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

[pontiacgp]

Installed a shifter handle from a first gen S10. Better than the handle I had with the missing end.
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looks great, only thing missing is about 13-14 volts....

 

[MrSony]

I got 4 longer body bolts, raised the frame and hung it with the longer bolts and measure between the frame and rocker till the C channel was square and equal measurement to the rocker on both sides. Then I tighened those bolts till I could the stock bolt in the middle of the C channel, then the other bolts and finally I removed the 4 longer bolts to put in the stock . It took me a while but the body is on straight and square.

basically what i plan, or some all thread.

 

[MrSony]

A welder I am not. In my defense, this is my first time actually welding anything to anything else.

But, body side patch is "tacked" in, if you can call it that. I hit it with a hammer and it didn't budge, so the tacks seem to be doing their job.

 

[ssn696]

Who makes this patch panel?

 

[Wageslave]

Yo, Wageslave, My 85 has gauges, factory stock. Thinking from what you said that what used to be there was a two prong sending unit and that at some point the feed to the electric choke got amputated. That carb would have likely been one of those Q-Jet ECEME?? alphabet soup units that took its instructions from the box behind the passengers side kick panel. Both the box and the carb have long since gone the way of the lesser Dodo bird.
The present carb is a Holley Spread Bore with an electric choke that is not directly wired into the engine bay harness. With all the switches that I have I coul go with the single prong unit and screw it directly into the block in the stock location; think it is short enough to clear the timer base. With one of the two prong units I could go back to power from the sender to the choke and delete some wiring and complications. Could also assemble a 90 degree offset items similar to the brass ones that I have and lay the sender on its side to gain some more clearance. Just evaluating options right now. Be kind of neat to keep the mechanical gauge that I have in there now and extend the tubing to get the bracket somewhere quieter. Would need a tee or weird looking elbow with a side nipple attached to it to do that and just happen to have one on the bench. Hmmm, gonna have to go looking again and see if I can score that factory two terminal socket from an orphan wiring harness. Delays, delays.....

Nick

What I did with mine was get an oil pressure sender from a 1990 Chevrolet 1500 truck and a matching pigtail from the parts store.



That sender is a combo of a gauge type oil pressure sender and a oil pressure switch in one unit. The center pin goes to your oil pressure gauge, and the outside two pins provide the switching. I tapped the power wire to the HEI for one side, and hooked the other side to the + terminal on the choke cover. I have mine pointed straight towards the brake booster, and it is nice and out of the way.

 

[MrSony]

Who makes this patch panel?

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78-88 GM

Brand New on the Market! Reproduction Trunk Floor Body Mount Repair Kit These are the 4 REAR locations (2 positions on each rear side) that typically rust out or have to be cut into from the trunk floor side to access the c

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[Tomicamino]

Yesterday got new wheels and tires, 7x15 225/60/15 8x15 255/60/15 and new air shocks

 

[88AZSS]

looks great, only thing missing is about 13-14 volts....

Contrary to my tach reading, the car was not running at the time of the photo. 😂

 

[melloelky]

Yesterday got new wheels and tires, 7x15 225/60/15 8x15 255/60/15 and new air shocks

where are the lug nuts?looks like they're flush with the wheels.

 

[Tomicamino]

Especially at front wheels they are very deep, the cast alloy at center is very thick