what did you do in your garage / shop and or driveway today ?

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

what did you do in your garage / shop and or driveway today ?

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

M21 3rd & 4th Backwards??? | Team Camaro Tech (camaros.net)

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

65 SD L79 wrote:
4SPEED427 wrote:
Do you have the 1-2 and 3-4 levers on the side of the trans pointing up? Silly question, I know but have to ask.
Do you know the history of the trans?
It's not one of these?
over drive Muncie , anyone understand this? - Canadian Poncho (activeboard.com)
that i cant remember. levers have two holes its a 65 and numbers match the car and was said to be rebuilt

-- Edited by 65 SD L79 on Sunday 21st of July 2024 04:30:03 PM

Check if the front lever on the side cover is hanging down. Everything points to it being that, the way you describe it.

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

4SPEED427 wrote:
65 SD L79 wrote:
4SPEED427 wrote:
Do you have the 1-2 and 3-4 levers on the side of the trans pointing up? Silly question, I know but have to ask.
Do you know the history of the trans?
It's not one of these?
over drive Muncie , anyone understand this? - Canadian Poncho (activeboard.com)
that i cant remember. levers have two holes its a 65 and numbers match the car and was said to be rebuilt

-- Edited by 65 SD L79 on Sunday 21st of July 2024 04:30:03 PM
Check if the front lever on the side cover is hanging down. Everything points to it being that, the way you describe it.

well if that is the case and 3rd was 4th i am not gona be happy with my choise of 3.31 gears cry

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

What size tire did you put on?

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

4SPEED427 wrote:
What size tire did you put on?

225 70 15

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

That should give you 2438 rpm at 60 mph with 3.31 gears. Do you know where you're at when you are going 60 mph?

tburgGM · Addicted!

I started my project to refurbish 1962-67 Chevy II and Acadian exhaust hangers. I just started to take them apart. My plan is to zinc coat all of the metal parts, install new rubbers and rivets.

Does anyone have any good used Chevy II and Acadian exhaust hangers?

Frank

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

4SPEED427 wrote:
That should give you 2438 rpm at 60 mph with 3.31 gears. Do you know where you're at when you are going 60 mph?

You nailed it Carl. Lever was pointing down. I will never make that mistake again . Hope to get new starter in today and road test it

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Oh good, an easy fix. Those are the best!

LT1Caddy · Guru

Here is an app you guys should get for your cell phones to check your speedo... It's called Speed box. Download the app, then set the phone on your console or seat and check the GPS speed reading against your speedometer.
Better to know your speed than your tach reading...

Just a FYI..

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

I keep picking away at little stuff on the yellow car.

Today I set up a jumper wire for the neutral safety switch that the car used when it was an automatic with a console. Now with the 4 speed there is no safety switch for starting but if you don't connect the two wires that used to run to the neutral safety switch on the automatic you have no cranking. Until now I had just rammed a wire into both the terminals on the connector but today made it a nicer permanent fix.

Then on to the backup lights. Harness from the factory has the connector at the steering column for column shift cars as well as the one in the console. Initial test at the dark green wire on either connector (power wire from the fuse box), nothing. Ran a jumper wire, fuse box to the dark green at the connector, then jumped the dark green to the light green (which goes back to the lamps) and we have power there but still no backup lamps. Bad bulb on the first one I check. New bulb, still nothing but the test light says the socket has power. That's when I quit for the night but I'm guessing the socket isn't properly grounded to the housing, likely corroded.

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DonSSDD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

You need a new shirt Carl.

-- Edited by DonSSDD on Wednesday 24th of July 2024 06:31:11 AM

DonSSDD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Had a few minor leaks on the valve covers, had a spare set so decided to install them. The old gaskets were over 10 years old, I got them off Kijiji or eBay, cant remember which, from someone in Winnipeg. Had the 409 in the 59 and 62 Chevies, been in the 63 since about 2016, iirc.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Rented an adult Tonka toy and ran a trench across the lawn to finally bury the pipe for the sump pump output.

So much fun playing with stuff like this but wow it's expensive to rent it. But there's now way I was digging that by hand to save a couple of hundred dollars.

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Gillis · Addicted!

Looks like youve got it easy where youre at. If I tried using that thing here Id have the tines mangled from all the rock!!!

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

I've welding in some floor patches on my winter car piece of crap Hyundai. The drivers floor had rotted from the inside thanks to salty boots. When I removed the carpet there was literally powdery salt everywhere! When it's a car you don't really care about you can try new things. I bought a parts car with a bad frame but good floors (go figure) and cut out what I needed from it. I welded in the new patches. There were still some areas that passed the hammer test but seemed a touch weak. Not feeling like doing any more cutting and welding in my hot outbuilding I tried something new. I removed the flakey rust with a flapper wheel and applied a coat of POR-15. While wet I laid pieces of fibreglass cloth over top letting the POR soak in. I applied a coat of POR over that and let it dry. It dried incredibly hard! Underneath I seam sealed around the repair, primed and undercoated. Good for another 2-3 winters (if the rest of the car holds up). The parts car has nicer carpet and seats so those are going in as well.

Johnnee D · Guru

Installed rear defog in Laurentian got parts from a pusher in Morris, MB

canam · Veteran Member

Nice tip with the por15.It has a lot of uses.Ideal for your driver.It would be interesting to see how long it lasts.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Yeah, I think it will hold up well and hopefully prevent any more salty water from getting into the metal.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Johnnee D wrote:
Installed rear defog in Laurentian got parts from a pusher in Morris, MB

"Pusher" LOL

hawkeye5766 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Air BNB is live! Not all that busy but live....

Nautical Nights in Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Canada - Airbnb

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Also started in on the first major project out of my shop. 72 c10 4x4 with factory AC. In for an engine miss and a buff.....

DonSSDD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Nice boat and nice twuk.

DonSSDD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Working on a neighbos 2007 mini turbo, 6 speed manual, 178hp, about 2700lbs, must be a fun car to drive. Never touched one before, she was desperate enough to ask me to look at it. Needed a coolant sensor, someone put one in that was hooked up to the wrong connector. Plus it has a miss on number 4 cylinder, found 3 spark plugs had oil in them, one had 1 inch of oil in the hole for the spark plug/coil. Needed a new set of gaskets for the valve cover, got a new Elring valve cover with gaskets for cheap from Rock Auto. The PCV for this engine is integrated into the valve cover!!! Why?

Dealer price for new plugs, $84 each for ngk iridium, good mini forum recommended platinum worked better in this car, Rock had them on close out for about $5 each.

Lemans64 · Poncho Master!

Geeze Jim, not sure you to take cab off to change spark plugs and buff the paint. Oh they wanted the frame buffed, I see.