Donald Mitchell
1990 C1500 5.7L
I like watching the vids this guy does.I fired Way Cool Jr up this morning and it was popping bad. I drove it around the block once and the squealing noise was terrible, but when I got back to the house to re-torque the wheels the popping had faded. After checking the wheels I drove it around the square mile. By the time I got back the squealing was gone and the Sniper was running near flawlessly. It stumbles a bit returning to idle, but that's going away.
The transmission is my concern. Having re-welded the TV cable bracket to give myself some room for adjustment, it runs better. It's not hammering into second gear and then immediately shifting to third. In the neighborhood it runs smooth, so smooth I completely forgot about how badly it had been running. On the open road it runs wellish. Cruising at 45-50 mph it runs fine on level ground. With a slight hill or trying to ease the speed up a bit it kicks down, which tells me the TV cable is probably one click too tight. A couple times I mashed the pedal a bit and it kicked down and revved up without pulling. I'm not sure if that will resolve itself with a TV adjustment, or if the clutches are slipping. It doesn't pull as hard as my Mustang, but if I can get the transmission to hold it might!
The truck is really too loud for my tastes. I don't think it's loud enough for the police to care - especially hearing some of the diesels my neighbors drive. I'm hoping putting the exhaust over the axles and finishing with some turn-downs helps.
The truck is inhabiting the driveway now, and I pulled my daughter's Beetle TDI into the shop for a turbo cartridge replacement. Amazon says my rattle-can bedliner should arrive on Wednesday. Why rattlecan instead of the 'professional' two-part stuff? Cheap and easy to repair. I really wanted to get Plasticote bedliner, but it currently appears to be off the market. I'll post how well it holds up.
Plans for this week:
1) Adjust the TV cable one click and test drive it
2) Jack up the driver's door to see if I can tweak it back into alignment
3) Install the center console
4) Spray on the bedliner
My goal is to be able to drive it to and from work next weekend.
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