What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2020]

[Supercharged111]

My 350 Vortec has over 270,000 miles, it's been good to me.

I got my B&M swapped out for an MGW in the Camaro, much tighter feeling in the garage. Hopefully it fixes my missed 2-3 shifts. Not sure how long for this world my boot is though.

 

[fleming442]

Granpop's old Murray has served me well. She started acting funny once hot a few weeks ago. The most obvious culprit was the pinched, spongy fuel line, so I did that first. Turned out to be no bueno after jumpstarting with the Pig- crank no fire. Tore it down, and now I'm on the hunt for a stator and wire/coil pack. I'm too embarrassed to have even taken before pics, but everything was brown.

 

[Texas82GP]

Granpop's old Murray has served me well. She started acting funny once hot a few weeks ago. The most obvious culprit was the pinched, spongy fuel line, so I did that first. Turned out to be no bueno after jumpstarting with the Pig- crank no fire. Tore it down, and now I'm on the hunt for a stator and wire/coil pack. I'm too embarrassed to have even taken before pics, but everything was brown.
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Love that "MADE IN USA"!

 

[Supercharged111]

So the dually blew the rear main out clear into the flywheel. Prior it would puke oil smoke out the exhaust and the main would dump oil under the truck on the exhaust too. Any time boost or RPMs were up there the truck would stink to hell and back and guzzle oil. I vented the crank better as a proof of concept and it worked, so I further refined it by routing the fumes into the intake. To do this I used a silicone port.

See that pretty AN fitting? Its corresponding 90 degree hose fitting ended up being too small, so today I grabbed some crap from Lowe's to make it play nice.

That's more fitting the theme of this truck. And the ghetto *ss port I mounted it to. The finished product is still cleaner than what it replaces.

Next step is to summon the motivation to remove lower intake, weld a bung to the oil filler neck, and permanently install that way. So looking like next winter because the truck works and it's race/camp season. I also changed the oil and cut open the filter since running it dry twice and found nothing more than a flake here and there, not sure how concerned I should be as I've got some hauling miles on it since the new rear main went in.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Got the pool up and running, shocked it for three days to ensure its sanitized. Still need to add more Borox and Calcium increaser. Stupid solar panels developed another week and waiting for replacement O rings.

 

[Clutch]

Worked. A lot trying to get my head cleared.

The new truck is taking me to work tomorrow for the first time and probably to meet someone for the first time this weekend that looks A LOT like Lauren but slightly older earlier today I must have been overhead my eyes were leaking coolant I think I have to much circulation I may rip out my thermostat and use a restrictor washer

And it's the end of an era the suburbans feet has not yet been chosen but I'm about done with it it's all cleaned out except for the parts that go to it

That's all for now until this weekend I bid you farewell

 

[81cutlass]

I 3800 swapped the hydraulic motor test stand on campus today.

Needed a hall effect sensor to trigger the instrumentation logging system.

I dug through my parts bin at home and found a random 3800 crank sensor and plug. Brought it in, wired it up, and bolted it on.

And it worked!

 

[fleming442]

Blasted and painted the flywheel off the Murray. Got stuff loaded in the Amazon cart to pull the trigger tomorrow morning: stator, mag, plugs, air and fuel filters. Almost ordered an oil filter, then did some checking and found out there isn't one. Grrrrr. I hope the stator is right. There are about 6 different listed, and of course, seller pics may not represent the actual item. I'm about 80% sure I got the part number right; can't find it on the part itself.

 

[pontiacgp]

Worked. A lot trying to get my head cleared.
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The new truck is taking me to work tomorrow for the first time and probably to meet someone for the first time this weekend that looks A LOT like Lauren but slightly older earlier today I must have been overhead my eyes were leaking coolant I think I have to much circulation I may rip out my thermostat and use a restrictor washer
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And it's the end of an era the suburbans feet has not yet been chosen but I'm about done with it it's all cleaned out except for the parts that go to it
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That's all for now until this weekend I bid you farewell

The Suburban should go for a high dollar, it only has 6,701 miles on it.....

 

[81cutlass]

One of the last steps to getting the drain tile project done on the house-

Steps!

I have it drawn out and the wood bought, had to do some guess and check work but I think it's a go now