What have you done to your other vehicles today.

[Quadracer392]

Originally Posted by carpoor

The driveshaft exploded on the dyno this morning...

How many pulls did you get in before it let go on ya? Damage anything else?

[carpoor]

I think 3 or 4. The muffler is toast, the DS loop that I built took a shot. And unsure if it hurt the transmission internally or not, I will have to get another driveshaft in it to find out.

Carnage picture...

[carpoor]

More carnage pictures...

I am having trouble getting a u joint, I have another yoke. But, it's not exactly the same.

[chevymaher]

Getting the ol Dragon in shape for winter. Had leaking trans lines. Got the old ones off. Radiator came with the front part to the rubber lines.

I gonna save 250 bucks here I am good with that. I needed both lines and both rubber hoses they were wasted. I got a roll of tubing on the way. And it took hours to find but I also got the inverted flare fittings and nuts to join what I am making to the front lines.

I ain't with the quick leak fittings anyway. I prefer the flared ends. No leaks and if I ever got to take it apart they still work. As opposed to the 6 months the quick release got before they are junk and leak if you got to mess with them again.

Poor ol dragon(durango) is the snow car. So all it sees is salt and nasty. Taking it kinda hard on the lines rusting. Good ol truck tho she earns her keep.

[Hank70SS]

Finished up installing headers on the motorhome. New iridium plugs and wires. Runs good and no more exhaust leaks.

Yea, I know headers are worthless with a full exhaust. At least that's what the 'EXPERTS' on the other side of the pond say. Maybe a set of electric cutouts is in the future for the motorhome. Don't want to waste all that money and effort installing headers if they won't increase performance.

[carpoor]

I get puzzled looks from friends when they see the headers on my truck.

"Wait... you have headers on your truck, but not on the Chevelles?"

[carpoor]

I was able to get my truck up and running again, found a u joint, had another driveshaft and a spare yoke. Been driving it, drivability is crap. I have been going back and forth with the tuner. I did my own research and trouble shooting, it seems like the segment swap for the transmission part of the tune didn't carry over. (He copied and pasted my old tune, then made adjustments) I had the notion to try the PCM from my old truck this morning. I'll be damned, it shifts and locks the converter now.

I am going to pay him a visit this week with my findings and see what happens. I didn't get over there today - I was busy with other things and honestly needed to cool off a bit.

This however is the push I needed to buy HP tuners and learn how to do this type of work myself.

[carpoor]

A good friend of mine stopped by Wednesday afternoon and helped me get the tune mostly sorted out. It runs strong.

[carpoor]

After work today, I went over and put a stepside bed on my father's Sierra. Still need to finish the body work and paint it.

[chevymaher]

Poor van must have a curse on it. Been totalled 4 times and never has it been the person driving it at the times fault. One time the poor thing was just sitting in a parking lot and got nailed.

But today she escaped doom. Sitting at a light. Guy was tailgating and weaving in and out of traffic. Einstein made his move nailed it about hit to cars and got out of the pack. He is looking over at the guy he just about hit in triumph. So he is doing easy 80 in a 55 now racing that guy.

Well he looks forward and there I am sitting at a red light. Nails his brakes after his eyes get as big as saucers and his jaw dropped.

I am thinking not again this never ends well. I see he isn't even going to be able to stop. And he is going to end up 6 foot inside my van.

So I nailed it and did a drag strip type take off. He was 6 inches away when I started pulling away. He ended up being where I was just sitting.

So the Phoenix van escaped fate this time. Me and my boy didn't get hurt. So all in all we were lucky,