Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Originally Posted by 02NavyBlue

Nobody mentioned anything about gas? 5 year old gas really sucks, not sure if any fuel stabilizer would keep it good for that long. Some would help.

5 year old gas has always worked well for me. Oddly enough ... all my friends are the ones that have trouble leaving gas over the winter.....and they put in stabilizer. Efffff that stuff. I've never gummed a carb or injector and never used that stuff. Hmmmm

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

Also I'd either remove the brake pads or back the pads off the rotor with a screw driver, you don't want to come back to lot rot.

Interesting point Cam.. If it's dry storage, there shouldn't be an issue though.

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

dont they offer free storage for you guys? if so take it, and keep paying it off cause your stuck with it now. when you come home you and the kid got something to work on.

when you come back toss a new set of tires and battery and oil change and drive on.

This is what my dad just did. He ended up with a 97 Olds 88 that literally sat in a garage for at least 5 years w/o being touched. I dropped in a battery and we fired it up, less than 5 min later we drove it. Sure the LIM's needed to be done as well as VC gaskets. NP.. Got some fresh tires on it too.

Me.. I might put it on blocks, pull the battery (cause it'll be crap when you return.. no reason to leave possible corrosion anywhere in the area) toss a cover over it and close the door.

I'd left it at work the last few days and taken the truck home since I've been over to the ohio fields. I finally took it home last night and it hit 147k. I didn't see it till this morning.



She needs a bath really bad. All the rain hasn't been friendly on trying to keep a white car clean.

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

This rocks. They make it so complicated by cutting corners. Yea Im late the the party just call me chief logs in sporadically.

Haha, this is why I have trust issues with shops. I know not all of them are bad but I expected a dealer to do a better job.

Sent from the Milky Way

Didn't do anything exciting, filled up the tank with $55 worth of premium, then drove my dad to the airport at 6am.

Got to see a C17 sittin pretty at KCI. Also got to watch a C130 take off right in front of me. Needless to say my day has been made.

Oh, btw, I love airplanes just as much as cars


And at least I didn't do what this guy did to his Lambo..

love how the blink is still blinking

And my work truck hit 129k today

Getting this ***** for free.99

What's it off of?

Originally Posted by dsmuts

What's it off of?

2012 impala

Just got home from Springfield, picked up a 130k (lowest mileage in the yard) transmission for $67 after tax. I dropped the pan before I pulled the transmission itself, and it was actually pretty clean for 130k. The pan itself was about 80% clean, there was a few splotches of material, and the magnet was covered in material (normal amounts). The accumulators and everything up in the transmission is very clean, no material on that stuff at all.

After that I went to the local transmission shop and bought a set of the GXP chains, VB\CP(both sides) gaskets, and a new thrust washer set. All that was $53.19 out the door. I literally just got home, so I'll be adding pics here in a little while. So far, minus the fluid I'm ~$130 into this project. I've spent more on the damn valve body than I did on a new tranmission, lol. It's out of an 2002 GT BTW. I'm swapping everything over to make it work in my GTP, don't worry.

Your a pro with your Trannies

I'm getting there, apparently practice makes perfect, lol. There's a few things that I'll be doing to this one that is new territory for me though, like the HD swap and the chain\gear swap. I'm sure it's nothing I can't handle though. I just went out and snapped a few pics, I'm going to mount the transmission to my work bench tonight and possibly tear into it tomorrow, but the install happens next weekend.


Parts:


More pics in my build thread shortly, uploading now.

Blew the front head gasket on my comp g

Smh! ^

Originally Posted by dsmuts

Blew the front head gasket on my comp g

wtf? get the 97 rot box engine back lol

it was a 98 and it's long gone. It'll be fixed by sunday.

Did you use the TW coating on it?