I've been keeping myself busy. The body is almost completely torn down. Wiring is almost entirely pulled out. I just have the hatch and passenger door to deal with on the body, and then I can start to patch a couple things... including one rocker panel. http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad246/odd_B...

Did yours have those rubber mats with furry stuff between the carpet and floor? They weigh a fair bit.. You'd like Aussie bumpers, hard plastic and the bumper support is heaps lighter, you can see how much less steel there is in it. Tow hook is directly off the right bumper mount instead of the 2 h...

Love the shiny stuff. How much weight are you hoping to remove out of the car? Unsure at this point. It's hard to decide what route to go. Most of the weight I would save by rocking a gutted interior would come back with a 5 point (4 point with cross bar) "cage", but even if I managed 100...

Most of the rest of the trim came off with minimal to no breakage, except for one piece that was already broken in 3 places and couldn't be avoided. It's a piece I actually don't entirely care about anyway, so no loss lol. Deleting the sunroof is a lot easier than I first thought. The support is act...

I guess it couldn't hurt to try. I may be able to repair them, but if the price is right then new ones would be even better.

ARGGHH! I got the door panels off with nearly zero problems or damage to anything, but the second I started removing the upper trim panel where the grab handles are I ran into plastic breaking issues. I removed both handles just fine, but the front and rear clips both broke no matter how careful I w...

With writing a paper for one class and my math getting even more difficult I have found myself with less time than I would like, but I still managed to eek in a few hours this weekend to get some work done/started on this car. Saturday I ended up spending 4 hours cleaning the garage and removing a b...

Yea the boot arrived along with the gaskets.

As far as how much lighter, roughly 1/3 of the weight by guesstimate. The scale I have wont register the weight of them so I have to find something more sensitive...or an older mechanical scale.

Well, he called me back and after talking with him he said to send all three back to him and he will shorten up the on that is too tall on the back side so it will line up. He did have a little trouble understanding what I mean't about the first one not lining up right on the last V-belt position so...

I looked at both of them more closely with the stock one. The second on actually does line up on all three pullies, but there is too much material on the beck end of it, so when it would be installed it would stick out too far. The first one though is simply wrong on the third V-belt position. I hav...

Diameter wise they are pretty much the exact same size as Sorens in diameter, which would make them about a 30-35% under drive. I will measure the diameters and do the math in a little bit. I am actually OK with this size, although it is definitely small, it's not detrimental. I may go try to find a...

Well, I was all excited today, and was going to ship you your care package,... until I opened the box. Both of them are messed up as you can tell by the pictures below. One is the right height on the back side of the pulley and lines up at the Alt/Water pump belt, and the first V-belt is in alignmen...

Well, if you are dead set on doing an axle swap vs. trying to find a way to build the factory one, there are plenty of other great options out there besides the Dana 44 you could go with. Toyota 8 1/2", for example, should be really easy to find. Nissan, GM, Ford, etc. To be honest, the Axle sw...

I chose the 44 over the 60 for a few reasons. Size was a part of it, gear and diff choices were another, but availability was key. The Dana 44 has been used in so many SUVs for so many decades now, that you can literally walk through a junk yard and trip over them. There were 14 in the yard I got mi...

Did you choose the '96 because of the favourable mounting points. Do the later model V6 diffs have different mounting points? What about the '96 2.6 diff? Are they not Dana 44? Up to 1997 the 8.5" Dana 44 was used. I chose the earlier version because of that fact. That and since it is a standa...