Chevy & GMC Vans

justice wrote:drove it

same here. I haven't had to fix anything in at least 2 months. It even passed the emissions testing with flying colors. I'm starting to get paranoid.

Aimed new headlight bulbs today. Jim

bled the brakes, pulled the jack stands out (finally)... took it for test drive..... new rear end (from 88 astro shorty) seems fine.... spring helpers picked the back end up over 2" new shocks seem to help.... but haven't taken it over any bumpy roads yet... give it a better test tomorrow.

Grumpy: Beautiful morning to install new rotors. Pull the caliper off on the passenger side and notice a leak. Start searching the caliper to find it completely dry. Check the brake line dry too. Plus it smells more like oil than brake fluid. What the heck is leaking oil over here? Crap, the shock just puked it's guts. Held on for over 308k miles though.

Yesterday, Drove 644 miles. Averaged 19.85 mpg. New Headlights are great, I would recommend them highly. Jim

Wife drove it. Had a blowout. Now it's time to replace all of the tires. Damn....

25% Off: Feeling like I was stuck in project hell with Green and Grumpy, I decided to make a run to my brothers and pull some more parts off the parts van. I set out with the idea that I'd grab the wheels, crankshaft position sensor, distributor, and front shocks.

I started with the wheels. Previously I had left a pair of donuts on the front from the dolly tow, so I only had to swap out the rear wheels for...a couple more donuts. Found out something I didn't notice before too. The AWD vans use a much larger donut. So now the van has two 16" rim donuts in the front, two 18" rim donuts in the rear, and looks seriously funny.

During the wheel swap the rain started so I put the shocks off till a later date. The crankshaft position sensor was a quick grab so I did that in the rain, then I climbed inside and pulled the distributor.

yesterday finished a 1200 km round-trip to my old mans property did the last 80 km on a flatbed water pump kicked the bucket on the highway. I also attempted to get pictures of a blue jay stealing peanuts from a chipmunk and a red squirrel pretty funny to watch them chase each other way

Grumpy: Swapped the distributor and crankshaft position sensor then crossed my fingers hoping the P0302 problem was fixed. Nope.

Grumpy: Discovered that after yesterday's work that Grumpy will now set P0300 in addition to the P0302.

Passed inspection!

can't beat that, one less ticket to worry about.

Checked it one more time before the trip to "Balloon Mecca". Cherie packed everything. "Lord have mercy" there's barely room for me.

installed new water pump, fixed loose egr valve, changed alt pulley (shouldn't have going to change it back tomorrow), re-aimed headlights (hope they are not so offensive to other drivers now) and test drove it no leaks that i can find