What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]

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Built6spdMCSS

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Bringing this back again. Gonna sit in the smoker for awhile over some hickory chips.

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Supper for tonight when my boy gets home from work!
I have that same exact smoker, how do you like it? It works well for me, I've noticed the wood chips I have aren't smoking as much as they used to but that might be them getting humid or something.
 

Ugly1

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Well, *some* of them I use, occasionally doing the search function to find something from a couple years ago.
I put them in a side file( took a while to learn to) to save. But the rest I heave. Have a email at work because they never deleted it when I wasn’t supposed to have one anymore. But due to paycheck hack 4 yrs ago, I had to get it reopened to be able to get paid. You can’t fix stupid in a corporation. Well not legally.
 

Supercharged111

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Been chipping away at the sprinklers in the back yard this past week. Would have it wrapped up, but one of my valves is leaking between the solenoid and housing. Lame. It's so close to done it's painful to have to wait for tomorrow (since Friday afternoon) to swap it out. It also prevents me from finishing the 2nd garden bed. I also got the Camaro prepped for next weekend. Changed oil, rear pads, and gave the brakes a flush on a friend's lift today since my garage is slammed full of Z06 guts. School starts for the kiddos Thursday, so wrapping up the sprinklers to get the Z06 wrapped up is paramount as the wiff is gonna need her parking spot back ASAP. I'm expecting to get the clutch and shifter rod back by the end of the week, so should be able to have a driving Z06 again by weekend after next at the latest. Even if I break something significant on the Camaro, next race after this one isn't until October so I should be good to go either way.
 
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Clutch

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Maybe... I just hate to put money into something that just sits there and personally I don't want most of the time. Still haven't figured out exactly how it happened either.
Pdr is usually a lot cheaper than body work and paint. I only suggested it for that reason and because if you try it yourself you could easily make it more of a mess and more of an eyesore. Although there are some good pdr how to videos out there if you want to learn.
 
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Tomeal

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I have that same exact smoker, how do you like it? It works well for me, I've noticed the wood chips I have aren't smoking as much as they used to but that might be them getting humid or something.
I know it's not considered a top shelf high quality unit, but for the price, I think it's a great starter unit. We don't use it every weekend, but it works for us.

The only issue we had and it only happened in the middle of winter when it was really cold out was the temp sensor not reading correctly. Plug it in and the temp would register 275. That wouldn't let the heating element turn on. Tried on another warmer weekend it worked fine. Hasn't done it since.

Smoke from the chips? There are a lot of variables there. Sometimes it smokes like it's on fire, sometimes not. Flavor is always there though.

We like it a lot. Still learning the finesse of smoking some things, but who doesn't love smoked meats!
 
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Bonnewagon

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My buddy with the 1980 TA had a bad master cylinder at his home in Holbrook. No one would do it [remember the trustworthy shops on LI thread?] . I said I would if he drove in to get me the 1.5 hours it takes on the LIE. I bench bled it for him down my basement, on my bench. He was in Queens here for work so he picked me up and we went. Once there it only took half an hour to swap masters, and I squirted brake fluid into the ends of the lines to flush out air. Once hooked up, I loosened the lines at the cylinder and had him press the brake pedal so I could bleed them at the fittings. After that he had a good hard pedal. No need to bleed the entire system. Then another 1.5 hour drive home. At least he had AC!
 
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Clutch

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10:00 just got home from the shop agine the heat is catching up with me but I made progress. The valves are adjusted and the lower and upper valve covers are on and torqued to spec. I changed the O-rings and brass seals on the injectors. I also mocked up the fuel rails and feed lines to the injectors the injectors are in but not torqued. I can't help thinking I'm forgetting to put something on before something else so nothing is tight yet. I'll go over it again tomorrow with a clear head. For now I made progress.
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I took a lot of pictures on the way apart but it's been apart so long I really wish I took more.
 
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motorheadmike

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Ordered some 255/70R17 snow tires for Natasha's Colorado. 1 inch taller than stock. Yeah, I know... it's August. But, supply chain issues are driving this. Also got a set of spark-a-lators.

And bit the bullet on a super secret part for the HellKitty. Little known mod... but, I'll share when it arrives. ;)
 
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Ugly1

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Ordered some 255/70R17 snow tires for Natasha's Colorado. 1 inch taller than stock. Yeah, I know... it's August. But, supply chain issues are driving this. Also got a set of spark-a-lators.

And bit the bullet on a super secret part for the HellKitty. Little known mod... but, I'll share when it arrives. ;)
Snow is closer to your area than some of us. So not such a crazy thing. And your right with that supply chain deal!
 
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