my build story (Page 4 of 4)

Chipping away at this rear end. the axle seal was leaking on this side, so I started here. First unbolt the caliper and pull it off the rotor, lay it aside, get the rotor off, you know the drill:

these pads really small, and they were worn. This one isn't in the rivets yet, but the one on the back was, and it dug a groove in the rotor

all the buildup of gunk behind the hub due to the leaky seal. Not too bad I guess.

popped the half shaft out with the slide hammer

okay I'll try to get more posted later, gotta go be dad right now, can't spend all night on the computer.

hooo boy, well two whole stinking months go by you'da think I'd have it done by now huh. Well had a beautiful fall here in CO, let's see the pics of the tiny progress I made.

Okay so last post was taking the disc brakes off the rear and also pulling the half-shaft for changing out a leaking seal. When I pulled the rotors and then the axl out, I was able to get this big ol' heat shield off.

Then I decided I wanted to lose the heat shield entirely upon reassembly, but I wanted to keep the part that bolted up against the axle housing end, as it gets a gasket there and helps with the part that covers the bearing. I'm sure this could be done without the heat shield at all, but I went ahead and did it anyway. started by cutting the shield,

this middle part cut out is the smaller piece I'm keeping,

then I did my best grinding to true it up into a nice circle, and then cleaned it. In this next pic I've got the piece on the bench and now I'm cutting gaskets for it.

Also had to clean up the rust and gunk off the axle housing end,

Then installed the new seal, and reassembled everything, I didn't get good shots there, but here is the complete assembly getting spray paint

And that is basically where it sits as of today.  What happened in the meantime that got in way was that one, I went to the Miller race the first weekend of October. had a blast and made a few new friends.
There was a guy there who had a Plymouth Arrow pick-up the same vintage as my car, and is the same Mitsubishi make and engine/trans etc. the thing was in great shape, I snapped a few pics,

and so I get to talking to the owner, Scott who I have actually raced against a couple times now. He gave me a little of the backstory on the truck and it was obvious he takes pride in ownership of it. He mentioned that he was always on the lookout for the little "Plymouth" hood badge that was missing, and that they are hard to find. I mentioned that with my project I probably still had my badges somewhere and if I find them he was welcome to it. Just gave me another excuse to do even more garage cleaning when I got home.

He was stoked. Now the relevance to this little piece o' the tale is that I kind of share some of these stories with some of my friends locally. And so like right after I sent this badge to him, the car-karma kind of came right back to me, because I took the rotors in to get turned and when I went into pick them up the next day the guys at my local O'reilly's told me it was on the house (they usually charge $15 per rotor).

Had some other stuff come up in the last six weeks, more about that later, but for now it is looking like I might get some time on it this weekend. We'll see how it goes.