What did you do to your SY/TY today?

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turbodig

turbodig

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I dropped the young-'un off at day care, and drove it to work. Really!

The trust is all gone though... I was uber-paranoid that it was going to break, spring a leak, start on fire, or some other calamity.

So far, it hasn't done that.
 
WyoSyclone

WyoSyclone

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turbodig said:
I dropped the young-'un off at day care, and drove it to work. Really!

The trust is all gone though... I was uber-paranoid that it was going to break, spring a leak, start on fire, or some other calamity.

So far, it hasn't done that.
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Holy cow, Dig! No wonder you changed your avatar to that new pic.
 
MICH TY

MICH TY

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LOL I can identify with the paranoia!
I don't turn on the raido, I am listening for noises.

turbodig said:
I dropped the young-'un off at day care, and drove it to work. Really!

The trust is all gone though... I was uber-paranoid that it was going to break, spring a leak, start on fire, or some other calamity.

So far, it hasn't done that.
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turbodig

turbodig

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WyoSyclone said:
Holy cow, Dig! No wonder you changed your avatar to that new pic.
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The reality of it is, I'm so freakish about routing lines and wires and things, it'd be tough to actually have something happen. I just need to drive it for a couple weeks to get over it.

There's a small oil drip near the passenger side of the radiator... thought I fixed it with a new turbo return gasket, but it's looking like no. It'd maybe fill a thimble in a week, but it cheeses me off.

Also seems I have a partially collapsed (read: noisy) brand new lifter. Sucks.

I'm learning to hate a 3" exhaust. As soon as I can get the stock dual 2.5" re-done, I'm putting it back on.

On the plus side, the new trans shifts wonderfully, converter is nice, and the downloaded 60# base bin behaves surprisingly well just driving around.
 
TYTILIDIE

TYTILIDIE

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How funny, I was just watching that movie the other day thinking, thats how I feel when I drive the Phoon. You know I am guilty of radio repair, sometimes I just don't want to face the reality that I may have to crawl back under this thing.
 
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pontiacws699

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Re: What did you do to your SY/TY today?

routed the vacum lines, put the down pipe on, put the inter cooler back on and got very close to starting her up.
Then i took it all apart again cause i think i did the vacum lines wrong.......AGAIN:rant:
 
Peter

Peter

my Ty and me 25+ years
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Nothing today, but last weekend I figured out the only way to get the bell housing bolts back in was to jack the body off the frame and stick 2x4's on top of the middle body mounts. Glad somebody, I don't remember who, posted that hint earlier.
 
Brassmonkey

Brassmonkey

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Took the Sy on a trip to Va., 286 miles and used 13.82 gal's of gas. Most of the trip as at 60-65 mph, but some stretches I hit 75 mph for 10-15 minutes. Comes out to 20.69 mpg. Not bad at all for 7.5's et in the 1/8th. Oh yeah, that was with 100 degree outside temps and the aircon running. :tup:
 
95xtreme

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turbodig said:
The reality of it is, I'm so freakish about routing lines and wires and things, it'd be tough to actually have something happen. I just need to drive it for a couple weeks to get over it.

There's a small oil drip near the passenger side of the radiator... thought I fixed it with a new turbo return gasket, but it's looking like no. It'd maybe fill a thimble in a week, but it cheeses me off.

Also seems I have a partially collapsed (read: noisy) brand new lifter. Sucks.

I'm learning to hate a 3" exhaust. As soon as I can get the stock dual 2.5" re-done, I'm putting it back on.

On the plus side, the new trans shifts wonderfully, converter is nice, and the downloaded 60# base bin behaves surprisingly well just driving around.
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Congrats its been a long time coming. :tup:
 
Gbodydriver

Gbodydriver

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Brassmonkey said:
Took the Sy on a trip to Va., 286 miles and used 13.82 gal's of gas. Most of the trip as at 60-65 mph, but some stretches I hit 75 mph for 10-15 minutes. Comes out to 20.69 mpg. Not bad at all for 7.5's et in the 1/8th. Oh yeah, that was with 100 degree outside temps and the aircon running. :tup:
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You get better gas mileage than me and my truck is stock:roll:
 
Gbodydriver

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I finally got the balls to change my cap and rotor... It looked more complicated than it turned out to be

Old pieces



 
WillBoost4Food

WillBoost4Food

Red Ty Supremacy
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Did the following during my last 2 days off...

NGK UR5
Taylor Spiro Wires
MSD Cap and Rotor
MSD GM Replacement coil
Autometer fuel pressure gauge, Boost gauge, and trans temp guage in a 3 pod pillar
Heater core bypass

Drank lots of beer
 
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tydye

Banned
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WillBoost4Food said:
Did the following during my last 2 days off...

NGK UR5
Taylor Spiro Wires
MSD Cap and Rotor
MSD GM Replacement coil
Autometer fuel pressure gauge, Boost gauge, and trans temp guage in a 3 pod pillar
Heater core bypass

Drank lots of beer
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Almost everything same as me except tryn to figure out how to do trans temp,

Curious why you bypassed heater core?
 
turbodig

turbodig

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95xtreme said:
Congrats its been a long time coming. :tup:
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Thanks. It seems kinda stable now that I drove it a few times. It'll make the trip to the lake this weekend- I hope to get the driveability dialed in a bit better, although it's not really that bad. Kinda surprises me.

I have to turn the radio up now - the wastegate rod is calling me to hook it back up. :)
 
Treymen

Treymen

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Put new H4 headlights in, put new screws in all the interior spots that were missing. (Rattles are gone!!!).....Ordered Infinity Kappa's for the whole thing. 4x6 and 6x9

Putting a new pinion seal and axle seals in on Tuedsay. Maybe a trans/trans case gasket as well if I have time and front Bilstein's.
 
13Pelle

13Pelle

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Got a Bravada mirror from the yard today......didn't really need it and wasn't looking for it specifically but it had to come home with me. Just might have leave it in the Ty...;)
 
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