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  1. CORVAIRWILD

    Choke plate not closing.

    Oh, and if I knew how to use a meter as well as I can adjust a Q-jet...
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    Choke plate not closing.

    Rusty, way back you mentioned the choke break, aka choke pull off. This Holley doesn't have such a device. It just hopes the engine vacuum can pull the choke plate open, thus ending the major rich condition a closed choke plate causes. One thing I noticed is that few posters know how a choke...
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    diesel truck trans

    I worked at a large Chev Olds Cadillac dealer in 1981, you could buy any GM car or 2wd pickup with a 5.7 Olds diesel. (S10's and Chevettes had an Isuzu diesel, I had an Acadian 5 speed diesel, it ran great on heating oil) They lasted a few months then started coming in with connecting rods...
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    Do alternators just die?

    I guess I'm a smart alec, I could write for pages and pages about starters and alternators. The biggest problem with buying a starter or alternator from the auto parts stores is, I've been doing this for 35 years, and they were crap 35 years ago before China was invented. And they've only gotten...
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    Convert 1983 dash w-wiper-floor dimmer to turn signal stalk?

    Oh vay...
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    Convert 1983 dash w-wiper-floor dimmer to turn signal stalk?

    I just put a deposit on a 1983 K5 Blazer, and I usually prefer to buy 1984 and newer because the windshield washer and dimmer switch is mounted on the turn signal stalk. Has anybody ever tried to update the 1983 and older floor mounted dimmer and dash mounted windshield wiper to the turn signal...
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    Still Super Sloppy Steering

    Flat, arched, whatever, nothing to do with the wander issue
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    Still Super Sloppy Steering

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    Still Super Sloppy Steering

    The ORD steering box brace should be on EVERY Square Body! There's no bracing or triangulation from the factory, the box just bolts to a single wall frame rail, a GM "it's good enuff" issue. The RAG joint can last 100k, or forever. Seeing play in it is elementary. Titening up the top adjustment...
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    HELP! Starter issue?

    When GM introduced side post terminals, I believe on the 1969 Grand Prix, the trouble was just beginning. It's a great idea, but they should have been filled with grease from the factory, and they weren't. So I've seen vehicles from out west in the dryest of climates corrode internally, from...
  11. CORVAIRWILD

    Update '83 To '84> Turn Signal Stalk Wipers-Hi Beams? What's Involved?

    Recent pix. -10 the last couple mornings, K5 fired rite up!
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    Update '83 To '84> Turn Signal Stalk Wipers-Hi Beams? What's Involved?

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    Update '83 To '84> Turn Signal Stalk Wipers-Hi Beams? What's Involved?

    I always search for '84 and newer Squares, but I just found an '83 that meets my needs. What's Involved to put the windshield wiper control and hi beam control on the turn signal stalk? Obviously the steering column swap, but is the updated wiring piggybacked? Has anyone ever done this mod?
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    Power Window Motor Repair

    Graphite lube? Link? I use Fluid Film, great rustproofing and lubricant. My '84 K5 Blazer driver window works, sometimes. Maybe it's the overheat switch? Didn't know there was one. Usually slamming the door or rapping on the bottom with a 2x4 works, and it's not working now. Time to look at it...
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    My '84 Suburban Drips Water Onto Front Floor When It Rains

    The truck was painted three or four years ago, and needs to go back for a little bit of touch up from the inevitable rust. I bought it in San Francisco 10 years ago, and had it painted kind of compliments of the insurance company. But winter is brutal here, and no matter how much I rust-proof it...
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    My '84 Suburban Drips Water Onto Front Floor When It Rains

    I just found all these wonderful answers in my spam box, along with a few spam's from good friends of mine, I guess their email got hacked. The story of the stripes was I was at a car show and a guy had a '71ish Challenger, and the hockey stripe was kind of similar to the Camaros of the late...
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    My '84 Suburban Drips Water Onto Front Floor When It Rains

    I bought this 1984 K 2500 4x4 Suburban in San Francisco 10 years ago, and every time it rains water drips on the front driver floor adjacent to the cowl by the hinge post. Passenger side is worse, the carpet is always soaking wet and I have to lift up the carpets to let them dry to stop it from...
  18. CORVAIRWILD

    New style center cap

    http://www.gmsquarebody.com/threads/new-style-center-cap.19901/
  19. CORVAIRWILD

    New style center cap

    I'm looking at another thread on this forum, and the difference is the outer circumference of the cap has a slight bulge around the plastic nut, but I'm not able to decipher which one fits which wheel because the text is vague
  20. CORVAIRWILD

    New style center cap

    So to clarify, the cap with the slight bulge around the circumfrence is for the steel wheel? My friend (in Israel) has chrome steel wheels that may have a chrome decorative cover. I only saw the truck briefly, but hope to see it again before I head back to the states. I did see a cap offered on...
  21. CORVAIRWILD

    Newer Style Center Caps & Wheels On 1978 3/4 Ton Pickup-Stud Question....

    Wow, that was fast!
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    Newer Style Center Caps & Wheels On 1978 3/4 Ton Pickup-Stud Question....

    My friend has a 1978 Chevy 3/4 ton C20 pickup with newer 2000 or so chrome wheels. He's missing the center caps, but the question is, what stud and nut needs to be used? The truck has a couple of the double threaded nuts, but my review of ebay shows that they're all 14mm metric. So I'm really...
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