What did you do with your truck/shop today

[Jsdirt]

? That's the way I read it, too. Either that, or a face O/D'ing on meth ... ?

 

 

My truck will be down several weeks, since of course, everything is backordered. ? Had to slap the cover on, and run it dry to the other bay to free up my lift. Did a tire change today on a MINT '99 Saturn SL2 - elderly owned, with only 74k on the clock. My buddy got it for his daughter for $2k! Was mostly towed behind a motorhome on vacations, and garaged the rest of the time. Amazing find for this area. Thing looks a year old at the most! Then my other buddy scored a '02 Volvo S60 with 60k miles in the same condition - also locally! I never have that kind of luck.

 

Everything on that Saturn is miniature. I've never seen calipers so small, and rotors so thin in my life! If they tried that with the chinese metal they use on all the new stuff, everything would fail catastrophically after the first 3k miles. They make everything full-sized, with crap metal today. I see their tricks ...

[ZachM1]

Picked up a 1967 GMC Suburban / Carryall 4x4 with a granny gear 4 speed. Come to find out they only made 166 4x4 1/2 ton burbs that year.

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[Jsdirt]

My favorite grilles of all time - '67 - '72 GMC trucks! Nothing better looking, except maybe the Firebird, Riviera, Impala, some Cadillac, and the Ford Fairlanes ... but they ain't trucks! Just hate how everyone paints over chrome these days. Gotta let that chrome shine like it was supposed to, IMO.

 

That's a friggin sweet find right there!  

[ZachM1]

My favorite grilles of all time - '67 - '72 GMC trucks! Nothing better looking, except maybe the Firebird, Riviera, Impala, some Cadillac, and the Ford Fairlanes ... but they ain't trucks! Just hate how everyone paints over chrome these days. Gotta let that chrome shine like it was supposed to, IMO.
 
That's a friggin sweet find right there!  

This one was a base model, so no chrome other than door handles. Plain stamped steel grill. She needs some work, but I was able to drive it from the middle of Mississippi to the FL panhandle trouble free.

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[Jsdirt]

Ahh, gotcha. Don't think I've ever seen one without chrome before.

 

That's why I love the old stuff. Still able to run 50 years later. Gotta love it! 

[ZachM1]

I also thought people were painting chrome up until a decade or so ago. My '69 GMC 396/402 had nothing but chrome for a grill. I mean love bugs punched through easier than aluminum foil. All of the steel had rusted out from under the chrome. So I'm not sure whether I want to replace this one with chrome or plain stamped steel. Current grill has some rust and some bondo patch areas.

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[ZachM1]

One example.

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[Jsdirt]

It gives it character.  

 

I never did restore my El Camino. Paint and body work is too rich for my blood. I handled all the mechanical aspects - car ran and handled great. Drove it all over the West, then drove it pulling a fully loaded U-Haul from Livermore, CA back to MA - 3,200 miles.

 

I threw a seat in it out of a Dodge minivan, lol. Was super comfy, and reclined, too. Whole package was good enough for me. I'm a "go-before-show" kind of guy. 

 

 

[ZachM1]

Nice! I've got a 72 Camino also. Same here. Don't really care what my vehicles look like. So far I've only painted one car in my life & it was a driveway DIY. So not the greatest.
First "mod" on the burb is going to be a seat out of something. The original bench us so worn out I had to stuff pillows under the cover to drive it home so I didn't have to lean on the door for 4.5 hours.

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[CadillacLuke24]

Nice find on the Burb!

 

Clyde is up to 108,933 miles. Planning on an oil change tomorrow. May or may not do plugs, I'm not getting a misfire, and with a vast majority of his miles being highway, it's hard to justify. 

 

The belts on the other hand, that's probably a good idea. I'm fairly certain I can hear the beginnings of pulley squeal from the tensioner. 

[SnakeEyeSS]

On 3/25/2019 at 6:59 AM, CadillacLuke24 said:

Nice find on the Burb!

 

Clyde is up to 108,933 miles. Planning on an oil change tomorrow. May or may not do plugs, I'm not getting a misfire, and with a vast majority of his miles being highway, it's hard to justify. 

 

The belts on the other hand, that's probably a good idea. I'm fairly certain I can hear the beginnings of pulley squeal from the tensioner. 

This is what my 900 Tahoe with 5.3L plugs looked like when I changed them at 105k.

 

[Colossus]

You are only seeing the outside of it.   What you can't see is the wear inside of it. 

[Jsdirt]

They don't wear internally, unless they're defective ... in which case you'd find that out the first 1k miles. Should be a solid core through the center, like a fancy wire, basically - wires don't wear. The wear happens by metal transfer between the center electrode and ground electrode.

[Jsdirt]

On 3/25/2019 at 7:59 AM, CadillacLuke24 said:

Nice find on the Burb!

 

Clyde is up to 108,933 miles. Planning on an oil change tomorrow. May or may not do plugs, I'm not getting a misfire, and with a vast majority of his miles being highway, it's hard to justify. 

 

The belts on the other hand, that's probably a good idea. I'm fairly certain I can hear the beginnings of pulley squeal from the tensioner. 

My pulleys all got noisy due to dry bearings in the 70k mile range. I peeled the seals out and greased them - that got me to 97k, when the A/C tensioner pulley seized solid, and melted the belt. Since you have to take the main belt off anyway, I replaced everything - both tensioners, both belts, and the idler on the main. Might as well after 12 years.

 

Then a week later I find chunks taken out of my spider gears in the rear diff ... 

 

 

[Sierra Dan]

On ‎3‎/‎21‎/‎2019 at 12:34 PM, SnakeEyeSS said:

So a few months ago my dad bought a wrecked F-150 to flip(actually his seconded F-150)because the frames/ front end are easy to rebuild) While he was getting the frame straightened the guy mentioned the Ford frames were well done, but they had been seeing brand new GM Trucks being sent to them with crooked frames straight from the factory/dealer. Don't know if he was referring to the T1.

 

I saw a guy in the T1 talking about noticing his brand new truck had a crooked bed that needed to be adjusted(and others saying some of the T1s still have the shake). Wonder if the bed was actually fine. What the heck is going on at GM?

 

 

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