Here's the first video from the MotorSport Connection team's 1992 Mazda Protege DX Project. Here is the trouble we went through trying to get the lock nut off the drive axel so we can remove it. I told you guys

More to come soon.
http://www.motorsportconnect.com/car...e/Protege1.WMV

Without being spammy...
Upcoming protege videos will include:
-Tranny Drop
-Engine reinstall
-Sanding and Primering
-EVO III Kit install
-General Footage of the car
-On the street
-parkinglot donuts
-at the strip




We are planning to hold a national Protege meet around June 30th of next summer. How many people would be interested in coming?

 

hehe ....... lol now that was funny.... Did you guys ever get that nut off??

Great video.... i wanna see more!




Earl

 

Yeah, we got it off. We ended up taking turns with an impact wrench for 15 straight minutes the next day. Then, I jumped on it for a while and it cracked.

David is digitizing the rest of the videos for the clutch project, so those will be online shortly. I began taping the videos for the body work a few days ago, expect those within the next month.

 

glad i watched this, now i know what axles look like. Both front ones on my pro went bad cause of torn cv boots

 

Hello, all. I am "David", of Motorsport, as mentioned above. I don't actually own a Protege, but I can pretend.

I will digitize more of the videos shortly, once I get home from work.

Man that nut was a PITA...lol.... funny thing is the one on the other side came right off.

 

yo that loud snapping sound of metal is sick lol we use 2 do that at work with these HUGE WRECHES we'd tighted the nuts so much that the wrech would break so the next shift would have 2 loosen that **** ROFL had great times and these wrenchs are huge and so think industrail ones they look like A GIANTS tools LOL that sound is classic tho i can hear it now

 

Nice video

I remember when I had to go through this ...........I got sick of trying to unbolt that thing so I finally just cut the fu#ker off!!!!

 

haha

the last(and only) time i changed an axle, we finally ended up using a ~15 FOOT LONG pipe as a breaker bar!!

 

Looks like we weren't the only ones that had trouble, hehe

 

I ran into similar problems when I tried the first time to remove the nut. I had an 18" wrench, with a floor jack handle extension, with the car running (so there would be PB boost), someone standing on the pedal, car facing downhill. The result...I spun the tire. So, I went out and got a good 1/2" impact wrench (rated at 375 ft.lbs at 90 psi), turned up the compressor to 120 psi, and in less than 10 secs, it was off. Never had a problem since (I grease the spline, and anti-seize the axle nut). Have yet to find an axle nut that wouldn't come off (and I've done quite a few).