What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2023]

[MrSony]

Drilled that damn stud out.
Gave it probably the first pressure wash it's ever had. Grandparents had it 14 years and I'm pretty sure it's sat outside that entire time.

 

[ck80]

Yeah not too bad for Easter today, some chocolates- great weather and found the new alternator I needed, with the stereo installed.

Some guy was selling a non used CS130 that he bought new sometime in the 90's- for $40 f***** dollars 😎🤘🤘🤘

Metal looked aged but not rusted, it's very clean. All I did was use the old alternator V Belt pulley, and cut the brown/GEN wire to run to the terminal for lamp on the 4 pin connector lmao 😎😂😂😂

This should work, for now as the CS144 I just am so poor to have in school 😤😭😭😭

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That's a lot of tape under that hood around all those spliced wires... the way it's done up, looks ripe to trap moisture underneath.

 

[g0thiac]

That's a lot of tape under that hood around all those spliced wires... the way it's done up, looks ripe to trap moisture underneath.

They are properly insulated, but I still add lots of tape to keep them strong still.

And the blue colors, fits the late 70's engine block haha 😎🤣🤣🤣

 

[ck80]

They are properly insulated, but I still add lots of tape to keep them strong still.

And the blue colors, fits the late 70's engine block haha 😎🤣🤣🤣

Partly just a matter of taste, but, I prefer to use an end to end heat shrink butt connector where I also put a section of heat shrink tubing on like you'd get cheap at harbor freight.

Slide the tubing on one end of wiring, then make my connection, shrink the ends to the original insulation. Then slide the raw tube of bonus heat shrink up so it now covers the entire new and shrunk sealed connection plus a couple inches overlap either side, then shrink that again over the whole repair.

No question of anything coming loose or getting any water up inside to corrode, with an added bonus that it just looks like thicker wire section. (Which, even then, I often cover with cheap black plastic loom from the swap meets.)

 

[86LK]

friend of mine pointed out a weirdness under the hood on my 08 Silverado today, something never noticed. on the wiring harness under the master cylinder, down by the firewall, there is a wire with a large flat ring terminal that is folded up external to the harness conduit cover and then electrical taped to the outside of the wiring harness. the wire color is red with a black stripe. anybody have an idea of what this might be?
I'll try to get a pic posted tomorrow. but here's an example of where it would be with the yellow x/circle

 

[joesregalproject]

Next one you do, add some battle damage. Dollar Tree ( $1.25 Tree???) Has cheapo mini screwdrivers like eyeglass repair kits, a few in a pack. If you insulate the handle for holding purposes, then heat the tip, you can mimic Bullet holes by melting through the plastic. If you get an old school oil lamp and crank the wick up inside the hurricane glass, it'll make soot out of the lamp oil. Can mimic exhaust residues, or, flame damage that was extinguished by passing the model through the soot cloud at top, just beware the heat of leaving it too long. Then a sealing clear traps the soot on so it doesn't rub off. More useful on cars/tanks, but, also can work near engines on planes.

The airbrush and acrylic paints are a game changer. I used a spray can for the gray basecoat on this model and it'll be the last spray can I ever use on a model. I got the $99 Harbor Freight Avanti kit and it works great. I've read the brush itself isn't the best but it seems to work okay now that I'm getting a feel for it. Kind of a pain to clean though.

The only decent hobby shop near me has a massive inventory so I find it hard to browse without getting overwhelmed. That said they have about 3 or 4 huge display racks of washes and weathering effects.

 

[DRIVEN]

Trailer brake.

 

[Hurricane77]

Had a pretty significant ice storm roll through the area on Wednesday last week. Lost power for about an hour in the morning before it came back. The lost it again in the early afternoon and was out for ~50 hours before they were finally able to restore power early Friday evening. Storm had passed, and crews were brought in from all over to help repair the damage. Lost power once more on Saturday for about 4 hours, presumably they had to shut us down while working on part of the grid.

Walked the property a bit on Wednesday during the storm and could hear trees snapping off all over the place. I think there was something like 270,000 customers without power in Eastern Ontario and another 1.1 million in western Quebec.

My cheap old Champion generator worked like a champ though. 50 hours straight without stopping. With all the precipitation, the spring melt and no power, flooding has been a big issue. I have my sump pump on a UPS, but I don't think it liked the power coming from my generator. Ran the battery down on the UPS and ended up with a couple of inches of water in the basement. Didn't completely destroy the laminate flooring down there, but definitely some swelling at the edge.

 

[ck80]

Had a pretty significant ice storm roll through the area on Wednesday last week. Lost power for about an hour in the morning before it came back. The lost it again in the early afternoon and was out for ~50 hours before they were finally able to restore power early Friday evening. Storm had passed, and crews were brought in from all over to help repair the damage. Lost power once more on Saturday for about 4 hours, presumably they had to shut us down while working on part of the grid.

Walked the property a bit on Wednesday during the storm and could hear trees snapping off all over the place. I think there was something like 270,000 customers without power in Eastern Ontario and another 1.1 million in western Quebec.

My cheap old Champion generator worked like a champ though. 50 hours straight without stopping. With all the precipitation, the spring melt and no power, flooding has been a big issue. I have my sump pump on a UPS, but I don't think it liked the power coming from my generator. Ran the battery down on the UPS and ended up with a couple of inches of water in the basement. Didn't completely destroy the laminate flooring down there, but definitely some swelling at the edge.

I can see by joesregalproject 's reaction the wheels were turning looking at the pics, 'well, I'd use this stihl here. And this stihl there. And that other stihl there.'...

 

[mclellan83]

Since the Monte is down until who knows when and the GTO is waiting to go under the knife next I ended up taking the El Camino to the first Cars N Coffee