I updated the 5th post with a clip of me filming inside the differential housing with an inspection camera to find out if I have a gen3 or gen4 differential.
The dealer told me that the car had a gen4 diff but could not provide any documents to prove it. Turns out he was correct!
Good advice :2tu:
However the connection was heavily oxidated/corroded and I'm quite convinced that it failed because of that. I had to carefully grind and sand the connecting surfaces to ensure a good soldering.
The Viper is the easiest car to work on that I have ever experienced. A true...
Many lovely hours with hard rock blaring from the speakers and cold beers in hand :headbang:
I updated the first post with approximate costs. Not too bad in my opinion :)
Maintenance and DIY: ~2363 $
Modifications: ~3187 $
Total cost: ~5550 $
Tightened up steering rack (~1/8 turn)
Old rear tire. Production year 2007 :wow:
Old front tire (cracked). Production year 2007 :wow:
New rear tire compared with my daily drive Suzuki :nana:
Belanger midpipes that fit the stock exhaust.
I bought these to reduce heat in the foot wells and to give the car a bit more sound.
Painted chassi holes. I removed as much rust as I could with a rotating steel brush before painting.
Drilling access holes
Drilling access holes
16mm access...
Engine bay with all new hoses, lines, belt and tensioner
Stock midpipes and rusty chassis
Broken exhaust mounts
Stock midpipes that turned out to have been cracked at some point and "fixed"
Welds made by a lower primate
Leaking oil line connections to the engine. To my surprise, I never saw a single drop of oil on the garage floor.
New oil lines.
I ended up with a spacer on the foremost line connection to make sure that the line cleared the belt tensioner.
New oil lines
New PS lines
New PS lines...
Let's clean this up!
I started with flushing the system with radiator cleaner fluid and then flushing twice with water.
Leaking power steering line connection at the pump
New fitting on PS pump
New fitting in steering rack
New radiator hose and PS line
Engine bay with all stock hoses and lines
Nasty underside of leaking top radiator hose and leaking power steering.
Small cracks on top of top radiator hose. Ticking time bomb! :eek2:
Draining coolant. Okey color and no dirt or debris to my pleasure.
Disgusting :dead:
Cracked stabilizer bar end links
All links removed
New link mounted
Cracked transmission mount
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9oBGqdaTPw
According to the dealer a previous owner swapped the stock Hydra-Lok for the much better GKN Visco-Lok.
No receipts or documentation was provided...
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