Just harrys auto shitbox v2000

[JustHarry]

So @DoBro Jesus bought this car about a year ago off some old mate who had parked it up in 06 when it had a "blown headgasket" 

So jesse had a look over it replaced water pump cambelt and some other bits. We took the fuel tank out as it was pretty rusty inside and had it hot tanked and cleaned. Came out mint. Og fuel pump was coosed so a subaru one happened to be the same size so was used as a replacement. We got it running amd driving with some freeing up of brake caliper slides that were a bit stuck

The thing was happy as ran, well pulled string and shifted well. Untill it didnt......

Every time we drove it round the block it started shifting worse and worse to the point it was slipping so bad it was undriveable. A filter and fluid change was done and that made it better. Untill it wasnt again 

It subsequently got parked up for a while.

 

And this is where i bought it..

 

 

[JustHarry]

Because it had trans problems the motor was due to come out.

And like all quality mitsubishi's the valve stem seals might as well have been made of granite. So i found a top end set to repalce some gaskets

 

fwd v6 are suuuper lame to work on. So many innacessable bolts 

 

Started pulling the trans down. Hoping to find something wrong with it. However the further in it got the more it found it was in near new condition

Replaced a bunch of seals and o rings as i went. Put it all back together without finding anything actually wrong with it so maybe it just had a blockage. Dunno ill find out i guess 

[JustHarry]

Next thjng was to pull the heads off and strip them for cleaning

Valve guids were mint with little to no play.

Dropped them off at cylinder head specialists in town for them to tank them clean and run a skim over them ended up taking 12thou off them to clean them up as they were pretty rotten from having water in it.

Also got the intake manifold vapour blasted and then i repainted the black and it looks ace

 

Put the heads back together with new stem seals tonight. And bolted them back on the block

 

And thats where im upto now

[JustHarry]

did a front main seal 

Refitted the timing belt and all the timing covers 

[JustHarry]

Did a bit more work on this today. Repaied a rusted coolant line in the throttle body.

[JustHarry]

Spent some time this arvo and went though appcos stock of hoses to find some the match. Got a couple that will work ok. Bittom hose is a awkward shape bit found one almost the same

[JustHarry]

Got the cooling system all buttoned up. And filled it up and ran the motor up to temp.

Aaaaaaaannnnnnnd one of the frost plugs is leaking

Should be an easy one to get to once the front exhaust manifold manifols is off

[JustHarry]

A while ago i bought a low kms one owner galant with a rekt motor. Was gonna scrap it but them i noticed the front brakes were pretty similar. Exacly similar i turns out

So i set to work this weekend amd swapped master cyclinder, front rotors, calipers, and flexi lines over for yhe frony brakes. Geting rid of the corroded siezed old calipers and dry cracked soft lines.

Now in have a functioning front brake system with what look like near new disks

 

rears i was not so lucky with and everything is slighlty differnt. Will rekit the rear calipers and get new soft lines made up.

[JustHarry]

Something that annoyed me with jt was the auto shifter is sloppy amd feels loose.

Spent way longer than i though removing the center console. Every piece of trim is screwed in with more screws than seems necessary. But got there in the end. Removed the shifter to find the bottom bush non existent. Will have to spin one up from acetal at work one evening

[JustHarry]

Sorted the shifter bush this arvo.

Didnt have any sutible plastic to make a bush out if so modifyed 2 bronze bushes

O.d was to big so turned it down to fit. Made one a little small so used a bit of locktite to secure it

Then reamed out the i.d till the bottom bolt would go through with only a little clearance

Sorted

[JustHarry]

Get back on the main page.

Got a set or soft lines for the rear brakes made up today and some seals for the calipers got them back on an bled up njce and easy

Got a new brass frost plug in the block. Was a prick to get in

 

Got it all dialed in and took it outside to wash the dust off it.

 

Took it for a run up the motorway to test out all the work ive done to it

Which turned into this haha

 

Transmission is working ok in 2nd 3rd and overdrive. But pulling away in 1st gear in drive it slips pretty hard. But if i select low it is ok.....dunno. old autos beinh old autos. Might put a few more kms on it and see if it improves..

Cruises at 100k pretty good for a little 2 litre v6

[JustHarry]

Been fighting the transmission for a while. Still slipping badly in first and revs spiking into second.

Checked the transmission ecu. All visually looks ok. Good enough for me.

So today i took at the pan off and removed the valve body to check solenoid operation. They all seem ok.

I also dropped the valave body out of a e33 galant thats donated many parts already and unsurprisingly the valve body is almost identical. One solenoid needs to be swapped over then will go in. With any luck it woll solve the issue as it came from a fully functional transmission

Og on the left and the galant one on the right

[JustHarry]

I have now spent a lot of money on parts cars.

One manual v3000 was acquired for manual conversion parts as I'm sick of the auto playing games.

And another is a turbo hardtop eterna thst is beyond rusty 

 

Work will continue soon

[JustHarry]

So almost 2 years later the auto works now  

Got some average tyres swapped into the alloy wheels so they match . Will buy new tyres eventually.

Gave the paint a polish and it came up pretty good from a distance

Interoir has cleaned up mint for something that sat out in the sun for 15 years 

 

Went for a pub lunch sans wof and rego 

[JustHarry]

Was getting a bit rotten in the front left gaurd. 

Sil is ok. Just surface rust so got a coat of rust kill

 

[JustHarry]

Put the trim back on and you'd never know 

 

[JustHarry]

Put a new decal on the passenger door 

 

And gave it a real quick Wizz over with a buff . 

 

 

while driving it to work the left rear caliper stuck on so had to strip that down and clean it up . Came right with a clean up and some rubber grease on the sliding parts