What did you do to your Suburban Today?

[jfalesi]

Tried out some aluminum polish on my wheels. First pic, before washing. Second pic, after washing and before polishing. Third pic, after polishing. It's amazing what a little (ok a lot of) polish will do!

[highwinger]

Nice long weekend gave me a day to knock a couple items off the burb to-do list:

1) tighten ac & ps belts
2) install carb heat insulator
3) oil change
4) reset timing after changing vac advance from manifold to ported
5) tighten valve cover
6) raised fuel line off of valve cover some
7) check front springs & shocks to help determine amount lowered & part numbers if possible
8) tighten clamps & bolts that appeared to be leaking coolant

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by highwinger

Nice long weekend gave me a day to knock a couple items off the burb to-do list:

1) tighten ac & ps belts
2) install carb heat insulator
3) oil change
4) reset timing after changing vac advance from manifold to ported
5) tighten valve cover
6) raised fuel line off of valve cover some
7) check front springs & shocks to help determine amount lowered & part numbers if possible
8) tighten clamps & bolts that appeared to be leaking coolant

Looks like quite a bit to me. That kind of stuff always takes longer than you think it is going to......

LockDoc

[highwinger]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

Looks like quite a bit to me. That kind of stuff always takes longer than you think it is going to......

LockDoc

That's the truth...for example, to install the insulator (from Edelbrock) that didn't come with gaskets, I had to search if gaskets are needed (consensus: they are needed), figure out which ones I need and where they are available locally which is becoming increasingly difficult. I didn't realize the primaries & secondaries are different sizes on the Eddie 1406. They aren't as diff as a Q-jet, but not equal like the spacer. After I pulled the carb, I saw the intake is two ovals, not one square, not 4 square...yada. Luckily, Advance had the gasket options and a new 1406 with gasket to compare. So now I have three different shapes between the carb and intake. Hard to say if that reduces performance since I'm not obstructing the paths. It may have been best to have a single square opening like the gaskets...oh well...it got me to work today, so I'm claiming success. I also think it helped hot starts, too, which was the ultimate motivation.

In short...it's the research, decision and part location stuff that takes the most time.

[68SWB4x4]

Originally Posted by jfalesi

Tried out some aluminum polish on my wheels. First pic, before washing. Second pic, after washing and before polishing. Third pic, after polishing. It's amazing what a little (ok a lot of) polish will do!

What a difference, I'm going to have to try that for my Slots

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by jfalesi

Tried out some aluminum polish on my wheels. First pic, before washing. Second pic, after washing and before polishing. Third pic, after polishing. It's amazing what a little (ok a lot of) polish will do!

Big improvement! What did you use?

[highwinger]

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

Big improvement! What did you use?

I'm curious in that answer too, for tools and products. I current use Mothers because it has a protectorant (sp?) in addition to cleaner. For chrome, I found it lasts longer than McGuire's w/o protectorsomeorother. I still haven't been able to remove all the older stains yet though. I use drill and a foam ball applicator. Otherwise, it'd take way too much elbow grease.

[68SWB4x4]

Got my prop valve, vette master cylinder and finally have all the brake lines hooked up. Still need to run a bracket for the prop valve now.

[highwinger]

I drove mine to work today as I do every day . The best days seem to be the ones where you don't have to do a darn thing. And yes, there a list plenty long...

[zellway]

How did I miss this one?! I have been posting on the truck side. I can't say I did much more then drive it like I have the past few years. I did use it as a truck if that counts?