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

[fleming442]

My "China boi" carb and fuel pump came in for the Murray; musta been the problem from Jump Street. Runs good, and finally got ALL the grass cut in one shot. It backfires on throttle down, but I'll deal with it for a while. More Ding How LED action, too.

 

[Clutch]

My deck collapsed under my hot tub so now it's drained and moved an old friend of mine that dose construction came by and gave me a hand. We moved the tub and pulled up all the Trex decking to find out it was sitting on 2 small tears in Sonic tubes. Well here at the Jersey shore the ground is sand and they sunk like torpedoes. So tomorrow I hand dig holes and pore concrete footings put brackets on the floor joists because there aren't any. Level the framing and redeck it. So much for working on my car tomorrow.

At least the wood is in good shape. I'll need to get up before Lauren and dispose of some remains I found under there but it's all good won't be the first hole I dug and I'm sure it won't be the last.

 

[Clutch]

I've decided I don't like mixing and poring concrete!!! Shawn came back today and we dug up the crappy footings. The back one that sunk bad was only about a foot deep. Way to get passed the frost line! We literally removed it by hand.

The other one seems to be way deeper so we just dug around it. Then we mixed 20 bags of concrete and filled the holes right to the boards. Right or wrong it's done. The plan is to let it set up a few days before we put the deck back together.

I've lived here about 16 years so maybe it will last another 16 or so. Home Depot doesn't have the same deck boards so I'm going to need to check around to try and find 2 new ones maybe 84 or woodhaven lumber will have them. Now I need to go out and clean up the mess.

 

[Bonnewagon]

I grabbed my Grandson and we painted the entire trailer. It was hot and humid which was perfect for the TrailerCoat. It is moisture cured. And REAL HARD to get off your skin.

 

[69hurstolds]

Well, tecnically it was yesterday I finished up on it, but I got my Retrax Powertrax Pro MX rolling bed cover installed on the new truck. I searched and researched for almost a month before I settled on a Powertrax. I bought it on the last day of the 10% off sale. $2,599 regular price. I managed to save $259.90. Took a bite out of the budget. But it has sealed rollers, a 3 year warranty, and it's made rather sturdy and sure seems like a quality unit. Hopefully it'll last a long time. I think it can hold about 400 lbs on the top (evenly distributed they say). Dang thing weighs a bit over 100 lbs assembled and getting it into the truck pretty much by myself was a PITA. You have to assemble the rails on the canister unit first then lift the whole thing up into the truck. Umph! Wife "helped" but she more or less guided it rather than help lift it. But I got 'er done.

Routing the wiring from the battery back to the unit was fun. I can confirm the 2020 Sierras have the frame wax as well as my old 2010. FUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....k!!! That stuff sucks to work around.

I had a bakflip on the 2010, and it was nice, but this bad dad is the cat's azz! I think I'm going to love it. Eats up a little space in the front, but not terrible. It has a fob control to open or close it (no manual way to do it though if your battery craps out) but you can mate it with the Home Link buttons on the overhead console so you don't have to have the fob with you 100% of the time. Got to do that yet, but this is LOVELY. The wife likes it because she's not tall enough to operate a manual Retrax very efficiently, so it's good for her should I ever allow her to drive my truck!

 

[Injectedcutty]

Finally changed our outdoor lighting out front. The door light was rough looking, and the "used to be" motion light by the garage door was broken and such when we bought the house. I'm a picky azz, so it took awhile to find matching lights that I liked. Menards had em in stock, and the larger is a motion dusk to dawn unit...

 

[joesregalproject]

Had a pretty big branch fall in the yard so I got out my Poulan 2800 and cut it up. This saw is from 1986 and is original down to the chain. I bought it for $25 from an old lady at a yard sale not running. Needed fuel lines. It's small at 46cc but it's a great limbing saw. Probably was only used a handful of times.

Found this in the woods. No idea who's it was or how long its been back there. Gonna Evapo-Rust it and see what happens.

Saw Momma hawk way up in the trees this morning. Got a picture of her before she took off.

And I put the Cub Cadet up on ramps and pressure washed underneath the deck. Grass was starting to build up and I really don't want this machine getting rusty.

 

[81cutlass]

Doodge stuff

Was out of town at my buddies place and worked on his 72 roadbummer a bit.

Tried to get to a point where we could start it but ran out of time and realized the car didn't have an engine wiring harness so we gave up. The hillbillies he bought it from had had hot wired the b block in and nothing is right.

I did get the spread bore Holley rebuilt and swapped the secondary meetering plate with a metering block for more adjustability. The carb and new used 4 barrel are good to go.

Plus a few parts we needed didn't show up so we threw in the towel and decided to go through the trunk. Ended up finding the engine harness sitting in the trunk, possibly a 318 harness and not a 383 one but it's enough to install. Also found a big block electric distributor to ditch the points and the dual quad intake we both thought was a 6 pack.

None of the charging circuit is wired up and I peaked under the dash to see what horrors awaited us and it was worse than we thought. The fuse panel is wire butt connected to the rest of the chassis harness so I have no clue what's going on there. They make new $600 dash harnesses but he's cheap so it might be a pull the harness and probe and resolder all the connections.

 

[pagrunt]

Learned to hate doing the plug in the '14 Silverado. #8 refused to let go of the wire boot until I had to pull the inner fender just to get access. The video I watched to learn this said it's easier to do all the plugs with the inner fenders removed. Glad I don't have to do this for another 100K miles. Before this adventure took the wife to check out two choices for possible new rides. She picked a '17 Sante Fe with no turbo (22K on the clock) cause it feels like the '07 she'll be trading in. We pick it up Thursday.

 

[UC645]

Had the daily in the shop to rotate the tires, but there’s something off with this caliper, I just can’t put my finger on what....