What have you done to your square lately??

[Sad Sack]

It's just too darn cold to do anything to the old girl, so maybe I'll just dust her off this weekend.

 

[Chevrolado]

Put my interior fully back together now (after I had to remove all the dash components to wire the tank selector switch). Cassette deck is back in (which reminds me, I need to get some new tapes ), clock is set back to the proper time (dont expect to be disconnecting the battery again anytime soon)..
As of this morning, my fuel leak part is Out for Delivery - so hopefully I'm up and running this cold weekend, I want to see how it idles, check to see if the transmission does transmission things and the brakes do braking things.. Getting closer to driving this thing for the first time in 13 years.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

It's just too darn cold to do anything to the old girl, so maybe I'll just dust her off this weekend.

Same, I'm a couple weeks from being able to do any real work to either of mine.

 

[TotalyHucked]

Got about half the DSE kit installed before lunch

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[YakkoWarner]

I replaced my throttle body with a rebuilt unit last weekend. The job would have been VERY easy , main problem was finding a mounting gasket (spent more time driving 90 minutes to the one store in the area that had one in stock than it took to swap the unit). I don't know if it was an oversight on the seller or not because othing in the sales info mentioned including it, so I called and asked. They said a gasket was in the box but it turned out to be the one for the air cleaner housing at the top, not the mounting one underneath. I can accept some reponsibility for that-I should have just hedged my bets and found one in advance.

I'm not going to complain over a $6.00 gasket. They had the rebuilt unit in stock and sent it out well packaged, received in good condition without any issues or delays so I'd definately buy from them again. Had to get a friend to order it for me because the cost exceeded the power of my prepaid card, again not anything the seller has control over. They answered the phone with a real person on the first try, actually understood the products they had listed and were happy to answer any questions. Not their fault I didn't ask the right one. My only actual issue with the product was it seemed to have a defective TPS sensor on it, so I had to swap over my older (but still functional) one.

Installation was easy (I had asked on here and snuck a couple quick video clips at work). I'll probably have to lift it off again in a few months because I had some issues with one of the TPS screws that again weren't the rebuilders' fault, and now I know what part # the gasket is so I'll have one on hand.

 

[Strick]

Got about half the DSE kit installed before lunch

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Glad to see that I'm not the only person that ain't afraid to shred them down. I told my boys about the recent body swap; "Cab swaps are like p#$$y; I'm not scared of them but I don't get a chance to do them on the daily". You older fellas will get it...

HS

 

[Radiohead]

Ha ha ha ha, one step forward, two steps back. I popped the crappy dash pad off to make it easier to get to the inner cavity under the dash, also made it easier to pull the dash gauge cluster out. Some bulbs were not working and the speedo was not indicating. I brought in a box of 194 bulbs to change all them out so I was starting fresh. Cluster came out easy enough for old brittle bull$#it and since it's up on stands, verified speedo cable spun. So far, all good. Gauges read proper ranges and both turn signal indicators work. Frigging awesome!

Until I turned on the headlights. WTF?

Lol, as I suspected, when I reinstalled the gauge cluster I fudged up the ground connection. No wonder the lighting was searching out a return path wherever it could. It's always something dumb at the end of the day. All is well now, lighting works as it should as does everything but the clock. It has power and ground, so someday I will pop it out and see if I can McGuyver it back to life somehow.

Did get the right front brake issue definitively answered. The caliper and pads are new, the hose is plugged. Ordering all new rubber brake lines tonight as well as a master cylinder for rear seal leaks. Two steps forward, no falling back. Sweet!

Jury is still out over the pinion bearings. Did another under side test and the noise changes significantly when the passenger side wheel is kept from turning, even though the wheel bearing there sounds normal. Thinking something in the center is acting out. Cover off next, although I'm seriously considering letting a specialist go through it and put in 3.42 gears too.

 

[hoagster]

Lol, as I suspected, when I reinstalled the gauge cluster I fudged up the ground connection. No wonder the lighting was searching out a return path wherever it could. It's always something dumb at the end of the day. All is well now, lighting works as it should as does everything but the clock. It has power and ground, so someday I will pop it out and see if I can McGuyver it back to life somehow.

Did get the right front brake issue definitively answered. The caliper and pads are new, the hose is plugged. Ordering all new rubber brake lines tonight as well as a master cylinder for rear seal leaks. Two steps forward, no falling back. Sweet!

Jury is still out over the pinion bearings. Did another under side test and the noise changes significantly when the passenger side wheel is kept from turning, even though the wheel bearing there sounds normal. Thinking something in the center is acting out. Cover off next, although I'm seriously considering letting a specialist go through it and put in 3.42 gears too

 

[hoagster]

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[JamesSam]

My buddy Jimmy gave me some bumper guards over the weekend. After straightening them out some I slapped em on this afternoon. Im on the fence whether I like em or not now that theyre on there

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Your truck looks great with them. But it also looked great without them too. I'm no help, lol.

Your truck does look great with them, but I am in the same boat with @bucket , it looked just as cool without them. Those bumper bumpers(fangs) didn't appear until the mid 80's anyways, I think. I might be totally wrong. Killer looking either way.

 

[JamesSam]

No don't chop it down that's the trendy hipster thing to do around here to the point I've seen one other long bed besides mine running around here. 75% of the short bed squares here are originally long beds That have been hacked into short beds.

Then they ask even more for them than normal because short bed bro. As if being in the rust belt isn't bad enough when it comes to prices on these trucks.

Longbeds have really grown on me the last 5 or so years, and do look really cool dropped low IMHO.

 

[JamesSam]

Been a minute.
After checking battery and alternator a few different ways, then still having rough idle/driving, I went down a few different paths(rabbit holes).
Still thinking it could be fuel pump, but knowing things to do to adjust the TBI in the past, eventually I landed on throwing parts at the TBI.
All symptoms I was having led me to ECM not conducting correctly due to TBI parts that could use love or be replaced. Since these parts are not too expensive I went there.
All said and done: new EGR(actually ran good the day after install but back to rough after), new EGR solenoid, new MAP sensor, new coolant temp. sensor, new o2 sensor(days of PB Blaster, nor heat got it free, had to try a trick I heard about with a clamp ring on o2 sensor socket with breaker bar!) new IACV, and TPS.
I then got a cheap tachometer off Amazon, did the ALDL paper clip jump recalibration and adjusted throttle torx screw to 640-720-ish RPM. The old TPS and IACV did not look bad at all but I swapped them anyway. Whatever one or more of those it was got fixed for now, lol. Truck is driving well again and it feels great just to drive it to the gas station. Just in time for this snow/ice rain storm to come through. Now I need to address the breaks next, when I uncover the truck after said winter storm. Inspection is due in March so...

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[Burkee1483]

Got her moved and loaded between yesterday and today. Finally after 3 years of sitting it’s off to the shop. Where my buddy will redo the air ride and I’ll throw a collection of 7 years of parts at her. Big excited lol

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Been a minute.
After checking battery and alternator a few different ways, then still having rough idle/driving, I went down a few different paths(rabbit holes).
Still thinking it could be fuel pump, but knowing things to do to adjust the TBI in the past, eventually I landed on throwing parts at the TBI.
All symptoms I was having led me to ECM not conducting correctly due to TBI parts that could use love or be replaced. Since these parts are not too expensive I went there.
All said and done: new EGR(actually ran good the day after install but back to rough after), new EGR solenoid, new MAP sensor, new coolant temp. sensor, new o2 sensor(days of PB Blaster, nor heat got it free, had to try a trick I heard about with a clamp ring on o2 sensor socket with breaker bar!) new IACV, and TPS.
I then got a cheap tachometer off Amazon, did the ALDL paper clip jump recalibration and adjusted throttle torx screw to 640-720-ish RPM. The old TPS and IACV did not look bad at all but I swapped them anyway. Whatever one or more of those it was got fixed for now, lol. Truck is driving well again and it feels great just to drive it to the gas station. Just in time for this snow/ice rain storm to come through. Now I need to address the breaks next, when I uncover the truck after said winter storm. Inspection is due in March so...

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I'll have to remember that trick on the O2 sensor socket. All 3 of my trucks probably need them.... Done 3 of 4 on the Burb, Crew Cab longbed's were acting up when I got it but settled down after being driven more and tuned up. Hoping that will straighten out the "new" ccsb, got several things to see to on it, once the weather gets warmer(supposed to be freezing or below for the next few days, not working on a truck outside!).

 

[PrairieDrifter]

Yeah--but if you might use it someday, you'd probably want to keep it The second you sell it, the perfect truck for it would fall into your lap that would need it!

More of a hope I might use it someday I got them on a deal and didn't want them to go in the garbage. But I don't really have a build in mind that I would use them on. On the lookout for a crew cab and a blazer, but otherwise my project list is full(financially anyways). ***** too expensive to be building a bunch of projects these days, here for a good time not a long time!

I also wouldn't mind contributing to your cool truck!

Anyways you're welcome to take it off my hands if you'd like lol. Don't want much for it. Pm if interested.