Chevy & GMC Vans

SoCalli V8 wrote:Fitted my hood struts.

Vvvery Nice Darren!
all I've managed to do is develop a cold idle miss. ah well the weekend is close. it will give me something to do. Van's run so good for so long I've become paranoid anyway....

I smoothed out my firewall panel today, getting rid of some ugly holes, to make it more pleasing to the eye when I open the hood. I am gonna remount my MSD box to a more air cooled location.

Tried to replace the donut spare on the LT with the newly repaired tire.Grrrrrr-the tire went down again.

Took a look at the lip on one side window to see how I am going to do the window filler on Ole Yellar.Looks like I will be able to shim it to lay the panel on the shim.More to come on that.

decided to have the transmission rebuilt on the 87...

and just discovered it needs a new muffler as well....

Visited my friend's shop today. We pulled the headliner and removed the roof rack. Started mapping out where to cut the roof for my DIY pop-top project...


Mapped out the x/y plane of the roof on paper so we can update the CAD model. Next week or so we'll scribe the roof curves for the z-direction...

Grumpy: Re-installed the front drive shaft, changed the transfer case fluid, added Lucas Transmission Fix to the trans, then went for a drive that included some gravel road burn outs.

Also mounted tires on the red rims that will be going on Grumpy once a balance has been done.

friday - new (rebuilt) trans in the 87

saturday - new Flowmaster and tailpipe on the 87

Sunday - new front brakes on the 92

wednesday - changed the oil in the 99 and 93 - checked all fluid levels
thursday - washed both - cleaned out back of 93
friday - steam cleaned carpets in the front of 99. all carpets in 93
sunday - made up for sale signs for the 93 (haven't put them on the windows yet)

Friday:Helped a friend move (only took one trip in my van and his Mazda 3...)
Saturday:vacuumed out van (previous owner wasn't very clean it seems) reinstalled seats and drove back over to his new place to help mount TV and blinds (that was a adventure snapped a bolt of in a cement wall)
Sunday: Drove to beamsville for no apparent reason...
today:drove to work depressed because i didn't get to work on my van this beautiful weekend

monday - deinstalled caprice rims and tires and went to local shop and had the snows removed and BFG long trails mounted on the caprice rims for the 93 .. now she look sporty LOL (minus the rocker rust) wish i could clean them up without removing the running boards i have a fear i'll never get them mounted again and break all the hardware getting them off LOL

Replaced the front shocks.

Herbie wrote:
Visited my friend's shop today. We pulled the headliner and removed the roof rack. Started mapping out where to cut the roof for my DIY pop-top project...


Mapped out the x/y plane of the roof on paper so we can update the CAD model. Next week or so we'll scribe the roof curves for the z-direction...

Looking forward to seeing how this project works out

drove it,filled the gas. lol

Drove to my garage to pick up tools to take off parts at a junk yard for the LT.(yeah it is a long drive to the garage on the other side of town)Then drove to the other side of town to the junk yard which was closed.Grrrrr.It was too late to drive to another yard I deal with.Well I did a pretty good job of spinning my wheels.Stopped by a wally world for a flasher/bulbs and yep they don't sell flashers.Guess it was one of those days better spent in bed.