Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:35 pm
left it in the garage today because it is 100 out today.
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Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:52 pm
Absolutely nothing. Its parked for the weekend. But I have been going crazy, finally updating my FB for the first time in like 6 months. HA..
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:27 pm
Well the past few RAINY days have been interesting, but I've managed the following:
Removed carpet
"fixed" the rust on the floor
removed my cowl cover/wipers/wiper motor enough times to do it in my sleep
fixed my firewall/cowl leak
put in my power window harness
put in my black carpet (which now smells like nasty ass Fabreeze, I knew that was a bad idea)
put a new inner dew strip on my driver side door (thanks Brett!)
put in a new connector for my gear selection light (thanks again Brett!)
drained my battery (oops)
broke the mounting point for one of my seat rail bolts
removed hood heat shield crap
wire wheeled and repainted a rusty spot under the hood
miss having music in the car dearly
spend more money on a gift for my friend than I did for this entire week's ordeal
The moral of this story is twofold: Make sure you own a car to drive while you have yours torn apart so you don't have to partially put it back together to drive to work each day at 5:30 am in the rain with no wipers, and work harder on making your carpet odor free. lol
Here's a photo:
Removed carpet
"fixed" the rust on the floor
removed my cowl cover/wipers/wiper motor enough times to do it in my sleep
fixed my firewall/cowl leak
put in my power window harness
put in my black carpet (which now smells like nasty ass Fabreeze, I knew that was a bad idea)
put a new inner dew strip on my driver side door (thanks Brett!)
put in a new connector for my gear selection light (thanks again Brett!)
drained my battery (oops)
broke the mounting point for one of my seat rail bolts
removed hood heat shield crap
wire wheeled and repainted a rusty spot under the hood
miss having music in the car dearly
spend more money on a gift for my friend than I did for this entire week's ordeal
The moral of this story is twofold: Make sure you own a car to drive while you have yours torn apart so you don't have to partially put it back together to drive to work each day at 5:30 am in the rain with no wipers, and work harder on making your carpet odor free. lol
Here's a photo:
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:03 pm
^^^ You're welcome Mark! If you want to come over tomorrow or wed, we can drill and put a self-tapping bolt into your seat rail, and we can also try to fab up a floor plug to replace the one that rusted apart, and put your new shiny doors on! And go rape that Black Z26 at the yard for it's precious fog light wiring! Zing! 
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:23 pm
Yeah I'm free both days. (just work til 10 am tomorrow). I have to clean up the garage a bit and put my toolbox back together but that shouldn't take long. I'd love to get these things taken care of.
When I was putting my seat back in the other night in the rain for work i broke the mounting point of the back bolt on the other seat rail lol. Fail rail. Now its a screw with a chunk of metal attached to it.. I was pissed but what can ya do?
When I was putting my seat back in the other night in the rain for work i broke the mounting point of the back bolt on the other seat rail lol. Fail rail. Now its a screw with a chunk of metal attached to it.. I was pissed but what can ya do?
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:30 pm
Been there, done that. Had to weld a nut to a piece of sheet metal, then weld that back into the structure, AND in the right place so it would work again. Sucked. I have a pic of that nightmare someplace in my project thread. Will edit and post it in a minute.
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:44 pm
Holy eff. Yah it's the same one. In my rush to put it in, I think i cross threaded it and forgot my own strength. Man I was about to whip the ratchet lol.
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:14 am
I had to fix that on my GT way back when too....
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:00 am
Been there done that as well. also had to make a custom center console bracket that goes on the ebrake cable. Mine rusted out
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:53 am
Thank goodness lol. I felt like such an idiot when I did it! And yay for mine not being rusty. Finally something on my car that hasn't rusted to pieces!
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:12 pm
seeing all these rusty floor boards makes me grateful for what I have..
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:38 pm
Stop rubbing the salt into the wounds... LOL
I washed mine today, went to take pictures, only to find out I left my good camera up north, so dug out the old Olympus... Good lord it takes crappy pics, compared to the Panasonic. I don't remember it being that bad... lol
I washed mine today, went to take pictures, only to find out I left my good camera up north, so dug out the old Olympus... Good lord it takes crappy pics, compared to the Panasonic. I don't remember it being that bad... lol
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:54 pm
I pulled the drivers seat cushing up to find out why my back had been hurting every time after driving the black car. The seat structure has failed and i have no lower back & lumbar support anymore on this seat.
Another thing I'd LOVE to discuss with GM engineers is the design of these seats, WTF were they thinking?!
Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:19 pm
took a ton of detailed pics of my car today. Took many pics of the digital speedo running live. Pics of the dif modes that it can show you, info stuff like RANGE, AVG MPG, LIVE MPG, OUTSIDE TEMP.....
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Re: what did you do to your ride today?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:29 pm
Pulled both door panels today to get to the rearview mirrors. They were flopping around pretty bad. I just added another washer to what was already therer and that solved the issue, I HOPE. Put all new snap things in the door panels so the panels are nice and snug to the door today. Then I went through it and cleaned it up real well. It actually cleaned up real nice. I also took pics of the doors with the door panels off to show how clean they were, rust free.