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It looks good but where is my zip tie tip of the day? Lol
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decided to finally mount the horn back up, hey pretty girls ain't gonna honk at themselves!
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then I remembered why I was in no hurry to git it back on, it don't work, or so I thought
luckily Mopar Seth came by and the dude is a wizard with [my] Multimeter and in about 2 seconds flat he goes your brand new Grant steering wheel horn button is DEFECTIVE, that's college kid speak for BROKEN he says, just buy a new universal one and call it good, then he went inside to get a beer that was both good news (in the sense that I wired it up right) and bad news in the sense that I hate buying new stuff to replace new stuff so by the time he came back out I had the button in a million pieces turns out that gold dish cup thing was not dished enuff so we set it on a big nut basically a round donut with a hole in it and punched it with a punch and a 3 lbs sledge once and dished it out proper and whalla problem = solution |
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I think we need a sound clip of the horn working. hahaha
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so I figured spend another $18 bucks on a can of factory match paint that don't match or spend half that on POTENTIAL, ie Plasti Dip Camo Green [ahem] Verde
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this is what we're going for
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first coat, you shoot them 30 minutes apart
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second coat - with a close up
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beautiful truck!!! rusty better stick around for a long time :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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the world needs more od green 2wd chevys. but thats just my personal opinion.
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third and final coat
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found a pic of a shrink wrapped C10
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Tell me your not going to change colors of the old boy. Lol plasti dip the whole truck. Might be expensive. I do like the green and if I squint real hard I can see rusty looking like the Ferrari. Lol
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so bolted up the plasti dipped roll pan, not quite the green I was hoping for and the sun behind me makes for a bad pic with the shadows but its done
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another day another header exhaust leak, man I tell you those siamese ports just love to leak
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and here's some evidence on the header flanges, man is this deja vu all over again
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alright so we wire wheel the head exhaust ports clean
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this time finally we are going to use the REMFLEX 2011 gaskets
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REMFLEX makes at least three different small block chevy gaskets so we was sure to pic the one for the Vortec aka L31 cylinder heads
2005 - 2006 - 1-3/8" x 1-1/2" Square Port 2011 - 1-3/8" x 1-1/2" Raised Square Port Note it says: "Raised square port" maybe that's they key, a properly port matched gasket, lol I'm just trying to help out anyone out there in the forum land who may be looking for information on this stuff, that's all |
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here's my best attempt to show you how the 2011 REMFLEX gasket fits the Vortec L31 cylinder head
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and here's how the 2011 REMFLEX gaskets fit the Hooker headers
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well since we removed the spark plugs to make it easier to get the passenger side header out might as well check them
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so since I already had the header off I decided now was as good time as any to cut out the resonators out of the Magnaflow exhaust to see if we can put some bark back into it
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this is where the Magic Happens
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I had good luck using the oem exhaust gaskets that are specific for vortec heads.
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I enjoy your thread greatly. THe only quibble I have is calling this thing rusty. Here in Michigan rusty implies box fell off, no rockers, no lower doors, and at least 1 cab mount is missing.
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Greg, dude, thanks for keeping this going! I re read a bunch of this and it will serve as a reference for quite some time into the future. Like the pictures of Rusty, out and about. Really cool that you went thru the process of grabbing that 833 4 speed OD. Would like to have that in a shorty like yours. Please don't get tired of taking it to the Gregski level and bringing it to us with your pictures and own brand of prose. Thanks for the info and the entertainment! LT7A |
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Man I hope your exhaust comes out good for you. In my experience with small displacement motors (non V8s), the resonators help take away the raspiness. I run flowmasters on two V8 vehicles and am very happy with the performance and sound, but I don't display the sticker or have the tattoo.
They are tuned cat back systems so I think that makes a difference, as do the cats. I think they are both 50 series. The description of the 40 series made me shy away from them. In your case, I think that full tail pipes would also help with the drone. Good luck! |
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alright well lets take a look at the spark plugs on the driver's side
Oh my that can't be good Check out the #5 plug the second one from the left, that be what we call carbon build up it's hard as a rock |
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