tank and Mark for their help. Tomorrow I have to sort out the tie rods, pitman arm and idler arm. It seems I will be running out of time and money to do the turbo + intercooler, but hopefully I will get the exhaust modified and fitted before trackday.

Actually the Galant did come with a 4G32 in the GL model. You can tell a 4G32/37 from a 4G62/63 SOHC from looking at the exhaust manifold spacing. If the exhaust ports are equal spacing apart it's a 4G32/37, if they are bunched in groups of two it's a 4G62/63 SOHC.

Does anyone happen to have a ball joint splitter? Preferably with forks about 20mm apart. My splitter has taken all the joints off but one, which the forks wont get around. Gah! Pics up of my progress soon

I don't think it will be a Solex, most likely an Aisan downdraft carb.

Yeah mine's an actual nut sorta thing, not as deep as a normal nut but a nut all the same. Took it to tank's and it seemed to come off easy enough in the vice. Mint.

Could be worse.. could be working at SuperCheap! *raises hand for that* But meh I get paid more than most you Repco guys anyway

Haha gutted, and there were people saying on the Oz Starion forums "yeah moooite it will just undo easy maaaaate".

That's pretty stink they wont go thru with the deal. I was watching that auction and it's not your fault they put it in the wrong category where no one would view it. Give them mega bad feedback I reckon - or even offer them $100, it sounds like they just want it gone and there's no way they would get anymore than $100 for it from a wrecker or anywhere else anyway.

Pull off cover to check anyway. It may not be the cambelt and could be something else entirely. Check if all the marks line up when no 1 piston is at TDC. Check that it's getting spark, and check if it's getting fuel in there. If it's all timed up properly, getting spark at the correct time and fuel being injected at the right time surely it should fire.

Cambelt could have slipped a few teeth - also the cambelt could be half shredded and part of the cambelt is hitting the cover. Pull of cam cover and check. Is it north-south or east-west setup? DOHC 10 valve.. haha sounds funky.

That sounds like an idea. Might try that tomorrow morning before finding a vice or something

So does anyone have a vice in their garage?

I think you guys are talking about that 19mm bolt at the top of the shock which holds the top hat on. I've got all that off already, I'm talking about that big 50mm nut thing which holds the actual shock into the strut.

Huh? I've got both struts out and the springs, tophats off etc ready to take the original strut inserts out. There's that big fuck off 50mm nut sorta thing at the top holding them in, with the struts on the ground with my leg firmly placed on them, I can't stop them from rolling over on the ground while trying to undo that nut with a pipe wrench = need a vice boes.