Thread: What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

He must work at Jiffy Lube

Decided to pull my console and clean it off and vacuum under it. Ended up removing some old XM adaptor wiring harness out of the way. Broke my radio bezel right by the key. Also noticed my gauge cluster bezel is broken. Going to wait til I goto the junk yard I got my seats from and see if they sell em both cheap

Originally Posted by Bronco Boy

Was a bit frosty this morning, hit the wipers, they don't move, then hear a "bang". . I de-ice the windshield, turn on the wipers, nothing. Fawk. Wipe windshield with towel, drive to work. Get to work, turn on wipers, nothing, but I can hear the motor doing its thing. Fawk. I think the main linkage arm popped off. Not a big deal, but I don't have the tools to do it at work, and its supposed to start raining in a few hours. Did I say Fawk?

Wax the windshield! rain will roll right off. Had a 74 charger that the wipers did not work on and its amazing how the water beads up and sheds off. Drive faster is even better.


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been leaking coolant out of thermostat housing do too stripped threads from a standard bolt being cranked into the hole. It held. but not tight enough to hold back coolant under pressure.

Sooo, I spend HOURS searching our old shop, fully stocked to maintain an old ranch. I'm talking spare headlights, old throttle bodies and loads upon loads of sprak plugs, fan belts and even windshield wipers for everything from the old 8n tractor to the 08 stretch limo. The guy collected.....


The issue was. NOTHING, NOTHING was metric


tears...


Finally found the right size bolt with coarse thread and it still wouldn't hold, threads were too far gone.

So grabbed on 10mm longer praying the good ole gm engineer left a little space at the bottom of that hole...


THEY DID!



So if anyone else strips out those thermostate housing bolts... throw in a longer bolt and it'll hold

I'd much rather have matching bolts, and I didn't have any helicoils around.......

Washed and clay barred it. Realizing it needs real buff and wax job but don't wanna pay for it

Replaced my passenger side engine mount today. Was going to replace my front crankshaft seal as well. Could not find a balancer puller that would work. Walked over to the GM side of my dealer, they didn't have the Kent Moore dealer tool but will pick it up for me or order a new set up from GM since there's is missing.

Also flushed my PS fluid since I was getting a whine after aggressive turning.

Went crazy with the gold paint today



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Looks good. Now, about those headlights...

Today my Casper's fuel pump rewire kit showed up. Now that the weather may stay above freezing I might try to tackle that this weekend. Still have to read the instructions on it but I figure it can't be too hard.

Installed an unbroken radio bezel along with a driver lower kick panel that's black to match most of the interior now. Only lower piece left is the actual glove box itself. Finally received my new head lamps and installed them tonight. Probably the best it's looked in 10 years

Finally got around to slotting my front struts. Now I can finally take it in and get the new tires on it and an alignment. The lowering wore out the inner edge of the fronts down to slicks. It handles good but as much as I drive I can't be eating tires every 25K miles.