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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Making progress on the Vintage Air install. Pulled a vacuum on the system today to check for leaks prior to buttoning everything up. It held 29 inHg for hours.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Not super exciting, except to me! Finally did compression check, all 8 cylinders held at 150. Super happy about that, troubleshooting overheating and running rough/backfiring so glad to rule out compression. New spark plugs since the old ones out anyway. Passenger side rear plug had some oil on it but the compression was good so...
George still runs a little rough so tomorrow I will check timing. Another thing I did was to finally track down a parasitic draw, thanks to instructions off YouTube I used a test lamp attached btwn battery Neg post and Neg cable, pulled fuses to see when the light goes out. Not a fuse, so started checking other inline fuses the PO had added. Finally tried the horn relay, that was it! Disconnected horn relay and light went out. Will check battery tomorrow morning, used to be if I kept battery connected overnight George woke up dead. Also planning to switch out thermostat for the heck of it in case that was causing overheating.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Yes, probably drawing somewhere else like the horn button on steering wheel, I will have to track it down. all I know is when I unplugged the relay the light went out! Just happy to stop the draw
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Wiring. Lots of it.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Of course. It was all laid out based upon seat clearance.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Back in 77 I had a black one. Always thought of refurbishing it back then.
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i spotted that too. Nice Buick!
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Every time I see a skylark, I think of the movie My Cousin Vinny.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
build a little heat shield so I can stop putting my hand on the radiator when I open the hood...
Just scrap materials, but it kind of fits the build.... ![]() and played around a bit with some badges... ![]() ![]()
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Made a TH400 kickdown switch for my truck. looks good and can't be seen with air filter.
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I didn't like the brake booster hose running across my valve cover. I wanted to keep the engine looking clean. So I made a steel line to run brake booster vacuum. I got a 3/8" steel line from O'reilly's and using a piece of wire made a pattern of the how I wanted to run the hose around valve cover. I then bent the line to fit. I removed all the paint from steel line with a wire brush on bench grinder. Then I dimpled the ends and polished it up with some rouge on polishing wheel. Routed it in and viola!
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I did my first oil/filter change on the truck since I have gotten it back on the road. I have 850 miles on it...
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One of the best things about having a white truck is it doesn't show tons of dirt...one of the best things of having an old truck that not much was done in ways of body and paint work is I can wash it and not worry about drying it. So today I washed it for the first time since it's been back on the road. Going to cars-n-coffee in the morning and had to clean old girl up some...to play with the Vettes and Porsches of the area.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
I made a shifter boot. This one has a cushion backed vinyl and it 's better at blocking the noise emanating from the hole in the floor than plain vinyl. I also put pipe wrap on the stick inside.
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Forgot the pic...
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Cruised in it. Hit 4400 miles today.
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