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Morning everyone
Morning folks. Made it back from Wisconsin a little after 9 last night. Had a great day helping choose a barrel of bourbon for the group at J Henry Distillery. .
Looks like fun. Did you take the 64?
Hows the bourbon?
Bourbon was really good, the ryes were fantastic. We hope to work out a way to get a barrel of that as well. (fingers crossed) They raise their own grain on the farm, ship it off to 45th. Parallel for mashing distilling, and bring it back to their distillery maturation, blending, and bottling. Nope, no 64. Ted drove his Envoy. LOL
When we were in Kentucky I was hoping to do a little bourbon tour, unfortunately one of our group had a fuel pump issue. We spent the bourbon time repairing the issue. It was a broken wire.
Then we loaded all five of us and drove 40 minutes to a concert. It was a blast to have a car load like in high school.
icetech
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Another fun day at work 
Itching to build my motor for next year... Can feel winter coming on.. a bunch stuff i want to do to my car but don't wanna take it apart yet. One main thing is taking the cover off the drivers seat bottom (and pray i don't hurt it) and run 1/4" wire long ways across the springs.. tightens them up a ton.. right now its pretty saggy from age. Will make driving a bit nicer. Would like to find my 50mph+ vibration before winter but.. lazy Hate running a car up to speed on jackstands. even with the tires off, just feel weird.
Like this.. i did it in my original seat springs which got stolen and it tightened them up a ton.. i did it like every 2nd bend though
Itching to build my motor for next year... Can feel winter coming on.. a bunch stuff i want to do to my car but don't wanna take it apart yet. One main thing is taking the cover off the drivers seat bottom (and pray i don't hurt it) and run 1/4" wire long ways across the springs.. tightens them up a ton.. right now its pretty saggy from age. Will make driving a bit nicer. Would like to find my 50mph+ vibration before winter but.. lazy Hate running a car up to speed on jackstands. even with the tires off, just feel weird. Like this.. i did it in my original seat springs which got stolen and it tightened them up a ton.. i did it like every 2nd bend though
icetech
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Also wanna go through the trans again since it will be out, just to check it over and see if i can find why 2nd isn't hitting as hard as it should.. it's not bad just not BAM.. third actually hits harder which is testament to my skills of messing stuff up, Might block the accumulator this time.. i read so many different opinions, some argue it only makes going from like neutral to any gear softer but doesn't effect shifts between gears. My accumulator bore is scored pretty good so it's not great to start with..
P.S. i wish they would reprint the carl munroe book.. a used copy is almost $100 now.. will probably end up with the ebook
P.S. i wish they would reprint the carl munroe book.. a used copy is almost $100 now.. will probably end up with the ebook
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What are your driveline angles? Sometimes a simple shim is all you need to fix that vibration
icetech
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when i first put it together it was very bad.. (don't recall the numbers but it was a learning experience) i redid it twice and right now it's i believe (have it written down at home, my memory is mush) trans 1.3* down pinion about .75* up.. still not ideal but i don't think enough to make the vibration.. I ended up with some 5* shims in there, i could change to 2-3* to level out the pinion.
Some guys freak out if a pinion is slightly up.. a lot of factory stuff was up though.
BTW.. i swear to god i measured everything before welding the perchs and somehow still screwed it up. I am the king of doing stuff 3 times
P.S. I have 30" etstreets on it that took sOOOO much weight to balance that they could be the issue, mainly why i want to run it on jackstands or find some spare tires to throw on and see if it changes.
I just mentioned because my car had a vibration that I fixed with shims.
icetech
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any idea how far yours was out? When i first put my car together i ran it on jackstands and when it would go into third and rev a little it felt like it was trying to shake the car apart.. right now i can feel a litte at 50-55mph (which stops me from going higher).. last time out i took it to bout 60, put it in neutral and killed the motor, it actually shook worse for a second then normal to below 50. so something in the driveline/tires.
Or center section.. but something isn't happy.
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