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🤣 the colour is last on the list. Think I’ve found the reason for the excess play in the passenger shaft, there’s meant to be a spring circlip located in the grove pictured below. Well there wasn’t one there so after a quick call to Toyota and £2.60, I’ll have it next weekend. If that doesn’t work then I’ll replace the whole lot but to be honest everything else seems fine so it should be a quick fix. 

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Cheers mate appreciate it. Should all tie together fairly soon.

Picked the drive shaft clips up yesterday, only £2.60 so I thought I’d may as well get genuine parts. They’re an offset design to fill the recess as the shafts are pushed in to the joint.

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The downpipe is a little fucked. The problem I’ve got is that the full system is a custom one from when it was imported from Japan. The downpipe extends further under the car than the stock and usual aftermarket position.

So I’m going to try and repair it, just to get it running and on the road. Then I can save up for a full system unless anyone has got a front pipe for sale? 

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Another nugget of joy I’m contending with is the aftermarket manifold. The turbo bolts are welded, I presume to stop them coming loose.

Im carefully grinding the weld away and then undoing the bolts and nuts. Then I’ll clean everything up and black heat paint the manifold and downpipe. I’ll just fit lock washers with the new nuts and bolts as they will be perfectly fine - NO WELDING!

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My turbo kit doesn't hang low enough or back far enough to connect to the factory position, in the shed for years now lol.

A custom exhaust place would be able to sort it if you got another decat no worries  :)

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Yeah i've got a really decent looking decat that uses a more stock position. If I can't save the current downpipe then I may look for a local exhaust place as it's just a bit of straight pipe with a slight curve at the end.

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Decent progress today. Got the drive shaft back together and on the car, nice and tight and worked a treat. Used two new boot clips but the boots themselves were in great condition so I just re-greased and re-assembled.
 

The clip Toyota supplied me was the wrong one and actually for the opposite end to hold the universal joint on. Had a poke around at work and found a bloody shaft clip kit so just measured up the gap and bobs your uncle. Could’ve had it done two weeks ago!

 

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Finally separated the aftermarket manifold from the other turbo that it came with. All was going well until the final stud which snapped, typical. I’ll have a go at it tomorrow lunch and I should be able to extract it. 
 

Happy with the manifold, looks well made and the welds look really strong. I did a little light porting on runner three as it had a decent lump of weld restricting flow. I’ll smooth it up tomorrow too.

Thought i'd keep the parts progress together so have added a picture here of the repaired stud hole that I've now re-threaded. I just need to get hold of some new studs and nuts and then I can rebuild the turbo kit and fit it back in place.

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Found a nice period wheel, chuffed with the condition for a 1989 wheel. Not sure which centre cap I prefer, thought I’d want the Toyota one but the momo looks nice too and it’s a momo wheel

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