What did you do to your non-G Body project today [2024 edition]
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Got my EFILive back up and running after being without since early this year. So nice to finally have not only the tuning capability, but also the diagnostic capacity. I've spruced up the timing map on the old plow truck and it's doing better, gonna try and push it later today and find the limit so I can know where to stop. Then I can fire up the dually and get a straight answer on why it likes to unlock the TCC so much with one of those handy dandy tstate PIDs. I really didn't like flying blind with the thing on a near 1400 mile road trip at 23,000#.
Scary thing about that soap box is not the character standing on it, it is the cost to actually buy the genuine article from some antique shop. They have become relatively rare so ones in good shape can command high $$$$.
Looking at that derelict, it would appear that a piece of fascia board and some 1" x would be enough to build one. The reason I prefer the milk crate variant is that they are subdivided internally in order to isolate the bottles from each other. That way the bottles don't bounce off their neighbors and break. The virtue to that segmentation is that it re-enforces the external structure and makes the whole a lot sturdier than the soap box might be.
What makes the soapbox useful though, is that once you are done berating your audience, you can step down, turn the box over and then use it for a tote. I actually have a couple of the ones that were used for 6 packs of Pop, like Coke and Mountain Dew and similar. They are still sturdy enough to be "stuff" containers for whatever needs to be in a crate or tote.
Nick
Looking at that derelict, it would appear that a piece of fascia board and some 1" x would be enough to build one. The reason I prefer the milk crate variant is that they are subdivided internally in order to isolate the bottles from each other. That way the bottles don't bounce off their neighbors and break. The virtue to that segmentation is that it re-enforces the external structure and makes the whole a lot sturdier than the soap box might be.
What makes the soapbox useful though, is that once you are done berating your audience, you can step down, turn the box over and then use it for a tote. I actually have a couple of the ones that were used for 6 packs of Pop, like Coke and Mountain Dew and similar. They are still sturdy enough to be "stuff" containers for whatever needs to be in a crate or tote.
Nick
I've got wooden crates stenciled 'product of poland' from the communist era days, good and sturdy, meant for lots of re-use. As for what originally came across the pond in them.... I think krakus hams actually, although, could've just as easily been booze.
We mailed family who were trapped behind mostly Levis and cassette tapes, then got all manner of good foods, especially chocolates, back in return.
I've really got to get around to the paperwork to get that dual citizen passport issued one of these days.
If you flip the box over and check the inside, if it has 12 or so partitions, then it was probably for booze. On the other hand, if it is just wide open space then figure it was that ham or other edibles as having it fully open like a cardboard box would give more room for stuff to be, well, stuffed into the cavity and lessen things moving around and breaking; like pickles or maybe Kapusta or Golabki.
Nick
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That scheduled work list include a new door for the gas filler cap? What the picture shows is a panel that is totally rotted out and living the dream mostly by proxy. Would almost think poor quality control during production but if the car was winter driven on roads that were regularly slathered with salt or brine then maybe salt corrosion? Or, since the majority of the body is fibreglass, I do believe, then maybe galvanic action of some kind where the metal plate became an unwitting sacrificial anode?
As for the owner's comment on his disk brake system, "I have a squeaky brake" Now gotta wonder if the squeak he was hearing might have been the sound of his brain gerbil frantically running on its wheel while it tried to keep up with his thought processes.
Cyn-Nick
As for the owner's comment on his disk brake system, "I have a squeaky brake" Now gotta wonder if the squeak he was hearing might have been the sound of his brain gerbil frantically running on its wheel while it tried to keep up with his thought processes.
Cyn-Nick
The Studabaker(did a correction! TY Nick for the catch 😁)is a NY city import from the bumper sticker on the car. And it is a metal mite attack on the cover. Personally I’d get it customized from stainless or aluminum as a replacement.
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Desoto???? Huh! From the angle and the shape of the side, I had thought it was an Avanti.
On the other hand..............I had been going through a serious case of the procrastinations in connection with some work that my shower needed to have done. Nothing serious?!?!?! or requiring major invasive surgery, just the need to pull the tap cartridges and replace them. So today, for no particular reason, became trigger day.
I had actually acquired the replacement cartridges last winter but had not gotten into the exercise beyond that point; too many other things to divert my attention. So I dug them out of where they had been abandoned and proceeded to turn off the water for that circuit, dismount the handles from the cartridges, and use an adjustable wrench to remove them. Did start out by thinking that a 3/4 combi wrench would work for the screwing around; Uh-uh, discovered that I needed a 13/16, and even then, only for the old ones. The new ones........................meh.
With the old cartridges out, time to take a look at the seats. Turned out that they were still in good shape which was a bonus because I have no idea what size of hex key will remove them!!! The new ones use a white man's normal 5/16's, these ????? 5 is too small and 3/8ths too big. Tried metric and that was a bust. Did finally get a long arm key that fit down the throat of the tap pocket and picked up the seat and leaned on the key with the wrench and it did not want to move. Uh-uh, not going down this rabbit hole. Too much lean and I can either damage the seat or damage the casting in which it sits. Either way means that I have to take down the shower wall and dive into the rough in. Nope, not gonna happen. Moving on.
So the new hot side cartridge went in okay as did the cold one. Back downstairs, re-energize the circuit and, why am I hearing high volumes of running water that don't seem to be slowing down? Back upstairs, cold tap is on??? and water is doing its thing. Turn the tap off as I have done umpteen times over the decades and.......................It Ain't Turning OFF. Bag was labelled cold, so why does the cartridge not do cold like the old one did??
Come to find out after some fiddling around that both taps in the shower had "HOT" cartridges in them. Why? Probably because it made things safer when accessing the taps to turn them on as it avoiding having to deal with the hot side and getting scalded or burnt just to deal with the cold side. With both turning in the same direction, you turn the farthest tap on first and then move over the the closer one and there is no need to think about rightly-tightly or left hand thread or other water borne philosophical considerations when you are mostly asleep and working on auto-pilot.
Sorted that lot out and re-assembled the tap handles, tested the system and good to go. The procrastination factor? Well, it took almost an hour and a half to do was supposed to take ten minutes, maybe fifteen, at most? Back brain must have been seriously pounding on me to "why do it now, wait for spring", because it had some racial memory of the job being a time killing nuisance.
Nick
On the other hand..............I had been going through a serious case of the procrastinations in connection with some work that my shower needed to have done. Nothing serious?!?!?! or requiring major invasive surgery, just the need to pull the tap cartridges and replace them. So today, for no particular reason, became trigger day.
I had actually acquired the replacement cartridges last winter but had not gotten into the exercise beyond that point; too many other things to divert my attention. So I dug them out of where they had been abandoned and proceeded to turn off the water for that circuit, dismount the handles from the cartridges, and use an adjustable wrench to remove them. Did start out by thinking that a 3/4 combi wrench would work for the screwing around; Uh-uh, discovered that I needed a 13/16, and even then, only for the old ones. The new ones........................meh.
With the old cartridges out, time to take a look at the seats. Turned out that they were still in good shape which was a bonus because I have no idea what size of hex key will remove them!!! The new ones use a white man's normal 5/16's, these ????? 5 is too small and 3/8ths too big. Tried metric and that was a bust. Did finally get a long arm key that fit down the throat of the tap pocket and picked up the seat and leaned on the key with the wrench and it did not want to move. Uh-uh, not going down this rabbit hole. Too much lean and I can either damage the seat or damage the casting in which it sits. Either way means that I have to take down the shower wall and dive into the rough in. Nope, not gonna happen. Moving on.
So the new hot side cartridge went in okay as did the cold one. Back downstairs, re-energize the circuit and, why am I hearing high volumes of running water that don't seem to be slowing down? Back upstairs, cold tap is on??? and water is doing its thing. Turn the tap off as I have done umpteen times over the decades and.......................It Ain't Turning OFF. Bag was labelled cold, so why does the cartridge not do cold like the old one did??
Come to find out after some fiddling around that both taps in the shower had "HOT" cartridges in them. Why? Probably because it made things safer when accessing the taps to turn them on as it avoiding having to deal with the hot side and getting scalded or burnt just to deal with the cold side. With both turning in the same direction, you turn the farthest tap on first and then move over the the closer one and there is no need to think about rightly-tightly or left hand thread or other water borne philosophical considerations when you are mostly asleep and working on auto-pilot.
Sorted that lot out and re-assembled the tap handles, tested the system and good to go. The procrastination factor? Well, it took almost an hour and a half to do was supposed to take ten minutes, maybe fifteen, at most? Back brain must have been seriously pounding on me to "why do it now, wait for spring", because it had some racial memory of the job being a time killing nuisance.
Nick
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