Taakuro’s post reminded me that I wanted to help people out with tool identification. In the picture below there are two tools. The one on the left is a pair of Vise-Grips. Invaluable when working on anything mechanical. On the right are a pair of Vise-Grip branded locking pliers made by Irwin. Pieces of shit that…
Some days are like this. Of course there are the glorious days of cruising in your prized ride. I wonder what that feels like?
As is becoming tradition as the temperatures get hot the fires start and the smoke rolls into town. Ninety-five and smokey isn’t all that pleasant to be out in so no wrenching tonight. The air quality is at 145 so it’s not nearly as bad as it was last year but it still stinks. Literally.
The driver side spring finally surrendered so now cleanup and ball joint replacement can start. The upper is riveted so it might be original. That’s only 48 years old so I guess I really didn’t have to buy new ones. The springs on the other hand...
I decided to finally get started on replacing the Camaro’s springs, ball joints and shocks. I’ve been putting it off since this stuff hasn’t been touched in decades. How’s it going? Well, I just made a run for more cut off disks and I’m only on the first shock.
At least Google says it’s not a road.
Update: Well the package, which was supposed to include an intake manifold gasket for a SBC showed up. The fact that it instead included header gaskets for a big block is slightly puzzling. Anyone need some header gaskets?
I’m in the process of replacing the intake manifold gasket and have everything out. Now comes the fun part. That intake is older than many Oppos, notice that it doesn’t the red, white and blue Made in USA emblem, and is probably going right back in after a good cleaning. I might have a line on a cheap replacement,…
I got tired of my Camaro being stuck in the garage so I decided to take it out for a little exercise before giving it the springs/ball joints treatment. For my kindness I was rewarded with coolant seeping up by an intake manifold bolt. This probably means a bad intake gasket so that’s on the to-do list. If this engine…
You see this shit right here?
If you look at this CL post selling a big block 1970 El Camino and your interest wanders to the back and right of the picture, you just may be a David Tracy.
My wife went down to Oregon for her nephew’s high school graduation so she, along with her parents, did a little driving around only to end up in McMinnville and of course when you’re in McMinnville you visit a certain goose:
One of the weird things about this town is that every once in a while you’ll see a boat next to a motorcycle going down the road.
Until I saw this I wasn’t aware just how badly I need a set of Minilite style wheels for the Camaro.
You made us old timers laugh till we cried.
It was a beautiful weekend here, with the temps finally getting over the 70 degree mark, but not a single wrench nor tire was turned on the Camaro. Instead the weekend was spent fixing the really head scratching landscaping decisions made by the previous owners of our house. I mean I get that they couldn’t manage to…
Evidently AMI has decided to sell the Enquirer and its other tabloids after the Bezos blackmail scheme. The question becomes do you think Bezos will buy them? I doubt it, but it’s fun to think of him buying them either to close them down or to remake them and blow the minds of their mindless readers. Or to bring back…
I’ve been going back and forth on whether I should swap out the springs and ball joints on the Camaro or let a shop do it. I’ve decided that since I’ve done everything else on this car I might as well do this too. I know this isn’t earth shattering news for anyone but me but now that it’s written down I’ll actually…
No car stuff this weekend but I did go get the world’s finest home entertainment instrument. Don’t believe me?
You know how sometimes, when you’re driving, shuffle will bring up exactly the right song so you turn it up obnoxiously loud?
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