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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #645 on: October 05, 2020, 09:16:26 AM »
get a bag of frozen vegetables ......peas , corn, carrots and place it on your damaged hand for 10 minutes.  Do it every 30 minutes to keep the swelling down.

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #646 on: October 05, 2020, 12:42:14 PM »
A pair of boxing gloves would have saved you. You could probably work a breaker bar in them.  ;D
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #647 on: October 05, 2020, 04:34:01 PM »
I am just like you guys, I tear up pretty easy these days. 1st of last month new shoulder and all I decided to relocate the steering shaft on the 55, well I needed to move the heim joint just a little bit, so with a large crecent wrench and a 35 inch breaker bar on the end I proceeded to pull thinking it would bend the mount, no it snapped like a twig, but left my welds intact. It shot me back about 4 feet right on my arse. knocked the wind out of me and bruised my ass real good, finally getting back to normal. THANK GOD. (Shoulder held up fine)

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #648 on: October 05, 2020, 09:46:58 PM »
Man...you guys need to turn your video cameras on for us ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #649 on: October 06, 2020, 12:35:47 AM »
My wife used to tell me I couldn't go outside without a camera attached. She knew there was a funniest home video winner on almost every outing. Now that I'm old she doesn't see the humor in it and worries that I'll kill myself and leave her with all the junk.  :o
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #650 on: October 06, 2020, 06:40:25 PM »
I'm glad you're ok, Rattiac. My wife steers clear when I'm in the garage, she has little interest and doesn't like it when I curse ::)
Tighten it up til it strips, then back it off a quarter turn

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #651 on: October 06, 2020, 07:56:57 PM »
Thanks. Im glad it wasn't worse. I thought for a second that I shattered it . Was worried I wouldn't be able to work.
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #652 on: October 06, 2020, 09:59:55 PM »
Putting a wood bed in a 65 Chevy truck, something you would think would be so simple is a real pain  :(

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #653 on: October 07, 2020, 06:29:29 AM »
Haven't tried that.  What are the issues?  Looks soooo easy when they do it on TV!
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #654 on: October 07, 2020, 06:55:46 PM »
Getting the wood square to the bed and the strips that holds the wood down for some reason are not running parallel with each other

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #655 on: October 07, 2020, 08:54:35 PM »
No street rod work..helping a friend in his '86 vette...removing TPI and going to carburation...he had a bunch of time ..money involved in this...had motor rebuilt...in the shop for months trying to figure while it stumbled and idled badly..even took it to a tuner....he just got fed up with up the issues...tried to talk him in Fitech

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #656 on: October 07, 2020, 10:02:59 PM »
Reminds me of my dad's old 82 Z-28 (pace car).
It had cross fire injection, he swapped to carb.
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #657 on: October 07, 2020, 10:24:30 PM »
cross fire injection........that got scrapped fast by GM.    Could put that right next to the Aztech suv as a complete failure.

Lots of people love the tuned port injection, i took it out of my 35 tub and went to carburetor as intended with GM ZZ383 .

We couldn't get the tuned port on my previous 305 working right either.

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #658 on: October 07, 2020, 11:41:23 PM »
I have a barn full of TPI units, have TPI on my 33 Chevy and 94 Chevy Dually (daily driver) great torque.  Had great luck with them, making my own harnesses and flashing the ecm's.

As far as the cross fire, they had a problem with low fuel pressure and/or intake manifold leaks.  It was common to put a TPI fuel pump in the cross fire to increase fuel pressure.  The cross fire was new technology that a lot of folks couldn't grasp, the TPI (bank firing) was an improvement but the LT1 with sequential firing was better. I wired up and flashed a LT1 in my son's 37 Chevy.  Moving up to the LS now. 
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #659 on: October 08, 2020, 05:27:45 PM »
As I know nothing about this TPI ...needing to lower psi on corvette fuel pump...have various options   Vette psi 50-60???? (I really don't know the true value). .. So option 1 replace in tank fuel pump with what I researched to a Vega pump with lower psi then,lower psi to 5-7 for carb with pressure regulator with a return hooked up...                                                                                       
  Option 2 ....
 do they make a regulator to accept psi from stock Vette pump  then dial desired 5-7 psi??  Option 3 install 5-7 electric pump ...leave Vette pump installed in hopes it will suck thru that pump.......I suggested option 1... But my friend is undecided on the way to resolve this issue....I'm just a gopher helping him and not spending his money....Will be interesting on what he decides...

 


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