BST Garage

Today's update on the van.

Got the majority of the motor all put back together. All the accessorys are on. All the little things are bolted on. Distributor is in. We're pretty much ready to try to fire it up. Installed new sending unit in new tank and installed new fuel lines. Almost ready to install the tank. Need to figure out a couple parts issues and we should be able to wrap this up.

Stay tuned.

Another day, another long day in the shop.

I finished stripping the f350 today as I wanted all before lunch. It went as good as I wanted it to. I was happy about that.

After lunch I got the Colorado pulled into the shop, got it troubleshot and got into removing the defective part. GM should be shot for there stupid design and placement but thats what they do to drive up costs. We had to remove the brake assist vacuum pump thats mounted on the back of the motor thats drove off the exhaust cam. What a pain in the a$$. You have to become one with the engine compartment to get it out. Second bad part about this design is when it locks up and fails all the parts go in the motor causing more damage. So now you have to pull the valve cover to get all the pieces out. If thats not bad enough, they put a oil drain hole there too, so now all those pieces your vacuum pump just sent in your motor have the chance to get everywhere in the motor, hopefully stopping at the intake oil filter in the pan or "if" there magnetic, go to your drain plug. This is just what I learned today working on this truck. All in all the removal of all this went pretty smoothish. At the end of the day we have parts ordered and should be in tomorrow at some point. Once they come in, we will get this thing all back together.

As for tomorrow, we got our new sander in, so thats an option. We also have a few other things that need ti get done too. So we will see.