Recent content by jht3

nope. have a new ignition switch but haven't made the time to install it

on my 80, the positive to the low, hi, and dash indicator are all fed by the headlight relay. so it shouldn't matter where you picked up power for the aux lights. hi bulbs and indicator grounds are tied together, so i'm failing to understand how your hi's are working without the indicator. do...

and here i am about to rip off the trim completely and go naked. drivers side is basically only being held on by my rack

Yup, Radial is good people. Bought many an R-compound tire there, shaved, for the track.

dried out the passenger side again. have the front fender bolt removed and the inside rubber grommet. that internal cavity is bone dry..i looked using a mirror. decided to pull the drivers side front bolt and water poured out. no rain in the last few days and the 80 has been sitting nose down...

They are roughly 1.5in long. I was able to remove the bolt even with white knuckle sliders installed. But barely.

i'm very familiar with the sunroof drains being routed inside the front kick panels. my E30 BMW is the same way, and that pocket also houses sensitive electronics like the central locking unit. whyyyyyyyyyyyy the pass weld nut did not break free. so lucky me? anyways, i sprayed it all down with...

i removed the leading bolt just fine. it was much longer than i expected. so you are saying water will not cleanly drain out around the captured nut inside the rocker? how deep are you estimating? wouldn't the bulk of the water drain out through the now open hole, and any remainder through the...

i was thinking about rigging up the same thing. maybe the pass side is just funkier and impeding the draining of water just enough. wish i could see inside the rocker somehow but all the holes are too tiny to get a mirror or anything in, and i dont have a borescope did you do your cleaning from...

i probed the forward slit with a zip tie...no water pulled the forward grommet from the rocker...no water removed the forward bolt from the fender as @Malleus indicated...no water bolt threads were nasty with dirt and some corrosion so my hypothesis is forward slit IS draining better than...

as i wrote in the "what did you do over the weekend" thread last weekend, i've found water on the passenger side floor. thought i'd solved it over the weekend with opening up the forward drain slit, but an big overnight storm proved otherwise truck was pointed nose down again, to test the...

the cats missing, and not mentioned in the ad, is suspect. its common for thiefs to steal the cats, but should have been noted in the ad...those are federally mandated after all. might be able to pull that lever to get out of this deal, or a partial refund. not sure what the BaT terms and...

water inside i've previously sealed up the rear louver leaks and thought i had dodged this "they all do that" problem up front, but we had a huge rain storm the last few days. 80 was parked backed into my sloped driveway, so nose down. 1/4 mile down the street my glovebox came unlatched and got...

something is not right with that louver. there's a detailed thread on just the louvers i'd go check out; on how they mount so you can avoid breaking anything. i removed mine, and sealed the holes with butyl. solved my wet jack and cubby. the molding clips weep ever so slightly, and have new...

i find a fuel pressure gauge very useful, one with logging even more so. not on an 80, but on an old M3 I installed an Autometer electronic fuel pressure sender and gauge. the fuel rail is fed by rubber hose from the pump/tank, so I tee-d in a brass fitting where I screwed in the sender. gauge...