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Jun. 28th, 2010 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThis is the post I was writing before I got completely off topic and started talking about the pride parade.
Juan replaced the exhaust on Percy yesterday. While had had it in the shop, he also disconnected, ground down, and lubricated the shift linkage. When I drove over to his place yesterday he asked me what I thought. I could only say "What did you do with my old car? And where'd you get this one?" The difference is amazing. The gear shift is so free to move now it feels like it's broken and not attached to anything. To be honest, I don't like that it will go left and right so freely even in gear now. But that's a minor point on top of the amazing positive difference in the action of the mechanism.
With the exhaust quited, I'm now able to hear the droning wheel bearing much better, as well as a certain grinding when I'm in first gear (and to a much less of an extent, in second). Juan thinks that first might be a little worn. On his suggestion, I'll probably use this Saturday to drain and refill the transaxle with gear oil. 80w90 is factory recommended, but the forums suggest GM Syncromesh. In either case, it'll do good to get the old stuff out, especially if it's got metal bits in it.
In return for all the help, this past weekend and in general, I gave him some old motors that used to belong to Dwarf's dad. Big benchtop electric motors for driving classic belt driven tools. He seemed really excited to get them, and I'm happy they're going to a good home. It seems that I also need to start disassembling some more hard drives, as he told me that he loves the magnets I gave him and would take some more in trade for some work. *bounces* The time wasn't worth with the scrap money for the aluminum cases, so I'd stopped. Would the time invested be worth some of Juan's labor? Hell yes.
Juan's getting pretty tired of working on my car every weekend. I can't blame him; I'm not too fond of it either. He's going to tackle the wheel bearing somewhere toward the end of July. In the meanwhile, he suggested no long road trips. Or at least not until I've had the chance to drive it for a while, listen to the wheel bearing, and see if it gets worse. Maybe I'll take an urbex trip with Devin to the south side of Chicago and see how that goes.
So I'll either have to delay the Michigan road trip I want to do 'till the end of July, or possibly swap cars with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
farm_cat if she's willing. I guess it depends on when I can get money together too. I have some more dead laptops to Ebay this week, along with that keyboard. And I have to connect with samiitiger with the tablet she wants.
I am so tired today. I'm going to go to the Full Moon Fire and Drum Jam withsynicism tonight, but I am so looking forward to sleeping. I'm staying in the city with him so I get to sleep in 'till maybe six-thirty!
Juan replaced the exhaust on Percy yesterday. While had had it in the shop, he also disconnected, ground down, and lubricated the shift linkage. When I drove over to his place yesterday he asked me what I thought. I could only say "What did you do with my old car? And where'd you get this one?" The difference is amazing. The gear shift is so free to move now it feels like it's broken and not attached to anything. To be honest, I don't like that it will go left and right so freely even in gear now. But that's a minor point on top of the amazing positive difference in the action of the mechanism.
With the exhaust quited, I'm now able to hear the droning wheel bearing much better, as well as a certain grinding when I'm in first gear (and to a much less of an extent, in second). Juan thinks that first might be a little worn. On his suggestion, I'll probably use this Saturday to drain and refill the transaxle with gear oil. 80w90 is factory recommended, but the forums suggest GM Syncromesh. In either case, it'll do good to get the old stuff out, especially if it's got metal bits in it.
In return for all the help, this past weekend and in general, I gave him some old motors that used to belong to Dwarf's dad. Big benchtop electric motors for driving classic belt driven tools. He seemed really excited to get them, and I'm happy they're going to a good home. It seems that I also need to start disassembling some more hard drives, as he told me that he loves the magnets I gave him and would take some more in trade for some work. *bounces* The time wasn't worth with the scrap money for the aluminum cases, so I'd stopped. Would the time invested be worth some of Juan's labor? Hell yes.
Juan's getting pretty tired of working on my car every weekend. I can't blame him; I'm not too fond of it either. He's going to tackle the wheel bearing somewhere toward the end of July. In the meanwhile, he suggested no long road trips. Or at least not until I've had the chance to drive it for a while, listen to the wheel bearing, and see if it gets worse. Maybe I'll take an urbex trip with Devin to the south side of Chicago and see how that goes.
So I'll either have to delay the Michigan road trip I want to do 'till the end of July, or possibly swap cars with
farm_cat if she's willing. I guess it depends on when I can get money together too. I have some more dead laptops to Ebay this week, along with that keyboard. And I have to connect with samiitiger with the tablet she wants.I am so tired today. I'm going to go to the Full Moon Fire and Drum Jam with
synicism tonight, but I am so looking forward to sleeping. I'm staying in the city with him so I get to sleep in 'till maybe six-thirty!
