Fixin some issues (picture heavy)

[RANDY540]

Whats up guys. Did a couple things to the 540 over the holiday. Much needed too.
Left side. Control arms and strut ripped out. Meant to put a rag under the rotor, but, well, i didnt.


Right side. Control arms and strut ripped out.


Oh how i love parking lot maintenance! By the way, there used to be a small spoiler, sure youve seen them, where the dirt is on the back window. Well last week it decided to eject from my car on the way to work, fly into the air and smash the guardrail and self destruct...damnit. but it was funny



Right side, new stuff. I was haulin *** puttin it back together and didnt stop to take pics.


Left side, new stuff.


Oil pan gasket was leakin. Replaced it, check out the nastiness that was in the oil pan! I cleaned part of it to show you how nasty it was.


Oil pan all cleaned up and a fresh spray-bomb job.




And a fresh fuel filter. There was some gunk in the old one also.


Well the front end work did this car a world of difference. Its wayyy better. Just OEM stuff too. Next week, rear suspension and trans filter/gasket/new fluid. Now only if I had plentiful tools, a garage, and a lift.

[SSense]

Oh man, I know you're going through a hard time working on the car by just using the jacks and a parking..

But appreciate your DIY work, looks well done.. :clap:

One question though, if the pan was leaking, did you replace it with a new one or what did you exactly do to fix it ?

[RANDY540]

it was just the gasket. theres a seal that runs around the inside of the metal gasket, and it was pretty well compressed. Fresh gasket fixed it up, no leaks at all so far. the old one didnt have a bad leak tho, more like a slow seep.

[Bruno]

there is nothing better than working on your car... great job man

[Nabil]

Respect for doing it in this weather!!!

[M_Powerholic]

+1 :bow:

[salty]

+2

[Ehssan]

We have another DIY maniac :D ,, good job dude ... ( But I feel sorry for the left side Rim in the first pic :lol: )

[Ramzi]

Nice job man, I'm sure it was really hard work and took long hours and a lot of back ache...i wish i had your DIY patience and expertise..thumbs up

[eoudeh]

Amazing DIY Randy, i know the difficulty for this kind of work specially to remove the shock absorbers. i appreciate ur clean work and im sure that you had an perfect tools for such work. :)

Good work bro.

[WS86]

Great Job Dude
You Should do a DUET DIY with Eyad :D

[RANDY540]

thanks for the compliments guys, i just like to do my own thing if i can, usually its time constraints that decide. looks like ill be getting into some more work tonight seein as how my car is on a truck right now on its way back home. got some crazy vibrations, i think it has something to do with the vibe dampner on the crankshaft. we'll see.:thumbsdown:

[springz]

Nice job man I love how you work and take care of your car :) .. keep us always updated