So this past weekend, my bros and I were able to tackle the oil pan and now CV boot issues. There was, still, some work that needed to be re-done unfortunately.
We tackled the CV boot first.
Took the axle out, cut off what was left of the old boot and clamped on the new one. Ground down the corner of the brass fitting as well; a greasy mess as usual. We put the axle back in and, doesn’t clear? Strange, this setup cleared before. The boot is still touching the brass fitting.
We take the axle back out and remove the clamp on shaft side. Ground down the fitting some more. Pull the boot down a bit further to stretch it out and put in back in the car. Still touching. OK, this is weird.
Take it out a 3rd time and to help ensure clearance, my bros grabs one of his universal, Millennium-brand CV boots. The traditional shaped boot I got looks like a wave that gets smaller and smaller. These Millennium boots are stepped, like a Mayan pyramid, instead. There’s also super stretchy; you can whip em at someone like an elastic band. And afterwards you cut off the excess that you don’t need.
Before putting it in though, we didn’t want to grind the fitting any more and took another look at it. Previous to changing the turbo out the fitting sat at about 2 o’clock from centerline with the car. The fitting was sitting at 12 o’clock from the previous “repairs”. Rotated a bit, axle in, clears with about a finger’s worth of room. You can wrap your hand around the boot if you wanted.
It doesn't look like it cause it was awkward to take the pic and hold the light, but the fitting is hanging over the 2nd 'rib' on the boot (from the axle end).
Great, onto the oil pan. I drained the oil while we patched a nail in a tire, so it had a good half hour to drain. Took the line off the old one and dropped the pan. We went to move the line out of the way to better get at the oil pan and another, 250ml? ¼ cup? of oil came out the line. Now, I imagine that this drain line should be like your oil fill tube; gravity feed and downhill into the pan. The oil line was re-located so high it was running uphill.
While my bros drilled the hole and welded the bung into the new one I cleaned off the block. New oil pan went on which was pretty straight forward and we go to put the fitting in/connect the line to it. Only catch, one of the threaded bolt holes in the block for the pan was stripped. The silicone was holding it in and the bolt would just spin in the hole. My bros intuition was rather then re-thread the hole due to where it is, he put in a slightly larger bolt, and threaded it in by hand.
The line wouldn’t fit onto the fitting. Strange, either the line was too small or the fitting was too big. After some troubleshooting, turns out someone had crammed the -10 line into a -8 fitting and crushed it. In all honesty, I can’t remember if it was the fitting I had purchased or not. I don’t have the packaging and simply can’t recall.
We just had to trim about half an inch off and the rest of the line slid on perfectly and connected the fitting to the pan. The extra half inch that was cut off actually made the fitting line up perfectly with the bung placement and the line has a little bit of slack and play. Standing looking toward the rear of the car, you’re looking uphill at the line running downhill at you. About a 2 inch drop altogether, but I’ll take it.
It turned out, exactly as I had pictured.
Down from the hoist, filled it with oil, fired it up and ran it. My bros said he noticed a small puff of blue as I pulled out the shop but he followed me to lunch and again back to his place and didn’t see or smell anything. Probably just whatever was left over in the system.
It’s been a few days now, and I’m not seeing any smoke of any colour at any time while driving coming out the back. I don’t smell any burning nor fumes during these times either. In fact, there was a new smell on the way home I hadn’t quite noticed before. It was the leather smell of my new shift boot.
There are also no leaks thus far either. I’m not leaving any drops around anywhere either. The fitting hasn't touched the CV boot under any circumstances either.
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