What did you do to/with your van today?

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tinytherhino
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Post by tinytherhino »

FINALLY! I ordered my lift kit for tiny. \:D/
'00 Astro AWD- 4" OLV lift, 31x10.5" tires, Yakima rack and a whole lot of fun!
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Post by dilly »

what size lift? i started with the 2" and 29"s but now i have the need for 31"s :D
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Post by tinytherhino »

I ordered the 4" and plan on running 31's. :muhaha: I'm working on a homemade retractable awning for it as well.
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Post by Cobra »

just finished washing my van finally got all the egg off.....
1998 GMC Safari AWD, BFGoodrich AllTerrain T/A
Jet performance tuner 91 octane preset, Jet under-drive pulleys
Rancho 999000 series shock, on-board controller to be installed later
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G3500 front calipers
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You ain't supposed to cook eggs on yer van, no matter how hot it gets. :poke:
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switched a four tires from 88 shorty to Astro (sd2brv) getting ready to move the vans around to make room for RV, bringing it home to start working on it.... install generator and repair some water damage at the rear, might be selling it to get bigger, better one.... buddy has a bounder, class a on craig's list, if I can sell mine soon enough I'll buy his, If I don't sell mine, at least it will be ready for camping later this year.... by then the Astro will be ready too, get to pick between the two, depending on how many people are going and location
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tinytherhino wrote:I ordered the 4" and plan on running 31's. :muhaha: I'm working on a homemade retractable awning for it as well.

Let me know how the awning progresses... I'ld like to put one on van as well.... picked up a 15' one off rv..... but think it might be too big, so it might end up on RV instead.
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... Had to loan it to my daughter because the Trans on her celica is toast and too expensive to fix for now!
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I looked under to see something dripping near the rear of the trans. Shook my head and went back inside because my 4 year old didn't want to come outside so I could work on the van. :(
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Put a weight distribution set up on it to pull the 27' camper. More to come in the Towing section
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Towed a crap load of gravel (about 2 cubic meters) in my utility trailer, man was it surprised.... to prep a pad for the tent trailer (and or the van) and then took a load of old sod (removed for the pad) to the dump. :supz:

oh ya did I mention my back sure knows I was running the goon spoon
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Post by crash »

Monday morning changed the cap and rotor, dumped in the bottle of injector cleaner

still hesitating and shuddering a bit .. detailed post can be read here--> turd power

gave the front carpet a good cleaning/vacuuming (was over due since last winter)

cleaned up the metal tabs where the slider hits the B pillar, added some dielectric grease. seems to have corrected the intermittent lock issue
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Post by Rileysowner »

Put in a new coil, new wires, got part way through an oil change then it got too dark to continue.
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Finished the oil change, got everything back together. It started really easily, and runs nice a smooth.
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an oil change on safari and carpet cleaning machine.... while waiting for the phone to ring....... finally did after 2, so got to go to work for a while and scheduled a couple jobs for later in the week
2000 Astro, passenger van. Converted into a cargo van, used for Carpet cleaning (10 lbs of crap, in a 5 lb bag)
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