What did you do to your G-Body today 2024

[spongbob]

It's been a couple days (2) since I replaced stock springs with the variable rate ones the coils them selves seemed thicker buy say 10% besides being bigger across the circle area. Needless to say" it dosnt seem rough rideing or much higher just maybe slightly taller .I got 1 of the long walker ( thrush )mufflers installed under drivers side with it and pipe going under the transmission cross support yes under .some one will say under the crossmember no way"....
...well 'with what little space there is under the floor ( seat bucket) it's not much room regardless. No pictures at present .I can say the muffler is close to the break cable...of course I repainted the muffler black so the loud red isn't glaring. I'm not saying how the muffler is suspended but it is hanging from a steel band and ther is 1 bolt through the floor ,said band is about 3/4 the way back from front of edge of muffler , and there is an offset steel hanger going from the single bolt on the one end tucked under the band that is wrapped to the muffler body ,( yeah bolt ),and hopefully will allow a little flex for it to budge with the engine torque. Changed lugs and wheel spacers also

 

[MrSony]

Topped off the trans and went on a spirited drive around town. Works great. WOT upshifts at 4200rpm, downshifts quickly. Speedo gear is stripped I'm guessing. I've got spares.

 

[melloelky]

Gonna finally get rid of those old RadioShack "half round" button lights on my dash for Turn, Park Brake and High Beam and replace them with some modern LED indicators. They look like the little fake flashing lights on the old Star Trek original series consoles, LOL!! There wasn't much available back in like 1990 when I first did the dash gauges.....my friend still kids me about it, and says it looks like a Chris-Craft boat dash. 🤣

I also have a new dash pod to replace the cracking one, and plan to go back to the original gauge cluster and center a/c vent configuration. Just can't decide if I want to keep the analog Phantoms, (I have the matching in dash tach) or spend the crazy $$ for a nice Holley (or other) Digital Dash. Not a fan of the Dakota Digitals, or some others that are direct replacement for the factory rally cluster, which I still have on shelf.

Anyway, these are what I'm swapping in, $10 from the AMZ!

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I miss radio shack circa 30 years ago☹

 

[UC645]

After having a terrible weekend after I cut a chunk of my thumb off trimming a door handle gasket (won’t be that careless with a razor blade again), said screw it and painted the lower trim:

Couple blemishes where the tape started to lift while I was spraying, and a couple hairs, but nothing I’m worried about. Dang thing will look like some awkward candy cane when I’m done….

 

[CopperNick]

$55 dollars!?! geez, where are you buying your jeans at? Saks 5th Avenue?

for grungy garage work, I usually wear jeans I've bought from Salvation Army for less than $6 bucks. that's the only time I buy Bugle Boy Jeans

Nope. The brand name is Denver-Hayes and they are the house brand offered by Marks Work Warehouse. Not made in North America. Yeah, they ought to be a lot cheaper than they came in at but even off-off-shore products are getting pricier. The old wheeze about "supply chain" issues is getting flimsier by the minute.

Off-off-shore?? dig this. I just happened to be in the market for new bed linen and went looking for something known as fitted sheets. Yeah, yeah, this is not a normal guy to do thing but when you're single you end up with all kinds of weird and eccentric bits of knowledge in hand simply because there is no "significant other" on whom you can dump the whole gig and even if you did, you'd end up being dragged along when she went "shopping". So this particular whole search thing has been an ongoing saga since before Covid because this particular bed was bought specifically to fit the room and was never a common item to begin with; seems when the house was built the rooms were constructed to smaller specs to save space or something........ Anyway, So here I am looking for something called a "3/4" sized fitted sheet". And finally, did manage to find them, but check this out. Got the package in and, while reading the tag, discovered it was made from Egyptian Cotton that had been exported to India to be manufactured into sheets there. All that for a piece of cloth. And to add insult to injury it needs to be washed in Cold water or it will shrink!! Why?? Because North American Manufacturers are hip to the fact that cotton will shrink if exposed to hot water so they deliberately wash the raw fabric in repeated cycles of hot water to account for that phenomenom ahead of time. Products made from US produced cotton typically display a "Preshrunk" tag on them. The same product from overseas doesn't go through that step before being turned into a finished product. So the unwary buy things like shirts and pants, wear them, and then wash them, and wonder when they got so fat when they try to put those clothes on again. Not you buddy, you didn't get fat, its the product that got smaller due to shrinking when exposed to hot water.

As for scoring cheap blue jeans from the Sally Ann, I am a periodic donator of stuff like jeans and socks to them as well as to the Diabetic Clothesline project that performs a similar function except the proceeds go to Diabetes Research.

Most of what drives the final price tag around here is taxes and mark up. You can pretty much figure that the landed cost of those pants was only around 20.00-25.00. For the casual reader here, the term "landed" is applied to a product that has just made it past the receiving door and hit the intake floor. Usually it is composed of the wholesale or mfgr's cost to make, plus the profit attached to that, plus the cost of shipping and handling it by the delivery agent, again at a profit. i did this sort of dealing for a while and one of the negogiating points in a buy was who would pay the shipping; FOB meant that the shipper ate them, you're buying at volume, the least they can do is suck up the cost of delivery cause they are still making a healthy profit on the whole transaction.

Enough. The damaged pants are actually sitting downstairs and waiting for a tube of crazy glue and some time to apply it. The tear is on a seam so there is fabric available to use as a backer for the repair. Won't be go to the ball appropriate attire but servicable enough for work and shop.


Nick

 

[CopperNick]

OUCH. It sort of depends on how big and deep the slice is when you come to dealing with it. I have had good luck with a couple of loops of masking tape to hold the slice closed until the blood starts to clot. I have also heard that crazy glue can be used to "bond" the two edges together as a field expedient repair. I did find out quite by accident that you can use a Styptic Pencil, an item normally used to deal with cuts incurred during shaving, as way to encourage a slice to quit bleeding as well. The active ingredient, alum, I think, causes those little blood vessels to shrink and sort of self-seal. May take a couple of applications to get it to work but once everything bloody turns black then you lay on the masking tape or the duct tape or the electrical tape and move on. Black?? No, not the limb or finger or ??? just the blood itself.


Nick

 

[mclellan83]

Added the washer to the right side rear of the head unit and seems to be closer to straight now, gonna wait until I drive it around for final judgement

 

[Coltrane]

Put the new street tires on (BFG Radial T/A 275/60-15 on a Weld Prostar 15x8 with 3.5 BS)

 

[yennchi45]

Painted my new to me sun visors I got thanks to CrammerGram69. Then started working on my daughter wrecked car!

 

[pagrunt]

A small something for my '81, replaced the original parking brake pedal pad with the 2nd matching pad I grabbed awhile back.