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

[81cutlass]

Weekend was full of random house stuff.

Hooked up the trailer and off to me-nards to grab drywall and some joists to solve the sagging floor. I took backroads on the way home, lol. 16ft long boards on an 8ft trailer don't work that well lol. I got the stuff home though with only 3 cops totally ignoring my obviously mega-sketch hauling haha.

Sistered the cracked sagging beam with one of the 2x10's

Did both sides for good measure

And moved the can lights and hung drywall. I have never hung drywall before but my in laws were over and both them and my wife have done dozens of houses so it went pretty fast.

Sidelined as an HVAC tech too...

Also officially got my old heater out and the new garage heater running

The house has boiler zone heat, front of the house is on one zone and back of the house is on the back zone. Since the wife and I have been working from home for damn near a year since the 'Rona I spend my time in the back in my office and she's in the living room. I complain that the back of the house is cold and I tried upping the thermostat and it never worked. Looked at the zone valves and they both worked but the back zone didn't turn on the bump or burner. Asked Dad and he said that there is a microswitch in the zone valves that puke out regularly. I checked and yep, dead.

Ordered a new zone valve actuator and changed that. This setup is different than all the youtube vids I watched and when I removed the screws retaining the motor all the water from the system drained out. Ugh. BS'ed around with that for 3 hours trying to get the new actuator to seal to the old housing and getting all the air out of the system.

Swapped the charge pump too since the main shaft seal and bearings were weeping.

But the rear zone heat control works now so I don't complain about being cold as much as I used to.

 

[MrSony]

Got it running last night. In the snow. The heat from our feet make the surrounding area slickernshit so we almost died about every 5 minutes. The dist was a few teeth off, but as fords do, was seized into the block (timing cover?). Bracing a breaker bar against it I gave it a good whack and it freed up. Moved it a bit, got some fuel to it in a borrowed carb, and she lit off. had to cut the exhaust off because the mufflers were plugged up.
Damn mice.
30+ years. Title was last issued/updated 11/12/1986. Parked around 1990.

 

[81cutlass]

Got it running last night. In the snow. The heat from our feet make the surrounding area slickernshit so we almost died about every 5 minutes. The dist was a few teeth off, but as fords so, was siezed into the block (timing cover?). Bracing a breaker bar against it I gave it a good whack and it freed up. Moved it a bit, got some fuel to it in a borrowed carb, and she lit off. had to cut the exhaust off because the mufflers were plugged up.
Damn mice.
30+ years. Title was last issued/updated 11/12/1986. Parked around 1990.

THUNDERTURD!

 

[Supercharged111]

Got it running last night. In the snow. The heat from our feet make the surrounding area slickernshit so we almost died about every 5 minutes. The dist was a few teeth off, but as fords so, was siezed into the block (timing cover?). Bracing a breaker bar against it I gave it a good whack and it freed up. Moved it a bit, got some fuel to it in a borrowed carb, and she lit off. had to cut the exhaust off because the mufflers were plugged up.
Damn mice.
30+ years. Title was last issued/updated 11/12/1986. Parked around 1990.

So. . . burnouts? It is a big block. . .

 

[81cutlass]

So. . . burnouts? It is a big block. . .

If I recall it's a 429 4V

Not my project but I think it belongs in a Maverick or a Fox 🙂

 

[ck80]

If I recall it's a 429 4V

Not my project but I think it belongs in a Maverick or a Fox 🙂

I vote mustang II cobra

 

[motorheadmike]

The girls got to go back to school today (Yippee!).

Mom dropped the girls off and then called to say she had a no start condition. FFS. Dead battery (showing 10.8v on the dash, amazing it even started). Call CAA (AAA in the US) and she waits two hours for a jump. Where was I during this time? Oh I got to f*ck around with a dead battery of my own in the TBSS. It wouldn't take jump. Eventually I stole the Monte's battery (same as the TBSS, Grp 78) and got it fired off.

It is -16*C (~9*F) today.

Yes, the battery in my TBSS was frozen.

 

[Supercharged111]

The girls got to go back to school today (Yippee!).

Mom dropped the girls off and then called to say she had a no start condition. FFS. Dead battery (showing 10.8v on the dash, amazing it even started). Call CAA (AAA in the US) and she waits two hours for a jump. Where was I during this time? Oh I got to f*ck around with a dead battery of my own in the TBSS. It wouldn't take jump. Eventually I stole the Monte's battery (same as the TBSS, Grp 78) and got it fired off.

It is -16*C (~9*F) today.

Yes, the battery in my TBSS was frozen.

Sounds like it's time for a bigger garage.

 

[motorheadmike]

Sounds like it's time for a bigger garage.

Or get a time machine and just keep reliving 2019.

 

[ck80]

Or get a time machine and just keep reliving 2019.

There's Way Waaaaay WAAAAAAAAAY better years to relive than 2019.

Makes me think of bill Murray complaining in groundhog day about why he couldn't relive the day he ate lobsters and made love like sea otters on the beach with a girl he knew.