I painted my valve covers, breather cap and dipstick handle today, turned out very nice. The breather and dipstick turned out flawless. But the valve covers have some slight metal flaws but it turned out very nice. That Duplicolor engine enamel is some nice stuff, dries fast and covers great.

I'll get some pictures when I put them on.

 

I used it two summers ago on my engine, and it's held up very well.

 

Yes, will agree

The sound coming out of the Ford stereo should be better than crap.

 

What have I done to my truck today? I loaded it for our little excursion - 3,000 miles in two weeks. But the question is, do we resemble the Clampetts or the Joads? (If you don't know who both of those families are you've been neglecting your cultural experiences.) And, if you vote for the Clampetts what's wrong with this picture?

All in all there's a large dining room hutch, a dining room table with 3 leaves and 5 chairs, 2 round tables, a hallway secretary, and a rocking chair in there. Oh yes, and an engine analyzer.

 

As for what's wrong, Jedd Clampett drove a Dodge if I remember correctly.

 

Well, this site says their truck was an Olds, but I didn't know that. Actually I thought the problem with the picture is that the rocking chair should be facing forward, as Granny's was:


Hmmm, I wonder who their sponsor was?

 

Reminds me of the Real McCoy's LOL

 

Hmmm, let me take a wild guess... Was it corn flakes?

 

Pretty sure it was Craigslist Flakes.......lol

 

Got them painted and installed.

 

No, mine runs on two AAAs and has a little headphone plug coming out of it. It works really well.

lol I'm gonna surprise some people for sure. Like I said, I can control everything from my phone, so no one will suspect a thing.

Mine's the little single dash speaker kind. Only every great once in a while do I get anything resembling bass out of it.

I hooked up a 6.5" Pioneer door speaker to it since the stock one was dry-rotted. I have what appears to be a correct stock replacement sitting in my room (thanks, brother-in-law) so I may stick that in there and see how it sounds.

Yours has gotta be bumpin' pretty good compared to mine. When I get the CD player in, though, that's a whole 'nother ballgame. Back when I had it installed the first time I had wired it rather horribly, but this time around I'm running it off my add-on fusebox.

Plus this time I got some of the fancy connectors with built-in heat shrink tubing on the ends.

I am about to go order a new connector off ebay and sometime this week I'm going to go ahead and get all the wires in place and the speakers ready. Once I get the connector all I'll have to do is connect the wires and plug in.

I won't have much radio reception since I only have one antenna, but I'm pretty sure it should pick up the little transmitter since it's not far away from the stereo.

 

The matching blue filter is cool.

 

I assumed that was just overspray.

What about the matching blue springs on the dizzy?

 

The distributor cap spacer was originally black, last year I lightly scuffed it, cleaned it super good and painted it. Still looks like new lol. Blue everywhere on this thing.

The filter is one of those Spectre K&N copycat filters, the paper filter would get distorted and screwed up from moisture when it rained, no problems with this cotton fiber filter.

 

I replaced the back brakes on my mom's Cherokee today. The drums were in very good shape so I reused them, but the passenger side shoes and wheel cylinder were toast. When I dropped one of the shoes on the ground as I was taking things apart, the braking material came off in one big chunk from the metal frame. Parking brake auto-adjuster cable was broken too. Driver's side was in decent shape but I replaced the shoes and cylinder there too for good measure. Bled the brakes and took it for a spin, and it stops as good as my truck now.

Next on the job list is to replace both O2 sensors. At $45 a pop though...