Looks like wrenchfest #1 for 2015 is off for this weekend for me. I'm going to order still more parts and have decided to go with a new set of 3mm lifters for the '95 as well as a few other parts I was overlooking or underspending on, like a quality timing belt tensioner.

Instead, I'll be busy with a professional matter on Friday morning, then working on getting Jorge's SR axle ready to install in his '89. I want that in and ready to test by Sunday at the latest. Why so long, you ask? Because we clean and paint everything around here, and I want to make sure the brakes are up to par with new pads and potentially a resurface on the rotors. We may have to depend on ourselves to get the driveshaft to connect to the pinion flange since Toasty may be off camping with the wife; not sure if we can just connect it up or some modification may be necessary (the driveshaft, not Toasty and his wife, you sickos).

Jorge had me drive to the junkyard last Sunday and I was testing the brakes on the off-ramp at 83rd Ave because he had said the brakes were locking up. Well, at least the front driver's side did, so there's work to be done there. Gotta get those pins cleaned up, rotors checked and new, quality pads put in. May as well adjust those wheel bearings, too, which means machining the new hub socket I bought to replace the old one that got misplaced (thanks HoseB). We've got quite the selection of emery cloth to rough up the rotors and get any glaze off them as well.

Too many projects!

John B.