JDN902

hey everybody i just bought my tib tuesday and joined this forum last night. My car is a '97 fx 5 speed with 129 xxx kms. Car is completely stock and i bought it needing a windshield and rear brakes. It was sitting for a month so it may need wheel bearings also. All power options in the car work which was a big plus to me.I only have one pic as of now that i took with my iphone,will get some more pics up soon.



upcoming plans include getting it on the road,tinting the windows,replacing just the stock air box with a small piece of stainlees tube and cone filter,and installing an aftermarket cd player and my sub.

nos4atu

Car looks descent, no real noticeable rust spots that I can see. Good job on the find. You'll find that this site is full of answers for any question you may have.

JDN902

there some surface rust starting on the rear wheel wells,its not even close to being through so i'm getting it fixed right away.

TibFreak

Them are some yellow looking headlights!!!

UrS0NvS

good luck with the repairs.

if it was me and the funds were abundant i would strip her down to nothing and recoat the entire underbody if it is a eastern U.S. car, but that is me and i'm anal. fing02.gif

JDN902

yeah about the headlights lol i snaped the pic on my way to work my other car parked in front was running and the headlights were shinning right at the tib.

and yeah funds aren't abundent what so ever,2nd year welding student with a 7 month old girl means lol funds lol.

going to attempt to get the rear brake pads on today never had rear disks and never had to twist the caliper piston while compressing it either. any tips for this?

UrS0NvS

get the proper tool. costs roughly 12 bux. goes on a 3/8" ratchet.

don't think i need to get into much more detail basically because you already know about it.

weld school eh? what are you hoping to get into?

dddude55

While I will reccoment the tool over anything else, at the same time I was using one and it got stuck in the caliper because of the wierd way my extension was. I wasn't able to get the tool in anymore so I used needle nose pliars to spin the piston.

Just saying, if you wanna do it the cheap way you can just use a pair of needle nose you have sitting around, but you risk smacking knuckles when it comes out of the groove lol.

JDN902

got the brakes done,didn't relize we had the right tool lol. it was very quick and easy so yeah. also got the cone filter on ,we drilled a hole in the rubber of the cone to mount the sensor worked out well. her's the pics,sorry bout the blurry pic not sure what happened there my camera is iffy at times.

ZKend

glad you got the work done pretty easily.

Now Clean That Engine Bay! lol