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  1. The86manche
    Never seen that on these but I've seen it on the grand cherokee vic modules and headlight switches. I'm more of a fix it before replacing it kind of guy. If I can fix it I'll give it a shot. I have kind of wanted to have a new modern circut board made and program wiper module commands to it but that's somewhat foreign territory.
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    Went down to a local electronics parts store and picked up a few capacitors for a buck a piece, 4 in total for 1 module and decided I'd try my hand at fixing a wiper module. They usually fail and I was curious to see what they look like without their case on. It looks like this. I had actually already done the repairs when I took these photos. The old resistors were green and white. When I had opened it I checked resistance to each one and found one to be open. And also one of the circumstances was broken. Hence the red wiring to repair the circut. Went out to my truck today, plugged it in and checked all intermittent settings.. IT WORKS! we got a working module again! I have several more I intend to repair and confirm function again and afterwards will be up for sale. I'd be happy to repair any if anyone has a pile they want fixed or to get rid of.
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    Find that car hauler and follow them lol
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    I'll work on the inside later. While it does its thing I'll work on the other wheel tub. Which was a little worse than the one I was working on before. The scale was a little thicker on this one so I broke out my wire wheel tool and got to work with some descaling since the media blast wasn't cutting it. And some progress with the blasting. I need to get a little coarser media.
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    Well we had a nice day today so after i work I got to do some.. work. I wheel tub I was working on I pulled back out and went over it with the sand blaster one more time. I went to tractor supply and got a bunch of media, turns out too fine, but It still works. Wiped it down and coated it with 2 coats of rustoleum rust reformer. I won't lie I'm a skeptic for this stuff but I wanted to give it a try anyway. I let it dry in the sun and gove it a week to see if anything comes through. I plan to apoxy these as well. Drys to a flat black finish and all in all I was happy with the results.
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    The door handle on the s10 said 'boss' and I've never seen or heard of that so I snapped a pic to look it up. Never found anything on it though
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    I've got tons of photos. These were from another yard that Steve magnate was going around and videoing cars on. Beautiful cars everywhere.
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    Possibly, it was so picked over it wad hard to tell. I believe it was a satellite. Definitely mopar. That yard is full of nothing but old cars.
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    Mustang 2 cobra 69 firebird Couple of fairly solid (for NE) jeeps
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    Thin bead of window urethane?
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    Whaaaat? It's only missing two cylinders.. and most of a v8 displacement. How is it not a v8?
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    At first glance you wouldn't notice anything wrong but it was one of those things, the longer I looked at it the more I noticed something seemed off. What I needed was absolutely still usable and good and I appreciate you guys loading it up for me. I remember seeing the truck. Was a sad sight but it went on to help my truck
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    But after parts gathering and hoarding I decided it was time to get actually working on the truck. The parts I had removed I have started sand blasting and will apoxy prime when done. Starting with the wheel tubs. A discovery I made with these is part of the reason they rot out . This piece I was blasting I discovered there was shiny bare metal still existing just below the scale line opposite the drain hole. Which led me to believe they were bare metal coming out of the factory. Just up top though, where they couldn't get any sort of coverage. So anyway. I started blasting. I ran out of media and went to some sand paper to help break up some scale. I have picked up more blast media and will resume blasting in a few days. I intend to do the bed side skins as well.
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    Of course with that I wanted to get another set of fiero valve covers for this engine too. I found with success. I have not touched them yet but I plan to do the same procedures as the last set.
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    For a while the truck went on the back burner for other projects so I didn't really work on it. But you'd better believe I was amassing more and more parts for it. Mj d44 rear axle Sport bar WITH lights and switch A few extra martchel fog lights A handful of tailgates An mj had hit my local yard so I stripped as much off it I could. I have soo many b pillar lights Solid pane rear glass. Cl lawerence 3 pane slider The list just goes on.. More recently I found someone giving away a 2.8! To which I picked up. Perfect for what I was looking for. Stripped down, for whatever reason and left. They gave me everything they had and knew about itabout wished me good luck. I won't need it.. but this little 2.8 will. after getting my hands on this. A fageol supercharger for the 60 degree v6 platform. The kit is incomplete but the manufacturer is still around. the engine thats in my truck I will run until it dies. Or I get impatient. In the mean time I plan to build this 2.8 up for this supercharger
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    Als the headers I may have to combine both a left from one brand and a right from another to make them work from visualizing and investigating.
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    My work had no order of operation. I was working on a little bit of everything. Just whatever I felt like working on at the time. Haha
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    And I refurbed the covers. Threw them in the blast cabinet and then painted them high temp red. There was some pitting and i wanted to remove them and give the top ribs that original shiny look. So i took wet sand paper at different grits, I think I started at 320? On a block and went to town sanding up to 1500 or 2000. You can see the pitting in one of them, the other side I had sanded to a really nice smooth finish. Finished product. I used high temp clear on them as well. I was very happy with the end results. these will be going on my engine along with the edelbrock intake.
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    A little time after I found a 3rd gen camaro with a efi 2.8 with headers on it! A different set from the ones I had! Also rare and discontinued. On top of that I found a fiero with a 2.8 and pulled the valve covers.
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    These posts will be all over the place and my photos are everywhere so just roll with it! Lol
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    So the original owner had replaced the WHOLE headliner with carpet. And I knew it was glued up but didn't know how.. until I ripped it down. Someone knew how to insulate. the sound deadening was very impressive too. I pulled all that out. And although everyone hates on the 2.8 this one is healthy and I love it. So I had plans to liven it up. I scored some rare headers for it because they are discontinued. Needless to say.. 4wd got in the way. lol D'oh.
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    It was for sure bubblegummed together and as much as I hated it sure made my work easier. I just sliced the stitch welds they put in and used my metal seam splitter to seperate one side. Other side required drilling. Not the greatest work I've ever seen by any stretch..
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    And with that I decided to skin it. Use what I can save and scrap the rest. Even built a little bed dolly out of wood and Harbour freight castors lol A nice little punch and a spot weld drill bit worked wonders. And a metal seam splitter. After.. not nearly that many spot welds I felt later the skins were off and we were left with the wheel tubs. Very clean panels. No rot at all. Some scale and rust but super clean for a new england bed. Next up was the wheel tubs. Went with a slightly different approach to this. I actually cut them out so that I could drill and seperate the pieces I needed.
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    So before covid hit I had picked up a spare bed from dead jeep in rhoad island.. originally I was going to just do a bed swap but after looking into the bed and some of its.. quality.. I decided it was best to skin it and use it to fix my bed. It was decent. When you werent looking at it in the sun. One side had been repaired with what I believe to be a nos bed side assembly? If you could get then that way. It's black ecoat where the poorly matched paint didn't end up. And the welds were.. subar and bubblegummed here, there. And everywhere.. They welded in the seem in the bed to join the bed side together to the rest of the bed. Bubblegum in the tail light pocket. And in the wheel well areas.
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    I think it's long overdue I start updating this again. I'd also like to change the title of this to Candace the comanche (original owners granddaughter had named it that) Gearing up to give her some much needed love again.
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