What did you do with your truck/shop today

[Chris]

Other side taken care of. Now to wait for more parts

[Chris]

Grille had to be modified to fit the parking lights

[Jsdirt]

Hey little puppy! (I say that to all dogs regardless of age, in as high a pitched voice as I can - makes them all go absolutely bonkers, lol).

 

That's gonna look sweet - I can tell already.

[NEFisher11]

Well blower motor number 4 is acting up now. Intermittenly cuts in and out on all speeds. Could it really be another blower motor?

[Chris]

Somehow USPS damaged my bumper reinforcement in shipping. Confused me since it is a big piece of hard plastic meant to take a hit. But Amazon decided to overnight a replacement since delivery of the "damaged" one wouldn't even be delivered. I'm hoping both bumper braces come tomorrow as well.

[Daryl LBZ]

Well blower motor number 4 is acting up now. Intermittenly cuts in and out on all speeds. Could it really be another blower motor?

Sounds like something is causing them to go bad...

[StinkyCheese]

Somehow USPS damaged my bumper reinforcement in shipping. Confused me since it is a big piece of hard plastic meant to take a hit. But Amazon decided to overnight a replacement since delivery of the "damaged" one wouldn't even be delivered. I'm hoping both bumper braces come tomorrow as well.

I've seen chunks of metal damaged, anything plastic is child's play.

[NEFisher11]

It's been 4 motors in 5 years. And the first 3 went bad within 1 year. The last one lasted 4 years.

[Jsdirt]

Wonder if there's a problem in the electronics that's feeding too much voltage to the motor somehow? Don't see how that could be possible unless it was designed to run on less than normal battery voltage. That's about all that would cause a motor to fail, besides excessive heat (normally not an issue with fans, but a bad connection with high amperage can get REAL hot), or water intrusion.

 

The other variable could be that they're just complete and utter chinese garbage ...

Edited December 16, 2016 by Jsdirt

[Colossus]

Are they new or are you just pulling them out of junk yards?

[NEFisher11]

They have been all new gm ones. I will check the voltage tomorrow. I am leaning towards just utter crap parts though. It's almost exactly what I went through when I bought the truck.

Edited December 16, 2016 by NEFisher11

[RyanbabZ71]

New windshield being installed

 

 

Ryan B.

[Daryl LBZ]

Went to open my extend cab door on the drivers side this morning and the damn handle broke. Junk plastic. Ordering a new metal one off of Ebay.

[Jsdirt]

WTF, unreal!

 

 

Yesterday I installed a new master cylinder in my sister-in-law's '04 Olds Alero. Thing only has 63k, so I suspect the seals failed from all the years of sitting.

 

Fairly easy job - took me an hour, mostly thanks to the CRAP lines included for bench bleeding. Friggin things were stiff as concrete! Every time I tried to bend them around to put them into the reservoir, they'd pop off the plastic port fittings. MAN was I getting pissed! Totally useless. Part of the problem was it was 15°F out there as I was doing all of this. Ended up giving up on those, and cut 2 lengths of my good Tygon C-210-A clear hose, and ran a zip-tie under the reservoir to hold them in position to bench bleed. What a joke! I had about a half pint of brake fluid all over the vice, floor, and everything close by.

 

Sent her on her way just as the Autoparts International guy dropped off a fuel pump and strainer (that I didn't need) for that '95 940 wagon I've been working on. Jumped into that and had it running in a couple hours. After finishing that, I attempted to turn the rusty p/s pump belt adjuster, and snapped the 6mm x 100mm bolt in half. Grabbed one off my parts car's A/C compressor, and broke that one too attempting to straighten a bend in it without heat. Then I experienced a 37 MPH (according to my Davis weather station on the roof) wind gust that slammed the hood down on my head. Luckily I was wearing a hat, and the insulation was still intact under the hood. I could've fought Mike Tyson and won after the day I had!

 

Strange failure of that fuel pump. Took me a bit of time to get there - at first I was convinced it was an electrical problem. Car would fire up, idle, and run perfectly every morning, but, at the first stop sign about a mile out, it would crap out and never start again the rest of the day. Poor guy spent close to $2k throwing parts at this thing trying to fix it. Did all the usual Volvo failure items: radio suppression relay, crank position sensor, fuel pump relay, etc.. - none of it fixed it. So I had it idling on the trailer here for almost 45 minutes - still running fine. So I got in and held the throttle at 3k for a minute or so to simulate driving, then slammed the throttle shut. Immediately I could hear cylinders dropping out one by one. To my surprise, my timing light was still flashing all the way until it stalled. Time to grab the fuel pressure gauge. Yep - 0 psi! BUT .. the pump was clearly running! Could hear it prime, and could hear it the whole time it would stall out. Really strange! Long story short, I yanked the pump and hooked it up to a battery in the driveway, and put the sock into a yogurt container full of acetone. Hooked to battery, the pump ran, but not a single drop came out! After tapping the ground wire to the battery, rapidly turning the pump off and on, it made a POP, then acetone shot 5' in the air. Plugged check valve! That was an odd one!

 

Walbro pump too - those are normally pretty good. Guy said he had just changed this thing recently, which is why he completely avoided fuel system troubleshooting. Goes to show ... !!

 

 

 

[Chris]

The braces came in. Now waiting on the bumper and I can start getting things lined up

Edited December 16, 2016 by Chris