Alrighty then!!!
I was gonna forego this written update and post a video instead,..but for me the spoken word just isn't as effective at communicating my thoughts..(I cannot go back and edit what I was trying to say).
That doesn't mean that I didn't make a video, (I did),..It's just taking so freakin long to upload, I got no patience for it.
This morning, I posted a question in Steve's MS thread about injector dead times, and other techno garbage. I decided to go ahead and start the car w/ the current tune, and change that stuff on the fly w/i the running program....Whatever it did,..it seems like it starts faster now. I still have to prime the injectors w/ at least 2 key turns though,...but once I do, the engine starts off almost instantly.
So I'm gonna leave that setting where it's at.
I buffed the roof. That made such a mess that I went ahead and washed the car. It was a quickie nonetheless as we are in a stage 4 drought, and non-essential water usage can get you fined,..but the Monster was just too dirty. Especially after buffing the roof.
I finished one end cap for the dash.
That'll do pig,.......that'll do.
Chips of all kinds are manifesting themselves all over the place,..and you can see two on the dash bar above. I tell ya, by the time I get this car all done it's gonna need a total repaint at the rate I'm going.
I had an epiphany a couple of nights ago...
That center emblem on the rear of the car has proven to be more of a pain in the ass to illuminate it than it's worth. While driving downtown on Monday night, I noticed two glowing strips of light on top of a tanker truck. I thought "Why the hell are there lights that high up on back of that truck?" but soon enough the answer became apparent.
They weren't lights,....they were just your typical reflective tape,..making it seem like they were lit simply because my headlights were shining on them..
That's IT!....I'll put that reflective stuff behind the letters of the center emblem,..and they'll glow the same way when lights hit them from behind,..all w/o having to run one single bulb back there....
Brilliance I tell ya......It's a wonder my head isn't bigger than it is to hold my massive brain.
Dave wanted to see chip # 4...here it is in technocolor:
The angle makes it look like there isn't a gap,...there is. A perfect 1/4" one matter of fact. The trunk has been opened and closed numerous times by me w/o incident,....It just can't be slammed.
This pic won't show the ride height adjustment but I'll post it anyway.
Then of course my solution to my obsolete top of door trim....
Just your average, everyday piece of 3/16 aluminum bar stock,...ran through the router to angle one edge and held on w/ 3M adhesive tape....BTW,.....The door lock button........**whispering**......Not a door lock....You push down on it to open the door from inside.
Now,.....all of this is going along swimmingly,...I take the Monster for his second voyage,..this time a couple of miles. He performs reasonably well. I run the car through all three gears again, and rev it to 3500RPM in 2nd. It all seems ok.
I pull the thing back into the garage,...shut it off and start taking these pictures...I check under the thing to check for leaks........I got two.
Engine oil at the front of the transmission,..and transmission fluid at the rear.
The transmission is probably a bad sealing surface on the yoke...something like that..The engine oil leak....that is another story. I was convinced that I have either a leaking plug, or a rear main seal leak...both of which were gonna require an engine pull.
But then,...Smoke....in this case a good thing.
Because its coming from here..
There was so much oil here it was puddling. Those puddles of oil were the things that were smoking. I have since mopped it up,..but I'd have to say that what's happening here is that I gotta valve cover gasket leak. It was seeping past the header flange,..running down the side of the engine, and along the pan rail,..... eventually running down the back of the engine, and.........dripping....onto the floor.
Valve cover bolts were pretty loose. I tightened them up as tight as they'll go. Hopefully that will be the end of my damn engine oil leaking,...now I just got the freakin transmission to deal with.
I also got this whistle coming from somewhere. Seems I read somewhere that certain throttle bodies do this,..I can't figure out where else it could be coming from and why (if this is the case) that they do,..but you can hear the damn whistle right along w/ the noisy assed engine.
So I'm happy.Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. My last day off before I go back to work for two and be off again on Sunday.
I tell ya I could get used to dickin off again.
The stinkin vid finally loaded...(note to self,..reset vid to 4x3:1, or turn the Ipad on it's side)
You'll see the oil smoke that I thought was paint burning.....funny how these things have a way of working themselves out.