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What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

Bronco Boy said:
Had this come on this morning (P0113)....

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Funny how I touched the wire and sensor yesterday. Will wait and see if it comes back.
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Some dumb-ass didn't plug the IAT sensor back in after changing his air filter. LOL

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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
 
Was a bit frosty this morning, hit the wipers, they don't move, then hear a "bang". WTF. 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?
 
Bronco Boy said:
Was a bit frosty this morning, hit the wipers, they don't move, then hear a "bang". WTF. 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?
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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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markpa said:
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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The wipers are Piaa and I have their wipe on stuff on the windshield, so she is as "waxed" as she can get. I've gathered some tools, so I'm going to sneak outside in a bit and see if I can fix this.
 
And fixed. The main linkage popped off the motor. It is back on, but I'm not sure if it is proper. I'll have to go back in later, but for now, rain all you want! LOL
 
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 :)
 


Finally got a weekend without too much else going on, cleaned out the trunk and backseat, and vacuumed all the gravel out... Winter was not kind to it.

I need to wash it and clean the inside properly, but it needs to stop dropping below freezing at night so I don't turn my driveway into an early morning ice rink.

Hopefully I'll be able to get some actual work done to it this weekend.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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