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Looking good ….the details on the detailed
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Front end and dash looking good!
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buy a Chevy they said, you'll be able to get parts at Walmart
um, no... ha ha, had to go to three different parts houses for a box of silly headlight adjustment screw nuts a short video of driving around with visors, side mirrors, and even seat belts: Electric Chevy Truck Running Errands Last edited by Gregski; 09-07-2023 at 11:54 PM. |
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thanks, finally got all four eyes in
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speaking of details, I may have finally found a gray for the interior accents that I like |
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Let me guess, that's fancy black! .still hookup to the laptop for details? How do you know the level of battery charge-ing.
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ha ha, nope
nope, not any more, now I am using a 2.4" Nextion Display when I drive it simply shows me Volts of the big battery pack (not the car battery) and the internal temperature of the Inverter (metal box that changes DC electricity coming from the battery to AC electricity which the electric motor wants) sorry explaining in basic terms for other readers to benefit brilliant question, the first gen Chevy Volt onboard battery charger that I am using spits out CAN messages, and I use some open source software that I downloaded from GitHub and tweaked to display (again on the little 2.4" Nextion screen) what AC amps and volts I am pulling from my wall socket and what DC amps and volts it is pushing into the big battery pack, I think it is set to refresh every second . Last edited by Gregski; 09-08-2023 at 10:15 AM. |
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This build is fantastic. Simply genius at your best!!
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Very cool, nice set up..Maybe some others feel the same way, looks like spaghetti with a bit of what the hell is that. Then you explain it and it's over my head...Git Hub...who knew.
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ha ha, totally get it, but have you ever seen an LS Swap in progress? I've done a couple and this EV Swap has less than half the wires, and that's a fact 40 pin connector (and not even using all the pins) vs the 80 pin LS PCM connector, so there's some hard evidence right there
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had to get remotivated to install that headlight wire harness, and let me tell you it aint no fun on a GMC as you have to run the high beam plugs through the low beam cavities and it's a fun little hand cutting exercise
and I just had to clean off half a century worth of black tar off them gold barb connectors, let me know if you know what I am talking about and if you managed to transfer some of that evil black stuff to yer favorite T shirt by accident? asking for a friend |
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bought some rust and dirt on random truck parts from salt of the earth good people Joe and Marie up in Orangevale, California [best kept C10 truck parts secret in Sacramento]
and boy Joe was right them visors cleaned up real good with just half a can of spray elbow grease |
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I also went to town with some paint and lacquer thinners on them tri colored armrests before attempting to spray paint them black(ish) with whatever paint I had left
a million and seven light coats being the key in this application for optimum stickability |
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and then this happened...
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the inside door handles are supposed to be spring loaded ! who knew ?
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so I decided to give the original ones a shot at rebuilding them, basically you gotta drill out the sorta rivets and replace the broken snap to coil springs
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how we do in the Good Enuff Garage, even the smallest of bits get media blasted before being powder coated, here's a comparison of a dirty set and one that has been cleaned
someday I will finish rebuilding those Last edited by Gregski; 09-13-2023 at 01:38 AM. |
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yes The Greg is dreading doing this part...
the passenger side triangle window seems OK(ish) but the driver side most def needs a rebuild, how many of you have experienced the joy of replacing them rivets ? show of hands please Last edited by Gregski; 09-11-2023 at 11:37 AM. |
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It's not a fun job. Very tedious and kind of a struggle. I found this video helpful: https://youtu.be/WiZOiHmcb_w?si=SqP7FiVnRwmFDAcg
There is a cheap rivet tool that you can get, basically a piece of tool steel with the end machined to mushroom the head of the rivets as you hammer. I actually welded this tool to a c-clamp and it helped, but I found it to be a 2-person job and use the tool as intended with a hammer and find a good setup to backup the other end of the rivet so you can get solid hits.
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I hope to find a video for when someone does the whole door reinstall cause if you are like me and had a bunch of components missing you don't know what you are missing and what goes where as far as that crappy punch tool I literally had to get two of them to finish a job once cause they are junk and single use only |
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