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[81cutlass]

So what else did I do, I looked for buckets that would work in the wagon with the turbo coupe console I bought a few months back.

Looked in Regal Somersets, Sunbirds, 6000LE, century, firenzas, and pretty much and A body 83+ stuff

Dodge stuff

Wagons

F bodies

 

[81cutlass]

And the seats!

Firenza had perfect seats, but brown

AWD 6000SE, thats odd

6000LE maroon seats but faded and power which I wanted manual

Another 6000LE but blue,

I damn near grabbed these out of this cutlass calais 2dr 84 international BUT the drivers side was bent funny. I did grab the horn button for the olds steering wheel, i tried taking the wheel but didnt have my puller. Anyone want a grey sport olds steering wheel that needs recovered?

Firenza in cool two tone

Sweet century half console, would be nice in a G body

And the G bodies

Buttless century

WTF a buttless diesel???

I literally only found my script valve covers since I opened the hood to see if it was actually a diesel, well it had a heater delete (who ordered it that way!?!) with hydroboost and a 350 8 head olds gas swapped in place. I'll take those valve covers thank you !

AND almost the holy grail seat, but they were dry rotted. If anyone wants a set of 2dr olds buckets for $100 that need covered let me know.

 

[ssn696]

Wow. Many crimes in progress there. Makes me glad I rescued my cars when I could.

 

[fleming442]

Y'all got some good pickin' out there. Our yards haven't looked like that since the 80s. They're almost all LKQ Pick your parts, now. They hold it for 3 months, then off to the crusher.

 

[81cutlass]

Wow. Many crimes in progress there. Makes me glad I rescued my cars when I could.

I used to think that, but came around and realized if they were "properly processed", they wouldn't be here today. Yes, there is a lot of stuff that was good going into the yard and junk now, so thats a let down, but they were just normal cars going into the yard (ie that buttless cutlass diesel was last registered in 1992, so it was 12-14 years old when it got taken off the road. That seems a bit short, and same with the plymouth dodge and F body stuff, but there is very little "rare" valuable stuff there. A lot of the dodge stuff is slant 6, GM stuff was low perf stuff, ect.

When the stuff was easy to get at other yards it was easy to get at this yard, but now that other yards don't have it this yard making stuff hard to get to or keeping it when its not worth anything makes it worth it now. They have been in business in the same family since the 50's so although its sad to see some stuff rust away, a lot of stuff gets saved rather than crushed which is a relief. They do crush stuff, they are just decent keeping (due to their 80 acres of space) stuff that is somewhat worth it for the future.

There are a few yard I go to that have old stuff, but NOTHING to this extent. The yard is inaccessible from June to September with foliage and snowed in up to your waist in November to March, so really you get April, May, and October to go there and find anything.

I agree, most yards are going the hold for 3 month strategy and scrap, so seeing a yard like this that keeps stuff for decades really helps people like us.


Few more photos I grabbed

 

[PBGBodyFan]

Wow, really cool yard. Where is it (if it's not a secret honey-hole?). Finding yards like this is becoming rare for the reasons mentioned. So many that used to keep the old stuff have scrapped out in recent years.

 

[81cutlass]

Slow minor progress. Bought a pair of GN turbo cores a few years ago since I couldnt find a good stock GN turbo at the time, so I thought Id be able to build one good one out of those two I grabbed of CL. Ended up finding a good turbo a week later so I had these two cores sitting. They go for $150 each in core so I shipped both in for $300 minus $50 shipping, and had store credit so I got 1996's best tech, a scanmaster. Could have gone with better stuff but for what this car is doing, staying stock turbo and just a cruiser it will help tune the IAC, check trouble codes and other stuff more easily.

I also pulled the radio out again to make sure it was wired right and it was, it must just be dead. Grrr..... I cant find my darn cassette to 3.5 mm jack adater thing I used to have two of. I did finally hook up the boost and oil pressure gauge and wired the illumination lights up.

 

[81cutlass]

So tonight was get the little stuff done to make it longer trip driveable.

Look for oil leak that has been coming from the front of the engine, looks like it was coming from the turbo oil feed line by the block but I can't find it. Everything was tight.

Small water pump leak out the weep hole, not surprised, should put a new one in at some point

Cruise got hooked up kinda sloppy, not too proud of it haha.

My temp gauge on my turbo couple dash cluster was not working. And my speedometer has been growling really bad. Took the speedometer out, lubed the speedometer cable, did a continuity check on the wires and it seemed fine.

Put the cluster back in and i fixed one bad light bulb (yay) but the temp gauge still didnt work AND the speedometer still growled.

Decided to swap the other dash cluster in that I got from the salvage yard last week. Swapped my tach in (and totally butchered the other housing to get a tach light in since I didnt have one previously. Not super proud of how it looks inside BUT its in.

I think I burned 4 hours and gained almost nothing, so you win some and you loose some.

PS this is gauge cluster #4 for the car.....


EDIT- looks like my speedometer doesnt scrape and the water temp gauge works now so it wasn't all fail last night I guess

 

[81cutlass]

Got a GN servo from a fellow forum member and got ready to put it in. Took the old servo out to compare to the new one and it turns out the trans already had a GN servo? Thats an unexpected one. I guess its not the 86/87 GN servo but the 84/85 regal or 86/87 monte SS so its not AS good as the GN late style but its still better than a stock v6 one.

The odd part that might explain things as to why I had slushy 1-2 shifts, I had a TON of piston travel. The spec is .007-.010 and I had easily over .130. I used the prybar on the floorboard and push the cover in method.

I gotta do some reading to see how to adjust that much. I know they can grind the piston tip off to get it in spec but mine is soooo far out. .

Any difference between a blue and purple spring? The 2+2 trans (purple) has 1986 on the cover and the GN servo cover (blue) had 1984 on the cover.

 

[81cutlass]

If necessity is the mother of invention, this project must be the crazy step uncle that drunks too much.

I bought a $37 boost actuated cutout valve off amazon (nice) and I ordered it about a week ago and was like um where is it?

On a boat from China. wow..... Inadvertently ordered it from china and has a 6 week lead time.

So I took my $10 bill to Menards and bought some stuff

Don't need a tubing notcher when you have a lathe!

Hmmmm

BAM

AND here is where it goes full garbage mode. Laugh at my shenanigans. I did it primarily for my own laugh since I saw some hack meme a few years ago and had it in my mind ever since 🙂