What did you do today to your 3/S?

[HLxDrummer]

Had my little mechanic work on the tune on my car.

But, honestly, nothing excited, just brought her out for a full Saturday of running errands.



-John

Is that a Regal GS (I remember you discussing Buicks once)? Looks awesome! Seems like a really cool car I wouldn't expect from them (6 speed, turbo, Brembos, etc). The '99 looks badass, as well!

[sergechronos]

Worked on getting the front suspension back on. Pressing out the ball joints tomorrow and putting new ones in so that I can get that wrapped up at least. Just need to the suspension to hold together while I push the car all of 10 feet. Leaning very seriously towards replacing all these suspension bolts honestly...A lot of them look awful and rusted and I'm just leery about if it may have weakened them.

[2fnloud]

AWESOME Paul.

[CoopKill]

Drove it

This is a shitty pic but a great example of the 3k green, looks black, blue and green all in one pic.

Does NOT exist!

[IPD]

Does NOT exist!

Troof!

...but to be fair, the same can be said of burgundy, harvest wheat & jamaican blue...

[sergechronos]

New ball joints pressed in so I can put the front end back down. These c clips suck ass.

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[Unlogic]

Started the work of removing the gearbox to see if I can find the cause for the bearing noises I heard after installing my SCE center diff.

[sergechronos]

Ball joints done, front coil overs on...first time this car has been moved in over a year. Pretty low considering here's no engine or trans in at the moment.



Washed the old carpet to get it ready to sell, cleaned up pretty good.




Started work on a TN3S members 99 bumper..this was the "repair" by a body shop..working on getting the dent popped out and the 1/8"+ thick layer of bondo off. Will take a couple weeks before its ready for respray since I'm doing it on my days off. Hopefully can salvage it for him.

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[stealthee]

Of course nothing to the Stealth.

The work truck was another story. The day started off okay. I left the shop around 11. The route I took to get to my first stop was a yard sale clusterfvck. There were probably 50 yard sales and people were stopping dead in the road in front of me more times than I can count. Finally got through that and went on to my second stop hitting minor traffic here and there.

On my way to the third stop is where it really got interesting. I am on Route 7 in Ohio and going to follow it all the way to 470 where I would cross back over to WV and hit Route 2. I am on 7 for a few miles when out of no where they stop all traffic on the southbound lane. I sit there for about 10 minutes and ate my lunch while I waited and hoping they would let us through before too long. They didn't. I make my way to the exit that I was near to try to navigate around and my GPS ends up putting me on 7 north to backtrack to get to Route 2. Well, Route 2 sucks, that is why I took 7 in the first place.

Anyway, I finally get near my destination and this is where everything else went wrong. The address for this place isn't where it actually is. I was told ahead of time so that isn't a big deal. I had to make a turn onto this gravel road that ran parallel to railroad tracks. I follow the tracks back and see a gate to my left. I went in the gate, but wasn't sure if it was right. I call my boss and he says, "I don't think you go in there, keep following the tracks."

I did and the truck was as wide or wider than the "path" I was on. I was hitting brush and stuff on the passenger side while driver's side tires were catching railroad ties. I get back about 1/2 mile and hit a railroad split. I can't go any further. I was going to have to back out that 1/2 mile.

I call my boss AGAIN. I explain where I am and what I see and he tells me to call the sales rep, because he (my boss) had only been there once or twice. I told him I would call the rep when I got backed out.

Well, on my way back out I knocked the damn passenger mirror off and scuffed the hell out of the passenger side. SMH

I brought the key home so tomorrow or Sunday I am going to go grab it and see what I can do to lessen the effect of the scratches. Pisses me off.

To conclude, I called the sales rep, told him where I was trying to deliver and explained what was going on. He asked me if I made this turn and that turn, etc. I confirmed I did. I said I followed the railroad tracks and he said, "Where are there railroad tracks in Benwood?"

I'm like, "Seriously Dave? The road you turn on to get back to this area parallels the tracks. They are right next to you."

Finally got it figured out..... I should have went in the first fvcking gate that I was told not to go into. At least I know now.

For the TL;DR: I knocked the mirror off the truck and scuffed it up.

[Beef6]

Swapped the IAC and pulled/polished (I used that term loosely) majority of the intercooler piping again. After getting it all back together I decided that its all getting powder coated this winter so I no longer have this issue.

Now just need to do brakes all around and get it inspected in time for the NG. Just hope it runs well enough to get through the gathering.