What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2023]

[88AZSS]

It’s constantly in the 100s here in AZ now so I’m working on things that can be done inside the house with the AC on.

I swapped my dash bezel to an 85 SS version with the dark grey wood grain a while back. I found some vinyl that matches pretty well and tried my hand at wrapping the center console trim from my Impala console. Came out pretty good if I do say so myself. Color matches pretty close, close enough for me!

 

[CopperNick]

Popped the passenger's door open on the Monte and gave some serious thought as to how to proceed with prepping the rocker panel site. i still have a lot more of the old panel to cut away and I have to be careful how i go about doing it in order to preserve some of the substructure that might still be useful. Think that my best choices will be the air saw, my 20V Sawzall, and my air motor with a 3" micro wheel mounted to it. The issue in the shop right now is heat. While outside it is only in the 70's, that doesn't include the humidity which is 50% or higher. MY house A/C is doing its best to keep the temps around 73; anything colder and I start to ache.


Nick

 

[Supercharged111]

Yea I'd be looking into the hydraulic side, some Slave cylinders need to be shimmed.

Damn import guys..

Could also be time for a Tilton master, stock would not cut it on my C5Z.

 

[mclellan83]

Pretty successful pull of the motor, my buddy was pretty accurate in his time guess if I hadn't slowed us down with pulling the one collector bolt and one bellhousing bolt we would have been way ahead

 

[CopperNick]

NOTHING. Set up the work station for the work to be done to the passenger's rocker panel and did a test fit of the outer rocker to the inner one. Discovered a short section where the edges did not match up and added some metal into there to get it right.

Appliance repair dude came by with the correct capacitor for the motor in my washing machine and it still wouldn't trigger so the verdict is a dead motor. Price on a new one is 300-400 dollars and then there is the labor to drop it in, plus which it would have to be ordered with no firm date on arrival.

So I said **** it and told him to sell me a new one. They have a model match for the old one, just with a different brand name on the shrouding so it will be delivered tomorrow after work. They take the old one away and it goes to scrap. That sucks because it has a replacement transmission in it that is only 2 years old. Maybe I can get him to pull it and set it aside if the carcass is going to the crusher. They don't harvest parts and are too short of techs to do rebuilds. Might possibly have him leave the whole thing which would let me take the cut off wheel to it and harvest the outer case. It is flat steel and therefore good for possible panel making.



Nick

 

[86LK]

NOTHING. Set up the work station for the work to be done to the passenger's rocker panel and did a test fit of the outer rocker to the inner one. Discovered a short section where the edges did not match up and added some metal into there to get it right.

Appliance repair dude came by with the correct capacitor for the motor in my washing machine and it still wouldn't trigger so the verdict is a dead motor. Price on a new one is 300-400 dollars and then there is the labor to drop it in, plus which it would have to be ordered with no firm date on arrival.

So I said **** it and told him to sell me a new one. They have a model match for the old one, just with a different brand name on the shrouding so it will be delivered tomorrow after work. They take the old one away and it goes to scrap. That sucks because it has a replacement transmission in it that is only 2 years old. Maybe I can get him to pull it and set it aside if the carcass is going to the crusher. They don't harvest parts and are too short of techs to do rebuilds. Might possibly have him leave the whole thing which would let me take the cut off wheel to it and harvest the outer case. It is flat steel and therefore good for possible panel making.



Nick

I would keep it and either ....
-sell the parts off on ebay and keep the sheetmetal
-sell the whole thing to someone who may want to repair it

 

[ck80]

I would keep it and either ....
-sell the parts off on ebay and keep the sheetmetal
-sell the whole thing to someone who may want to repair it

You left out option 3: place it prominently in the front yard and plant flowers

 

[86LK]

You left out option 3: place it prominently in the front yard and plant flowers

is that a thing in Canada? I know it is some places in the USA.

there's even one business around that does it...

 

[ck80]

is that a thing in Canada? I know it is some places in the USA.

there's even one business around that does it...
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Why not?

Even if it isn't he can either be a trendsetter, or, put it in a swamp and call it an artificial beaver lodge

 

[86LK]

Why not?

Even if it isn't he can either be a trendsetter, or, put it in a swamp and call it an artificial beaver lodge

In Canada, I think that would be the International Possum Brotherhood of the Possum Lodge

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