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Gonna break this up into a couple posts;

If you didn't see my other thread on it it, I ran into an issue with a leaking bleeder on my Wilwoods.
Here's the damage. Looks like a sloooooow leak from a poor quality stock bleeder fitting. I'm a little upset about it, as these were the stock fittings which I never removed, only ever bled (which shouldn't move the lower fitting at all!). My rims which are also powdercoated and exposed to that same brake fluid (it pooled in the rim), didn't bubble or suffer at all. I'm dissapointed that Wilwoods coating is so thin and easily damaged.
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I kinda feel like a high performance (and expensive) brake caliper shouldn't leak from its bleeders...nor should it use goody "proprietary" bleeders either. The design seems to just create an additional point of plausible leak, and there is no other bleeder that would be able to eliminate the brass lower fitting that leaked.

So summit sells a replacement set of 4 for like $11, but then you need shipping and waiting 3-5 days...which I wanted no part of, bringin the total to around$19 for 4. I wanted a better solution, but calling parts stores didn't yield much.

The thread is 1/8-27 which is NPT. I found a few random part #'s in PDF displays from parts stores, and found something that actually lists as a "Repair Kit Part". This so called repair kit is actually the correct bleeder replacement! I crossed the part # over in the NAPA fittings and brakes catalog, and sure enough I could get one from the local main store for under $8.
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I let some liquid thread sealant tack up on the fitting and installed it into the bleeder hole. It threads in perfectly, and seals fairly quickly. The bleeder portion seems to work as it should. Strangely, the wrenches that fit these are metric (my sae line wrenches didn't fit tight)...but everything else is pretty much the same. Snugged them up, and the leak seems to be corrected. Now if only I could FIX the powdercoat.

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With the inner fenders out, it sure is easy to access everything. :lol:
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Put in some work with those new hood mounts and finally got them together! Nothing is 100% as it seems with fitment on those old stamped parts, so I had to make sure that my plates had adaptability. The as-cut design was actually pretty spot on. I did a few little adjustments for fitment perfect to the firewall.

With some help, I slid it up into place then tac'd it up, adjusted the fit.
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Then did the passenger side one first, in medium-long stitches with the MIG.
http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psmrt7ucpg.jpg

Once I dialed in the settings, I went ahead and buzzed her straight through. Pretty happy with the way these came out, especially since I was welding while standing IN the engine bay hehe.
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Opens and closes smooth, and still has plenty of adjustment to account for various X-factors in old-truck fitment lol. The weight of the hood without springs does make it a bit tougher to open, but not difficult by any means. That same weight also puts lots of load on the outermost end of the brackets....so I'll be playing around with adding another brace/boxing that brace end just to stiffen it up, but it works well as-is for now..and then I'll consider adding a gas strut or something else to help with opening or holding open but thats a lesser priority.

Pics of her with the hood back on, and the bracket setup cleaned up/finished/coated to come.

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Well I guess its time for this one....WE HAVE STARTUP!!!!!!!

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I also got the color-work done on my Ed Roth inspired tattoo of the LS powered '66 C10, and my beloved meow. Just like the mods to the truck, I waited far too long to this mod to my skin. These are from a few moments after finishing, even more detail and subtlety in the shading and lines will happen as it heal in the next few days.
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Follow up (healing) pics to come, as well as the video from this session if you are anything like me and enjoy watching it all happen!

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Sometimes a Ferrari shows up and you drive it.

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Oooohhhh Yeeaahhhh.

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really enjoyed reading about the progression of your build. truck looks great.

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Thanks boss! :metal:

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We hit our annual track day at Gingerman Raceway again this year. We ended up running the F*rd Focus ST, lightly modded. We had to add some racing friendly brakes, which led to a late night test/bed session. They get HOT!

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Another excerpt from the Gingerman Track Day this year. Here's the full session from our friend Jon, and his 2v 4.6 Mustang GT. Pretty simple car, out having fun for the 6 lap session on the long-version Gingerman Road Course. More to come!

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Short session from the Gingerman outting. BMW 135i

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Still using the truck manifold? Will you be upgrading when funds allow? I thought you were going to turbo it, did you decide it was too much plumbing or is your truck your daily driver?

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Ya I'm still using the truck intake. The original goal years ago after the original swap was to turbo it, but then I came into those new heads as a wedding gift from my tuner/engineer. With the bump in compression, its really snappy (and still responds very well to a 150 shot)...so the focus had shifted slightly to improving the chassis to put it all down. I would really like to switch to something like a hi-ram, but it will only happen once I need to get bigger injectors again.

We still have a D1 procharger on the floor, 3 different B&W turbo's (woohoo for at cost pricing), and a 2 stage 300kit which could at some point make their way under the hood. The Ws6 is getting a whole new subframe/suspension/minitub as well in the off season, as well as one of the above^ so needless to say my attention is divided lol.

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I'm not finding exactly which one you ordered.

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I love that mat blue.

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Thanks forest. I always tell people when they ask how I chose it; "I wanted it to look like a toy car". Its sorta what I thought a hotwheels truck would be, just full size, and lil less plastic ;)

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I'm always checking up on this build and i'm not sure if it makes me glad or sad seeing the build progress. Sad because i haven't done anything to my truck in like a year.
sounds good with the new exhaust

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Hahah, I hear that man! This last summer was a slow summer (ya know, tubbing the firewall, new heads....slow year). We've got my build and the WS6 getting worked on for this spring now as well.

I need a new converter, to dial in my rear suspension, and then we're probably gonna hit it with a kit or two of happy-juice and see if I can run 10's before getting booted.

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Finally got this one done!@

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Found out last night that I have to try and get a minitub, 8point cage, ford 9, and a full suspension package done on the "other" ride before June.... at least one magazine feature, and trying to run 2-3 more major events then... :metal:

...and that doesn't count redoing the n20 setup, and deciding if we're running one of the two big blowers we've got, or waiting until the other other motor is built for the future setup....


And thats not counting any of the stuff on the truck for this year; changing up the converter setup, redoing the rear suspension and breaking package entirely, building the "aero" for it, and possibly setting up another new intake package with some built in happy juice.

And whatever happens with the new daily.

I am tired from even typing this...

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A little off-track excursion at Gingerman

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The Focus ST doing 4 sessions at Gingerman from our track day....damn a lot of video came from it this year.

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I had to put something up on the topic.

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that is Heavy D!

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Thank You Rev J for your input on the immediate threat to "Hot-Rodding" via this 1 bill by the EPA. However this is just a small token of the subject matter that Im sure you could have SO MUCH MORE INPUT on....

I offer you and your viewers this video (sorry for the thread jack) that covers the MANY problems with the EPA and the DISASTER they are causing to this country that far outweighs just the bill mentioned above.

Its long but it touches on so many of Americas Problems that need to be KNOWN by ALL OF US.... It has become a critical time and WE are actually fighting for OUR LIVES against this rogue Government Bureaucracy that is literally going to destroy THIS county in FAVOR OF OTHERS through their regulation.

http://youtu.be/nlHbmTGjBpk

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I was over at my old mans garage the other day to take care of a few things over there. He ended up rolling home with an old bike since he was looking for a small spring project. He's had about 200 bikes come and go over the years and occasionally still picks one up to do.

Its a 79 Yamaha it400. Single cylinder two stroke. Found it way up north in WI, you don't see as many of these floating around anymore. This one was in incredibly good shape. All the plastics are near perfect, has all the side covers and snorkel for the air box, even had its original trail bag and owners manual.

Only grabbed this pic at first. I have a few more. We'll be restoring a few things and I'm sure he'll end up selling it sooner than later.
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Also had a neighbor drop off a KX frame to have some gusseting done.
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I suspect the spellchecker got you.

Bike is a Yamaha IT 400

I had an IT 250 with a YZ racing kit while a student.

Those things were quick in the day.

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Copy and paste killed me. The second frame is the Kawasaki KZ, the bike itself is the Yamaha (as if the big yellow Yamaha sticker didn't stare me right in the face lol).

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New stuff from the workshop!

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*Happy Holidays*

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It was nice as heck today, so I had to hit the garage!

I picked up some carbon fiber panel courtesy of the guys at Protoype Composites in Glendale WI. Its around 1.5mm sheet, finished on one side like most CF is sold.

I decided I wanted to build some exhaust-exit shields for my side exit, and the CF seemed perfect for doing it. I started off by measuring my exit and the margins I had to work with. A little photoshopping mocked up a shape I liked, and I could print it out as a template.

I reinforced the template and transferred its shape to the carbon plate. A dremel did most of the cutting work, but used up a few discs if you tried to cut too aggressively. Overall it cut pretty well, and I could then layout the screw holes and drill those out. (one partially finished on the upper right)
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I used a powerdrill as a drum sander (I'll post more on this), and finished any uneven areas on the internal hole or the radius'd corners. Then I switched to some 600-ish grit wet paper and smoothed/rolled any sharp edges for a finished look. Only problem I really had physically was the screw holes blowing out a bit. I have a few ideas to solve that, but I'll just carefully spot sand them...most of the area is hidden under the hardware anyway.
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I've already got the hardware so I just need to touch these up, drill the truck-side to match, and finish assembly. Should have that up in a day or so when I get back over to it...and of course FULL VIDEO ON THE PROJECT WILL BE COMING SOON! You should be subscribed and checking Rev J HD for all this content!


Oh, and clearly respirators aren't for bearded customizers.
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Test fitting the exits. Driver side is good to go, but I want to champfer the upper lip a bit to match with the body seam before final install. Video is done being shot tho! So that will be on the channel soon.

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Really like how that turned out. Nice work.

P. :D

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Thanks Paul!

Took me long enough to get these processed, but they are finally up on YouTube.

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A little more time in the garage this weekend. Ended up going to work on a badass procharged C6 (I'll be putting up some video on that beast. If you follow me on Instagram @REV_J_HD you'll have sneaked a peak already!) Been working on a bunch of catch can tech posts, doing my mods and install on my can, some brake changes, and more random stuff.

Ended up having a quick thought about my fuel sending unit...and a few minutes later I started pulling the bed out hahah.
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I gotta vent the fuel cell better, and have been considering switching to a FuelMat instead of the tank foam. Since the bedfloor will be out, I want to lighten its braces and a few areas, build a subfloor for it and go to an aluminum floor skin. This stuff always escalates.....

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A tiny followup to a question from the CF Exhaust Exits video

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