In my professional experience as a industrial mechanic, i don’t feel comfortable reusing that piece. And i might as well just replace it since i already have the part.
I haven’t thought of trying to plug the hose. And right know the engine is already out, so for now i can’t test that unfortunately.
I’m pretty sure getting the booster rebuild will be expensive. So i might take this one apart to see if i can see something wrong and to see if i can rebuild it myself.
You could still connect that booster to another vehicle and then see what happens.
Since having moved to Germany, the temptation to not buy one of these hobby magazines was overwhelming, since they had these displayed at the supermarket check-out. I have been here long enough now, to understand what is printed.
If you’re interested, I could upload the entire article which goes into detail on how to rebuild, hoping that I won’t be raising copyright issues, despite the article being 26 years old
I could hook it up to my other Gino. But i literally just found out that the master cylinder and booster on LHD and RHD L7’s are identical in every way. So i’ll just put nicer looking stuff on.
Th bottom photo is the master cylinder and booster from a EUDM L9 Move (which is basically a L7 Coure/Mira). But this one doesn’t look as nice as i would like it.
The article would be nice, but my german is very bad.
Why do you need German? For rebuilding a booster or for buying the one pictured.
Some members have even used boosters from other brands, when nothing else was readilly available.
Where is everybody? Why are they now using Facebook? Nothing there is permanent
I thought the article you mentioned was german.
I went to a wrecker yesterday and picked up a booster and master cylinder from a L7. It looks almost brand new.
Been at it again yesterday.
Pulled the engine and transmission off the subframe and mounted the engine on a stand. Now to make a pile of parts to bring to the powdercoater.
Because the EF is the size and weight of a small soda can i was able to lift it up on the stand by hand. Normally I wouldn’t, but i had nothing else to lift it.
The hardest part was mounting the bracket onto the back of the engine. Clearly engine stands aren’t made for miniature engines.
With the engine on the stand i noticed a couple of (old) coolant leaks and oil just about everywhere.
While taking apart the front suspension and brakes i found a cross threaded bolt for the caliper mounting bracket. It wasn’t even tightened all the way. Finding things like this makes me glad that I’m taking everything apart.
I can’t wait to built a RWD L7 someday!
For now everything sits like this while figure out what to do today. Replace the gaskets and such on the EFor putting my new genuine AC system in my other Gino.
Still need to buy sandblasting material and paint for the underside and engine bay.
[quote=“Aaron, post:46, topic:6308”]…i found a cross threaded bolt for the caliper mounting bracket. It wasn’t even tightened all the way. Finding things like this makes me glad that I’m taking everything apart…[/quote]Finding things like this is the reason for my mistrust of work performed by others, except of course, if my vehicle were to be serviced in Japan. This carelessness for the well being of customers and participants in traffic is a litmus test for the amount of unprecedented social decadence of which one wouldn’t expect from what appears to be a First World country. At least from the architechture [quote=“Aaron, post:46, topic:6308”]…With the engine on the stand i noticed a couple of (old) coolant leaks and oil just about everywhere…[/quote]Suspect the camshaft’s seal. Even though the leak is minor and likely to stay that way for awhile, this aging rubber tends to get brittle
I used to be a mechanic, so i don’t trust anything that i didn’t do myself.
It spend a few years of it’s life in the UK. So i hope all of this was done there and not in Japan. Cause i have quite high expectations of Japan.
But the more i pull the car apart, the more i find and the happier i am i never drove it on the road and that i’m ‘‘overdoing’’ this rebuild.
The camshaft seal was practically dry. But the valve cover gasket and plug tube seals were absolutely gone. But i suspect a few more gaskets. I have a ‘‘complete’’ gasket set so i’m replacing as much as possible.
No thanks,. I want the driving experience to remain comfortable.
Not much happened since the last update.
But last week i bought some sandblasting media and some paint supplies.
This week i bought for over 900,- EUR in genuine parts at the dealer and through amayama.
So hopefully there will be some progress next weekend.
Been too busy to do anything lately. But i did get some genuine parts in from the dealer.
One of the parts i ordered was the timing belt cover. Unfortunately i was stupid enough to order the cover for a EJ instead of one for a EF. For those that don’t know. The EJ is taller than the EF.
A lot of other engine parts are no longer available or at least VERY hard to find.
I’ll be keeping the original EF-VE, but not in the Gino.
I’m not exactly sure which engine i’m going to swap it with. For now i’m seriously considering the EJ-DE. Mostly because it’s the easiest and cheapest option.
Since i’m going to engine swap it i’m also considering doing more mods.
We’ll see about that later.
