Damn, that sucked... it's 94 degrees here and 90% humidity... and I am not a skinny guy. It was HOT today. And running around a salvage yard looking for two FB's while having the sun and heat from the metal out there bear down on me is not what I consider a good time.

So... what goodies did I come out with? Hehe, not much other than a 4 wire holder for spark plugs... yea that's right just that little thing to keep them lined up good. The cars were gutted pretty damn bad. I looked for ANYTHING that I could use... and that's all I came up with... I _ALMOST_ grabbed the gas tank cap, but decided that it wasn't going to fit in my pocket.... hehe.

So then I went to a second lot and found them to have stacked most of the car on top of each other. So with one foot on the bumper of an early 90's escort, and the other in the window of a Opel something or other, I looked around the engine bay, and interior and I found nothing there either...
I need to goto San Antonio to find some stuff in good lots... bigger lots, with rows of 7's.

They didn't even have the damn logo's or anything like that.... these cars were ****.

BTW, none of these cars had sunroofs, as in, none of them EVER had sunroofs. Are sunroofs that rare?

Cody

 

Damn... it was about 40 degrees today and I chose today to decide to try to remove the thermal reactor from my spare engine. I managed to do it without removing the intake manifold, but lemme tell ya it's hard to hold wrenches when your fingers and numb and stiff. And then I decided, aw hell, let's remove the intake manifold to make it easier to compare to the one I'm modifying. All that trouble down the drain.

 

How did you get those top bolts off the thermal reactor with the intake manifold on?

 

I remember trying every type of swivel and wobble and combination therof in the shop until I found one that worked, sad thing is I cannot remember what I finally used.

 

The front one was easy... I had two different 12-point box wrenches, one was offset. Put the offset one on, turn it a little, put the straight one on, turn it a little, etc. Had a wrench ion each hand and just alternated hands The back one was the bitch. Neither box wrench would work, but somehow my trusty Snap-On line wrench fit and allowed me to crack it loose. Then I put a 15mm (not 14mm) swivel-socket (again, Snap-On) on a long extension and fudged the nut off a few more turns until the socket bottomed against the reactor, then I used a combination of fingers and fudging with a regular 15mm short socket until it came off. The bottom ones were cake, of course.

I definitely wouldn't try that with the engine in the car, though!