Found a good show that happens every Friday night. Anyone can come here so it’s always a mix of different cool cars.
This gal just got this white 83 a month ago and is a work in progress and wants to learn more. Reminds me of how I started with these. Good to help one another with the problems and gremlins these old trucks have 40 years later.
RROD 0102 but still turns on. How funny. Plug for the PSU is also missing two pieces. What should I do with this.
I miss how GameStop use to be. Now it’s hardly any games on the shelf’s and just toys or cards.
All the Xbox’s and controllers work after I fixed them up. Have a few more that need more work in another pile by my work bench. I want to put my cassette organizer in between the shelf’s on the right. It’s fun to work on these, brings back a lot of memories. Eventually I’ll branch over more to other consoles. I’m having a lot of fun fixing up the 360s currently.
Just out and about. Came out the store and saw this Monte owner parked next to my Camino. Nice.
This cluster f*ck of a process started because Jegs didn’t have their 22 gallon sending unit in stock and last I looked, they won’t have it until September of 2027.
My 87 SS originally came with a 22g tank. Someone swapped it for a 17g. I bought the 22g from Jegs and had to order from another place. That sending unit was junk, would read almost empty only using 10 gallons. Second sending unit stayed on 1/4 full starting at 40 miles driven until I replaced it today with this working sensing unit at 160 miles. Same tank, different sending unit, reads slightly above half full as shown in the first picture.
I got this 22g sending unit from Ecklers and works as it should! I tested it out with my multimeter and worked as it should, hooked it up to power and ground by itself and it moved the needle as it should, finally tested it in my dropped tank and works! Bolted it back up, took it on a test drive and worked like it should.
Recently did a 18 hour/1,100 mile road trip and I figured out I could get 440 miles driven until empty on this tank. So excited to do it again next month and only have to fill up 3 times for the whole trip!
Next I gotta figure out cruise control. Just replaced the seal on my servo and it holds. Replaced stalk with new. Can’t figure it out. Need to figure out how to remove the original brake pedal cruise control switch and test.
Last week I was given a free broken Xbox 360 to fix up. Still waiting on capacitors to replace 0001 error.
Today I was given this copy of Halo 3 and a sealed gears of war game from a family member. Not even going to open the gears game. Haven’t played that version since it came out. Looks nice to my small nicer Xbox 360 item collection.
He told me he has a Halo 3 console and others to give me when he gets the time. See what happens.
Picked up a small lot of broken gaming stuff for free. This 360 was part of it. Was missing the heat sinks and cleaned of thermal paste. Put thermal paste on, the x-clamps, heatsinks back on and booted then showed error 0001.
I searched and discovered it may be a cap problem along the 12v rail? Never replaced one of these before.
I marked the one I see discolored that looks like it leaked. All the rest look okay. Or are they?
My question is, do you see anything else messed up? Or what else I should look out for? And where can I get capacitors for these from a reliable source? Thanks!
Broke something to cause my turn signals not to work. Even tried installing a new switch as shown and nothing. Wipers also don’t work but hazards do. Any ideas would be appreciated.
I ordered this 22 gallon sending unit off eBay a while back as jegs was out of stock. Took it on a long road trip and while the gas gage would read at 1/4 full, it only used 10-11 gallons or the needle was almost on empty.
Now that I could finally ordered a jegs replacement, it finally reads correctly! At a 1/4 full on the gage, I just filled up 16 gallons! I used a Jegs 80-89 3-line sending unit so I could make it breath better from tank to charcoal canister.
eBay seller was so full of sh*t when I asked for help and asked if this was defective. It was! When the float arm was half way, it would only read 30-35 ohms out of 90. The Jegs 80-89 3-line sender unit would read perfectly at 45 ohms.
Finally made up a reproduction window sticker for my 87 SS. Did it all in MS paint. Really easy to do, good rainy / slow day project.
Picked this up right before the pandemic started. I was looking for a truck and found it sitting in a field near my base. Was all sun faded and partially stripped. Knew something was special about it and once I confirmed the low miles and only had one owner I bought it.
Soon as I got it the pandemic kicked off and the Army told us to stay home/in our barracks for a month and half. So that gave me lots of time to replace anything I could on it myself in my barracks parking lot.
Been a work in progress for the last 6 years. Glad paint is all done with now. Replaced all the interior. Bushings. Added stripes/decals so people would stop chasing me down thinking it was a grand national, And more. Makes great gas mileage actually, average 20 mpg on the highway. Last is AC if that ever happens. Really just a summer fun car now.
Now has 98,000 confirmed miles.
Just recently did a 1,100 / 18 hour total road trip with my freshly engine swapped 87 SS El Camino. Truck did great, averaged 18 mpg! Makes better gas mileage than my Dad’s 2014 Chevy truck now!
My set up is a 89-93 Vortec 350 engine, original 200r4, and original G80/GM8 Posi 2:56 rear end. I’m not breaking speed records here but if I need to pass slow people or punch it I can at least over the average driver.
Lessons learned on the trip. Need to figure out why my speedometer is off and trip odometer not working fully.
I swapped the fuel tank back to a 22gallon but the new fuel pump I got for it reads at 1/4 full when I still have 10+ gallons left in it, didn’t do that when it had a 17 gallon.
Figure out why my cruise control isn’t working after swapping everything.
The original 39 year old speakers went out so as soon as I got back I swapped them with Kickers I ordered and now they’re too loud 😆.
I think my craftec tonneau covered helped to improve MPG and those fuel additive bottles not so much.
Anyone have links to reputable people who can rebuild an original 85 mph speedometer? Tired of trying to fix mine.
Been modding these since the 2000’s. Got back into it for fun as I still have bins filled with parts. Forgot I had some old rapid fire controllers in my parts bin from 15 years ago that needed work like the white controller with red & blue LEDs.
The Docs PS1 wireless controllers work but the lag is horrible. They work but suck, as expected with these. Trying to decide what to do with them.
Never came across this many in the wild since. 60s to 1987.
Just did my first! Haven’t done this since the JTAG exploit came out. I’m so happy I just soldered everything correctly and figured out some hick ups. Now just setting everything up!
Trinity motherboard. Used a pico pi v2.
Bought a small lot of phats and slims locally, here are two I fixed up. Haven’t worked on these since I was in High School back when these were at their peak.
All worked but needed some love to get going again. All but 3 needed new lasers, drive bands, and deep cleaning. Happy I got these working again after sitting for a long time! Changed out the RF board to blue main and back up error LEDs.
Eventually I want to RGH some of these but found I need a microscope to help more. So, looking for suggestions on that.
Rain dosent bother me. Been driving rear wheel drive V8s all my life in all kinds of weather conditions.
They just recently sold that basic nothing special 87 on the stand, they were asking $27,000.
Only a few including me were brave enough to drive our classics in the rain to this event this morning. The majority of cars that did show up were all common modern sport cars. Booooring.
Haven’t hard modded one of these since when the JTAG mod came out so trying to figure out some basics first such as. What gauge wire do you all use to solder all the connections for Slims?
Never done a slim before and have 3 of them I’ve fixed up. Want to give this try to hard mod it. Also want to try modding some phat systems later.
Here is what I’ve ordered so far. Have two Raspberry Pie Picos already.