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Well I guess you'll have to drive the GMC while you fix the Ranger's head gasket.
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Any junkyards nearby with late-model vans that you can steal the hydroboost equipment off of for pennies on the dollar? 
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Oct 8, 2013 04:54
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Can you not just grab something from a pick n pull for now? There is usually one or two '68-'72 in the yards here. Perhaps just find (and pocket) a pushrod? Do you know what trucks used that combination, if any? Could you sacrifice one or two pick n pull wrong-size pushrods to the welder gods? Since it'd be in compression it might actually be trustworthy, unlike that steering shaft the Caddy guy (sorry guy, blocking on your name) had made up for his Corvair.
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Dec 14, 2013 06:39
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IOwnCalculus posted:Also something something Chrysler factory zip ties
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Jul 12, 2015 21:49
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This is off-topic, but what did you do to block off the EGR on the intake manifold? Doesn't look like the usual aluminum plate with o-ring that I see people with. I'm trying to think of a solution that's cheaper than a fancypants $30 piece of machined aluminum, and less lovely than a piece of scrap metal and a big glob of RTV.
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Nov 24, 2015 06:05
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IOwnCalculus posted:Expanding rubber plug. Glamorous it is not, but it works. Eventually I want to re-solve that problem with a LS6 intake manifold. Ah, yeah. Inelegant, but I guess it's been working for you. Last I looked, LS6 manifolds were still pretty expensive, has that changed? Didn't seem like a good bang-for-buck option.
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Nov 24, 2015 08:17
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kastein posted:You could always just make a blockoff plate yourself, 1/8" aluminum is cheap and really really easy to work with if you have a basic homeowner drill press and a couple files. And you can hide a lot of scratches and scribe marks and filing mistakes with a swanky "brushed aluminum" finish (i.e. wirewheel the bastard until all your sins are forgiven.) Yeah, this is what I'm thinking. I don't have a way to machine an O-ring groove into the bottom of it, so I'm probably just going to try to seal the plate on with RTV, or maybe just put a sheet of gasket rubber on the bottom of the plate.
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Nov 25, 2015 00:41
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IOwnCalculus posted:I've been following the Dorman LS2 intake manifold closely. It's finally been released (615-901) and is only about $350 from Rockauto. It's basically their version of an older FAST design but at a third of the price. TBSS intake is also pretty big, right? I think that's what they started using on all truck motors once they moved away from the original mega ugly truck manifold. TBSS is the best flowing stock manifold, isn't it? Be interesting to see how this weird frankenstein LS2 manifold stacks up against it. Has anyone done a side-by-side test with it yet?
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Feb 26, 2017 12:08
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IOwnCalculus posted:The TBSS intake is tall as hell, yes. However I doubt I would run into any vertical clearance issues. The top of the LS as it sits is still well below the height of the old SBC with a Quadrajet and a giant round air filter on top. I just checked, and yeah that's pretty impressive. Looks like it's better than the LS1 everywhere (no surprise), better than the TBSS at low lift, but a bit shy of the TBSS at high lift. So I guess it depends on your cam. Kind of counter-intuitive that a high lift cam would pair better with a truck manifold than with the LS2 manifold, but that's the way it is. I'm impressed by the work Dorman did to get it to be a straight-across swap with LS1, LS6, etc
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Feb 27, 2017 01:00
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shy boy from chess club posted:Please dont forget to do an open header video before the exhaust shop. Its in the gearhead rules somewhere near the top of the list. Ideally, open headers and low trans fluid, so you have to pin it in order to creep along at a jog. I highly recommend it.
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Jan 12, 2018 07:24
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Don't you have a helper monkey running around that could hold a wrench on that nut? Or a pair of vise grips (or locking crescent)
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Jan 13, 2018 22:35
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IOwnCalculus posted:You cursed me, you monster Haha, gotcha. Hopefully the trans cooler lines don't put up too much of a fight. Are they soft lines? I would expect hard lines to be difficult to accidentally damage without noticing.
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Jan 14, 2018 22:26
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IOwnCalculus posted:So this thing sounds so good at idle that I was thinking maybe I wanted to throw some cutouts on it. Yeah open headers sound great at idle, but get painful. That is why straight-through glasspacks are a thing 
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Jan 17, 2018 06:09
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IOwnCalculus posted:Good: Exhaust shop got everything hooked up neatly. Your youtube link isn't showing up for me for some reason 
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Jan 19, 2018 07:22
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I've had great success with the loaned 3-finger ball joint separator from autozone, hit it with your impact and it should come off nice and smooth-like.
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Feb 5, 2018 02:38
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Fo3 posted:I got one of those but with a less cast look and more hardened tool look. I did my idler arm last week and could only get it 1/4 the way in (no room to hammer it in plus I wanted to save the boot), and that 1/4 way in was mainly on one tooth/side. It still separated the joint and didn't damage the boot and I've used it with susp and tie rods last year, so it's definitely a keeper, and doesn't look bendy when using it and a sharper fork to get in there and seat better. That looks pretty similar to the HF one https://www.harborfreight.com/3-4-quarter-inch-forged-ball-joint-separator-99849.html
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May 17, 2018 06:21
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IOwnCalculus posted:Got the manifold Are you using a GM manifold, or the Dorman one?
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Dec 27, 2018 08:01
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IOwnCalculus posted:GM. Found one on Amazon Warehouse Deals for $113 "used like new". If that one doesn't pan out for some reason they're only $130+tax. Sounds like a deal. Aren't all the 4-bolt throttle bodies DBW, or was there some transition period?
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Dec 30, 2018 06:11
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STR posted:If only soft 8s were made for 4 lug... Diamond, but I'm always skeptical of the affordability of any vendor that doesn't list a price.
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Apr 30, 2019 07:44
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STR posted:So how do you think Diamond Soft 8 knockoffs would look on a Saturn? Better than a lot of other things you could do to it, I bet
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Apr 30, 2019 07:50
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glad to see some truck content. every time i see this thread come up, i read the title and go "oh! ls1 truck! sweet" then it turns out you're working on jeep stuff or boring daily driver stuff. which is fine, but not nearly as cool how do you like the cpp parts? the pro touring forums dont seem to think very highly of them, but i think thats just the chinese manufacturing bogeyman. doesnt mean they're bad parts, but they might be somewhat more "value engineered" than others. in particular, it might be a good idea to swap in a name-brand balljoint. did you have any fitment issues? IOwnCalculus posted:it's probably too low to drive as it sits nonsense. worst case, maybe you need some higher rate springs
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Sep 19, 2020 13:12
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i think it looks pretty good without the chrome rings. kind of reminiscent of the recessed headlights in the MB/M38/M38A1
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Oct 28, 2022 06:53
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IOwnCalculus posted:Meanwhile (as in, literally the same day I did the work in the last post), let's take a minor diversion for An Experiment In Science And Art. this rules. most creative aiss entry so far by the way, how do you like the cooper evo M/Ts? im trying to decide between those and the stt pros everyone likes so much was on my way to the jeep thread, but you had them conspicuously framed in your pictures, so thought id ask here too
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Dec 22, 2022 06:32
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IOwnCalculus posted:The newest, lowest mileage vehicle I own is supposed to be the one that needs the least maintenance, right? hmm im doing the math on this and i don't think that's right for me that's the jeep, so it will never be true as long as that remains the case, lmao
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im actually somewhat surprised that arizona cares about emissions compliance. i thought it was one of the "do what you want, yeehaw" states.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I always 'joke' that Arizona is the concept of FYGM, granted statehood... but we love federal highway money. On one hand, it's "just" the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas. On the other, that's nearly six million of the seven million people that live in AZ. We're also, to my knowledge, the only state that still enforces emissions testing all the way back to model year 1967. The only reason the C10 and Opel don't have to go through emissions is the classic insurance exemption that was added 20 years ago. If I had them on regular insurance they'd need an idle/loaded dyno test every year. The air quality here keeps bouncing off of "barely breathable" so the feds almost never sign off on reductions in emissions controls. okay, i am even more surprised that it's stricter than california. i thought we were the trend-setters with these sorts of restrictions, and other states kind of copied our requirements if they wanted to have similar. i wouldn't have expected arizona to clamp down even harder. three of my four vehicles, legal in CA, would not be in AZ, sounds like. wild. i guess the populated parts are a lot denser than what i imagine when i think of the desert trails, so that probably accounts for the majority of the dissonance.
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IOwnCalculus posted:CA is definitely stricter in many ways - there's no mandate in AZ for CARB EO numbers for headers or intakes or other mods you put on a car, and we don't require OE catalytic converters. Technically everything 1967-95 is supposed to get a visual inspection to go with the sniffer test, but the average emissions dyno employee just goes "yep, it's an engine" and moves on. ah, so you're saying that while engine swaps are not kosher according to the law, it's not really enforced as long as you can pass the sniffer test. probably you couldn't get away with swapping a 4-cyl or 6-cyl with a carbureted V8, but LS swaps are still on the table.
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man i do not like pigtailing things and adding more splices to the harness. for that price you could probably get a handful of new connector bodies and a pin extractor, just sayin... not that i know what connector series that is, maybe they're obscenely expensive for some reason. but thats the way i would approach this problem
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Mar 20, 2024 06:39
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kastein posted:Probably like 6 bucks for shipping though so you'll want to get some other things and spares to make it worth the ride. i usually prefer digikey for this reason; they have an inexpensive shipping tier where they throw your order in a usps envelope and it gets there when it gets there. just has to be like, under half a pound i think? do those connectors have a useful pin extractor, or do you just poke a tab with a screwdriver?
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not knowing anything about those trucks, probably the clock spring?
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