What did you do to/with your van today?

leadtrombone · Post by **leadtrombone** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:04 am

Washed the outside from the snow crud that accumulated the last month. And the same on the inside. Vacuumed and got the trash out.

Now she feels a bit more better.... Yeah thats right. Then i set about contemplating projects that will probably never be. But i can dream right..

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yup all of them a bit out there for the time being.

OKflyboy · Post by **OKflyboy** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 7:17 pm

Today I:

- finished installing the backup camera I bought my wife for Christmas
- Replaced my "screaming" blower motor with a new one from Autozone.
- Removed my broken fake-chrome grill and epoxied it back together, then painted it black (it was the only chrome on the car, all other trim was already black from the factory. Never thought the chrome looked right anyway) then reinstalled the whole mess... and re-broke all my epoxy "welds" while reinstalling <sigh>
- Swapped out the broken factory CD player for a working factory cassette player. (I use a MP3 player with cassette adapter in my other car so a cassette player works out better anyway)

Not a bad day all-in-all.

Next day off I will remove my door panels and clean and re-lube my weak door-lock actuators.

Meterpig · Post by **Meterpig** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:52 am

Changed the oil, dumped the castrol syntec and put in Rotella semi synthetic. I didn't go with full synthetic as it appears to be losing oil somewhere.

Once I got under the truck, it appears to be coming from the main seal but I can't be sure. However, the is oil coming between the transmission and the engine. Yay.

I have been looking at the "ears" off the airbox and decided they had to go. Apparently GM did to as they were easy to remove. It felt good and now the van has a growl to it under full throttle. Heck, maybe it even has more pep!

I have decided the van is too high geared. Put lower axle gears on Christmas list.

Getting up my driveway in reverse takes entirely too much pedal pressure. 4.10's here I come! (well, after the wife hands the van off to me).

Sorry, no pictures of the flashlight yet.

wkastro · Post by **wkastro** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:28 pm

I rented an enclosed 6x10 trailer, and picked up a 2001 HD XL1200S about 50 miles away. The air temp was in the mid twenties (F), and the trans temperature never exceeded 140F according to the ScanGageII.

I love my AWD Astro, even though it is an inanimate object, and loving an inanimate object is positively irrational.

OKflyboy · Post by **OKflyboy** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:46 pm

OKflyboy wrote:Today I:
Next day off I will remove my door panels and clean and re-lube my weak door-lock actuators.

Tried that today. Door locks still function randomly (sometimes they lock/unlock fully, sometimes I only get half clicks out of them...) lame...

Post by **MountainManJoe** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:47 pm

Maybe the door lock switches are the problem.

OKflyboy · Post by **OKflyboy** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:56 pm

timelessbeing wrote:Maybe the door lock switches are the problem.

Possibly but, both of them? On the other hand, I suppose its as likely as all the door lock actuators going out at the same time... Honestly that's why I was so excited when I read here about the old lubricant getting sticky and causing problems, I figured it made sense with the way the door locks act - as though all the actuators were weak.

Anyway, its not too big a deal, I've had many cars without power locks in the past, so if its not a free and easy fix, I'm not going to bother.

Post by **MountainManJoe** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:12 pm

On my old car (also a GM) the power locks started getting flakey, and eventually quit altogether. The problem ended up being a cracked connection on a circuit board the switch was mounted to. So I just soldered on a bypass and they worked like new.

ihatemybike · Post by **ihatemybike** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:26 am

On my 94 the wires from body to door had cracked and would cause the locks to malfunction.

Meterpig · Post by **Meterpig** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:35 pm

timelessbeing wrote:pics or it didn`t happen

Post by **MountainManJoe** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:51 pm

That's a good spot. It's at the ready when some douche comes road raging at you.

Meterpig · Post by **Meterpig** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:04 pm

Exactly. The raised part in the floor I realized were actually heater vents to the rear. So, now we have a little more venting through the floor.

The dog house is good for a mutlitude of thing. I think it will work well for other, um, douche bag avoidance measures.

Post by **MountainManJoe** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:10 pm

don't be shy. show us what you did to your vents.

97CargoCrawler · Post by **97CargoCrawler** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:24 pm

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG on my doorstep when I got home!

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Oh, and I cleaned out all my valuables from the van so nothing gets swiped at 4wheelparts tomorrow when they install my new BFG KM2's.

Meterpig · Post by **Meterpig** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:57 pm

timelessbeing wrote:don't be shy. show us what you did to your vents.

you can't really see it. I just put a screw into it through the carpet before realizing.

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