Decided to start tackling the roof rust on my Regular Cab, So far day two have the old roof cut off and half way through drilling the spot welds on the donor roof. Was surprised to find the inner roof was painted/primed on my 91.5 from the factory, still wasn't enough to keep the rust away though. I suspect it was trapped condensation in the roof that caused it to rot away from the inside out which is typical of these trucks from my experience. More so cabs without cab lights I find.

 

Finished up the wiper bushing "upgrade" overall a easy but tedious job.

 

I finally got the oil and filter changed. First one since moving from SoCal. Stupid drain pan wasn't working right so wound up with about 3/4 gallon of dirty oil all over the garage floor. Oh well. Gave me a chance to practice my floor dry skills. Got a few more things to do on it. Right now it's sitting out in the hopes that the rain will wash some of the accumulated dirt off. Yeah. I'm lazy.

Edwin

 

I plugged the line to the watergate to the HX35 on Vern's old W250.
I want to see what it does to the 25 max PSI it hits currently. I also want to see if it clears up the WOT haze at 20-25PSI with a bit more air. I would be fine with 30, maybe a bit more.

I did not get a chance to take it for a drive yet. I have a couple hour drive to take with it tomorrow. It will have almost 1000# in the bed too.

 

did you work for Nixon? Watergate??

 

Gotta love auto correct turning "WASTEGATE" into "WATERGATE".

 

1/2 ton in the bed should make for a good test. Beer run?

 

I had my 800# quad loaded up plus some gear and a cooler.. It was my B-day and the ATV trails just opened for the year. The girlfriend and I hit the trails near NH for a couple of hours.

The Wastegate being unhooked made the truck run better. The boost hit higher boost #. I would see 30# under heavy throttle when accelerating in 3rd or 4th. If you just floored it to WOT, it would build 35# maybe a bit more. I doubt the way I drive I will see 35# very often.
I did not see black smoke coming out of the tail pipe at low boost when you throttled up. I did not see any heavy haze under WOT now that is it closer to 30PSI either.

The stiffer AFC spring helped the low PSI smoke all but disappear.
The added air and extra PSI from the turbo completely cured the higher PSI hazing.

The waste gate line that was hooked up before had a small opening in the brass elbow that was hooked to the turbo elbow. This restricted the airflow enough that I would see 25 PSI for a brief second, but it would fall back to 20 PSI which is the OEM wastegate setting. This meant that at WOT it fell to 20 PSI very quickly which would explain the haze.


That was worth it for me. As it was just a couple of hours of fiddling around and a $20 AFC spring.

 

After getting my truck back from the shop, I took the snow plow off and fixed the running board that got pulled loose when a cheap plastic made in China ramp exploded under the wheel. If I feal motivated enough, I may start digging the studs out of the rear tires.

 

I put mine on the trickle charger. Maybe Memorial day weekend I will install the THD injector pump. I think I am going to advance it a tooth. If it fires up and runs I will get a master cylinder.

I have insurance on it, I didn't renew the tag back in November.

 

I popped the hood to make sure no tree rats were living in there.

Retarded wife feeds the birds and squirrels (tree rats), and I gotta keep up on a truck that hasn't moved in months.

 

Don't mess with the bait station

 

Why bother with bait when you can have the real thing. Fully mobile, automatic activation, exceptional detection system, and can exterminate larger varmints.

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My dogs eat bunnies raw. They have killed 3 squirrels so far this year. Multiple rats, muskrat (2 years ago) and a ground hog 2 weeks ago. I can't use the @cougar pest control method as my dogs have an extreme dislike for cats, and skunks to name a few. One catches and eats birds.

They don't eat the squirrels or the rats, or mice.

 

Went to put flowers on graves and saw 2 dead armadillos. I can't be sure though. Somebody could have moved the one I saw and I saw the same one twice.