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General Auto Tech / New to me Truck 2005 GMC Sierra
« on: January 19 2024, 01:41:53 PM »
Last night my friend Travis and I embarked on a 6 hour round trip to go get this 05 GMC Sierra z71. It's extremely clean, and was owned by another friend but has high miles 234K. It has a blown trans and will need a few things, but overall I felt like I stole this truck.
Should be a good replacement for the regular cab.

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General Auto Tech / 08 honda civic - wifes car
« on: December 03 2023, 01:23:10 PM »
This deserved a post imo - new headlight lenses and muffler.
Of coarse the entire frontend had to come off.
My wife accepted a job at a local bank. They made a hybrid position for her and head-hunted her. It will be a good move for our family but she'll be driving 30miles a day instead of 10 so I figured it was time for some new head lights

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IHADAV8 Playground / new puppy
« on: August 28 2023, 08:11:33 AM »
The house was too quiet. We brought this little ball of fluff home from central Ohio this weekend.
His name is Tate and he is a 9-week-old Shetland Sheepdog.
He rode 6 hours home without any accidents or crying. He's slept through the night the last 2 nights he's been home.
So far one of the most chill puppies I've ever been around.
We did check out Summit Racing while we were in the area - I spent an hour in the clearance section digging through all the cool stuff.

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General Auto Tech / 04 Silverado - rusty parts hauler
« on: January 08 2023, 02:58:02 PM »
So I've been dealing with an oil pressure issue with my truck since I've bought it and decided it's time to stop messing around and fix the POS.
Basically, once the oil temp gets warm enough the oil pressure starts dropping, and then the valve train starts getting very noisy.  On a hot day, I can haul my car to the track about an hour away and by the time I get there the truck is getting loud, and when I leave about the time I pull in the driveway she starts clattering. But if you shut it down and let it rest for 5-10 minutes you can restart it and it's good to go until the oil temp climbs again. It happened on a parts run last week and while it hasn't been a problem yet - I want to get it resolved.
So here are a couple of pictures of the tear-down.

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General Auto Tech / Next Victim - 04 Cadillac Escalade
« on: December 29 2022, 09:49:05 PM »
This is what my buddy bought to drive while I was working on his Denali. Main complaint - coolant smell but no visible evidence of leaks.
Back story - this came from a shady dealership but was cheap enough to take a risk on. He's driven it for a month and other than replacing the brakes it's been good.
And yes it is the special plaitnum edition -  :rofl:  - it is a legit platinum edition but at least spell it right.
Diagnosis so far - water pump is leaking, and it appears the coolant tank is full of stop leak. This could be a mess  :icon_fU:

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General Auto Tech / Bertha - 08 GMC Yukon XL Denali
« on: November 30 2022, 01:42:56 PM »
So this is owned by a good friend of mine. It's had a low oil pressure at idle for quite some time and then started making some interesting noises. We both thought it had got a lifter and his normal mechanic shop said they'd change the engine for $6500 but other than that they wouldn't touch it.
The tear down went smooth - broke one exhaust manifold bolt off in the head and a manifold stud.

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General Auto Tech / Project WTF White Trash Fox
« on: September 22 2022, 09:49:35 PM »
It's definitely a Ford. When we went to load it the drivers side rear brake drum was frozen, I spent 30 minutes hitting it with a 3lb hammer before it finally cleared the shoes enough to remove it.
I spent the afternoon vacuuming, washing, and power washing the car and the parts I brought home with it. I ended up pulling the seats and throwing the carpet away.

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IHADAV8 Playground / Anyone else seen this? Stainless works/EPA
« on: March 08 2021, 03:11:59 PM »
Starting to get closer and closer. They aren't going to be happy until everyone has to ride a bike to work.

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So I've been helping the neighbor try to diagnose his issues.


The major glaring issue I see is TPS volts climb to 1.8v at WOT according to the scanner. New sensor didn't help, connector housing was cracked so I de-pinned it and used a new connector. I have 5v across the ground and reference at the sensor. I have like 4.8v checking across the reference and signal wire. All within spec
I've traced the wires from the TPS to the firewall and they look good. I tested the voltage at the computer and it sees 2.3v @ WOT at the connector, so within a half a volt of what the scanner shows. The harness looks untouched under the dash the pcm connectors were clean.
The wiring diagram (http://chevythunder.com/198689_f__y_body_1227165.htm) shows that the TPS shares a ground with the MAT and CLT sensors. If I test across the wires at the MAT is get 5v, at the coolant sensor 4v. The CLT wires look good to the firewall, the MAT I can't trace without pulling the plenum off. The scanner show logical temp numbers for the MAT and CLT sensors when plugged in and unplugged the scanner shows -31f or whatever the lowest value is.
Scanner doesn't show ecm voltage.
I am getting a code for the for the low TPS and the MAT sensor high air temps. Scanner shows CLT and MAT are reading right.
I'm thinking it's probably a ground issue - I can't get to the grounds at the back of the heads, but that is where I am leaning. Hopefully they are accessible from the bottom. The other possibility is when the exhaust shop welded the exhaust they didn't disconnect the battery and damaged the ecm - but that's more of a long shot imo.
Any other ideas? 

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IHADAV8 Playground / Brad needs this!
« on: May 09 2020, 11:56:18 AM »
Just something I stumbled on in facebook marketplace.




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IHADAV8 Playground / Neighbors...
« on: March 18 2020, 10:46:09 AM »
Anyone else have the president of the universe live next to them? Yesterday afternoon I went for a much needed walk. Stress and pain wise I was nearly at my limit so I needed some fresh air and some time to try to relax some.


On my way back home I walked by my best friend Dick's house. He was out picking up sticks in his yard with his elderly wife, how nice. As I get closer I can see him walking toward me and his wife is pointing at me and talking to him.


Let me step back and say I live in what would be considered an upper-middle class neighborhood and some people think they have golf course quality lawns. It's normal for a handful of them to put temporary fence posts along the edge of the road to give the snow plows a visual aid. No big deal right. Well for whatever reason Dick decided this year he is going to use traffic cones, but instead of setting them at the edge of his yard he puts them in the road at the edge. Not to mention we are already dealing with narrow road to begin with. So for the last 6 months we all been dodging all of his cones.


So Dick meets me in the middle of the road accusing me of moving his cones, just being a belligerent old ass. At this point I know things aren't going to go well - I have PTSD it's really hard for me to bite my tongue. I told him I didn't know what he was talking about, and he started in on some more bullshit so I walked away, and at one point I told him it was just grass and to get over it.


Okay so yeah I'm an asshole, I moved 2 of his cones from in the road to the edge his yard one time- and It felt damn good. But I did it a week ago!


Mind you there is a history here. A few months after we moved, I was injured and in the hospital. Dick called my Dad and told him that my lawn wasn't being mowed right and I need to fire the dip shits doing it. At the time my Dad was mowing it!


He's came into my yard and told me I didn't know how to train my dog because they bark at him. Shetland sheepdogs are herding dogs and they bark.


He took it upon himself to have his paid workers trim the shrubs on my fence line, and after I asked his worker to stop, he came over raising hell. The next day he was trimming my shrubs again, and they killed quite a few shrubs in the process.


Dick has also mowed strips out of other neighbors lawns when he thinks they need to be mowed.


He is a dick - his mother got one thing right.

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IHADAV8 Playground / Message board updates
« on: January 12 2020, 02:37:07 PM »
We have 2 more patches to install this week. I'm waiting for the green light from the boss man.
One of these patches is for EU's GDPR and it will log everyone out of the forum.
If anyone has issues logging in after the upgrade please contact me @ nocooler at g mail dot com.

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General Auto Tech / ALDL Cable Questions
« on: December 28 2019, 04:33:58 PM »
So my neighbor has an 86 Corvette. He's not looking to go fast but is tired of it being a complete slug. He has a new chip for it, probably a hypertech or jet. The guy he's been going to for work wants 6 hours of labor to change the chip, said the whole dash has to come out. It looks like its up there a ways but it's all supposed to be accessible from the bottom. I told him we could do it one afternoon in the spring but I'd like to at least scan it first, hence the need for an aldl cable and they aren't cheap anymore.
From what understand the 86 it has a '165 ecm and will communicate at 160 baud on "E" pin or 8192 baud on "M" pin. I've seen a few schematics and the TPI stuff needs a 10k resistor across "A" and "B" to put the computer in diagnostic mode. The high speed data set seems like it'll be useful. I've been looking over wiring schematics and some are simple, while others are more complex.
http://winaldl.joby.se/aldlcable.htm
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/diy-prom/275994-making-my-own-aldl.html
https://www.techedge.com.au/vehicle/aldl8192/8192hw.htm
http://aldlcable.com/instructions/ALDLbareINST.pdf
Does anyone have any ALDL brain cells left? The last link makes it seem like you can just grab data straight off the "M" pin. While a couple others show max232 chip or some other parts to make some magic happen. Can I just use the simple transistor or do I need to go with the max232 chip?
Thanks

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General Buick Tech / MOVED: rebuilding my turbo
« on: December 23 2019, 07:05:38 PM »

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IHADAV8 Playground / What a way to end a holiday weekend...
« on: December 02 2019, 01:21:49 PM »
Without power for 32 hours. Ended up packing up and staying at the parents last night. When we got back here this morning it was 57F inside and 23F outside.
Oh yeah and the ice took out a tree in my front yard.
I called my dad and asked him to bring me a chain saw. I started going to town with my 10" pole saw and when he showed up 1.5 hours later my wife and I had it pretty much all done. So he helped shovel the driveway!


It's nice to be home with power/heat!


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