PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Also, I send a lot of customers his way; My millionaire friend who lives in West Virginia doesn't even bother going to a mechanic in his state. He just brings his Mercedes to Pete if it needs work and he's in the area!

 

Cheap insurance to just do them all yep.

Not terribly surprising at the age etc. My Oldsmobile horked the coils much younger...fkn GM

 

Other two coils just shit the bed; Truck misfires on startup but my mechanic deemed it safe to drive until can get the other two coils that weren't in stock yesterday. Bringing it in on Monday morning...

 

Not surprised but yikes that's timing for ya

 

Same issue happened to my 05 Sequoia. Instead of trying to fix it, we dumped it for the Taco, lol.

 

My truck is paid off and has had about $20K in work done to it since November 2021 that I didn't have to pay for, so I'm keeping it. The frame was replaced under recall right before Thanksgiving, my dad bought me new suspension including a 2" lift and new front shocks as a Christmas gift, and the passenger door had to be replaced last month because of a freak accident at a scrap metal recycling facility that wasn't my fault. I'd be crazy to get rid of at this point, especially when a used SR is going for new Off-Road money!

 

@Squatting Pigeon

I saw this on today's adventure to Lebanon; 1990 Pontiac Sunbird SE!


April 3rd, 2022:

Annville, Pennsylvania

 

It was supposed to be a car show in the parking lot of Hoss's Steakhouse in Annville, but even though the weather report said no rain after 3pm it rained while I was driving up there and scared a lot of people off; Less than half a dozen vehicles showed up, but I went exploring elsewhere as you can see...

 

And yours was also a convertible, right?

 

A/C? I've seen some pretty basic Sunbirds, but I don't think I've ever seen one without A/C!

 

I heard those Delphi-Harrison compressors were rather iffy; Did you leave it R-12 or convert it R134a when it was replaced the first time?

 

This was in the 1990s?

 

That's about the time it got to be prohibitively expensive not to, unless you knew someone licensed

 

I was lucky in the late 90s to know a building HVAC guy..my 88 Celebrity had zero freon when I got it, cost about $30 to zap the system and it was frosty for the 4 more years I had the vehicle.