Cascade Crew

chevymad · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: Holiday progress

Took a few days off this week. First day off I spent fixin the car. Got my defrost working again!! Seems there's one screw down near the heater core cover that holds another part of the plastic heater box. Box broke around the screw letting the hinge shaft for the defrost door come out. I had the entire dash apart before I found it of course. Was laughin to myself, recently read a tgo thread about how hard it is to change heater cores, just because of that one top screw. Good thing those people dont have a more modern car. That screw is easy! I can even get my hand in there and thread it in with my fingers! Just gotta be part contortionist. Lookin in my dashboard its amazing how much of the plastic has cracked on its own. No wonder these things squeek and rattle like they do.

Finally hard wired my satellite radio in too. No more pluggin/unpluggin the ciggy lighter. Or forgetting and runnin the battery down. Tightened up my loose mirror and shifter knob while I was at it.

Took a hike up to my spring and cleaned out the dam today too. I dont know how cold it is everyplace else, but at 2pm today I still had frost.

Anyway, thats as hard as I wanted to work on my first day of vacation. Wink

Whats everybody else up to?

Sellmanb · Member Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 727 Location: Tigard, OR

How come I can never be as productive as you? lmao.

I'm working my 1st, and 2nd job all this week, then I have a full week off next week to enjoy only working my 2nd job for a while (what a vacation eh?). Somewhere in there I am sure I'll finish porting my heads and start getting them ready for prep to be installed.

At this point I wish I would have not pulled out the studs for screw in studs, and just pinned them instead... guess that's what happens when the holidays come around and money's in a crunch Laughing

Dewey316 · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm working today and tomorrow. Knowing myself, I won't get anything done this whole weekend, other than football, turkey and beer.

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Holiday progress

chevymad · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject:

I've got a megashifter with a B&M hammer handle. Comes right off. In fact the problem is gettin it to stay on...

iansane · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject:

I'm not off for the holidays quite yet but I didn't work until 4 today so I pulled the AC condensor, hoses, and some connectors out of the blazer today. Finished welding in the front xmember to replace the low-hanging IFS one. I stopped by a local machine shop with some old rotors for them to turn down into hubs so I can some time get a brake swap done. Now I just need calipers, rotors and caliper bracket. Tommorrow I have to call NW Driveline to hopefully get my aluminum shaft back! I miss it but not the vibrations my steel one gives me...

Hopefully over the weekend I will get my lift springs for the blazer and can get started mounting up the control arms for the front axle. I love coil suspension... I want to have it rolling by december 15th and steering by the first of the year. Maybe by spring I'll have an MPFI setup on the 4.3

chevymad · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject:

Well now I put up doors on the barn! Shocked

Sortof

Dad come up with a complete papermill drier felt a few years ago. Dried it and cut it into large pieces(like 30x40 sections). I've gotten tired of the wind blowin through the barn makin it so cold I can't work. So I cut up some sections and covered up the doorways with it. Also wind/rain has been blowin in the back of the barn and my chevelle's starting to look like a chia pet. So maybe this will cure that too. Feels like the bat cave inside there now though. Debating hanging a dividing wall/curtain the complete length of the barn to seperate the hay section from my mechanics section. Think I still have enough felt to do that.. 20x120 or so. That felt is dang heavy though. All I can do to drag a 20x40 section out to where i could cut it up.

Dewey316 · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject:

yeah....

I drank coffee today. No real work to report. Embarassed

chevymad · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject:

I'm supposed to bake pie's tonight, but drinking beer is sounding better by the minute.

Xophertony · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:18 pm Post subject:

hmmm... beer. i got some stuff done today. need to work on homework now... but i have been dinking with a server (old 333mhz desktop, it just happens to be serving) and tearing apart an old quantum hard drive.... i should get to work now... Rolling Eyes