Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

Left drive shaft refurbished.


What a short word to describe such a long task...



Time to put everything back in place.


Before installing the drive shaft, cleaned the area around the wheel speed sensor.

Rear right sensor looked to ...

Updated 06-08-2011 at 12:42 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Driveshaft

Each joint housing has been cleaned to this level for thorough inspection.


Shaft being painted and placed white mark for the RH MT drive shaft.

Make sure to place each roller back to its original position with original orientation in the joint.

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Updated 15-07-2011 at 08:46 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Driveshaft

As seen on many UK based NSX, the drive shaft grease was already broken down and turned into ‘melted coffee ice cream’ resulting in lack of lubrication under heavy load.


On this NSX, the ride height, suspension setup and the tyre/wheel combo are still within the OEM spec so it didn’t put excessive load on the drive shaft but when you change anything on the chassis setup, you must consider the overhaul interval ...

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Driveshaft

Leaky right side outboard joint.


All four joints disassembled and 1st stage cleaning process done.


Painted the four joints….

Time for another long-long 100’s of pin bearing planting process next….

Kaz

Updated 14-07-2011 at 08:12 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Driveshaft

All three AMPs showed lots of leakage from the capacitors.

One of the door AMP didn’t even make any noise/sound when it was powered up.

As the owner contacted me many months ago and he wanted to have them returned urgently, we agreed that instead of trying to investigate and refurbish this AMP, best to replace it with my spare unit refurbished a few years ago.

Some of the ...

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Audio