What did you do to you A-Body today?!?!

[73blazer]

Being it was 82F here or so, I checked that my AC by duster is still working from the R12->HFC154a (duster) conversion several years ago. Yup, still working great!

   

[CorvairGeek]

Replaced the radiator (deal from Amazon) and the short, silicone, 3/4" hose between the heater return pipes over top the exhaust cross over. I'll reinstall the fan after I'm positive the twin transmission cooler pipes aren't leaking at the fittings.    

[turbokinetic]

I washed my 84 Century! Sounds like not much; but the pressure washer has been broken down for a while. Got that fixed and gave the car a shower!  

By the way; happy to see that this forum has been created. There are other forums but none dedicated to just the A cars. Facebook groups are there but I have very little patience with the drama on that platform. I remember many good times on the old forums when I was building my turbocharged car projects. Still have them, plus a LeSabre Grand National has been added to my collection. 

As with all of us, things change over time. I'm not doing as many car projects but still enjoying my old cars daily. 

Sincerely,
David

[86 Euro]

I washed my 84 Century! Sounds like not much; but the pressure washer has been broken down for a while. Got that fixed and gave the car a shower!  

By the way; happy to see that this forum has been created. There are other forums but none dedicated to just the A cars. Facebook groups are there but I have very little patience with the drama on that platform. I remember many good times on the old forums when I was building my turbocharged car projects. Still have them, plus a LeSabre Grand National has been added to my collection. 

As with all of us, things change over time. I'm not doing as many car projects but still enjoying my old cars daily. 

Sincerely,
David

LeSabre GN... wasn't that the one they offered in '86 with the funky quarter windows? And only made a small number of them?

[turbokinetic]

...plus a LeSabre Grand National has been added to my collection. 

LeSabre GN... wasn't that the one they offered in '86 with the funky quarter windows? And only made a small number of them?

Yep! As you might expect there are quite a few arguments around the exact numbers, but approximately 117 were produced with around 112 sold to the public. It has different ground effects and front end spoiler, plus the smaller rear windows with plastic inserts. These were NASCAR homologation cars and had to have the same external dimensions as the race car body. The LGN came with a naturally aspirated 3.8L V6 LG3 engine. I did build a turbo system for mine.

[86 Euro]

...plus a LeSabre Grand National has been added to my collection. 

LeSabre GN... wasn't that the one they offered in '86 with the funky quarter windows? And only made a small number of them?

Yep! As you might expect there are quite a few arguments around the exact numbers, but approximately 117 were produced with around 112 sold to the public. It has different ground effects and front end spoiler, plus the smaller rear windows with plastic inserts. These were NASCAR homologation cars and had to have the same external dimensions as the race car body. The LGN came with a naturally aspirated 3.8L V6 LG3 engine. I did build a turbo system for mine.

You seem to have a knack for just simply getting things done. Maybe one day I'll finally find the time to do a turbo engine build for my Celebrity and I'll be asking for advice. Until then, the stock 2.8 liters of raw horsepower will have to do, lol.

[86 Euro]

We need more action here! Surely there's folks that can post stuff?

Today I re-tensioned some window run channels on the '88 5-speed Celebrity I just got from Steve in TX. That way the window clips stay engaged.

   

[73blazer]

We need more action here! Surely there's folks that can post stuff?

Today I re-tensioned some window run channels on the '88 5-speed Celebrity I just got from Steve in TX. That way the window clips stay engaged.

Nice work!

I'll be getting to that ABS unit rebuild in my STE hopefully this week!

[SlowAztek]

We need more action here! Surely there's folks that can post stuff?

Today I re-tensioned some window run channels on the '88 5-speed Celebrity I just got from Steve in TX. That way the window clips stay engaged.

You bastard, you got the car and didn't tell me. 

[73blazer]

I removed all the brake lines on my STE while the ABS master was out, alot easier to get at the myriad of lines underneath it. Some of them were looking pretty rusty.

All the line nuts actually came loose with this tool:


I can say these things actually work. They are toothed inside and grab tighter the more you lean into it. I should have had these decades ago. I've fought so many rust brake and bleeder lines. These just work. In some cases it will start the bend the bracket the line is attached to so you need to brace the bracket somehow, but these really work to get rusty line nuts off. 
Now, even though I sprayed these for a couple days you can still have the line to nut siezed up so you get the nut free, but it wants to twist the line. In most cases I was able to free the nut from the line too but two of them twisted off. 

What a myriad of lines with this ABS system. Wow. There's a special prop valve with no elec. connector because the normal "brake" light connector connects directly to the master. The prop valve is pretty weird. It has three ports plus a bleeder. The front port connects directly to the front of the master (not the ABS valve block on the side of the master). The rear port connects to the middle of the ABS valve block and is of bigger size. The rear port connects to a three way block which feeds right and left rear brakes. The other two lines off the ABS valve block connect to the RF and LF.
They obviously put the lines in before the drivetrain as getting the left rear and left front lines which crossover above the rear D-shaft and exhaust is a royal pita. The Rear line I was able to get out in once piece. The Left front has just way to many bends on both sides to squirrel it through, I had to cut it. I cut it on the drivers side kinda middle-ish and on the new line-set I'll put a union there, you can access that with the master out to fit that union then. 

I'll take all these lines to Inline Tube which is about an hour and half away from me. They will re-make them all in stainless completely with brackets, metal winding protector, correct fittings and  bends. Got many sets of lines from them before. Always a good job, been buying stuff from them since 2003. Criminal GM used plain unprotected unpainted  steel lines up until about 2014. Criminal!!








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