What are you working on today??

[Big_John]

I discovered my choice for a new front 6x9 speaker for my '65 300L isn't gonna work out. The magnet is too big. If it was about 1/2" shorter, it might fit, but it hits the dash frame around the glove box.

The old Radio Shack speaker.

The new Custom Autosound speaker. You can easily see the size difference. It's a shame, because these speakers sound great. Dual voice coils, so hookup to stereo works out... I have these in my other cars.

So.... I ordered some Alpine 4" speakers for the front and now I have to make a plate to mount 2 of them in a 6x9 spot.

 

[Just Carbs]

I discovered my choice for a new front 6x9 speaker for my '65 300L isn't gonna work out. The magnet is too big. If it was about 1/2" shorter, it might fit, but it hits the dash frame around the glove box.

The old Radio Shack speaker.

The new Custom Autosound speaker. You can easily see the size difference. It's a shame, because these speakers sound great. Dual voice coils, so hookup to stereo works out... I have these in my other cars.

So.... I ordered some Alpine 4" speakers for the front and now I have to make a plate to mount 2 of them in a 6x9 spot.

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I think sound is the most subjective of all the changes we make. So many things to choose from. And we don't know what it's going to sound like until we run the test. So many test to run.
You pay your money, and you take your chances. Wash, rinse, repeat till happy.
My sound testing room.

 

[Big_John]

I think sound is the most subjective of all the changes we make. So many things to choose from. And we don't know what it's going to sound like until we run the test. So many test to run.
You pay your money, and you take your chances. Wash, rinse, repeat till happy.
My sound testing room.

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Yea, the problem is my ears are pretty old.... and abused.... and some tinnitus in my left ear just for good measure. A lot of this gets wasted on me.

I'll drop a name though.... Back when we had the calibration lab, one of our customers was McIntosh Labs in Binghamton, NY. We did a bunch of work for them including repairing some of their old equipment that they used. We scoured eBay for old Techtronix units to strip for parts. I was in there once or twice, but didn't get too far in the place as I was doing some pickup/delivery. BTW, most of their stuff they made for cars and motorcycles was actually made by Panasonic.

 

[3175375]

Starting to install a reverse osmosis system in the utility room. I have a boost pump and reservoir coming. This system has been rated very highly.

I am going to have to find an extension cable or extend it myself.

This system will feed the spigot and ice maker in the garage, as well as the spigot and ice maker in the kitchen, which is about 40’ away, hence the need for a boost pump.

 

[Just Carbs]

I'm trying to wake up a 1985 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbo Diesel, with auto trans, 200K miles, $200. Last started/driven in 2005, parked outside since that time.
Got it from the neighbor on Thursday. Fired the motor off on Friday. Got drive, 4 forward gears and reverse on the jack, and p/s.
I was shocked, shocked I say.

Nice light green mossy patina with barnacles. Interior all present, healthy, and very dirty. No rust. But no shine on the gold paint either.

First impressions? Nice size car, but not a luxury car. Good quality parts that fit well. More parts available than C body parts and they cost less money. Not hard to work on. Very high "routine" maintenance car. But very low incident of repair. Loads of online support groups.

Parts ordered/purchased.

Vacuum pump. Engine driven/lubed. $90, not a bad price.
5 injector nozzles. $35, total.
5 glow plugs. $15, total.
All radiator cooling hoses. $15, total.
All belts. $20, total.
All 6 filters. $18, total.
New master cylinder. $28.
4 rebuilt calipers. $110, total.
All brake pads. $12, total.
All rubber brake hoses. $20, total.
Four quarts Dot-3 brake fluid. $16, total.
Four gallons of green anti-freeze. $28, total.
Battery. $120.
Sixteen quarts of dino 10w40 oil. $60, total. Takes 8 to change the oil with filter.
New working keys from the dealer, $50, total.
Parts shipping, $28, total.
205/75-14 tires mounted/balanced $40. Five-year-old take offs from my 64 New Yorker.

We will see what happens.

 

[sixpkrt]

45° degree temps today was a nice adjustment from last week, but I know that's it won last long so moved stuff around in the shop and put the cars away for the winter.

 

[3175375]

I'm trying to wake up a 1985 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbo Diesel, with auto trans, 200K miles, $200. Last started/driven in 2005, parked outside since that time.
Got it from the neighbor on Thursday. Fired the motor off on Friday. Got drive, 4 forward gears and reverse on the jack, and p/s.
I was shocked, shocked I say.

Nice light green mossy patina with barnacles. Interior all present, healthy, and very dirty. No rust. But no shine on the gold paint either.

First impressions? Nice size car, but not a luxury car. Good quality parts that fit well. More parts available than C body parts and they cost less money. Not hard to work on. Very high "routine" maintenance car. But very low incident of repair. Loads of online support groups.

Parts ordered/purchased.

Vacuum pump. Engine driven/lubed. $90, not a bad price.
5 injector nozzles. $35, total.
5 glow plugs. $15, total.
All radiator cooling hoses. $15, total.
All belts. $20, total.
All 6 filters. $18, total.
New master cylinder. $28.
4 rebuilt calipers. $110, total.
All brake pads. $12, total.
All rubber brake hoses. $20, total.
Four quarts Dot-3 brake fluid. $16, total.
Four gallons of green anti-freeze. $28, total.
Battery. $120.
Sixteen quarts of dino 10w40 oil. $60, total. Takes 8 to change the oil with filter.
New working keys from the dealer, $50, total.
Parts shipping, $28, total.
205/75-14 tires mounted/balanced $40. Five-year-old take offs from my 64 New Yorker.

We will see what happens.

The vehicles are very well made. The vacuum door locks are probably its boon.
Enjoy!
I believe that the beast will run on vegetable oil directly (you can dump it right in the fuel tank ).

 

[Just Carbs]

The vehicles are very well made. The vacuum door locks are probably its boon.
Enjoy!
I believe that the beast will run on vegetable oil directly (you can dump it right in the fuel tank ).

I'm fully prepared to fully abandon the vacuum door locks and call it good!
We know how to use a key and pull a lock button up and down right?

 

[3175375]

Built an extension cable for the display on the reverse osmosis system that I installed in the utility room (it’s inside the garage).
The manufacturer sent me a 2’ extension and I lengthened it by about 10’. The manufacturer said that they only would recommend a 2’ extension. It works. The spigot picture is the dispenser that’s on the deep sink in the garage.

This will save me the effort to go inside the utility room to monitor the filters.

I put in a pressure limiting pump, surge tank in preparation to run a 1/2” pex line about 40’ to the kitchen to provide filtered water to a spigot on the kitchen sink and to the refrigerator in the kitchen.

I have a bit of cleanup to do regarding the hoses, but I am really happy with the results.

 

[3175375]

Built an extension cable for the display on the reverse osmosis system that I installed in the utility room (it’s inside the garage).
The manufacturer sent me a 2’ extension and I lengthened it by about 10’. The manufacturer said that they only would recommend a 2’ extension. It works. The spigot picture is the dispenser that’s on the deep sink in the garage.

This will save me the effort to go inside the utility room to monitor the filters.

I put in a pressure limiting pump, surge tank in preparation to run a 1/2” pex line about 40’ to the kitchen to provide filtered water to a spigot on the kitchen sink and to the refrigerator in the kitchen.

I have a bit of cleanup to do regarding the hoses, but I am really happy with the results.


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Here’s the maguiver schematic:

 

[azblackhemi]

Working on this 56 Plymouth. My customer bought it this way, painted but not reassembled. I have to touch up a couple of bad spots and then sort through all the trim and parts and put it all back together again.

 

[Big_John]

I finally got back to doing the speaker install. It seems like everything fought me, but I overcame...

As i said in a previous post in this thread, the 6x9 Custom Autosound won't work out because of limited room, so I bought a pair of 4" Alpine speakers. I had to make a mounting plate.

I had some 1/4 MDF that came out of a piece of cheap furniture. I like using MDF for something like this because it's easy to work worth, less like likely to rattle and it was free.

My usual overkill marking it out.

I painted it flat black just 'cause and mounted the speakers.

The right speaker hit the glove box. I decided to trim a small notch in the top.

Of course, that was too smooth, so one of the "ears" on the defroster vent broke off. I made some reinforcements on the old 3D printer and glued them into place.

 

[azblackhemi]

Working on this 56 Plymouth. My customer bought it this way, painted but not reassembled. I have to touch up a couple of bad spots and then sort through all the trim and parts and put it all back together again.
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Made progress putting the trim back on. Drivers side almost done. Now i need to find more clips!

 

[65sporty]

I'm trying to wake up a 1985 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbo Diesel, with auto trans, 200K miles, $200. Last started/driven in 2005, parked outside since that time.
Got it from the neighbor on Thursday. Fired the motor off on Friday. Got drive, 4 forward gears and reverse on the jack, and p/s.
I was shocked, shocked I say.

Nice light green mossy patina with barnacles. Interior all present, healthy, and very dirty. No rust. But no shine on the gold paint either.

First impressions? Nice size car, but not a luxury car. Good quality parts that fit well. More parts available than C body parts and they cost less money. Not hard to work on. Very high "routine" maintenance car. But very low incident of repair. Loads of online support groups.

Parts ordered/purchased.

Vacuum pump. Engine driven/lubed. $90, not a bad price.
5 injector nozzles. $35, total.
5 glow plugs. $15, total.
All radiator cooling hoses. $15, total.
All belts. $20, total.
All 6 filters. $18, total.
New master cylinder. $28.
4 rebuilt calipers. $110, total.
All brake pads. $12, total.
All rubber brake hoses. $20, total.
Four quarts Dot-3 brake fluid. $16, total.
Four gallons of green anti-freeze. $28, total.
Battery. $120.
Sixteen quarts of dino 10w40 oil. $60, total. Takes 8 to change the oil with filter.
New working keys from the dealer, $50, total.
Parts shipping, $28, total.
205/75-14 tires mounted/balanced $40. Five-year-old take offs from my 64 New Yorker.

We will see what happens.

It's been years, but we had a customer with one of these. Not too bad to work on

 

[Just Carbs]

I'm trying to wake up a 1985 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbo Diesel, with auto trans, 200K miles, $200. Last started/driven in 2005, parked outside since that time.
Got it from the neighbor on Thursday. Fired the motor off on Friday. Got drive, 4 forward gears and reverse on the jack, and p/s.
I was shocked, shocked I say.

Nice light green mossy patina with barnacles. Interior all present, healthy, and very dirty. No rust. But no shine on the gold paint either.

First impressions? Nice size car, but not a luxury car. Good quality parts that fit well. More parts available than C body parts and they cost less money. Not hard to work on. Very high "routine" maintenance car. But very low incident of repair. Loads of online support groups.

Parts ordered/purchased.

Vacuum pump. Engine driven/lubed. $90, not a bad price.
5 injector nozzles. $35, total.
5 glow plugs. $15, total.
All radiator cooling hoses. $15, total.
All belts. $20, total.
All 6 filters. $18, total.
New master cylinder. $28.
4 rebuilt calipers. $110, total.
All brake pads. $12, total.
All rubber brake hoses. $20, total.
Four quarts Dot-3 brake fluid. $16, total.
Four gallons of green anti-freeze. $28, total.
Battery. $120.
Sixteen quarts of dino 10w40 oil. $60, total. Takes 8 to change the oil with filter.
New working keys from the dealer, $50, total.
Parts shipping, $28, total.
205/75-14 tires mounted/balanced $40. Five-year-old take offs from my 64 New Yorker.

We will see what happens.

Got the brakes on the 1985 300D diesel yesterday. Master, calipers, hoses. It takes longer than Mopar stuff, the parts fit good.
Today will be injectors and glow plugs.

 

[3175375]

Cleaned up the hose and wiring to the reverse osmosis (RO) spigot in the deep sink in the garage.
I built a 10’ extension cable using doorbell wire inserted into a 2” ‘extension’ cable that the manufacturer sent me.
The display on the spigot indicates the filter condition (3 of them) and the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS). It’s running around 16 ppm, which is very good (less than 50 is considered good for RO).

 

[Jakter]

The vehicles are very well made.
I believe that the beast will run on vegetable oil directly (you can dump it right in the fuel tank ).

Don't do that.

 

[marko]

I believe that the beast will run on vegetable oil directly (you can dump it right in the fuel tank ).

not directly............. theres some mods you need to make 1st. like a 2nd tank for veg oil,
you still need to warm up the car on diesel and then switch over to veg oil - you cant run it on cold veggie oil.

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[marko]

got the dual exh with HP manifolds installed on my 78 Salon
2.5" waldrons dual exh kit for 1974 C body.
swapped out stock manifolds for 68-69 C body HP manifolds.
pass side was a direct bolt up with some mid body pipe trimming
driver side was a direct bolt up to the HP manifold but some work had to be done to make it
contour directly to the rear - it curved inward to the centre of the car.
prob because of the clocking of where the pipe and manifold met up, it cleared and came down under just fine but then angled off
( the 74s would have had a log style manifold on the driver's side, the 75-78s had a different style)

 

[3175375]

not directly............. theres some mods you need to make 1st. like a 2nd tank for veg oil,
you still need to warm up the car on diesel and then switch over to veg oil - you cant run it on cold veggie oil.

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Not on the older mechanically injected diesels. I have spoken with more than one person that was dumping the vegetable oil directly in the fuel tank.

On electronic fuel injection pump vehicles, you must do what you describe.
I looked into this as at the time. I had a 1995 GMC turbo diesel C2500 Suburban with electronic fuel injection.

I seen the neighbor pour it directly into the tank and drive away.

Now, he had quite the filtration system in his garage that removed all particles less than X (I can’t remember the number). I also remember seeing him pouring the vegetable oil into buckets through cheesecloth in a funnel.

So, you are correct about the newer electronically fuel injected vehicles.