What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2020]

[1evilregal]

Installed the mirror I got from jamcar223, wired in and all. Thanks again jamcar for a great lookin part!

I also spent the day de-f**kifying the speaker and fuel pump wiring the P.O. Jacked up.

 

[UC645]

Spent the day putting stuff back together for once. Got the fuel pump ground wire lengthened, and drilled pilot holes for bulkhead fittings for battery cables.

And I got my junkyard special transmission cooler mounted:

 

[CopperNick]

Went digging into various boxes and cans and containers in search of my mia sending unit for the oil gauge on my 85.

And here is what I found. All three of the double terminal sending units more or less match the existing harness in the engine bay. I say more or less but it is actually less because someone at some time in the past modified the wiring plug by cutting off one of the female contacts. Not sure why but conjecture that one or the other of the male ends was the external ground and whoever did the hack job didn't need it anymore. it is possible that they switched to one or the other of the single terminal versions of the sending unit. Personally I happen to like the one on the lower right of the picture. It is short and would likely screw right into the block port without any adaptors needed. What came out of the old motor was the large ell and one of the two terminal units. That was probably the OEM and the ell was used to shift the unit out of the way of the distributor. I can use either of the brass adaptor ells and the small ended senders.
Just wondering for the sake of knowing for sure, which of the combinations was what would have been found on the block to begin with? That aside I will be having to replace the terminal plug for the unit one way or another because what is left is so crippled that it will probably break during install. Think I have one hanging off another harness that I salvaged from a wreck so will have to go digging for that now.

On another note, still looking for a clutch arm return spring. The ones I have are either too long or too short. It needs to be around 6" +/- to possess sufficient tension when installed that the arm will return readily but not so short that the pedal becomes hard to push or the spring gets stretched and goes limp.

Nick

 

[MrSony]

Patched the frame hole.

Friend (AD) wanted to try my welder, so he welded in the patch I made while i cleaned up more of the frame. he wanted the world to know he burned it in i 'spose.

 

[Maverick's_Monte]

I broke it. This was yesterday, actually, I finally made it here to share my lamentations with folks who might give a sh*t. I had made a 3 point turn to hurry back home as the cars coming in the opposite direction were soaked from the looming thunderstorm. Yes, I'm one of those guys, didn't want the car to get wet. Accelerating through second into third, I felt something in the transmission go and now I cannot get any gears. It will stay in park, but nothing anywhere else. Its a 2004r that was rebuilt last year, trans-go kit, cleaned, completely refreshed. Then the tow company pulled down my pants for $100 to take the car 2 miles to my garage. A close friend who is a master mechanic offered to stop by to make sure that it is not something "goofy", but my spider sense tells me otherwise. Here's hoping it is, but you know that feeling in your gut...Ive got that feeling in my gut.

So, the transmission is probably nuked. Who knows what the shop who rebuilt is going to tell me, probably nothing I want to hear.

Happy Independence Day!

 

[CopperNick]

Nice patch but now I am curious about how you plan to re-install the body mount bolt once you start to re-assemble your project cause I am thinking that your hole used to be about where one of the body rubber biscuits used to be????

 

[CopperNick]

Shiftless in Seattle or ? Uh?? Your buddy is an optimist but thinking maybe the clutch pack shell.

 

[pontiacgp]

Nice patch but now I am curious about how you plan to re-install the body mount bolt once you start to re-assemble your project cause I am thinking that your hole used to be about where one of the body rubber biscuits used to be????

when I did my patches I cleaned up the frame and laid the patch with the hole already cut on top of the frame. There was enough of the original hole to line it up. I was not worried about the thickness of 14 gauge metal affecting the body sitting on the frame.

and I added weld at spots on the frame that was missed at factory

 

[Maverick's_Monte]

Shiftless in Seattle or ? Uh?? Your buddy is an optimist but thinking maybe the clutch pack shell.

Shiftless in Seattle, HA! I like that. Got to laugh, otherwise you start dwelling on thoughts like "maybe I should sell this car, what good is it if it doesn't move..."

He is an optimist, if only to try to keep me from losing my mind yesterday. He's a good friend. He also wasn't with me and didn't hear/feel it.

 

[mclellan83]

Took the Monte to class yesterday so that I could go straight to from it to the car show, well once I got to class I am walking away and hear a nice hiss. Look underneath and the antifreeze is blowing out of the rad cap, now it was really hot out so the temp got up to like 215 on the Sniper but shows totally spiked on the Dakota. So I am thinking there is still an air bubble in it, but still really leaning towards just replacing the rad and going electric fan. Put some water in it to replace what came out and drove it to the car show with no problems. Once it got dark even went for a little drive with my uncle in his T/A and my buddy in his NSX without it really heating up. Was really impressed with this at the show, there was a pretty good turnout of nice stuff