project 1951 Pontiac Chieftain

[LightBulbFun]

I justed wanted to say

Quote

Haynes: As described in Chapter 7...
Translation: That'll teach you not to read through before you start, now you are looking at scarey photos of the inside of a gearbox.

is very appropriate for this thread should anyone make the mistake of skipping ahead a few pages

(from here for those not aware, its a right laugh  http://messybeast.com/dragonqueen/real-haynes.htm )

[hairnet]

Charlotte

Heading home

Bye Phil

Thanks Phil

 

 

 

[PhilA]

Safe journey, was good to see you!

[PhilA]

#5 washer ordered. Hoping Tuesday it'll be here.

 

Reset timing, noticed that revving the engine the timing was moving the other way. Not sure the vacuum retard works- gonna check on that after the fact.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Oil change ready; just bought 2 gallons of engine oil for $21

I like this "unsuitable for engines newer than about 1994" business.

 

Phil

[SiC]

Plenty of good old ZDDP in it then!

[Zelandeth]

Is there any sort of standardised colour scheme for the wiring like was common on British cars back at least in the 60s and 70s?

While a lot of the detail work will still involve crawling around with a multimeter and crossing as many fingers as you can, it can at least speed along the basic sanity checks or help narrow down potential faults.

 

[PhilA]

Within brands, yes.

 

I have used... not the colors they had. But the scheme makes sense.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

due to considerations would y'all be up for a visit in october

 

[PhilA]

Whenabouts?

[hairnet]

22 hours ago, PhilA said:

Within brands, yes.

 

I have used... not the colors they had. But the scheme makes sense.

 

Phil

if you redo it and it makes sense to you if you ever fix it then why not

 

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17 hours ago, PhilA said:

Whenabouts?

18 21 october

its only a maybe

due to

well, the story is (and it here as it happened while on the visit )

did deals gap and blue ridge on weds - got back and needed a drink and ice cream

went to the gas station next to the house and bought ice cream and some dr pepper 

id been talking to phil about scratchcards in vending machines - this lot didnt do that but had like in england a stand on the counter with a few in

decided to buy two 5 buck ones

they had 1 to 20 dollar ones

took them home and didnt think anything of them

thursday did wheels thru time and remembered the cards

scratched the ben one and ooh $5

scratched the other one and nothing

so i went to cash in the $5 one........

got there and realised id brought this one

you notice the 38? - id not scratched this and while waiting to be served i scratched it and got the 38 - ooh 25 bucks

so waited to be served and give in the ticket

she scratched the panel at the bottom for the barcode and scanned it 

*ALL KINDS OF MUSICAL NOISES

what does that mean? its only 25 bucks

'youve won...........'

 

 

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[hairnet]

*ABSOLUTLEY STUNNED

i stood there and couldnt say anything

[somewhatfoolish]

Quick! buy some chod!

[hairnet]

Walked back to the house

Sat down outside here and wondered wtf just happened for an hour

The other ice cream I'd bought melted

 

[hairnet]

phils done a meatloaf on us

tell us about the silverado ffs

[PhilA]

I did a whatnow?

Silverado? Daily hack. 2007 model. 1500 LT. Nothing particularly special

[PhilA]

One headlight was missing this little clip. P.O. had used Sikaflex to hold the headlight trim on, sub-optimal. New clip $12, screw that.

 

Take a length of baling wire and bend to shape. Unfortunately baling wire has the metal strength of plasticine.

Cue heat treatment! Warm the wire up until it's orange hot and then quench in water. Repeat but not quite so hot. Then heat to cherry red and let cool slowly.

Result- harder metal that still has a bit of spring.

Fit into place, nice design that it's mostly geometric lock.

With Sikaflex removed, peg now fits into the slot at the top.

Screw holds it in at the bottom.

Nice. Matches the other side now and is significantly less likely to fall off.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

12 hours ago, PhilA said:

I did a whatnow?

Silverado? Daily hack. 2007 model. 1500 LT. Nothing particularly special

Far flasher than a mk5 fiesta ?

meatloaf - 2 outta 3 ain't bad ?

[hairnet]

@PhilA 

need to hear it noise 

 

[PhilA]

20 hours ago, hairnet said:

@PhilA 

need to hear it noise 

 

It really doesn't make a whole lotta noise- standard intake and exhaust system. Vortec is a quiet V8 in stock guise.

[hairnet]

*offers rock auto catalog

[PhilA]

Hopefully the last piece in the gearbox puzzle.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

woohoo

[PhilA]

That'll do. Thunderbirds might possibly be go.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

With everything coming up in the next few weeks I don't think I'll be making it to Cruisin' The Coast.

Maybe next year.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

shame  - you were talking about that

sounded like a larf

[PhilA]

Tonight is brought to you by the letter T. T is for Torque! 

Lowercase t.

Main caps tightened and locked in place with tab.

Drive case oil rings in place.

Torus snap rings back in their grooves.

Stopped for dinner

[PhilA]

Fitted new oil rings to the governor shaft. 

 

Fitted governor in place and located front servo and feed pipe from rear pump.

 

Rear servo in place, front oil pickup pipe and strainer.

 

Reverse lever mechanism and valve block fitted.

 

New oil seals and rings put on.

 

Oil pans fitted. Will have to take them apart again to redo initial band adjustment but wanted to make sure everything fitted and no crap gets in.

 

My shoulder is killing me now.

 

Phil