What did you do today not on your truck...

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Are you sure it's not a torn Meniscus? I had one in my knee and it hurt like hell. It's an easy fix once you get through the insurance B.S. They'll give you the run around. But if I remember correctly (which I probably don't) I was fine in under a week after they operated on me. It's not much of an operation.

If you need any advice on how to just sit around. Let me know. I'm really good at it.

Mine tore in half and folded over. They had to lay my knee wide open to fix it. Took about 18 months to get back to normal. Going on 35 years ago.

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by special-K

I did NOTHING! I have sciatic pain in my right leg. Worst it's ever been. Only behind the knee. Back has no pain at all. Everything I'd go to do I could see it wouldn't5 help the healing process, so I have mostly been sitting around. Not my style at all!

Basically what I had Tim, only mine was in the hip. I hope you don't have to go down the road I did. I have never been to a Chiro but if I had it to do all over again I would try a Chiro first. I hope it just heals up on it's own.

LockDoc

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

Basically what I had Tim, only mine was in the hip. I hope you don't have to go down the road I did. I have never been to a Chiro but if I had it to do all over again I would try a Chiro first. I hope it just heals up on it's own.

LockDoc

I started going about once a month after I hurt my back (again!) last July cleaning out my mom's house.

Trouble is I keep hurting myself again like a couple days ago moving stuff around in my office


I have a lot of lumbar pain from all my years of logging

[special-K]

I'm sure this is sciatica.

[72c20customcamper]

Over the weekend we re stacked the wood in the basement gives us a little more room putting it up to the floor joists

[Zippi]

Since I'm retired now and spending a lot more time in the garage I installed a heater today. Had to run a new 220 line which went pretty quick. The instructions said one lag bolt in the middle of the bracket was good if you wanted to swivel the heater. Seemed a little to flimsy to me so I bolted it to the ceiling with three bolts. This is a 5000 watt heater that is suppose to be good for up to 500 sq ft. My garage is 20X25 so the math works out right on the money. It was 36 degree outside so I set it on medium and after an hour it was up to 58 degrees so that's where I set the thermostat. With a light jacket that's all I need.

[LS short box]

Technically this is not working on my truck.
Two weeks ago I brought home a new project. It's a 1980 Camaro Rally Sport.
28,000 original miles. Zero rust. Interior is almost perfect. I had to replace the head liner last week. No cracks in the dash. No splits in the seats. It's true time capsule. Bought from the son of the original owner. The dad bought it new in 1980 for $7400 out the door. The son gave me the original window sticker, invoice, sales brochure and I found the build sheet under the rear seat. Van Nuys build.
The body is all original paint with a few nicks and scratches but I am not going to repaint.
The bad it has the 229 V6 three speed on the floor. They were junk in 1980. Solution to the V6 is the 2012 6.2 LS on my engine stand.
It will look like a barn find on the outside and modern underneath.
See pics.

[Andy4639]

Here at the beach. I got out this morning and installed a new GM mirror in the little red coupe and new gas pedal assembly. It's a much better system than what I had. It's all in the box. It is very smooth with no jerking at all now when I give it the gas.

[Redneck Rydes]

Originally Posted by LS short box

Technically this is not working on my truck.
Two weeks ago I brought home a new project. It's a 1980 Camaro Rally Sport.
28,000 original miles. Zero rust. Interior is almost perfect. I had to replace the head liner last week. No cracks in the dash. No splits in the seats. It's true time capsule. Bought from the son of the original owner. The dad bought it new in 1980 for $7400 out the door. The son gave me the original window sticker, invoice, sales brochure and I found the build sheet under the rear seat. Van Nuys build.
The body is all original paint with a few nicks and scratches but I am not going to repaint.
The bad it has the 229 V6 three speed on the floor. They were junk in 1980. Solution to the V6 is the 2012 6.2 LS on my engine stand.
It will look like a barn find on the outside and modern underneath.
See pics.

That is quite a find,I have never seen a paint scheme like that before,kinda rare,changing from the V-6 to a LS is a great idea, V-6 std reminds me of the 1981 Malibus we made at GM that went to Saudi Arabia.

[72 tigger]

Originally Posted by LS short box

Technically this is not working on my truck.
Two weeks ago I brought home a new project. It's a 1980 Camaro Rally Sport.
28,000 original miles. Zero rust. Interior is almost perfect. I had to replace the head liner last week. No cracks in the dash. No splits in the seats. It's true time capsule. Bought from the son of the original owner. The dad bought it new in 1980 for $7400 out the door. The son gave me the original window sticker, invoice, sales brochure and I found the build sheet under the rear seat. Van Nuys build.
The body is all original paint with a few nicks and scratches but I am not going to repaint.
The bad it has the 229 V6 three speed on the floor. They were junk in 1980. Solution to the V6 is the 2012 6.2 LS on my engine stand.
It will look like a barn find on the outside and modern underneath.
See pics.

Great plan! Will you have a build thread somewhere? Thanks

[67C10Step]

Originally Posted by LS short box

Technically this is not working on my truck.
Two weeks ago I brought home a new project. It's a 1980 Camaro Rally Sport.
28,000 original miles. Zero rust. Interior is almost perfect. I had to replace the head liner last week. No cracks in the dash. No splits in the seats. It's true time capsule. Bought from the son of the original owner. The dad bought it new in 1980 for $7400 out the door. The son gave me the original window sticker, invoice, sales brochure and I found the build sheet under the rear seat. Van Nuys build.
The body is all original paint with a few nicks and scratches but I am not going to repaint.
The bad it has the 229 V6 three speed on the floor. They were junk in 1980. Solution to the V6 is the 2012 6.2 LS on my engine stand.
It will look like a barn find on the outside and modern underneath.
See pics.

Better see a build thread in the Alternate Tinkerings section!

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Zippi

Since I'm retired now and spending a lot more time in the garage I installed a heater today. Had to run a new 220 line which went pretty quick. The instructions said one lag bolt in the middle of the bracket was good if you wanted to swivel the heater. Seemed a little to flimsy to me so I bolted it to the ceiling with three bolts. This is a 5000 watt heater that is suppose to be good for up to 500 sq ft. My garage is 20X25 so the math works out right on the money. It was 36 degree outside so I set it on medium and after an hour it was up to 58 degrees so that's where I set the thermostat. With a light jacket that's all I need.

Happiness is a warm shop.

[67C10Step]

Technically I am supposed to be off work until January 4 but had to go to a Frito Lay plant today and try to get a new flow meter installed so they could get a line running. Factory sent the wrong transmitter so I didn’t get home until four in the afternoon and still did not get them going. Frustrating as now I gotta work even more on my time off to get the correct transmitter shipped and make another trip to install.
I was planning to finish my power disc brake conversion while I was off and have not touched it yet.

[FleetsidePaul]

I put the legs on my new sofa. What a disaster. What seemed like an easy job was anything but easy. When I would try to drill holes I'd hit something. I don't know what. But whatever it was it broke two drill bits. This thing was terribly designed and came with screws that were way too big. And of course I was out of shorter ones. So a trip to the hardware store and 4 hours later I finished it.

Now I have do the loveseat. Round 2 Here we go again.

[1976gmc20]

Well, I got my Jeep back from the shop finally

Dang, that thing is sure small!

But it's going to leave a lot more room in the garage. The 4runner is now going to have to sit out under a tree.

[LS short box]

I was a line tech at a Chev dealer ship when this car was new. People thought the V6 would get better gas mileage than the 305 and it was just the opposite. Super restrictive cats, egr, air pump, retarded timing made these engines real dogs. I think GM just cut the front two cylinders off a 305 V8 so they never ran smooth. Front sheet metal is already off getting ready to pull the engine.

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by LS short box

I was a line tech at a Chev dealer ship when this car was new. People thought the V6 would get better gas mileage than the 305 and it was just the opposite. Super restrictive cats, egr, air pump, retarded timing made these engines real dogs. I think GM just cut the front two cylinders off a 305 V8 so they never ran smooth. Front sheet metal is already off getting ready to pull the engine.

Have you started a thread in alternative tinkering? I'm in to watch....nice care by the way.


Never mind, I found it. Thanks for starting it....

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by LS short box

I was a line tech at a Chev dealer ship when this car was new. People thought the V6 would get better gas mileage than the 305 and it was just the opposite. Super restrictive cats, egr, air pump, retarded timing made these engines real dogs. I think GM just cut the front two cylinders off a 305 V8 so they never ran smooth. Front sheet metal is already off getting ready to pull the engine.

That odd-fire V6 was a real POS, and yes, they were a lobotomized 305 V8.

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

That odd-fire V6 was a real POS, and yes, they were a lobotomized 305 V8.

So, not the same as the Buick V-6 that ended up in a lot of Jeeps ?

[special-K]

Buick made good V6s. Started out as the 3.2/198 in '62. It was a V6 engine designed to be a V6 engine and was a superior design. It got bumped up to 3.8/231 cu in (3800) and that's the design Kaiser bought in '67. GM bought it back about 10 years later during the energy crunch. By then AMC had bought Kaiser. The 3800 was actually derived from the aluminum 3.5/215 V8.

[Boog]

Weren't the 80's and up Chevy V6s a 60* engine or did those come later?

[57taskforce]

The 2.8 was a 60 degree for sure, I had one in an ‘87 S10 blazer about 15+ years ago. I’d assume the later 3.0, 3.1, 3.4 are as well. That 2.8 4x4 S10 blazer was quite possibly the most gutless thing gm has ever built. 0-60 in 45 minutes. The 4.3 was the best thing that GM ever did for the S10.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by 57taskforce

The 4.3 was the best thing that GM ever did for the S10.

Agreed.

We got a fleet of new S10's at work years ago. Only one of them was a 4x4 with a 4.3 and a/c.

I was the supervisor and I assigned the trucks. Take a wild guess on which one I assigned to myself.

Rank does have its privileges.

[LockDoc]

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I'm repairing a 2004 Chevy pickup instrument cluster this morning. Some of the backlights work but that is all.

LockDoc

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

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I'm repairing a 2004 Chevy pickup instrument cluster this morning. Some of the backlights work but that is all.

LockDoc

Holy Smokes! That right there is why I bought the extended warrantee!