Builds The Green Bastard (5 Viewers)

[roflbox]

Big day today!
Cruiser now runs again, new distributor was what fixed it.

Snagged some spare rims for the cruiser from @White Sheep and saw the progress on both of his money pits

And thanks to @fourtrax for the excellent walkthrough of the steps to replace!

 

[hadacol]

Impressed with the testing rigor!

Did you swap in an all new distributor or just the rotor/cap plus cleaning existing internals?

For me, cold starts are jamming but she does finally start, and am trying to estimate the difference between the two jobs. Thanks!

 

[roflbox]

Impressed with the testing rigor!

Did you swap in an all new distributor or just the rotor/cap plus cleaning existing internals?

For me, cold starts are jamming but she does finally start, and am trying to estimate the difference between the two jobs. Thanks!

I went with a new distributor, and glad I did, when I pulled the old distributor, the PO had done some work to stop oil leaking by slathering the distributor with black gasket material, and the exterior of it was pretty caked with gray gasket material too.

If I can find internal parts, I will re-furbish this distributor, and keep it as a spare.

 

[roflbox]

what a PITA inspections are.
first place says "your taillights have to be red"
2nd place says "you have an exhaust leak, and blah blah blah that is part of safety, not emissions"

I have globbed up the y pipe with JB weld hitemp, and will test the winds of fate tomorrow

 

[White Sheep]

what a PITA inspections are.
first place says "your taillights have to be red"
2nd place says "you have an exhaust leak, and blah blah blah that is part of safety, not emissions"

I have globbed up the y pipe with JB weld hitemp, and will test the winds of fate tomorrow

You might have to find a guy that knows a guy

 

[roflbox]

passed inspection, just went to a different jiffylube this morning, and voila
the jb weld didnt set, so I just took it off before going

 

[fourtrax]

do you need a y pipe?

 

[roflbox]

do you need a y pipe?

Yes

 

[fourtrax]

if you want to stop by it's not perfect but solid. it is a magnaflow will need flange between the cats ( mine was welded single cat).

 

[lumbee1]

if you want to stop by it's not perfect but solid. it is a magnaflow will need flange between the cats ( mine was welded single cat).

He has a 97 with a single cat.

 

[fourtrax]

Yeap

 

[roflbox]

I have been keeping my 3d printer busy

Going to be making a few versions of that bracket for the cup holder insert (most likely a heatset version that can be used for ram mounts), and then releasing the printable files for free

Progress has started on making a ashtray bracket as well

 

[roflbox]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw
turns out I have spun the bung for my transmission drain plug

 

[roflbox]

Annnnnnnnnd we are back.
Was able to find a pan on MUD, someone was swapping their transmission out, and agreed to swap pans with me.

Installed it Saturday, and just filled it up today, will give it a look over tomorrow, and then drive it around a little bit.

Hopefully I did a good enough job sealing that pan (followed the directions on the tube) would like to not have to deal with that again

 

[Rollinns]

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I have been keeping my 3d printer busy

Going to be making a few versions of that bracket for the cup holder insert (most likely a heatset version that can be used for ram mounts), and then releasing the printable files for free

Progress has started on making a ashtray bracket as well

Do you know when you might be releasing these files?

 

[roflbox]

Do you know when you might be releasing these files?

Which ones?

 

[Rollinns]

The bracket for the top cup holder and the ashtray.

 

[roflbox]

The bracket for the top cup holder and the ashtray.

Cup holder bracket is here:

Printables

www.printables.com

Still working on the others

 

[roflbox]

mmmmmmmmm
lets see here

Grabbed a bunch of parts off of @jfz80
including:
door cards
center console cover
ls400 visors (only thing yet to be installed)
various other spares / bits

Purchased a certified I8hmud antiquity of a tailgate cover made by Cruiser Dan (1/4" alu plate):

Put sound deadining in the doors, that seems to have taken my decibel reading from 80.5 down to 77->78

 

[Dusten]

mmmmmmmmm
lets see here

Grabbed a bunch of parts off of @jfz80
including:
door cards
center console cover
ls400 visors (only thing yet to be installed)
various other spares / bits

Purchased a certified I8hmud antiquity of a tailgate cover made by Cruiser Dan (1/4" alu plate):

View attachment 3655209

Put sound deadining in the doors, that seems to have taken my decibel reading from 80.5 down to 77->78

Fun fact most people don't known. An increase or decrease of 3db halves the sound pressure.