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californiajohnny
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well the left rear is making some rubbing and creaking noises... had to trim the rear bumper flange a little bit, rubbing sound gone creaking still there, figured it's the spring since i forgot the rubber insulator on it, no big deal pull that strut back out and put it in there, 5 minute job, right? WRONG!!!
while pitting it back together i cross threaded the nut somehow? trying to get it back off...took heat twice and lots of impact gun finally it snapped the end of the shaft off in the nut called around...nobody has a new strut in stock ordered one from o'reileys $104!!! talk about ripping a guy off! saw the same monroe strut on ebay for $25!!! they claim auto parts mark up is 400% case in point right there! so i filed the remaining threads and was able to reuse it temporarily using a 12mm lugnut will put the new one on tomorrow when it arrives.... creaking sound gone BTW |
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74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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californiajohnny
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got the new strut installed today, i'll be damned if the tire didn't rub on a reinforcement rib a little heat with the torch and a smack with a 4lbs hammer, works great now
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JOHN
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californiajohnny
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today i had to frame in a couple new doors in a buddy's house and he gave me that 700R4 tranny to go in the farm truck, after i have my tranny guy build it so one day fairly soon the farm truck will have overdrive
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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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handsofstone
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Sweet!
Let me know when you want to ship the chunk. 👍😉
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californiajohnny
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ok i'll still need to pull it from that rearend and figure the shipping... probably greyhound due to the weight
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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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Is it 28 or 31? 31 and I need small bearing axles? Is that a dream?
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californiajohnny
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28 i'm sure? it's from a small bearing 72 differential but the splines shouldn't matter from the bearing size...
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74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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Steve M.
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Hey John,
Nothing crazy here. This is a 1974 Gran Torino Sport. My wife, daughter and I drove it to Florida from Massachusetts back in. 2007. It rained from Massachusetts to the South Carolina border. I did that because some other classic car owner, said that I'd never drive it out of my own neighborhood. He lives in St. Petersburg. It took all day to get it ready for car night. We went to Biff Burger and I parked it next to his 1967 GTO. Once my daughter let it be known that we drove it down, the old timers were all over us. They let me know that as long as I drive it, it will never look any better than it does. I miss that one. Someone offering more money than it was worth has it now. Its still in Massachusetts.
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Steve M.
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Thats my awesome wife in the background. We stopped at South of the Border. Thats where my daughter took this picture. It was only 45 degrees that day.
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californiajohnny
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huh????
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74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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californiajohnny
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did some car shuffling last night and today... got 5 cars in a 4 car garage while taking some pics last night of my collection... i noticed some tweaker bastard stole the large embossed mobil pegasus off my garage
but i got the torino in the other garage next to the vette... damn it's longer than my vette |
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74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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Steve M.
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he'll be back, put up a trail camera or 5 to find out who it is
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72 GT Ute
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californiajohnny
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retrofitted my car trailer with FRP grating i bought from a local company here in town the 20 year old wood on it was getting pretty rotten! now it's updated with all LED lights too
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handsofstone
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If nobody can see your place from the road, your sign thief has been a visitor at one time or another. Trailer looks pissa.
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californiajohnny
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the road is just on the other side of the trees to the right in the pic
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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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72FordGTS
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Nice work John! That should hold up way better than a wood deck. Looks great too.
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BackInBlack
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That looks like it would be stronger than the wood. Nice work.
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californiajohnny
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today's adventures involved finally replacing the heater core in the vette
you could say some mechanics "run a tight ship" but me working on the vette was more like i was "running a pirate ship" there was some cussing, almost some drinking, and i figured there would be a mutiny before it was all over but i got it done! |
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Steve M.
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I had a '77 Vette for a long time. Red with oxblood and white interior. Back in 1995, someone offered me a lot more money than it was worth. Yup, let it go.
The guy who bought it ended up wrecking it. I did the heater core on that one in my driveway. I had help from a friend. He drank my beer while I worked. Frustrating then. Great memory now.
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californiajohnny
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i love em but they're different to work on than most other cars. actually it wasn't near as bad as i had anticipated
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Steve M.
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Glad I had one.
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californiajohnny
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i've wanted a c-3 since i was 4 years old! took me 38 years to finally get one
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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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72FordGTS
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I agree, I have worked on C3s before (also C1 and C2s). Years ago, a friend of mine let me keep his '78 L82 for a week or so while I tuned it and did some other work for him. I had lots of fun cruising in that Vette. Glad the heater core wasn't too bad. Can't be as bad as doing the Evap cores on a mid to late 90s Cavalier. When I was at GM we used to do those all the time. I really disliked those POS.
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californiajohnny
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no sh*t! yeah anything after the 80's are junk IMO
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JOHN
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in the past few weeks i decided to finally get the ford courier back on the road to make a couple of our local cruises been parked for IDK 7 years???... took 2 wheel cylinders and 4 new tires. currently working on custom late 80's caddy tail lights but had to custom fab a pair of tail light fillers for the courier lights then cut out for the caddy buckets to french in...
also drove the celica a couple times recently, remembering the front calipers were seized a couple years ago, and no longer available but a guy on one of the celica groups gave me a link to a complete bolt on wilwood kit spent a couple hours figuring out which bracket was for which side when you spend $1K on a brake kit they don't come with instructions, but now if it were some cheap junk from ikea... it would have instructions in 4 languages and be missing some bolts but it's nice to have all 4 brakes working again https://technotoytuning.com/toyota/ra28/ra28-celica-big-brake-kit Edited by californiajohnny - 14-December-2020 at 6:41PM |
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74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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Not sure where you get your energy from. If it is bottled, you selling?
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Edited by californiajohnny - 27-November-2020 at 8:26AM |
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74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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worked on the courier here and there in the past few weeks... added some green LED underbody glow kit and some in the interior too
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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE 74 VETTE CUSTOM 90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED 77 CELICA CUSTOM 75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED 79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED 75 VEGA V6 5 SPD 70 CHEV C10 P/U 68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION |
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