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

[melloelky]

The 8mm that holds the purple wire on. It started while I was tapping it, so I figured the starter was crap. My neighbor even called it, as I scoffed. Sumbich was right.

yes but are you gonna tell him he was rite? That's the question.

 

[fleming442]

yes but are you gonna tell him he was rite? That's the question.

Text conversation:
I hate you
What's up?
Loose wire on the starter. Nut damned near fell off the terminal
Lol
AND, this after I smelled burning plastic, started freaking out, and disconnected the battery while doing the ignition switch. Neighbor had lit his burn barrel. 😡

 

[MalibuDavyou5]

Got them in late today (Heater Valve, Accumulator), the Adventure begins. . . . . Tomorrow.

 

[Wageslave]

Decided to take the car out today, and during my pretrip inspection, I found the transmission was about a pint low on the dipstick. No biggie, I'll just drop into autozone on the way into work and get some. When I went to turn into the autozone driveway, someone pulled out on front of me and nearly t-boned me. I floored it to get out of the way and was treated to a quart or so of transmission fluid geysering out of the dipstick tube and covering the engine and passenger exhaust manifold.

I ended up refilling it and didn't have any more issues for the rest of the trip, but I am guessing that the vent at the top of the transmission is plugged. Will have to keep the spirited driving to a minimum until that is resolved...

 

[DSPbuilt]

After some phone calls, stopping at parts stores to look at hubs, I ended up buying some Napa store brand hubs. Yes, the box says made in China which I'm not happy about, but these are actually legit SKF brand hubs made for Napa. The Oreilly house brand looked just like the ebay ones, where as the SKF/Napa hubs look nicer.
My other thought is if I have an issue they are under warranty instead of fighting rockauto or whoever else. I'll update once installed and some test miles are done.

Looking forward to see how they work out.
On my OG cutlass it still had OE hubs and never had an issue. On the El Camino I had to replace the one of the Ebay hub twice in a couple drives.
I'm contemplating the route to take with front brakes on this cutlass.
Wilwood Hubs are $125 each on Summit. I was also looking at the hubs from Big Brake Upgrade. The a Billet hub with bigger 1LE bearings they are $390 with JEGS studs pressed in.
At this point I am unsure which route to go.
Cheapest would be junkyard spindles with new rotors and calipers. Then later buy the adaptor and do the ATS-V Brembos.(fits behind my 17s)
Next would be my stock spindles and used C6 stuff I found local.
Last would be to just go straight to Brembo stuff now. That's gonna be around $700( all new parts) just for the front.
Where the junkyard Blazer parts with new pad,rotors, and calipers is gonna be less than $350 front Blazer front AND rear setup.


Yesterday I was bored at work.. I mean waiting for parts. I had these two sitting in my van and got an idea.

 

[88AZSS]

Started cleaning and painting the tilt column. Got some of the rebuild parts in and more coming this next week. Then the fun begins.

 

[CopperNick]

So while i was waiting for the paint to dry, AGAIN!, I decided to take another look at the duct that sits in front of the radiator and that bolts to the rad cradle. At some point in times long ago, this car took some front end bruises and one of them crushed both sides of the duct, one worse than the other. I did manage to straighten out the one side and mend some tears in the metal using my MIG but the other side has problems. Part of the fold/step in it has been badly crushed and even some serious work with various sized hammers and dollies hasn't made much of an inroad into returning that step back to what it ought to be. It got to the point that I employed my mighty Dremel tool to cut away the shanks of the rivets just to be able to remove that panel and pound on it by its lonesome. Thinking now that I may have to conserve my energy and cut my loss and labor here and either find another duct in better shape or even one that has been damaged, just not that particular panel or to a lesser degree than what I am working with. Any of you Canadians on the board happen to have an 85-99 MonteCarlo SS corpse that still happens to have that duct still resident and be willing to part with it for a reasonable sum? I use Paypal for most transactions.

Nick

 

[Injectedcutty]

Just got back from ripping it around. Did some hard braking to heat up the brakes. Checked immediately with temp gun and the rotors were reading 360-390° and wheels were at 180°!!
Rear wheels at 95° and drums at 200ish. I'll call that a win as of now for the Napa/SKF blazer hubs! One things for sure, I'll be hyper aware for a bit until some miles are put on them.

 

[UC645]

Managed to get it to run well enough to drive it over to my aunt and uncle’s house to pressure wash it.
FILTH

And washed. Got a ton of mud caked up in the rear wheel wells thanks to rain I didn’t account for a couple of months back.

I think I’ve got a dead plug due to fouling, it smells dead rich. Currently running NGK’s in their 4 heat range, might step up to 5s to see if I get any improvement.

 

[CopperNick]

Very carefully, to avoid the electro-jolt from an active wire, use a pair of plug wire pliers to, one at a time, pull a plug wire from its plug. The one that makes no change in the sound of the motor or the idle, is your dud.


Nick