Chevy & GMC Vans

Any 4x4 offroad shops around there? There must be with all the wheeling out there. Find a shop that builds roll cages and/or race car chassis's.

Plugs, wires, cap and rotor.... 2hrs

Oil change.... 20 minutes

chit chat ..... the rest of it..


went in through the wheel wells for all the plug. a bit of a pain but better than through the doghouse.

Finally have my new wheels on.. (Pic to come later)

I wanted to take pics of the whole procedure but i forgot the camera. shucks.

And i fixed the heater... After fixing the vacuum hose to fix the vents - the heater didn't work.... worked some bubbles out and .. wala. it works.

fun stuff today.

installed: new window, lock cylinder and door handle on driver side
broke: 2 or 3 bolts holding mirror, a spring in lock mechanism, 1 of 2 bolts holding old door handle (which mean i can't use the old nut)
Scared: one random pedestrian and i think a dog

boy oh boy was that a long 4 hours......

Cobra wrote:installed: new window, lock cylinder and door handle on driver side
broke: 2 or 3 bolts holding mirror, a spring in lock mechanism, 1 of 2 bolts holding old door handle (which mean i can't use the old nut)
Scared: one random pedestrian and i think a dog

boy oh boy was that a long 4 hours......

don't know your own strenth man....

safety and smog inspection coming up next month, I feel a serious tune up coming on. It'll take me at least 4 times as long as Lumpy's world record.

Put on a idler pulley on the LT.Found the tensioner bracket where the idler rides pretty torn up.Going to not drive much until I replace that with a J/Y find.Didn't put on the new belt until I replace the rad.Didn't want to spray a new belt in antifreeze.

Got the rest of the work done on the inside of the door Ole Yellar's window replacement.Just got to put the door panel and arm rest back on.

cleaned it out. yay. got rid of the crap. Looking at an 8 hour drive with the fam fam this wheeekend

Washed my 89 camo Astro so we could look purty hauling my
upright bass to the gig Sat night. Had to wait till 7pm for the
temp here to cool down to 102F.

Then I hooked up the dimmer sensor to my GlowShift gauges.
The gauges have this trigger wire that you connect to
the instrument lights fuse. When you turn the lights on
at night, that triggers the gauges (voltmeter and trans temp)
to dim so it's not blinding. They're pretty cool little gauges.



Lump

new a/c blower switch..actually managed not to break anything.

order new idlers today and after work started loosening the old ones. 2hrs and a bunch of hammering, prying and pickle forking it ain't budging! might try some heat tomorrow. i hope the drivers side will be easier.

Took off the rad on the 1994 and took it to a rad repair shop.Can't be fixed.Noticed while I was disconnecting top hose,weep hole was dripping,so I took off the w/p too.Got a new belt for it.Shopping for a rad and will likely it get back together on Sat/Sun.Bought a new bottom hose and had to order that.Won't be in until Fri.Considering swapping out the thremo while I have it apart.Trying to set it up for winter.

Saturday, sunday and MONDAY pulled front diff to inspect and reseal gears looked good (no chips or excessively worn teeth), bearings were a little worn from lack of lubrication (not to bad so not worried for now) and no pinion play. Reinstalled and took for test drive don't see any leaks so far just some coolant spray (updated my thread on that lol) it must of taken me 18 hours to remove, disassemble, reassemble and reinstall that damn thing, now that i finally finished i'mma go wash the grease off

worked on my 350 engine yesterday it was the first nice day in a week and half, and so far, the only one. I just want to get my new van on the road so i can experiment with my old van...... Convertible?

new O2 sensor and computer in the 92 so it would pass emissions...

new dist cap and ignition rotor. pulled the IAC and to my amazement the pintle was CLEAN!. new pcv valve. pulled the egr to check for carbon and it was clean as well. new air filter. filled it up and dumped in some injector cleaner. Safety/ emissions inspection is next, once I burn off the injector cleaner. Last inspection I was pushing the limit on hydrocarbon emissions. Van's running good. Wish me luck.

Van wouldn't start this morning, it rained hard last night, I replaced the cap & rotor tonight. I have the wires and plugs but don't want to start that at 6 or 6:30pm after work. That can wait to done on the weekend.

Swapped out my rear axle last Saturday. Installed a new fuel filter last week.