Durania

You could tell it was a hot rod show just by pulling into Sevier County. All those old hot rods running rich you could really smell it in the air. I seen about 1,000 El Caminos and a frame for a Shelby GT 500 that the dude wanted $95,000.

If that isnt a sign for an EJ swap then I dont know what is.

Turbone needs to add another to his collection, even though its not black he could have that headgasket fixed in no time.

Looks like an EA82 and a Brat got into a fight.

Everytime I look at one of them I have a bad mental image of it going down the highway about 60mph doing a stoppie.

What motor is in that thing?

I seen one for sale at the local "Rod Run" they just had in Pigeon Forge a few weeks ago.

Tried calling you yesterday, just got the answering machine. Hope all as well.

The brat had a blown cv when I bought it and it had slung grease everywhere. I later had the cv replaced in January. If I can get a chance today Ill get out there and take a picture of it.

So while I was checking the status of my brakes today I noticed that I have a seal blow out where my CV axle meets the transmission [driver's side]. Looks like grease has been leaking out of it for some time now. Do you guys think this could be the source of my knocking sound at low speeds and maybe have something to do with my syncro issues? 2. What steps do I go about replacing this seal and can it be something that I can get at the local autozone? Thanks. Kyle.

Probably going to be adding to that list of inner axle seal. I think thats what its called. Where the cv axle meets the tranny, I noticed today I was losing grease out of it. Lord knows where to start with that.

Attached is a list of a number of things I have done to my brat in the 11 months that I have owned the old girl. Enjoy. Brat GL (edit).doc

Good buddy of mine races dirt track in one with a built v-8 motor excess of 300hp. One hell of a ride.

Shannon, am I going to have to next day air you a thing of nyquil so you can finally get better?

I did a search of Redline products the local autozone carries and they only carry the fuel treatment stuff. Ill call around to some parts places today and see if they carry it. Also I notice that my tranny is only rated at 3.2 quarts per the general specification page. Would I need to add less of one to get it to work properly ?

So I assume what I do is drain the tranny fluid and then add a quart of that and fill the remainder with regular tranny fluid? Or fill it with all Rislone?

Thanks for your advice guys and thanks Mike for clearing up the typo error. Ill go by Autozone and look again on Sunday when I am on my way out to my dad's house to do the brakes on the BRAT. All the other gears are fine its just when going from reverse to first that I have some issues; most of the time I let out of the clutch and push in on it again to go back into gear but sometimes that doesnt even work and Im pushing as hard as I can to get it into gear.

I looked for the "Reslone" product today that is mentioned in the USRM but couldnt seem to find it. What else do you guys recommend to add a little more life to my syncros? And please just dont say 5 speed swap.

I work for a bearing company called INA while goingto school and we have a few bearings that are made in China and I agree. They are stupid enough to put about 30 in a big tube and not seal both ends of it. I learned that the hard way when bearings went shooting across the warehouse floor. I have had bad experience with the guy here in town that does alternator and starter rebuilds; everytime I have been there I always end up paying the same amount for him to fix one component of my alt. when I could have just bought a rebuilt one for the same price and it not blow my dash lights 6 months later; happened a few months ago.

Hitachi, from the vacuum line mess coming off from it. This is what a Weber looks like:

Dude, you dont want to try and be all cheap when it comes to fixing your alternator. Its like 60 bucks for one at the autozone and its exactly the same as the one you got just says "Reman in Malaysia" or something like that. You should get a new one ASAP. Everytime they have went out on me they blew a gaugle cluster light and those arent fun to fix. If you wait and see how long you can put it off chances are you'll be paying a higher sum to get towed home plus the cost of an alternator. Financially its the better decesion.

Dont sit around and wait for it to finally give out cause chances are it will do it on its on time and at the most inconvenient time for you. Take the thing off and take it to autozone or whatever you have and have them look test it. Its not hard to take off at all; I can have my brats off in less than 5 minutes.

Never seen one of these before. But I like it. :headbang:

I talked to him the other night. He has been having some sinus troubles; said that he spent a couple days just laying on the couch. And internet connection problems as well. Im missing him too..:cool:

I had a similar problem with my wipers on my brat a few weeks ago. I resorted to swapping out the motors and it fixed it perfectly.