SpecialWarr

Sorry to hear about that man, it's a shame when people just don't care.... ya know?

Update: tension rods are done, Pacesetter headers installed, new Maxima SOHC alternator installed!!yay!

Steve: where can i meet you during the week for a consulation?! Et oui je travail sue l'ile de montreal!

I went shopping for the errant wire that prevents the passenger from pulling down their own window... and got no where other than a clean squirrel cage and a half-pulled door card.... not my best day of work so far.

Gotcha... I figured a dremel would be able to get all the way around! I guess there are places that even a dremel can't get to!

Both of you are banned for bringing ornaments to a truck show

Nice work, and that's a fine acquisition from your other half! I look forward to hearing how the new chip works out, congrats on the final year also!

Did you do an oil change recently? Maybe try a can of brake cleaner on the starter wires if you did? That worked for me!

Banned for inferring that the rest of us are uncouth!

Well if anyone gonna know that answer to that one its gotta be Rob!! I for one, don't recall what I put in there last year when I bought my '90 but I don't tend to skimp on electrical bits. The one that are in there are working great as expected from either a Bosch or an NGK product. V or straight I wouldn't think would make much of a "on-the-street" difference on a low compression motor like ours. She's built to haul not to streak!!

Was that a hacksaw and then a " that's-far-enough" or was that a "I'll-just-make-sure-that-it-doesn't-do-that-again"!!??

You may also wish to take a steel brush to the tension adjuster bolt before you shoot some PB Blaster at it... I didn't and snapped off the head of the adjuster (boo for not paying enough attention).

Power gains: yes but i've been getting a project back to daily driver so I'm not sure what exactly is doing what. It could just be that the exhaust is actually sealed! Gains in economy are all from correct vac lines in the correct location and length installed with grease on the barbs and nipples and correct base timing ( first major week of ownership).

I would be super happy with an early 60's VW Beetle alomst immaterial of its condition! But, alas, I am but a bicycle technician and paid sh@t money for 44 hours a week.

I wouldn't mind if it was but I can only afford to keep one vehicle running at a time and no place to store any other ones despite my inclinations to buy most of 'em!! How are things in the Capital?

New tires:

Ahhh.... well then the boys at NAPA didn't give me the correct belts.... but it's on it runs and charges! I'm good with it for now!

Pics are on the way ( to be uploaded tonight)! Spent yesterday installing a Remy Gold Maxima 90 amp alt....and I would like to take the time to smack myself in the back of the head for having forgotten to order the slightly longer belts....but the bleeding hands and sore shoulders from forcing the belt over the pulley should do. Pics for that are also on their way!

I'm with Precise1 on this one. There is nothing that should let a tire wobble and still move forward with everything tightnted to specifications. If it does then the list of things that would allow it to do that is short: tire is coming off of the rim, the axle is broken, the axle is broken and there is no rear brake carrier / pads / caliper.... I think that's about it.

And let me know how it goes so I can install my AutoMeter Oil Pressure gage!!! LOL!

Installed some Goodyear Wrangler Territory tires (31-10.5-15) now to find some mud!

I can't really see how as they are built to be in the water on a street car, let alone a truck. I pulled front brakes some weeks ago to replace a wheel bearing and water came out of the piston bellows, brakes worked fine then and fine now. Did you find any loose bolts? how are the wheel bearings and alignment of the truck? Ball joints leaking? Not being a mechanic but spending a lot of time working on vehicles I've noted that finding the worn out things and fixing those will often solve other "problems"! Loose wheel bearings might lean the truck out to the drivers' side if the tension rods are loose enough, loose tension rods might make the truck feel a bit light on the roads also. I fixed both of those recently and I swear I traded the truck in for a new one! All that to say: what other things need replacement on the front end?

Banned for banning because of a genetic issue.... I got your back devonianwalk... I say we take him into the street and teach him a lesson in manners!

Manitoba sounds like a good option!

Banned for making me think of a Star Trek characters' nickname!!! Damnit Jim! I'm a doctor not a mechanic!