lazy
obviously i haven't been doin' much with raimi lately. little things here and there...but i've been surfin' too much and i have no money :) i told myself about a month ago that winter time, there'll be no surf down here, so that's when i'll start working. looks like that'll happen...south shores are flat to a shit.
little things:
-i dropped her idle to like 700-750 down from about 850. since i increased the fuel/air mixture a while ago it bumped the idle off and threw the timing off. dropping the idle did three things...she runs a whole lot smoother (timing issue), my gas mileage seems to have gotten a LOT better, and lastly, and maybe most imortantly (see next thing) is she runs a lot cooler, especially in traffic.
-pokin' around one day when she was hot (i forget what i was doing)...i noticed that the electric fans on the radiator don't go on! the thermostat's supposed to turn it on around 165-185...gotta check that. she was getting a little hot before i dropped the idle, but never overheated. pretty cool, she won't overheat even without fans...*shrugs*. before i dropped the idle i flushed the radiator and put new antifreeze. that helped...the old stuff was pretty dirty. but dropping the idle helped a lot more...and i'm sure when i fix the fans i'll drop another 10 degrees.
-cosmetic/acoustic issue...my door panels have been fiddled with too much over the years and the screws in the sheet metal were getting loose. i tried to hack it maybe a month ago my shoving wire into the holes to tighten it...that didn't work. finally did it right, drilled them out bigger and shoved some hard plastic inserts into them for the screws. rock hard, no more buzzing from the speakers/engine/road vibration. my stereo also started popping in the left speaker...checked it out and there's a hole in the rear left speaker...might be straining the amp. i have a pair of replacements that i'll prolly put in tonight (i have a lotta weird shit layin' around). i think i'm gonna stick a sub in there. two reasons. one...obvious. two...i really need some weight in the back. my back wheels are somewhere like 2 inches higher than the frong, AND i have elongated shackles that raise it higher for tire clearance...never measured but it's a lot higher. i think that might be throwing my balance off (front to rear) and contributing to me skidding around as much as i do :) positraction can be a bitch gunning it around turns :) good thing she recovers fast.
on the 'to do' list:
-body rust
-downpipe extensions for the exhaust...right now they're frying my rear leaf spring bushings
-paint those front wheels from yellow to black
-bleed brakes
-vacuum tests
-fluid exchange (transmission and rear differential)
-sound system :) i'm thinking of cutting a bigass hole in the rear backseat and stickin a sub through it and extend the box back into the trunk. you can get SO much more sound out of a speaker when it doesn't have to fight through a fuckin' padded back seat and rear dash to get to your ears.
also to do...get my ass to work.
peace.
little things:
-i dropped her idle to like 700-750 down from about 850. since i increased the fuel/air mixture a while ago it bumped the idle off and threw the timing off. dropping the idle did three things...she runs a whole lot smoother (timing issue), my gas mileage seems to have gotten a LOT better, and lastly, and maybe most imortantly (see next thing) is she runs a lot cooler, especially in traffic.
-pokin' around one day when she was hot (i forget what i was doing)...i noticed that the electric fans on the radiator don't go on! the thermostat's supposed to turn it on around 165-185...gotta check that. she was getting a little hot before i dropped the idle, but never overheated. pretty cool, she won't overheat even without fans...*shrugs*. before i dropped the idle i flushed the radiator and put new antifreeze. that helped...the old stuff was pretty dirty. but dropping the idle helped a lot more...and i'm sure when i fix the fans i'll drop another 10 degrees.
-cosmetic/acoustic issue...my door panels have been fiddled with too much over the years and the screws in the sheet metal were getting loose. i tried to hack it maybe a month ago my shoving wire into the holes to tighten it...that didn't work. finally did it right, drilled them out bigger and shoved some hard plastic inserts into them for the screws. rock hard, no more buzzing from the speakers/engine/road vibration. my stereo also started popping in the left speaker...checked it out and there's a hole in the rear left speaker...might be straining the amp. i have a pair of replacements that i'll prolly put in tonight (i have a lotta weird shit layin' around). i think i'm gonna stick a sub in there. two reasons. one...obvious. two...i really need some weight in the back. my back wheels are somewhere like 2 inches higher than the frong, AND i have elongated shackles that raise it higher for tire clearance...never measured but it's a lot higher. i think that might be throwing my balance off (front to rear) and contributing to me skidding around as much as i do :) positraction can be a bitch gunning it around turns :) good thing she recovers fast.
on the 'to do' list:
-body rust
-downpipe extensions for the exhaust...right now they're frying my rear leaf spring bushings
-paint those front wheels from yellow to black
-bleed brakes
-vacuum tests
-fluid exchange (transmission and rear differential)
-sound system :) i'm thinking of cutting a bigass hole in the rear backseat and stickin a sub through it and extend the box back into the trunk. you can get SO much more sound out of a speaker when it doesn't have to fight through a fuckin' padded back seat and rear dash to get to your ears.
also to do...get my ass to work.
peace.
