What have you done to your square lately??

[83Stepper]

Excited to see all the progress everybody is making. I'm just over here driving my square around and just enjoying it. But today I did some tinkering around and stuffed some stereo stuff in it for now. Haven't done anything custom with it for now, just stashed it in there and tested it all out. Amazing how well some of this old stuff has held up over the years. Grabbed the MTX RT2's from a local guy that's had them since the 90's that used them for DJ gigs. Amp was courtesy of a guy that works at a local scrapyard, made an awesome contact for parts, and that 6 disc Pioneer changer has been mine since early-mid 2003ish.

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I'm on call through next Tuesday, so that'll give me plenty of time to clean it up and do it the way I want it to look. Just wanted to get it in there and test it out to make sure that everything was working fine before getting too far into it and finding any issues.

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Plus I got to grab a great video of an awesome sunrise in the old girl the other day... Love those early morning cruises and views!

 

[WFarm]

Seats in. Now it’s time for a drive. Been killin me the past week not being able to drive as we’ve had some beautiful days.

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[Sgt Gus]

Perry’s got it, with the 5 foot brush hog (an old BmB, not some farm store special) it’s heavy enough that it’s in some state of almost wheelie or doing a wheelie all the time. Same goes with the boom pole, steering gets very light, very quickly when loaded.

That’s about 100lbs extra up front, could use another 100 easily.

I guess you won't be making the tractor pull with that one
Me as a kid "uncle Jxx why are we going under the fence?"

 

[Sgt Gus]

Well, that extra dangly ground wire I couldn't figure out...attaches to the AC relay. So, NOW we fixed our high speed fan issue.

 

[Sgt Gus]

We hand washed her truck yesterday, and put shine on the tires. Off she went.

 

[Terlingueno]

We hand washed her truck yesterday, and put shine on the tires. Off she went.

It rained here a few days ago, so my truck got a pretty good rinse...

 

[Sgt Gus]

It rained here a few days ago, so my truck got a pretty good rinse...

Yeah, I don't think I've hand washed anything in at least 10 years or so, don't really know.
But my daughter convinced me to wash my truck too. Lol

 

[Strick]

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All kinds of creative substitution on this rig...

HS

 

[Camar068]

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All kinds of creative substitution on this rig...

HS

nice

 

[gilby959798]

Pulled the trigger on a TR4050 today.

 

[xm20k]

Got her ready for winter, checked the antifreeze concentration, pulled the battery, covered the tunnel ran with a heavy-duty yard bag, and put a cover on it. just in time as it snowed here last night.

 

[1STLS1]

5/25 posted I pulled it in the garage for a engine swap and some other stuff, 11/16 it drove out on it's own power. Still have some other stuff to do under the hood but it runs.

Lessons I learned:

I think I am getting too old for this, engine swapping a mildly lifted 4x4 is a PIA.
1987's are a PIA with 4 accessory belts, fuel injection and computers
Chasing through 39 years of other peoples wiring repairs gets old
It makes you feel worse when you learn that Painless Wiring has a new GM TBI harness they sell for swaps that can be used on this only after you finally get it running. This would have been a no brainer. There is also new correct battery cables out there too, again I would have used them in a second.
Just because it's reproduced and it's listed as fitting your vehicle doesn't mean it will. Transmission cooler lines and fuel injection hoses from throttle body to frame of truck come to mind.
Finding enough correct fasteners for something that had a transmission swap and they chose not to install a couple special ones tests patience going though all the old bolts of trucks I parted

I have not taken it down the street yet, finding little things I need to sort like the oil pressure gauge not working, only 8 psi of fuel pressure and the oil cooler adaptor continuing to leak after resealing it 3 times

Hind site being 20/20, I am really thinking it would have been easier to LS or LT swap it. The amount of time and frustration I had playing with the fuel lines and the wiring harness would have off set some of the expense. Should have sold all that stuff, found a decent $2500-3000 motor and transmission combo and spent another $2500 swapping it. Cleaner install, more power, better mileage, simpler so arguably more reliable.

 

[Snoots]

Just because it's reproduced and it's listed as fitting your vehicle doesn't mean it will.

That's why I refer to them as Painful, not Painless.

 

[idahovette]

@1STLS1 I hear you loud and clear. Right in the middle of an engine swap. I'm just exchanging a 350 for a 350, but every time you turn around you need something. Hoses and belts are a given, but the speedi sleeve that I neglected to get for the Harmonic balancer that I neglected to check, won't be here til tomorrow, the bolts that I neglected to clean, and on and on. Just the typical stuff you run into when your changing things over. The 2 steps forward and 3 back kills me. Looks like I shoulda put this in the RANT thread?

 

[Sad Sack]

Took mine out for beer last night before the snowstorm comes.
It may be a while till she gets to go out for beers again...