What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2022]

[CopperNick]

So You're smelling green grass, fresh sawdust, paint fumes, and warm breezes too? Weird. Didn't personally mind the patina on the carb. Just shows that it had been on that manifold for a while and hadn't been causing any problems. Good to know.



Nick

 

[spongbob]

Brake lines and cylinders replacement in process .when getting the rebuilt master cylinder it came without the resivoir.I found it nessesary to cut 4 oak wood wedges about 12 inches long. An inch wide a d having the larger end about 1 & 1/8 inches thick the thin edge around 1/8" thick pound the wedges opposing each other between the redivoir and cylinder to pop the reservoir off the old cylinder.Dont forget to sand the wood smooth and sand the sharp edges a little. I put a lower radiator hose on today also more work comeing up

 

[xcookpac]

Replaced carb base gasket on my Troybilt riding mower. Riding mower has a Kohler Courage 20HP (single cylinder). Prior to installing the new base gasket (P/N: 20-041-18-S), the motor was surging like crazy under full load, partial load and even a little at idle. New base gasket completely fixed this problem.

 

[86LK]

You lost me at 11 vacuum lines. I'm now curious about the signal the speedo put out on later cars.

had to go dig for pics of it disconnected and maybe it wasn't 11 (probably not) but I distinctly recall having to disconnect and label a bunch of stuff that went to various points around the intake manifold front and back and a few other places. remember, this car was in a flood and then left to sit for 6 yrs

 

[Injectedcutty]

Got the camaro rear disc swap parts cleaned up,painted and assembled. Still need some more parts,but swap is planned over the winter along with a freshen up of the 8.5, maybe even a frame notch.

 

[Injectedcutty]

Oh, also Holley finally posted banner pics the other day. My 1st time at LS Fest was epic, can't wait to go back!

 

[Texas82GP]

Oh, also Holley finally posted banner pics the other day. My 1st time at LS Fest was epic, can't wait to go back!View attachment 209518

Beautiful car friend.

 

[Supercharged111]

had to go dig for pics of it disconnected and maybe it wasn't 11 (probably not) but I distinctly recall having to disconnect and label a bunch of stuff that went to various points around the intake manifold front and back and a few other places. remember, this car was in a flood and then left to sit for 6 yrs

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Counting its neighbors I can see about 11 lines. Tough to make out why there's so many on there, seems it ought to be 2 for the brake pedal switch, and I guess the rest for a PWM or regulated signal to/from the canister?

 

[DSPbuilt]

Oh, also Holley finally posted banner pics the other day. My 1st time at LS Fest was epic, can't wait to go back!View attachment 209518

Goals!

 

[ck80]

had to go dig for pics of it disconnected and maybe it wasn't 11 (probably not) but I distinctly recall having to disconnect and label a bunch of stuff that went to various points around the intake manifold front and back and a few other places. remember, this car was in a flood and then left to sit for 6 yrs

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FWIW the small vacuum solenoid that bolts onto the front of those things is unobtanium these days.

Nobody rebuilds them anymore, and, no aftermarket repops - at least it was the case when I rebuilt that accident damaged 83 that the front clip was wiped back till it hit the engine and master cylinder.

While MOST of the unit is metal, the part the vacuum line attaches to is the same plastic that gets brittle as the vacuum tees. In my case the accident broke it off the cylinder.

Places like Napa listed part numbers, but, no stock. And gm used the same part on everything of that era, meaning, corvette guys drove the occasional NOS auction up to $200-300 just for that 1 inch wide 3 inch long cylinder.

Many yards crushed and pullaparts didn't get many cars from the 5 or so years the system was used, and even then, not all cars came with cruise.

Moral of the story? If you see one in the yard worth grabbing, you never know if you'll own a car that needs one some day.