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  1. grouch

    Not a mall rat or Brodozer

    On the black wheels, I've preferred them for years. I'm a bit lazy and they don't show brake dust. As to leveling it, it came up a bit after I unloaded the bed. On the paint, it was a couple of cans of camouflage that I mixed together, so it's unique. On the snake, it surprised me at first. I...
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    Not a mall rat or Brodozer

    I've had my Dodge Ram for several years. I never really thought the wheels and tires were right. I'm not big on chrome because chrome don't get you home. The tires always looked down right dinky. I'm looking at a J20 pickup to rebuild.I don't have any 8 lug wheels so I went to a guys house to...
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    1989 Cutlass Calais S for sale, $2500

    I got the Cutlass ready to sell. It's turned into a pretty solid little car. Rather than post a bunch of pictures and take up bandwidth, I made a walk around video. Not in the video is a new set of wheel covers made of Chinesium that I will have to modify to get to stay on the car. I need to...
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    Need to pick the brain of the collective.

    I've got a guy interested in my '73 Harley. He's wanting to swap a 1986 Jeep J2000 truck for it. I was going to rent a trailer with surge brakes but the deck is only 12 feet and the wheel base is a little over 13 feet. I can rent a tow dolly that will handle the truck. The truck has the AMC...
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    Got the new windshield installed today. Amazing how clear an intact glass can be. I also did a walk around video of it. I'll be posting it for sale soon. I'll get some new photos once my larger wheel covers show up. The old 13 inch jobs won't fit the new wheels and tires.
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    Ran the old gal over to the glass shop today. It still runs rough when cold, but once on the road, it ran and drove pretty good. Granted, there is a smashed area the size of a basketball in the drivers view, so you have to lean to the right to drive, but it drove pretty decent. I did figure out...
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    I didn't pay much. He needed money pretty badly so I helped him out.
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    That's about what I'll sell this one for when it's done. I plan to drive it a bit to debug it. It will still need work but some one will get a really nice car. I've got a radio for it but will probably let the next owner put it in.
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    Update on the Calais. I finally got a good clean title to the car. No burn marks or anything. Now I feel better about spending money on it. I wanted to find one good 13 inch wheel and use the damaged one as a spare. If available, 13 inch wheels cost more than 14's. Then I found the only readily...
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    F-350 Superduty Furd.

    The truck is sold. I had a guy come down from Indianapolis to buy it.
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    This is an old "Granny" car in pretty good shape. I'm thinking it sat in a barn for years. I'm so used to rust buggies, I've only found one small spot about the size of a quarter. Typical crappy paint that was rattle canned. I'm thinking after a windshield, exhaust and some new tires, I'll have...
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    Lastly, the power plant.
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    More photos.
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    1989 Cutlass Calais thread

    I picked up a car the other day to help a guy out. I was a bit surprised to see the engine under the hood. While the car isn't much to look at, it's got the Quad 4, 16 valve engine under the hood. It's a 35 year old car with 77K on the clock. The paint is terrible. It's from when the "new" paint...
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    F-350 Superduty Furd.

    Here are more photos. Like I said, the frame is bad and I'm selling it as a parts truck. You can PM me through here or send an email to [email protected] $4500 or offer. I'll look at trades but I have a full driveway as it is. I have a clean and clear Indiana title in my name. A good...
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    F-350 Superduty Furd.

    Earlier this year I needed to do some long standing work on my farm. In the past, I've hauled rock and dirt with a tilt bed trailer and unloaded it by hand with a shovel. Instead, I bought this truck and what I expected to take 4-6 weeks for three projects, took 1 day for 2 of them and the last...
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    Snow plow for sale

    I recently bought an old plow truck and it came with a pretty nice snow plow. I don't like shoveling my sidewalk so I'm not about to plow parking lots. It's a Boss snow plow #RT3 with the Smart hitch system. I'm in the process of removing all the ancillary stuff like wiring and so on, but...
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    Lost one, Found another

    One of the reasons I did that, besides havng an odd sense of humor, was to make sure the cops noticed it. If they were looking for a red car in a hit and run, they would know it had been that way for a while. We came out of a restaurant once to find 7 police cars parked around it.
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    Lost one, Found another

    Probably at a self help seminar where he had a near death experience and saw a tunnel with a bright light. My Mazda got nailed last summer but it got fixed, although I did drive around with Wile E. Coyote on the door for a while. It was close to totaling the car, but not quite. My agent...
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    Ford Expedition build thread.

    Finally tracked down the cruise control issue. There is a separate switch that works in conjunction with the brake light switch called the cruise control cut out switch. It's a simple swap, except I couldn't fit under the dash to get a good purchase on the piece. Just a slight twist and out it...
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    Ford Expedition build thread.

    Evidently there is a photo file limit here. Here's what it looked like then and looks like now from the back. This is turning into a really nice driver. I still need to get the cruise control working. The fuse is good and I've swapped two different sets of switches in so I suppose the servo...
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    Ford Expedition build thread.

    Got finished cleaning the exterior and touching the looks up. The old headlights were beyond cleaning. Pits, cracks and such I just put new ones in. The fog lamps cleaned up with scratch remover polish. A couple of cans of Krylon spray gloss black for the wheels and a couple of satin black...
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    Ford Expedition build thread.

    I finally got the Expedition to start. I rebuilt the "Smart Junction Box" (fuse box but so much more) and fixed the wire on the alternator that nearly burned the truck down. It looked like a poorly trained monkey had worked on it. The wire just fell out. This was the cause for the melted fuse...
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    Antique Harley

    I got this bike and had hopes of building a fun around town bike. The Doctor sent me off for an EEG and I've been told no more two wheel riding. Since I won't be able to ride it, I've lost interest. Here's a walk around video of it and the parts I got to build it. It's a 1973 Harley-Davidson...
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    Expedition won't start.

    I haven't done much with my Expedition. Rather than post this on my build thread, I'll ask the knowledge of the collective here. My '04 Expedition went crazy. It was cutting out and nearly left me stranded. I've had the computer and dash cluster tested. I also have the "Smart Junction Box"...

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