Let's See....Where Was I....?

 Had a post going, then got busy, then got clobbered with a "24 Hr Bug", etc, etc, etc.

Sooooo.....I isolated the issue with The Fisher down to the "Darlington Power Packs" that I've mentioned before here. The one in the right channel failed, probably when the Zener Diode in the on-board regulator shorted and nuked the transistors on the board. So I still have some more sleuthing to do to nail down the exact problem.

Yes, I've working on this receiver for over a year now. I'll be very happy to see it finished.

As far as my Toyotasaurus Supra goes, well....I've really been digging into it, and finding several things of interest.

To fix the rust properly, I had to pull the mounting brackets for the "Strut Rods", more accurately called a "Lateral Locating Link", because they 'stick into' the engine bay, and you can see them.

I took the whole shebang off the car first. Both strut rods and their mounts, and the antisway bar. Pulled twelve bolts, four nuts, the end links for the sway bar, and it dropped right out.

 Then I separated the parts. The nice one is from the right side of the car. The rusty one is from the left side of the car, where it lived under the battery, and took some guff!

 These will get sandblasted, and then repainted with some of Eastwood's "Extreme Chassis Black" paint. This paint is very good. It takes a while to fully cure, and of course, surface prep is important, but once it cures, It's ON There! 

I was planning on replacing the brake master cylinder, and it's a good thing I pulled it off. It was just starting to weep brake fluid out the back. It appears to be the OEM cylinder, as it's made by AISIN, which is an OEM to the Japanese auto industry. 40 years and 168,000 miles ain't bad for an OEM part!

 

As soon as I get under the dash, I'll pull the hardware for the brake booster and clutch master cylinder.

 That will allow me to get back in the corner and repair the damage from the "Great Brake Fluid Deluge of 1998".

 

 I also have a bunch of spots in the driver's footwell that need to be repainted, the result of the brake fluid leak. At least I have all the nasty carpet backing scraped out of the interior, and I went over everything exposed, and scrubbed it with my mix of Simple Green, Denatured Alcohol, and a good squirt of dish soap. It's amazing how much dirt and dust a car collects behind the interior pieces, and inside the doors.

 

And finally....I found this:

 

 That's one of the two main engine ground wires. It's a 10ga wire, and there's another one from the cylinder head to the firewall. This one is supposed to go under one of the starter mounting bolts. This means the "mechanic" who replaced the starter not only didn't put this back in place, but he coiled it around the fuel line so it wouldn't hang down and show.

 

Yep....did the job wrong, and then tried to cover it up! I've several other things like this on the car. One was improper hardware bolting something on the engine (wrong type bolt, and too short),  another one was really bad Bubba Work on some of the rubber air couplings in the intake tract, another was the really BAAAAD stereo installation, and another is the VERY sloppy alarm installation.

 

 

And I put new brakes on SLW's car. She had about 10k left on the pads, but she's going on a trip, so I thought it was prudent to go through her car and fix anything getting worn out.

Got some rain coming, but it'll be nothing like they get on the Eastern Plains here!

 

 Have a great and safe weekend, stay in CDX YEL, and enjoy life.