What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2021]

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Haven't been finding much luck on marketplace lately.

Everything is shot, seller never replies or sells before I get my turn. I guess the search continues....

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Well I increased the fuel efficiency of my Duramax by fixing the fuel leaks! It was hemorrhaging fuel all over the right side of the engine and right front suspension from the POS plastic fuel filter so it got the xpd adapter kit and takes a cat filter now. Of course as soon as we turned on the fast pump to bleed the system it started leaking from the top of the primer pump. Had to get the part number online because the potato behind the counter said they didn't carry the o-ring kit the internet said they had in stock, after I borrowed a car to go pick it up but it's all good now. Next I need to eliminate the EGR cooler that's no good and leaking because the EGR was deleted improperly. Then I'll move on to glow plugs, up pipe, and aluminum charge pipe. Hopefully loosing the grid heater as well. Sorry guys no pictures this time diesel fuel and electronics don't mix.
 
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She wanted a tub that she can do the whole womany bubble bath thing and the upstairs tub is like 5" deep so time to put a tub in the basement bathroom.

Basement shower was one of those 30x30" things and made from the cheap shower board (Masonite board with white laminate) so demoing that.

The room has the length for a tub, it was just half shower and half random cubby so gotta demo the wall and widen the area to full width.

Gotta pull pipes to the far wall, move the drain a little, lots of stuff.

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Model building
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Woodworking (cabinetry hacking). Bought a new fridge 8 months ago and it finally showed up. Cabinet was too short so we had to cut 1.5" off the doors and move the bottom of the cabinet up to clear the top of the fridge.
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Installed! Could have bought a project car for as much as this damn thing cost but it's got an ice maker and water tap thing so I've hit the big time now.
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got my new to me King cutter bushhog finally hooked up to my tractor and let them get to know each other as I swapped out the undersized shear bolt for the correct size. and fired her up and let it chooch. I was looking for a 6 footer, but for 300 bones I couldnt pass this one up. Ill use it a bit and themn sell it and upgrade

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Did a bit more trimming on my rube goldberg designed custom made torquing and turning assistance tool. Introduced the drive end plate to my 4.5 for a little more editing and shaving to get it to both look and feel better. Today was supposed to the day that the finish welding was done but had to cancel that. Too old for the cold and spent most of the day dancing with the doctors, anyway; looks like they may have to tweak my heart meds and possibly add another to the list. I may slide on out to the shop in a day or two and do the finish passes myself. The tacks came out beautifully so creating a stack of tacks would do the trick but, (ain't there always a butt)....................................

While it's supposed to warm up tomorrow but around here that usually means more snow, **&%&#@#@&%$#@!!**. Was forced to dig out my snow blower for the last dump and the repair/rebuild work that I did to the carb last winter was worth every penny and minute of it; the brute lit off and idled down very nicely. The post mortem on the carb pre rebuild confirmed my suspicion that the float had sank; turnss out it was brass and the solder in the seams had been contaminated by the gas and rotted out. A quick shake of the part and you could hear the liquid inside. the new ones are some kind of poly-plastic and supposedly gas resistant. But, to be safe, I have a whole new one still in the box and waiting to be needed. Thought about tweaking the idle just a hair to smooth it out and bump it up a titch but left it as is for now. Tweaking carb settings while standing in a snow bank with my back to the wind got old thirty years ago. Nothing has happened since then to change my opinion on the subject.



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Well that sucks. Hope you can find one that understands vintage and classic cars and the absence of computers and cats.



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Well the general plan is to rinse down the truck manifold on my 5.3 and then give the whole top side a good amount of air driven drying time. After that, well the manifold screws all came away easy so they will come out and old manifold will get parked. I have a new to me LS6 manifold that is correct for a cathedral port LS2 so that will be the replacement. Will likely take the opportunity to plug the head ports and scrub the heads some more before I attempt to pop the rocker covers. I want to see what condition the rockers are in. This was a relatively low mileage motor but I suspect it did a lot of idling in its former incarnation.



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