November 25, 200916 yr Author my car began to make terrible noise last night on the way home from work. It just suddenly dropped oil pressure and began chattering. I guess this is what everyone refers to as Tick Of Death. I pulled over and checked the oil, only a half quart low. Guess I will be doing the turbo swap sooner rather than later.... I changed the oil as soon as I got home too, didn't help.
November 25, 200916 yr Author my car began to make terrible noise last night on the way home from work. It just suddenly dropped oil pressure and began chattering. I guess this is what everyone refers to as Tick Of Death. I pulled over and checked the oil, only a half quart low. Guess I will be doing the turbo swap sooner rather than later.... I changed the oil as soon as I got home too, didn't help. 178k on the clock. I bought her with 162k for $780.
November 28, 200916 yr Replaced the T-Stat and took off the dead electric fan. Also did some work on my brothers cutlass as well. Per usual my helper was there.
November 28, 200916 yr Awww, bring a tear to my eye. I knew this little girl, well, read this: Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little 5-year-old girl and some construction workers that will make you believe that we all can make a difference when we give a child the gift of our time. A young family moved into a house, next to a vacant lot. One day, a construction crew began to build a house on the empty lot. The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in the goings-on and spent much of each day observing the workers. Eventually the construction crew, all of them 'gems-in-the-rough,' more or less, adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her during coffee and lunch breaks and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important. At the end of the first week, they even presented her with a pay envelope containing ten dollars. The little girl took this home to her mother who suggested that she take her ten dollars 'pay' she'd received to the bank the next day to start a savings account. When the girl and her mom got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age. The little girl proudly replied, 'I worked last week with a real construction crew building the new house next door to us.' 'Oh my goodness gracious,' said the teller, 'and will you be working on the house again this week, too?' The little girl replied, 'I will, if those rump roast holes at Home Depot ever deliver the f _ ckin' sheet rock.'
November 28, 200916 yr LOL! It was such a nice story untill the ending, well that part is true though haha.
November 28, 200916 yr I pulled the motor and dropped the tranny. Resealed my EJ and cleaned my new to me 5spd. The brat needs some new parts! Lots-o-cleaning! Still got to finish the power steering rack and crossmember stuff to start putting it all together! I have been dying to have something to post here for a long time!:banana::banana:
November 29, 200916 yr I finally found time to flush the heater core and it has HEAT AGAIN yeah aparently there was a big blockage because when I flushed it one direction the water did not move then I tried it the other direction it was sluggish then swoosh. then heat. .Thanks for all the help (in other posts )for all the how to that made this so successful. Now I just need to seal the winsheild so I can have a dry floor. (there is almost no gasket left.)Hope to get the new CV axles on TOmmorrow and then I need to replace the exhaust manifold gasket.
November 29, 200916 yr html didn't work... Edited November 29, 200916 yr by Nomad_Brad html not work?
November 29, 200916 yr html didn't work... Try uploading your pictures to Photobucket.com and then copy/paste the image code here. -Tom
November 29, 200916 yr I loaded it down with firewood about 750lbs worth (full) and drove 25 miles back from my dads and proceded to throw sawdust at it via my 038 supermag "splitting" butt cuts and knottly chunks. Its like a regular ol' Kenworth Long Logger -Caleb oh, and installed CB!!!!! yeah! now i'm ready for some trail runs.
November 29, 200916 yr Repainted my hub caps. Searched at the junk yard for possible 6 lug wheel candidates. Will Pull some drums soon and start the re drill process. Also painted up some rusty areas to hopefully stop rust till a total repaint next year. Got some "new" er carpet for my cargo area, lubed my speedo cable and made it worse :-\ and drove it.
November 29, 200916 yr Author I added a Pint of MMO to the engine oil and the TOD went away!!!!!!!1! :lol::lol::grin::grin::lol::lol:
November 29, 200916 yr I added a Pint of MMO to the engine oil and the TOD went away!!!!!!!1! :lol::lol::grin::grin::lol::lol: mine's doing that mess now that it's cold....
November 29, 200916 yr working on CV Axles and bearings. HOPEFULLY I can get it back together tonight and finish it. HOPEFULLY it will also clear the problems I am having.
November 29, 200916 yr Wagon wheel before beat up! black "hammered" paint Mounted! tail lights "stock" tail lights :banana:"murdered":banana: More Pictures to come.......
November 30, 200916 yr Vagan, I really like how the stick seat looks! Was it reoposterd? Brad, The wagon wheels look good and the blacked out lights are pretty cool. -Tom
November 30, 200916 yr Huh, must be an RX thing? I'd like those in my wagon! :-p I'd sell them to you if you don't mind putting your sliders on them. Plus shipping of course.
November 30, 200916 yr I'd sell them to you if you don't mind putting your sliders on them. Plus shipping of course. Hmm, I wouldn't mind putting my sliders on - but then I'd have two extra seats sitting around. I guess I'll pass, they do look cool though
November 30, 200916 yr is it just me, or does the pic of the 4 wheels that dude just painted with the "hammered" paint look like 3 ea81 wheels and 1 ea82 wheel?
November 30, 200916 yr is it just me, or does the pic of the 4 wheels that dude just painted with the "hammered" paint look like 3 ea81 wheels and 1 ea82 wheel? the one on the bottom? but yes it looks that way
November 30, 200916 yr I don't see what you two are talking about - all 4 wheels look like wagon wheels. All of them have the curved spoke (Unlike Jackmans) These all look the same though -Tom
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