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

[MrSony]

Is that an old vid or do you have the body back down on the frame?

Old vid from june. Body still in the air. all 4 trunk mounts are tacked in, just need finish tacked, I need to make a hole in the frame where I patched it, patch up a small spot that's thin on the passenger mount before the rear wheel, then strip all the old lines off, clean, prime, paint the frame, install new lines, then drop it back down. Between work (nights really **** up your life) and it being either 300*f and 900% humidity, or raining, or just being too damn tired to even take my boots off after coming home, progress is slow going. I did a bunch when I had a week off work during their summer maintenance shutdown, but that was all the hard stuff. I could zap the rest of the trunk mounts, cut that hole and send it but I want to do this right and never agian.

 

[81cutlass]

I dun fugged up, again.
Went to try to stab in the S10 ZR2 driveshaft, and realized something was off with the yokes.
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Turns out the ZR2 driveshaft (left) was behind a 5 speed, and not a 700r4.
I think both the g body driveshaft and S10 one use the same 3R u joint, so I’m going to pound one out and see.

What length is that driveshaft?

 

[UC645]

What length is that driveshaft?

The S10 driveshaft is a little under a 1/4 inch shorter, IIRC. Should use the same u joints as the g body too.

 

[5spdCab]

Yesterday, took both AC airboxes out and disassembled, cleaned, and mix and matched the best parts of both into one. It was interesting, and somewhat enjoying, to see the internals of the airbox. There some minor differences in the external parts, one of these came from a '78 Cutlass, the other from an '81 El Camino. When I finish this setup, it is destined for my '78 Caballero.

'78 Cutlass airbox before disassembly.

Keeping the '78 mainbody, and evaporator, using the '81 heater core, top cover, and leaf screen.
90% complete reassembly.

Today, I am working with the electrical harnesses for this airbox, deleting some of the '81 engine stuff. I will have to take a look at my '79 El Camino which already has AC, and the electrical schematics, to see what not to throw away.
When the time comes to install it, I will
remove the top cover and evaporator to lighten the unit during installation, then reinstall the evaporator, and seal the top cover, and use the ducting from the '81 El Camino to go with the '81 dashboard from the same El Camino.
I am going to have to order some parts, so I hope to be finished with this before end of summer.

 

[butch2427]

stripped, treated with Ospho 605 and then re-sealed the rain gutters...

 

[pontiacgp]

brought it in for the warranty work but I didn't appreciate the guy doing the work was drinking on the job...

Passenger side DLR - fixed, one relay was bad
Drivers side rear side maker - fixed, cleaned the socket
Window Module - fixed - wire that activates the window module pulled out of the alarm harness
Drivers foot well courtesy light - fixed, led bulb needed to be moved around til it went on
Idler pulley was squeaking - fixed for now, removed and cleaned then lubricated the bearing

got hit with some good thunderstorms and had a tornado warning, thunderstorm watch is still on so I put on my hardhat and drove the Jeep back. Will grab the GP tomorrow....

 

[MrSony]

Ground down some more welds. Started cleaning the passeger rear frame rail, from the #4 position on back, and I literally used an entire cup wheel in about 10 minutes. I was out of them, and I didn't feel like destroying my drill, so I went back to grinding. Any recommendations on wire wheels that dont suck *ss?

 

[5.3 swap]

1983 monte , power window car .
finally installed the 5.3 under the hood, after test running it on the stand, doing my own harness rework for the engine, on to the trans, exhaust, the list goes on.....

 

[MalibuDavyou5]

Another couple day's off, more time with the Car. Allot of work only so much done.

After sanding with 1000 Grit, applied a couple of coats on the hood. It dried very quickly in the heat which was raising fast after 9 am. That's why the paint looks stripped in the photo and thankfully not quite so much when dried. Sanded the second coat with 1000 grit. At least two to three more coats are going on the Hood when the temperature is cooler Than 70 degrees.


Glue Puller Tab. Which I will add Glue pulling was a half success at getting this dent out and keeping the metal from sinking back in also broke two of these tabs in this cheap kit in the process. After this photo I made 6 other attempts. Using the Tab pictured above and another one alittle smaller all at the same time. Center of what was once the main part of the dent is sticking out evenly with the rest of the body, but still dips in on either side. Right now as the metal is holding steady I have my first application of Bondo which I am now allowing to cure. Another layer of Bondo goes on tomorrow.

Not just dent and testing paint. I am still struggling a bit with the Driver door, having to Primer fill in areas that are low from having sanded it down again a few more spots to work out. I also Primed the the Trunk and some other places in the Driver side quarter panel and Fender and sanded, and more sanding (All of it is done by hand) Smooth to the touch and ready for paint. . . Just a few other spots I have to get to including all the rest of the passenger side which will get more interesting.

I had also stopped by Napa for some Seem Sealer, Whoooo! $41 for that stuff and I am going to have to use it well and where needed. Also had to stop at Walmart for some Plastic, Painters tape, Tack Cloth, Took out their Automotive Primer stock, 1000 grit sand paper, 1 can of Truck Bed Liner, a can of Underside coating, a Wire wheel for the Drill. . and I will have to go out tomorrow for a Bondo Grater and more sand paper. . . This is going to be fun 😅 . While I was at it I had a better look at the under side. Very few area's that have surface rust I will be taking care of after I finish with the body and paint, thankfully I am stocked and ready to deal with the underside. Lots more to do tomorrow when its shaded.

 

[Wageslave]

Ground down some more welds. Started cleaning the passeger rear frame rail, from the #4 position on back, and I literally used an entire cup wheel in about 10 minutes. I was out of them, and I didn't feel like destroying my drill, so I went back to grinding. Any recommendations on wire wheels that dont suck *ss?

I always like the flap disk sanding wheels for that kind of work.