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What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2022]
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He can buy your car but not your memories.
I have neglected it for a year as been busy with doing barn and other projects. Nearing the 98 percent rule on that stuff so I detailed it out today so I can meet my buddies to shoot sporting clays tomorrow. Missed a little car show in my home town last week and kick my a** for not seeing it and going. Guys, enjoy your ride. We aren't getting younger
Wired in a 240 outlet for the welder. Got the Trick Chassis frame brackets welded in. It got late so I wasn’t able to throw in the diff. Hopefully I can have it in tomorrow. Going to order an upper coilovers mount kit try to weld that in this week as well.
Work got done today. Had a buddy come over and we tore into it, the SS is now sitting on Solid Aluminum Body Mounts. All of them.
UMI Springs are in the back, I'll get to making the suspension adjustments another day.
Jacking up the body off the frame was the way to go.
Few pics of them installed in various places.
Rear Drivers
Middle of the body
Core support upper
Core support lower
The pile of what came out. Few of them definitely wore out.
Broke one bolt, very back passengers side. This was a wavered thread bolt that was installed at some point and rust helped with the natural loctite. Broke it pretty much instantly. I installed the upper solid mount and match drilled a hole through the nutplate where a bolt going through will line up and I'll put a nut on the back of it. Atleast it happened in a spot I could reach. I'll cut off the remaining part of the bolt that is there and put a plug over the hole once I get it to the correct size for a nut and socket with a step bit.
That was the only complication, other than the actual process of this. Almost 40yr old southern car so minimal rust on the hardware. I put new bolts where needed and antisiezed absolutely everything. Once I find a torque spec on the hardware I'll tighen them up other than the hand tight with a 1/2" ratchet they are right now.
UMI Springs are in the back, I'll get to making the suspension adjustments another day.
Jacking up the body off the frame was the way to go.
Few pics of them installed in various places.
Rear Drivers
Middle of the body
Core support upper
Core support lower
The pile of what came out. Few of them definitely wore out.
Broke one bolt, very back passengers side. This was a wavered thread bolt that was installed at some point and rust helped with the natural loctite. Broke it pretty much instantly. I installed the upper solid mount and match drilled a hole through the nutplate where a bolt going through will line up and I'll put a nut on the back of it. Atleast it happened in a spot I could reach. I'll cut off the remaining part of the bolt that is there and put a plug over the hole once I get it to the correct size for a nut and socket with a step bit.
That was the only complication, other than the actual process of this. Almost 40yr old southern car so minimal rust on the hardware. I put new bolts where needed and antisiezed absolutely everything. Once I find a torque spec on the hardware I'll tighen them up other than the hand tight with a 1/2" ratchet they are right now.
Now after reading this in the other thread I need to ask if you are trying to get the lighting for when you turn on the parking/headlights? Or is this to power the back light when the head unit is on? If you need the back light on when the key is on then you'll need to either tap in the fuse box port at the RADIO fuse which is for circuit 141 (uses a brown/white wire when factory hard wired in), Feed, Ignition Switch, "Accessory & On" Controlled , or tap into the brown 12 gauge accessory power wire (circuit 4, Feed, Ignition Switch "Accessory & On" Controlled, Unfused) to run a new fused line to the head unit. This way, key at On or Accessory you'll have the back light. I can't figure out what green wire that you did tap into to power it.
34 degrees outside,it was a fan of the air today 
Nibbled at mine earlier, got the broken bolt taken care of and the nutplate is setup to where I can run the bolt through it and secure it with a nut & washer. I have the solid bushing in and this is where the hole wanted to be lined up and match drilled, for some reason. Maybe the nutplate moved. Atleast it's close to some sheet metal so when I tighten it up it will all bite. I have a washer as big as that hole I drilled and a locknut is going on the bolt. Probably over kill, but over kill is good. Atleast this is in a spot that I could reach it, and it's not tacky.
Bolt tip sticking out here, other hole was my first one drilled eye balling it. Should have just match drilled from the beginning then again I still think the plate moved and it wouldn't move back into the spot I had the hole. Atleast nothing will get in here when it's all tightened up, I'll put plenty of paint in to cover everything.
I'll find a plug to pop in this hole I just made, measured .950" and I have about 500+ wire connector covers to search through at work so I'm sure I can find something.
Bolt tip sticking out here, other hole was my first one drilled eye balling it. Should have just match drilled from the beginning then again I still think the plate moved and it wouldn't move back into the spot I had the hole. Atleast nothing will get in here when it's all tightened up, I'll put plenty of paint in to cover everything.
I'll find a plug to pop in this hole I just made, measured .950" and I have about 500+ wire connector covers to search through at work so I'm sure I can find something.
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