What did you do to your non-G Body project today [2024 edition]

[CopperNick]

Finding good heat shields might prove to be something of a snipe hunt as they do seem to be built to commit suicide. Those cute little screws that hold the shields must be rusty from the factory, I never did get all of them to come out of the exhaust manifolds on my 5.3. I think I broke as many as actually did unscrew. As for the shields, they finally went to the scrap yard this fall. Price of scrap was lousy but I had too much absolute junk strewn about in pails and pans so it all got consolidated and disposed of. I did manage to get rid of the remaining stumps through the simple expedient of taking my air die grinder motor and using a couple of bits to whittle down and smooth out the lumps and bumps on the stockers. Doesn't help the flow much but does make it easier to handle them without coming away with lacerated fingers.


Nick

 

[pagrunt]

Climbed around the family tree this evening doing more research on who all is responsible for Jr. & I. was able to work a branch back to the 8th century based on new info from this summer. Interesting, disturbing, & nice having ancestors with Wikipedia pages. From this, for now on I'll only answer to King Hermey, ruler of the Island of Misfit Toys.

 

[Ugly1]

Climbed around the family tree this evening doing more research on who all is responsible for Jr. & I. was able to work a branch back to the 8th century based on new info from this summer. Interesting, disturbing, & nice having ancestors with Wikipedia pages. From this, for now on I'll only answer to King Hermey, ruler of the Island of Misfit Toys.
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Did the same last summer. Found out I’m a high end mutt of all over the place.

 

[Fred Pitz]

I gave it a light cleanup, added Stabil and put it away for the winter.

 

[ck80]

Came into possession of these, which, I didn't even know were a thing:

 

[Malibu795]

Getting down to the nickel dime stuff on my frame swap
Fighting couple brake line flare jobs on the abs module. Got some longer versiony coming Tuesday.
Picked up a B&W GN hitch, got that installed.
Some reason brake lights only work when key is in the on/run position... Not sure wassup with that.

 

[86LK]

Came into possession of these, which, I didn't even know were a thing:


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Son of Trans-Am?

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

Son of Trans-Am?

It was born due to Trans Am racing.

 

[86LK]

It was born due to Trans Am racing.

that's what I figured, just never heard it referred to as such.

had a customer in the store the other night...1972 Mustang. needed a transmission filter kit and our computer didn't have such a beast. the young kid I work with ordered something in but had not checked it. I told him to look up the Application tab which listed F500, LN800, etc. I ten asked "do you see Mustang listed anywhere?"

I then told him (customer and kid) we would need to know engine and transmission model to order the proper one, and then proceeded to school them on how to do so. customer says "I have VIN". computer couldn't use that either.
I pulled up RockAuto, and proceeded to lookup...car has either a inline, 302, or 351. asked customer if it was an automatic ("Yes"), said it was probably a C4/C6 but not positive because FMX was also an option even if unlikely (they were not commonly used). we didn't even know WHICH 351 it was. I then found a HotRod article which informed it was a 351 Cleveland, but the C4/C6 were identical otherwise.
told the customer to go home, crawl under and take a pic of the transmission pan. that would i.d. the transmission

wth are they teaching autoshop kids in school these days?

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

that's what I figured, just never heard it referred to as such.

had a customer in the store the other night...1972 Mustang. needed a transmission filter kit and our computer didn't have such a beast. the young kid I work with ordered something in but had not checked it. I told him to look up the Application tab which listed F500, LN800, etc. I ten asked "do you see Mustang listed anywhere?"

I then told him (customer and kid) we would need to know engine and transmission model to order the proper one, and then proceeded to school them on how to do so. customer says "I have VIN". computer couldn't use that either.
I pulled up RockAuto, and proceeded to lookup...car has either a inline, 302, or 351. asked customer if it was an automatic ("Yes"), said it was probably a C4/C6 but not positive because FMX was also an option even if unlikely (they were not commonly used). we didn't even know WHICH 351 it was. I then found a HotRod article which informed it was a 351 Cleveland, but the C4/C6 were identical otherwise.
told the customer to go home, crawl under and take a pic of the transmission pan. that would i.d. the transmission

wth are they teaching autoshop kids in school these days?

I'm from a small farming town in Kansas where everyone works on their own rigs and they cancelled auto shop before I even got to high school in '00. It was a painful joke that irritated me greatly. Even metal/ woodshop is considerably different nowadays because the teachers are fresh out of college, not grizzly old men with a lifetime of experience. Instead of Auto Shop we had "Transportation" class where you sat at a computer with headphones on instead of getting dirty. The worst part was that a previous class had built a sandrail that just sat in the room dying. We couldn't work on our cars or anything else for that matter even though there was a locked tool cage complete with carbs and other parts.