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To get things rolling, it has actually been cooler than expected this time of year around here. Some days are just down right comfortable. Still getting way too much rain though. Looks like this week's cruise in is going to be another washout. One of these days, I will drive the Trans Am again...
Looking like Spring down here instead of August as well. Cooler temperatures and some spotty showers. Very unnatural for this time of year. Usually we're on our 3rd or 4th week on the surface of the sun by now.
A week of high 90's here....
80 here. About perfect. Too bad Camaro is still on jackstands...
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Been 80s last several days. Shame I'm at work
Had rain at least once a week so far and the corn and soybeans even in the non irrigated fields are looking good
Mine is doing the same thing.
I thoroughly broke the transmission. Went to replace the rear seal, couldn't get the yoke off. Tried everything, heat, hammer, come along, etc. Ended up having to surgically cutting it off, removed the tail cone and out falls what looks like pieces of either syncros or maybe a bearing or two :dunno: and also the remains of a lock ring.
Lucky no gear teeth damage I can see.
What pisses me off is it only has less than 10,000 miles on it. I had it rebuilt with stg 2 parts when I was doing the engine rebuild and while on 1st dyno session it broke the 4th gear locker ring. Had that fixed and everything was fine for about 7000 miles. Then it started having what I thought were syncro issues again. Not too bad just started missing 2nd-3rd gear shifts at the track. Then after I got the new beefed up drive shaft that's when it really went down hill. The damn rear seal started dumping fluid on me followed by now 3-4 & 4-5 gear shifting problems. I then lost reverse which looks like the solenoid died, I replaced it and was able to shift again. But while I was under I was trying to replace that damn seal. Looking back now I think the fluid got low enough that it's the cause of all the other issues or at least the most likely culprit.
So I'm back to this again...
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Go for more power they said, it will be fun they said.....You'll find your weak link........
so far I've been lucky with the car not giving me any shit but when it gets driven 200 miles a year there's not a ton of opportunity for it to break. :D Our time is going to be taken up with Zach's dirt bike in the next week or so. It needs a new clutch and fork seals. I ordered all that shit plus a haynes manual for him. He's 14 so it's time he started learning to fix things himself. I'm going to do my best to stay out of it and let him make his mistakes until he gets it apart and back together running. I doubt I'll be able to do that but that's the plan. I remember as a kid those haynes manuals being a massive help when working on my car. We didn't have the internet back then to fall back on.
Doing the same thing with my daughter (Hell I've done it to all my kids I raised). She's a year out from a learners permit (they can get on 15th b-day here) so I told her the Grand Prix will be hers, so she's gotta start helping on working on it. The basics and sometimes even the hard stuff, hey her small hands are handy sometimes. Told her if she doesn't want it, find a way to raise her own money to get a car she wants :D until then if you plan to drive it, you work on it. Free is never free....:chuckles:
She's down 2 brake pad changes and on the last one both rear calibers. She's been volunteering on helping with the Bird too. She helped me dropped the transmission last Saturday.
I had to buy my own first car and work on it too [emoji58]
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same here....75 cutlass I bought for $1200 of my own money. That car was easy to work on though and that olds 350 in 75 didn't make enough horsepower to hurt itself or any driveline stuff so it ran forever. When I got rid of that car it had 180k miles on it and still ran great.
Scott: With the amount of carnage you are experiencing lately, I think I may have to use my Mod powers to change your site name to... Spaz. :D
My first car was a 79 Malibu that I bought in 2003 or 2004... can't remember. I swapped out the motor(to a 355) and trans(to a upgraded turbo 350) and many other items in the 2 years I owned it... mostly off of a cart pusher's salary at a local grocery store. We did have the internet when I was 16/17 doing this... but no smart phones and I didn't have a lap top. So I used the desk top and printed as much info as I could but almost always would end up running inside the house to do more research via the intertron.
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My first car was at the time a 10 year old 93 sentra that had been sitting in my brothers back yard for several years. He gave it to me but i had to pay to get it running again.
Been 90shere. I walk at least a mile outside about noon or so in a long sleeve shirt. Not a big deal anymore.
I would melt.
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few mixed up chromosomes in that one....
Got the bow out with Zach yesterday and let him shoot. He's getting closer. He's drawing about 30 lbs now. He could probably draw 5 more but don't want to just push him to the edge. Week or two at 30 and I'll bump him up. 40 is state minimum so he'll be close this year I think. Now just have to get over his fear of being up high in a stand.