excuse the door, it wasn't shut all the way, damn girls lol

 

see doors fine in this pic

 

 

2 good looking girls, nice! I ripped the carpet out of the rear of my car because I didn't have a hatch pulldown for the longest time so moisture got in and the carpet held onto it, needless to say it smelled horrid and was time for it to go. If it were me, I'd dynamat your car before putting the carpet back down.

 

can't afford dynamat haha so for awhile it can wait, i mean the small surface rust that is there wont eat away at the car that fast will it? lol and yeah one of the girls lol

 

fixed my highbeam issue, used to be when you switched to high beams only the inner two headlights were on, now all 4 are on like they should be, turns out wiring was all fine, high beams plug was on the wrong way lol funny, never thought to check that since i bought the car



the aforementioned plug

and my other wiring, appears to have been patched at some point

 

maybe a good idea maybe not, thinking about making the car look a little bit older, saw some small cheap stuff i could do to achieve just that at work tonight.

some chrome mirrors (fake chrome but still) look kinda nice imo


some older chevy style window crank handles

 

haven updated in awhile, because there haven't been any updates. that is all

 

I think anything other than the factory mirrors looks bad on our cars, just my opinion though.

 

 

we had something like them on our 72 chevy a longtime ago and i thought they looked great, i know our body lines make it hard to really do anything to them, but one of my mirrors (passenger side) doesn't seem right, and the door is bowed underneath it so theres a gap between the window and the sweep, water gets in (alot lately hurricane sandy is coming) and i really dont want to ruin my door panels, i wish i could put it inside and there not a certain thing, just a "maybe" idea that i had same with the window cranks

 

The window cranks would probably look fine, I'm having a hard time picturing what the passenger side mirror is doing to cause water to leak in...

 

doors bowed underneath like its been hit, the mirror is messed up as a result, and the window channel is deformed at the front and the sweep doesn't seat to the window, and the window doesn't seal at the top so water is getting in and soaking my door panels

 

Oh okay, I don't think new mirrors would fix that though.

 

yeah, again though not saying they will, read back through my posts i'm just saying if i ever get the desire to make the car look older i might try em out, not saying im gonna go buy em and put em on

 

still no updates, pretty sure sandy is over, so i actually drove it today, bad news i still have leaks BAD ones, as i could hear water spray behind me on the interstate, guess my windows dont seal at the back? could my doors be too far forward? o.0 i mean they shut fine and i though sealed good, hell no hitting or rubbing and my lines are all clean, body gaps are good (except for the hood which shouldn't apply here)

 

ohwell been looking for one of these as a dd since i'm not the only one in a family of six working anymore, i might someday be able to get one, but its looking like thundergutts is gonna see snow again this winter :'(

 

woops no pic lol sorry also photobucket has changed

 

well something has to be wrong with my car, a friend (works at the gas station) and i did some math, and I'm getting something like 8.1 mpg 0.o but aside from a low idle in this cold, the car runs fine

 

damn guys i just did some fact checking with google maps, and apparently my trip to school is only 14 miles, 20 bucks (5.8 gallons) gets me there, and back twice so 56 miles divided by 5.8 equals 9.6xxx so its not as bad as i thought but its still bad any idea why it would be so bad? huge vacuum leak? timing out of whack? something? i have no idea, unless my gas gauge is wrong like my tach, or my tach isn't wrong and i'm really doing 6xxx rpms on the interstate on my way there.

 

Read your plugs, see if you're lean or rich.

 

O2 sensor? Plugged cat?

 

dakota i know i cant already, they'll be black like the last time i changed them because the car burns some oil, emo idk i didn't think my o2 sensor really did anything same with the cat honestly i know it "lowers emissions" but i didn't think it even affected my mileage im hoping its not because of the rings needing replaced, awhile ago i tested my compression at work and it seemed fine

 

o2 sensor tells it whether the car is running lean or rich, clogged cat would restrict your air pump(engine) from doing it's job properly.

 

might just wait til payday and give the guys as meineke (spelling?) 40 bucks to just replace it with a straight pipe they're pretty reasonable around here

 

not much of an update, but changed the oil today, it was black, looked like molasses but still felt like oil so that was good, i have yet to cut open the k&n oil filter that was on it to see how it did, i should hope well, no metal, no metal on the magnetic drain plug. checked how the plugs were holding up, its been about 8-9 months they were black, but then again they're black new so i cant say they were fouled, had a little bit of an oil coating on them, but the car burns a little bit of oil i expected this, i sandblasted them from the threads down to silver so i guess next time i'll see how they look, thinking of switching to bosch platinums but idk what if any gain i'd see. car still runs fine, starts everytime no smoke since the first couple months i had it, so maybe it was just from sitting and the rings are okay?

 

bought a window sweep cuz mine is gone, only thing i need to put it on is the screws that hold it to the door, anyone know where i'd be able to get them?

 

Don't waste your money on Platinum plugs. Our engines/ignition systems don't need them, its just a waste of money.

 

i feel really stupid asking this, mostly because my mind says if it was wrong it wouldn't work but do i have the tach and batt terminals backwards guys?

 

another thing, i'm not sure why obviously or i wouldn't really post it lol, but my oil pressure gauge is acting funny, it will peg itself sometimes and then go back to normal and then peg itself again, bad pcv valve? bad sensor? burnt wire?

 

may be getting a new engine soon, updates to come if so.

 

Just letting you know that I found your thread today and read all of it.
So yes someone is actually reading what your writing lol

 

its not much of a read, but its appreciated, more for me then other members. so i can look back on it someday when the car is done.

 

got a sunpro 3 gauge pod, and tach, because my stock gauges just arent cutting it, have to post pics when everything is installed, still need to get my console clock in too, and swap my cluster bulbs to green, gonna be a long week but hopefully i'll make progress

 

been quite some time since i updated here (forgot about it honestly) but I'm in the midst of building up a 5.3 and then I'll be swapping it pics of progress so far to follow.

 

My engine, was 400 to my door (garage door) was a bit worried about it being a 99 and having over 260k mile son it, of course my dad just bought a 99 silverado that's about the same mileage, runs good no issues so hey can't be to bad



looks pretty nasty but i guess alot of guys have seen worse with less mileage on some of their engines.

finally after some cleaning

wouldn't believe how much mud was EVERYWHERE; damn muddy junkyards

 

more pics of it semi clean, dumb question but what are those two black things in the valley cover?

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i struggled with this oil filter for about an hour, then felt dumb when the whole thing came off with the oil pan

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how it sat when i broke my camera :/ working on getting that fixed

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the room I'm working in all 5X5 of it haha
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found some more pics on my laptop have to add them, also bought some headers, they should work http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221216469040

 

some more pics i found some are kinda shaky


this one is better,its the crank thrust bearing, not really sure what i'm looking at but it looks good to me

no idea how hard it is to focus a nikon on just the cam like that

 

one more, when i finally got a bunch of that mud off wouldn't ya know there was factory black paint under it?

 

You know you have to take the cap off to see the bearing, right?

 

i have but like i mentioned i haven't had a camera, this is the only good picture of the crank i have though lol

 

Okay, just making sure...I've seen people that don't know what they're doing do those types of things lol.

 

you wouldn't believe how much better everything looks clean, brakekleen is my friend lol

 

fixed my camera, look what came for me today

 

Nice, I get mine next week :P

 

i get mine ceramic coated soon