What did you do to your Swift today

wife and i attacked the oem caliper from the '87, took it all apart and cleaned it, very minor rust coloring inside of the caliper / piston bore....the seals were all good, cleaned the bore &piston with crocus type cloth, polish but not scratch the parts....wife got the seal and clip in, with some fancy finger work- those caliper seals can be a real pain in the a$$

well, the cleaned caliper works!!! installed, bled the brakes, and the caliper now releases the rotor.... :-D that is a huge sigh of relief, reman calipers are very hard to find locally atm.. :p
sprayed duct cleaning foam thru and into the hvac system...i really dont want to pull the entire dash out...
installed some led bulbs in the gauge cluster
the donor car has an oem tach cluster, but the wiring is different- so i kept the oem dash without tach. i didnt feel like figuring out the wiring, or changing the wiring harness, or re-pinning the oem harness....i would have to dig deeper into the fsm for the '87 to figure it out.
removed the previous owners wrong fuel filter, crappy worm gear hose clamps and cracked fuel lines....i have on hand new oem fuel filters, that just clip into the oem filter holder bracket... ;-) very nice, just drop in and turn until it locks in, install new hoses with proper no mar fuel injection hose clamps- not those silly worm gear clamps...i didn't have enough of the oem constant tension hose clamps , to use those, so i used the second-best thing, fuel injection hose clamps.
the previous owner had a large metal fuel filter, for a newer ford fuel injected vehicle, just hanging from the fuel lines, not even clamped in... :-o
the fuel pump is not the oem one, with the return line that comes straight off of the pump-it has a mess of extra hoses and a plastic tee, so excess fuel can return to tank....just a mess of hoses and crappy worm gear clamps, looks like a 7 yr olds' science project....

getting close to a decent shake-down run, just before winter.... :santas:
 
I have a pair of '87 calipers wich I will not use.
Are these of intrest for you?
 
Walt said:
I have a pair of '87 calipers wich I will not use.
Are these of intrest for you?
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they are hard to find, the calipers for the '87 cars....i thought someone did a knuckle swap, to install larger front brakes.....will have to dig thru some of the archives and see what i find....or just try a few different knuckles i have on hand.... :laugh:
 
I installed a factory radio from another Suzuki. Very careful get factory connection plugs between the radio and the car wiring. This car had been stolen before I got it :mad: So previous stereo was ripped out. Hooked up the wiring, missed up a ground wire so that missed up the tach, gas and temp gauge until the ground was found. Then only one of the four installed speakers was working... wiring messed up, :-/ That is next.

Started using as my DDriver at least until the snow flies.
 
Out driving my 94 GT. Pushing it pretty good through the gears, not more than 5,500 RPM, in any gear. I am at about 60 MPH in 3rd about ready to shift into 4th and I hear a slight boom and huge blue smoke out the back. :mad: I put the clutch in, and turn out the engine and coast still some blue smoke out the back, think oh man :-( blew a head gasket or a valve, pull over pull open the hood, nothing looks off... checked the timing belt etc. start it back up, starts fine, runs okay, blue smoke out the tail pipe. but not as much and drive another mile home and the blue smoke dissipates. drive it the next few days, even push it some...no problems. Don't know what it could have been? Like a plug of oil went through the engine. Crazy :-/
 
changed spark plugs in the daily driver big clutch- noticed it getting harder to ''lite off'' when starting it. been around these cars long enough to know when the spark plugs need to be done.
so, install 3 bpr5es ngk plugs- fires up alot quicker. now to see how much the fuel mileage changes.... :laugh:
 
changed out a bad ballast / bulb yesterday morning before work- not sure which one was the culprit, tried another ballast, still didnt light up, installed another bulb, no change, changed ballast again, and it lights up!! will check those other ballasts i have on hand...
 
oldest son changed out an alternator on one of the daily drivers ,that has very noisy bearings :-o

youngest son may take it apart and install new bearings- it still charges good, and is a 55 amp unit....
 
changed out a leaking master cyl yesterday, bled the brakes, had a really hard time rotating one rear drum, opened that up, didnt see any problems, re-adjusted the slack adjuster so the drum spins freely but stops good, doesnt bind, bearings are good.
most likely that was the reason why the car was handling odd, and is using a little more fuel- sticking drum brake!!!
odd tire wear on the rh front-on the inside edge, but not feathering like bad tie-rods.....the struts and lca's are fairly new...? hmm

polished the headlamp lens- so nice and clear again!

tied up the vent hose for the fuel tank- noticed it was hanging lower than the fuel filler hose- HOPEFULLY that was the issue with filling the tank-it was always slow going and would burp and purge gas from the filler pipe , when filling :mad:

alternator is nice and quiet ;-)
 
yesterday- changed a leaking axle seal- must have just started leaking. changed trans fluid-lots of glitter in oil- :-o more than expected, the oil removed wasnt that old-
turned up the idle , with the proper idle up screw thats under the rubber cap, on the side of the throttle body.

might try tinting the rear window today.
 
brought the '87 in for a little more work. will tint the rear glass as well as repair the rh front caliper that is sticky..

window is tinted on the '93- not my best work, i usually take the windows completely out of the car for the tinting procedure-but not that hatch glass- too many other things to disconnect :laugh:

also brought the firefly truck in, just to stay warm-might as well, i got the room...
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installed better snow tires. changed a bad headlamp ballast. vacuumed the interior. left it parked inside so its ready for the cold and snow-again
 
Got stuck on the hill going to my house...compact snow and ice and no snow tires :mad: had to get a tow up the hill. Now looking at some used rim s that will fit my gt and some snow tires.

Anybody know off hand what the specs are for similar rim that will fit...I know a geo 13" wil not make it.
 
nwgeo said:
Got stuck on the hill going to my house...compact snow and ice and no snow tires :mad: had to get a tow up the hill. Now looking at some used rim s that will fit my gt and some snow tires.

Anybody know off hand what the specs are for similar rim that will fit...I know a geo 13" wil not make it.
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185 60 14 will fit a GT and should have a few options for snow tires. Check your selection of snow tires available in your area first.
 
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