I’ve been playing a little with the tune. Almost hit my mail box trying to turn out of my driveway. I guess the car thinks it’s a drift-mobile...
What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2020]
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Colonnades are really starting to grow on me. I reeeeeally want a '73 GS with a 455. Or a hot 350.
joined a town wide cruise today,got escorted through a bunch of neighborhoods.all kinds of people outside their houses waving and smiling.people were receptive to it.maybe 100 cars total.it went over really well.
If a 77 LeMans Can Am comes along, I'm buying it. It will be one of those deals where I buy the car and then figure out how to pay for it and where to put it.
Awesome! I wanna go to a cruise right now so I drove the wife's car down the road. Total bust again, maybe 12 cars so not gettin it out.
Loved those since they were new. Went to high school with a girl whose mom drove one in '77. I'll bet it was 35 years before I saw one for sale (it was ROUGH)
Spent most of the day at the yard, and cleaned up the wiper linkage I got and preped the Olds radiator plate for phosphoric acid treatment. Cleaned most of my garbage out of the trunk too.
I would of been working on refurbishing a steering column, but some jagoffs got to the 5 g bodies at my local yard and cut the columns out with a g*damn SAWZALL. There wasn’t anything left to even salvage.
I would of been working on refurbishing a steering column, but some jagoffs got to the 5 g bodies at my local yard and cut the columns out with a g*damn SAWZALL. There wasn’t anything left to even salvage.
I think I finally figured my front brakes out.
What I think happened was that the original front calipers had some super contaminated brake fluid in them that rusted up the inside of the calipers. When I went to drive the pistons in to fit the new brake pads, I pushed all that rusty DOT 3 all the way back to the master cylinder. When I replaced the line on the passenger side, the banjo bolt had so much rust packed in it that I had to clean both sides of it out with a drill bit. I am guessing that the new caliper on the drivers side got some rusty crap that jammed the piston in the bore. Once I pulled the caliper off and extended it out some, it started working normally again.
I ended up flushing a bunch of fluid out and getting it mostly clean, but there is a non-zero chance that my brake lines are corroded up on the inside as well.
The best part is after all this effort, I now still need new pads and rotors. Good times.
What I think happened was that the original front calipers had some super contaminated brake fluid in them that rusted up the inside of the calipers. When I went to drive the pistons in to fit the new brake pads, I pushed all that rusty DOT 3 all the way back to the master cylinder. When I replaced the line on the passenger side, the banjo bolt had so much rust packed in it that I had to clean both sides of it out with a drill bit. I am guessing that the new caliper on the drivers side got some rusty crap that jammed the piston in the bore. Once I pulled the caliper off and extended it out some, it started working normally again.
I ended up flushing a bunch of fluid out and getting it mostly clean, but there is a non-zero chance that my brake lines are corroded up on the inside as well.
The best part is after all this effort, I now still need new pads and rotors. Good times.
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If you're not going to replace the fluid in the system when changing pads, open/remove the bleeder before pushing the pistons back in. This provides an exit and avoids sending dirty fluid back into the system. This is especially important on newer cars with ABS systems.
I thought about that afterwards, but wouldn't have ever guessed it would have been that bad. I changed brake fluid when I first got the car because a rear wheel cylinder failed. It looked nothing like this then.
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