Surreptitious.....

[oldeskewltoy]

repairs????

Was out running a few heads out to the machine shop and all of a sudden the blinkers slow to a crawl.... found the directional relay, and replaced it....







Oh... I also acquired(purchased) a new set of wheels.... 15x6.5 +19 for the fronts, and 15x7 + 13 for the rears....



should be here in about 2 weeks......

[Bean]

Looking forward to see pictures of the wheels fitted.

[oldeskewltoy]

The wheels arrived.... and while not bad.... they are no longer 3 piece wheels, they were welded, so they are now 2 piece wheels.

I had intended to keep the 7" - +13 pair as the fronts, and convert the 6.5" - +19 wheels into 7.5" - +6... but that would now take serious surgery to accomplish.

[Bean]

Guess it's a questions if you can get a whole barrel in the correct offset

[oldeskewltoy]

(05-02-2017 07:58 PM)Bean Wrote:  Guess it's a questions if you can get a whole barrel in the correct offset

maybe....

I may just clean and run them.... the Drag 902 5 spoke wheels I currently use are 15 x6.5 +22, so even the "smaller" mesh wheel still has a bit more offset........ Who knows maybe I'll go full in "Muscle car" and run staggered tires along with the staggered wheels.

Last time I did that was 1979... in my 1969 GTO... I ran F 70 14s(215/70/14) in the front, and H 60, 14s(245/60/14) in the back - Firestone Super Sports... something like these.....

[banpei]

Wow! That would look mad!

[oldeskewltoy]

(03-28-2017 08:45 PM)oldeskewltoy Wrote:  repairs????

More repairs.......... well it has been over 7 years and close to 25k miles..........

Lost one cylinder all of a sudden on Tuesday... she sounded like a Subaru



I pulled plug wires and #1 cylinder was not firing I swapped #1 and #4 @ the coils, and now #4 was not firing. Borrowed a friends coil pack, and she fired up on all 4.

Decided to purchase 2 coils so both will be new/fresh.


More to come......

[Bean]

glad it was an easy fix and hope other potential repairs will be too

[oldeskewltoy]

Feb of an even year.......

Its emissions testing time again. I brought her through, and while not a "gross polluter", she did fail on hydro carbons 400ppm, the level is 220. The cat is now 3 inspections old, and so I replaced the cat, and went back through.........



As you can see a nice new cat and she is very clean @ 1ppm for HC, and .011% CO


Shes' good for another 2 years. Not bad as she is heading into her 9th year as her new self......

as always......... more to come......

[Bean]

Congratulations, so the CAT lasted 6 years?

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