Spent about 4 and a half hours putting onthe drivers side header, FlowTech ceramic coated. Dont ask how it went....
What did you do to your G-Body today? [2011-2018]
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A sad day, time to pull the skiff out and drag it home. So I check the oil, charge the battery, clean the inside, load my tools and spare parts, hook up the trailer, stuff my bike in the back, and head out at dawn to the ramp. It's about an hour drive with the usual rush hour knuckleheads. I park the wagon/trailer at the ramp, pull out the bike, and ride about five miles to the boat slip. I load the bike into the skiff, take in my lines, and I'm off back to the ramp. Of course halfway there I see birds working and fish splashing (grrrr) but I never fish on boat moving day, as if I miss the tide I'm doomed. I get to the ramp at full high tide, swap the bike back into the wagon, back it down the ramp, and load the skiff onto the trailer. This is where I hate having a clutch, as pulling a boat up a ramp with a clutch just blows, but it's only twice a year so what the hell. I load the loose stuff into the wagon, tie down the skiff, and head home. So I'm trailering a fishing skiff, with a mountain bike and all my junk in the back, in a 30 year old stick shift G-body wagon that just eats it up. If that isn't just cool as sh*t, I don't know what is! 
Nice 8)Bonnewagon said:A sad day, time to pull the skiff out and drag it home. So I check the oil, charge the battery, clean the inside, load my tools and spare parts, hook up the trailer, stuff my bike in the back, and head out at dawn to the ramp. It's about an hour drive with the usual rush hour knuckleheads. I park the wagon/trailer at the ramp, pull out the bike, and ride about five miles to the boat slip. I load the bike into the skiff, take in my lines, and I'm off back to the ramp. Of course halfway there I see birds working and fish splashing (grrrr) but I never fish on boat moving day, as if I miss the tide I'm doomed. I get to the ramp at full high tide, swap the bike back into the wagon, back it down the ramp, and load the skiff onto the trailer. This is where I hate having a clutch, as pulling a boat up a ramp with a clutch just blows, but it's only twice a year so what the hell. I load the loose stuff into the wagon, tie down the skiff, and head home. So I'm trailering a fishing skiff, with a mountain bike and all my junk in the back, in a 30 year old stick shift G-body wagon that just eats it up. If that isn't just cool as sh*t, I don't know what is!
Loving the stance. What spindles did you use? And what size rim/tire is that I cant see the numbers.silverfox said:
tc1959 said:Nice 8)Bonnewagon said:A sad day, time to pull the skiff out and drag it home. So I check the oil, charge the battery, clean the inside, load my tools and spare parts, hook up the trailer, stuff my bike in the back, and head out at dawn to the ramp. It's about an hour drive with the usual rush hour knuckleheads. I park the wagon/trailer at the ramp, pull out the bike, and ride about five miles to the boat slip. I load the bike into the skiff, take in my lines, and I'm off back to the ramp. Of course halfway there I see birds working and fish splashing (grrrr) but I never fish on boat moving day, as if I miss the tide I'm doomed. I get to the ramp at full high tide, swap the bike back into the wagon, back it down the ramp, and load the skiff onto the trailer. This is where I hate having a clutch, as pulling a boat up a ramp with a clutch just blows, but it's only twice a year so what the hell. I load the loose stuff into the wagon, tie down the skiff, and head home. So I'm trailering a fishing skiff, with a mountain bike and all my junk in the back, in a 30 year old stick shift G-body wagon that just eats it up. If that isn't just cool as sh*t, I don't know what is!
real nice 8)
Cut off the passenger side rusty rear frame rail. Dropped the gas tank and the muffler to get them out of the way. Fabbed up the rear body mount where frame rail attaches and removed what was left of the original. Removed even less of what was left of the body mount behind the rear wheel. Will need to fab up something there to attach new frame rail too. Have no idea what it looked like originally, but since my rails won't look original either, I'm gonna wing the shape of that mount. I'll be making my own rails from 2x3 tubing.
Layed on the ground for a long time staring at the bottom of the car. LOL. Not very productive, I know. I've been mulling over notching the rails above the rear end to try and gain a little room for more tire there. Finally decided that I'll leave them be. The final plans for this car doesn't include massive HP, so the wheel wells will still swallow all the tread I'll need. I must have talked myself into and out of that mod at least a dozen times over the last few weeks. Even picked up some steel to make new outer rails from thats substantially thicker than whats there now to try and keep some strength there. Guess I have some steel to rat hole in the garage now. LOL I had even been contemplating do a back half on the car. Talked myself out of that one too. So, laying there wasn't productive, but did clear my head on which direction I'm going with this.
I still need to remove the passenger side rail, see what the body mounts look like on that side, and get to hammering something out there.
Layed on the ground for a long time staring at the bottom of the car. LOL. Not very productive, I know. I've been mulling over notching the rails above the rear end to try and gain a little room for more tire there. Finally decided that I'll leave them be. The final plans for this car doesn't include massive HP, so the wheel wells will still swallow all the tread I'll need. I must have talked myself into and out of that mod at least a dozen times over the last few weeks. Even picked up some steel to make new outer rails from thats substantially thicker than whats there now to try and keep some strength there. Guess I have some steel to rat hole in the garage now. LOL I had even been contemplating do a back half on the car. Talked myself out of that one too. So, laying there wasn't productive, but did clear my head on which direction I'm going with this.
I still need to remove the passenger side rail, see what the body mounts look like on that side, and get to hammering something out there.
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I got the spindles from E-bay and the eibach springs from a member here.
Here is the link to the spindles i bought. they went on easy and barley needed an alighment afterwards.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/260923098548?it ... 23&vxp=mtr
Got my gbody forum stickers in the mail, and made arrangements for the body work to be done. Just a few weeks away now!
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