Winter 13-14 General BS Thread
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#200
This is my new garage. I got a great price for it couldn't turn it down. Great ventilation. Open floor plan.
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Luckily I was able to clean a lot of this when I had it off. Major design flaw on the 3.8s and 4.2s. Oil passing into intake. Add to that the stock isolator bolt grommets are not oil resistant. Mine were hard and brittle. No wonder third time in the years this had to be done. Glad I did it my self this time.
#206
#207
Speaking of extra parts by one in the morning I was brain dead. When I uninstalled the upper plenum I drew a little outline on a cardboard lid and put all the bolts through the cardboard to keep up with them and where they came from. Well my torque spec/tightening sequence page from alldata had 12 bolts. I had 14. I'm my mental state it till about ten minutes and a Marlboro to figure things out.
300 miles today and no issues. I'm glad I don't have to do it again.
Oh and last thing. I'm convinced the tailgate is the world's best work bench. Especially one on a beater , lol
#208
GOOOOD morning everybody. Almost finished with my first mug of coffee, My name is Earl, is over, Rocky has been outside for his morning duties, now it's computer time, FTE, Craigslist, and a little Facebooking.
So far it looks like the high lite of my day is, I get to go grocery shopping later. Since I've been off work with a jacked up back, I'm basically "Mr. Mom" though I'm lucky/blessed that my wife (Shari) has a good job, and I've always been an insurance nut, I/we usually buy the extended insurance on major electronics (That paid off big two years ago) and on vehicles that we buy, and my last employer started offering short and long term disability insurance. And I know that things DO happen, so I signed up. Good thing, two years later, I'm needing it.... So I draw a monthly check too...
Whew, that was a little more about me that just spewed out.
Hope y'all have a safe day
Unk Bob
So far it looks like the high lite of my day is, I get to go grocery shopping later. Since I've been off work with a jacked up back, I'm basically "Mr. Mom" though I'm lucky/blessed that my wife (Shari) has a good job, and I've always been an insurance nut, I/we usually buy the extended insurance on major electronics (That paid off big two years ago) and on vehicles that we buy, and my last employer started offering short and long term disability insurance. And I know that things DO happen, so I signed up. Good thing, two years later, I'm needing it.... So I draw a monthly check too...
Whew, that was a little more about me that just spewed out.
Hope y'all have a safe day
Unk Bob
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