Finally replaced my broken door Handle.

 

I've also been finally trying to get my timing advanced but I just can't get that bolt loose on the distributer, I may be going about it the wrong way.

 

I put sound deadening in the doors (I had run out last time I bought some) I covered the outer and most of theinner skins with 80 mil material (from GT, seems good, WAY cheaper than Dynomat)And put foam buckets behind the speakers. I have a decent system, but it never has sounded all that good. Now, it's like a recording studio in there and you hear only the music and the truck, nobody else. You have to keep an eye out for emerg vehicles, but the ride is way less distracting now that all the other cars are silent. Bit eerie though...

 

Put in a new Red Top Battery

 

Finally cleared the 311 (thermactor air system inoperative), 332 (insufficient EGR flow detected), and 411 (cannot control RPM during low RPM check) codes in my truck by replacing the vacuum reservoir (aka coffee can) that had rusted out. Took me a while to figure it out, so I'm happy to get it fixed.

 

Took Michelle up on the ridge with my girlfriend and a buddy to do some target practice.

Even with muddy conditions and some pretty washed out areas in the road, she still was a trooper and never got us stuck!

I think the girlyfriend has a little more respect for the old girl, now..

 

Finished the install of my Tribute seats.

 

Put a new set of license plate bulbs in after getting pulled over around 2:30 Saturday morning for burned out bulbs. I'm usually pretty good at checking lights, but I guess I don't take much notice to the plate lights.

 

Are those Mazda Tribute seats? and how did you go about fitting them? and why those seats in particular? are they a serious improvement over ours?.

 

I was wondering the same. Those look good in there.

I used an L bracket, some epoxy and a threaded clip to replace the broken section on my door to keep my lock and window controls down. the panel was just hanging there.

 

I have the same problem on my passenger door. I always forget about fixing it since I'm never the passenger.

 

I used some quick drying jb weld to mount the L bracket in there. I would take a picture but I'm afraid it will come apart. Lol

 

Understood. If you ever have it apart for any reason. I'd love to see a pic. I would really like to tackle mine this summer.

 

I actually attached the bracket to the switch panel first then put the epoxy on the other end and shoved it down on there and applied pressure until it quit moving around. I had it apart once after that to check everything so it should be fine.

 

I pulled the passenger header off again, yes again, and fixed the two damaged header bolts threads from the original Summit header install. Went fairly easy until the tap from the helicoil kit I bought snapped. I got the first of the two holes done just fine. However, half way through the second hole the tap snapped in half. Luckily the tap had enough sticking out that I could remove it with vice grips. I decided to finish that hole with the left over tap and the vice grip as I only needed another couple turns to be all the way in. Fairly disappointed in the $50 kit I bought because of the tap breaking. On the plus side though, all the bolts are fully in, all locked down with the Stage 8 hardware and a new Remflex gasket. The original Remflex on the driverside has had zero leaks in 4k miles and I never even had to re-torque them. Passenger side only leaked because of the threads I messed up.

Will have to re-torque the collector bolts in a few days though.