Thread: Junk I drive

I didn't say you caused the accidents. I merely said...stop being involved.

If that NA can't get away from the nuts.. maybe it's time for more power?

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

I didn't say you caused the accidents. I merely said...stop being involved.

If that NA can't get away from the nuts.. maybe it's time for more power?

Sorry Bill. As you can imagine thats a butthurt type sensitive subject and sometimes my butt hurts more than others so my buds get a glimpse of whats going on in my head. I require lots of distraction when my pain and frustration flares up. Thanks for prodding me to clean up my throttle, she climbs nice and smooth now.

I have been thinking of getting an L67 gasket set and putting the 40th engine on a stand for a few then on into the GT. Baby steps.

Do you think the blower will be OK after soaking in engine oil?

Been there.. used one from a roll over myself. Smoked for 45 min of idling and another 30 min of driving. Eventually.. she cleared right up. I wouldn't worry at all.

I thought it was arm hurt btw.. lol

Adam, thanks for enlightening me. Berger, who knew? Not a 4th gen fan myself can you tell? Anyhow yeah I have kicked myself for not fixing any of the dents and scratches I've "painted" over recently on my junk, but I just don't have much stuff here at home for car-fixin. So no mud and glaze but yep the stuff works right over all that too once its primed. I just shoot for all one color and shiny!

Bill I ran this one a long time after the smoke stopped. Two or three guys at work keep eyeing it for this or that so I need to take it home. Whats an adult driven well oiled 135K L67 worth in your neck of the woods? How about a strong 178K L36? Where do I get a dune buggy (standalone, just eng and trans) computer for the 99 GT made out of the 40th's at? Do I need an earlier core or will that work? Planning to wire the car like its 30 years older but with blade fuses and simpler controls.

Posting while working, FYI lol. Sort of. Left my drink next to the forum. Just jacked up the loud one, gonna do a couple maintainence things. Remember packing wheel bearings, washing the trans filter, knocking bugs out of the air filter, adjusting transmission linkage, that sort of thing? Ha.

Oh hey Bill... almost forgot... I thought to myself the other day: Bill would never look back if he put a Pontiac 455 in his Audi. Probably due to all the smoke in the rearview but yeah Pontiac. Power to the Pontiacs!

Just when I'm doing the most mentally calming thing I know of, somebody gotta feed me harshmellows. Yeah thats spelled right, its when something harshes my mellow. So I'm changing oil and ATF on the big one in the driveway, and THE neighbor's dog gets loose. The lady I spoke to recently about barking is chasing after it, shaking the ground as she does. The dog comes to me and barks. Even at this point my mellow has been harshed. It craps, right where I'm working. Twice. I walk towards the lady so it will follow. Eventually she gets it. Took the card my TB gasket came on and scooped up the turds and followed her to her yard pointing out another pile and saying she forgot something. She thanked me, took it, and mentioned how she got a bark collar. Said I noticed and thanked her. But she couldn't just effin SHUT it. "I hope you get one for your... hot rod." she says to my back. I let it run twenty minutes or so to burn the mandatory oil drips off the header. Throttle whipped it maybe a little extra for the female dog. I try so hard to keep it positive, arg. I still smell dog crap and burnt oil.

Oh my it just keeps getting better... GTP fuel pump died when I loaded groceries in it. Walked a few miles, had left phone at house but theres nobody to call anyway lol. Looks like a GT week cuz theres NO fuel pump money. Tow will cost half what the pump does. Yep I tried whacking on the tank. It sounded BAD though, when I started it to get food. Ah my groceries fermenting now. We know what that stalling was about last night now. This is why I've been working SO hard towards the GT. All it takes is a no or one broken screw from the GTP and I'm on foot. At least theres a backup. Had a nice sweat. Off to meet the wrecker and get my groceries. Dadgum I shoulda stayed in bed today.

Personally..I'd snag a $30 used one out of a JY. That's me. OR.. $50 will get you a fresh new pump that you can install
http://treperformance.com/c-66126-fu...uel-pumps.html

FWIW that's the same company ZZP gets there pumps from. I used one of their 340 pumps in the Bonne and never once had an issue.

May I suggest letting Sir-Barks-Alot, yap as much as he wants.. put the collar on the woman.

220K Nasty.

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

Personally..I'd snag a $30 used one out of a JY. That's me. May I suggest letting Sir-Barks-Alot, yap as much as he wants.. put the collar on the woman.

Yes you may. Hey we could have us a good old fashioned necktie party!

Boss spotted me the pump til payday, I'm on the road again and know how much gas I have, woot! No mods required. I do try to be a diligent worker, it helps maintain such helpful support. No test drive yet... boy I coulda seen that coming (more obviously, I could tell it was tired by ear) if I had reached over and plugged in my scan tool once in awhile. Think it shows fuel presure. Anyway honestly I have noticed a gradual dulling of WOT, maybe this is part of that too, or even my chug deal. Done thinking about it though. No, my connector wasn't fried, used old. Will swap filter at soonest opportunity. Gassed out the neighs enuf for a Monday. I thought it was bunk they make you swap over the plastic thingamabobs on two lines, and I really had to jam that pump down to get it seated. Not nuf ass. Other than that, cake swap. Thats one job where my hand trouble becomes obvious, I'll say that. Lots of pliers instead of fingers. Lots of cleaning before unplugging too with paint brush and shop vac.

GTP back in the front. GT... solar cell from the JY is NG, I ended up yankin that and pluggin the old stump in so the A/C would blast.

Re-did the fuel pump install, the seal didn't seem to fit so I put the old one back in. Been fiberglassing last couple days at the shop so I'm rockin the itching powder plus fossil cologne ha ha.

FWIW when I'm installing say only a pump and it comes with the new seal.. yeah, no way. Plus I'd always lube them up with vasoline before reinstalling. Every o-ring gets the help to slide back into it's home.

I was always told it was bad to use Vasoline around gas, it could work it's way down into the gas and clog things up. I've always used oil, like on injector O-rings.

And I heard oil was bad for o-rings... I use silicone lube.

I know its a sore spot with you, but her come back about putting the collar on your loud one was pretty funny, sorry.

https://books.google.com/books?id=my...ectors&f=false

Not sure if link will work, but middle of the page from Chiltons. This isn't the original place I read it, but I've seen it many times over the years.

I used vasoline on every install I ever did. That's a lot. Never once heard an issue and never had any of my own show any issues. FWIW, likely the rings we are using.. are better quality and there's not a 5lb tub of it in there..so it's not clogging anything.

You forget my luck, lol.

Bandook yer right on both things. What to use on O-rings might be the most wildly debated interweb automotive topic out there. Luckily I can dodge it this time because lube came with it and thats what I used. There was enough to do it twice so they must know the seal is too big. Heres what happened... it was my first EFI pump R&I. The ring was bigger than the pump so I couldn't pucky it on with lube, it'd fall out of place. So I stuffed it in the tank side then fought seating pump. What I really did was shove the seal into the tank. It was big as a hula hoop ha ha after swimming for a day. Old one fit perfect.

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

I used vasoline on every install I ever did. That's a lot.

thats more lube than one man should ever use.....