Don't strip the plug threads! 3v plugs aren't a big deal with the extraction tool. Stripped 2v plug threads suckkk.
What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]
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Don't strip the plug threads! 3v plugs aren't a big deal with the extraction tool. Stripped 2v plug threads suckkk.
To some degree the triton motor gets a bad rap that, sometimes, to some.degree, isn't entirely deserved. We got my inlaws to 350k before they gave it to a nephew. Never did anything but normal maintenance to it, and, never had any issues doing that maintenance. Now, they bought it new, never did work it hard, mostly just driving around. King ranch interior held up nice too.
Pulled the water pump off the Cutlass and swapped it over to the 2500. Went for a couple drives around the block. Wouldn't even touch the 210 mark. Let it idle for a bit wouldn't creep up.
Things I noticed on the drive, Seem a little sluggish, might possibly be the brakes dragging some. It's been sitting for probably a year and half. Going to do a tune up, take the wheels off, and check to see if any calipers are stuck.
Things I noticed on the drive, Seem a little sluggish, might possibly be the brakes dragging some. It's been sitting for probably a year and half. Going to do a tune up, take the wheels off, and check to see if any calipers are stuck.
Completed my SPL setup for the Chevy Caprice here.
I’ve been experimenting with different sub types, sizes, boxes for them, as well as amps- and have concluded this is probably my best bet so far 👀👌
So yesterday, I installed my ‘15 Cerwin Vega 154, and my ‘12 MTX Thunder 6000.
Both are 4 ohm subs, running in parallel for 2 ohm stable, around 800ish RMS on my Kenwood 9106-D amp.
I don’t have the gains cranked even half way, and it shakes the car so much when driving it makes you a bit nauseated.
6x9’s are Kicker DSC69304’s.
Single DIN - Pioneer DEH-P8300UB stereo.
I’ve been experimenting with different sub types, sizes, boxes for them, as well as amps- and have concluded this is probably my best bet so far 👀👌
So yesterday, I installed my ‘15 Cerwin Vega 154, and my ‘12 MTX Thunder 6000.
Both are 4 ohm subs, running in parallel for 2 ohm stable, around 800ish RMS on my Kenwood 9106-D amp.
I don’t have the gains cranked even half way, and it shakes the car so much when driving it makes you a bit nauseated.
6x9’s are Kicker DSC69304’s.
Single DIN - Pioneer DEH-P8300UB stereo.
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So I took a local boat ride tonight. It's something my wife wanted to do for her birthday it's not car related or even a project but one thing I've learned the hard way is happy wife happy life. Ant my friends is a project in and of itself. So here's some of the highlights of the evening. Don't worry tomorrow I'll get back in dirt and rust.
Sometimes it's kinda cool being in dirty jersey
Sometimes it's kinda cool being in dirty jersey
So about this time last year i had a box show up on my doorstep that just happened to contain a refugee from E-Bay; to be precise, a complete wheel assembly for a late 47-53 Indian Chief, less the rubber.
As you may have already be aware, the condition of this gem was rather less than pristine, to the point where I gave up on trying to delouse it using regular means and let it sit. This spring I went out and bought a kid's wading pool and 5 gallons of feed grade molasses. The ratio varies from video to video but averages out at between 1/5, to 1/10. That is, 1 gallon of molasses to 5 gallons of water. The wading pool becomes the tank and into the mixture the wheel was to go. (Yeah, well someone git me a shotgun, them pigs are trying to fly again)
Today, because it was both hot and quiet, i decided for no other reason to pop the main door open and drag out the portable vise onto the approach. Added a micro shelf to the vise and clamped the wheel to that with vise grips. Dug out my hammer driven impact tool from the main box in the basement, retrieved my copperhead heavy hammer from under the roller cab, and applied some hammer driven torque to the spoke nipples; Just for Sh*** and G*ggl*s. Took a few major pops to encourage the first few but after that they all seemed to get the message and a few actually moved under no greater influence than a 5/16ths combo wrench.
All together, it took about 5 hours to turn the wheel into a rim, spokes, and the hub. Lost one spoke to the dreaded snap of spoke suicide. Another looked iffy but gave up when I introduced it to a pair of vice grips to control the twist.
Summary: The rim is original and drilled for the the large diameter spoke nipples, .343" in dia, They are old school but still can be had from Buchanans. Same goes for the spokes as the incumbents are nasty; badly corroded and rotten, plus a few that seem to want to imitate boomerangs. The hub needs some serious wire wheel love but could easily be laced to another rim and used as was. Me, I'm picky.
As for the rim, well I still have the molasses in the pail and the wading pool, and the rim is looking more and more like a prime candidate to go for a swim. Good thing about the molasses is that, once done I can dump the whole mess into my vegetable garden as fertilizer for next year. Be kind of neat if I could Rube Goldberg a device to dump molasses on the cats when they come a-calling to use my garden as a latrine.............................. now I wonder................
Nick
As you may have already be aware, the condition of this gem was rather less than pristine, to the point where I gave up on trying to delouse it using regular means and let it sit. This spring I went out and bought a kid's wading pool and 5 gallons of feed grade molasses. The ratio varies from video to video but averages out at between 1/5, to 1/10. That is, 1 gallon of molasses to 5 gallons of water. The wading pool becomes the tank and into the mixture the wheel was to go. (Yeah, well someone git me a shotgun, them pigs are trying to fly again)
Today, because it was both hot and quiet, i decided for no other reason to pop the main door open and drag out the portable vise onto the approach. Added a micro shelf to the vise and clamped the wheel to that with vise grips. Dug out my hammer driven impact tool from the main box in the basement, retrieved my copperhead heavy hammer from under the roller cab, and applied some hammer driven torque to the spoke nipples; Just for Sh*** and G*ggl*s. Took a few major pops to encourage the first few but after that they all seemed to get the message and a few actually moved under no greater influence than a 5/16ths combo wrench.
All together, it took about 5 hours to turn the wheel into a rim, spokes, and the hub. Lost one spoke to the dreaded snap of spoke suicide. Another looked iffy but gave up when I introduced it to a pair of vice grips to control the twist.
Summary: The rim is original and drilled for the the large diameter spoke nipples, .343" in dia, They are old school but still can be had from Buchanans. Same goes for the spokes as the incumbents are nasty; badly corroded and rotten, plus a few that seem to want to imitate boomerangs. The hub needs some serious wire wheel love but could easily be laced to another rim and used as was. Me, I'm picky.
As for the rim, well I still have the molasses in the pail and the wading pool, and the rim is looking more and more like a prime candidate to go for a swim. Good thing about the molasses is that, once done I can dump the whole mess into my vegetable garden as fertilizer for next year. Be kind of neat if I could Rube Goldberg a device to dump molasses on the cats when they come a-calling to use my garden as a latrine.............................. now I wonder................
Nick
They definitely aren't as bad as their reputation. Plenty of them are dead reliable. They undoubtedly have issues but when you consider how much new technology they incorporated, they were good engines. If I remember right, they were the most powerful half ton powerplant from Ford, Chevy or Dodge for several years.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree. At least on the powerful part.
Are you forgetting the lightning using the 5.4? In fact, from what ive read the longblock was to be identical except for pistons - same forged crank, same rods, same heads, same block, at least through 2001 when regular triton 5.4s got a cast crank and lightning kept the f7 forged unit.
In the early 2000s it made 380hp from the factory with the Eaton on it.
No half ton v8 from dodge, no ls in the silverado/Sierra 1500 touched it at the dealerships. I believe that was joesregalproject point, but, he can correct me if im not following correctly.
We're talking out of the factory. And when new. Not what you can do with a 2020 Chinese turbo to a $200 disposable junkyard core 2 decades later.
Even when the silverado SS came back in 03-06, it's 6.0L was rated 20 or more hp less than the 5.4L.
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