New England B.S. Thread

Dropping the Dyna off for paint next week.
Bagger will stay handy till the salt...
Hoping to get the Buell rewired this winter.....

 

Vette's down until the spring when it goes up for sale.

When I was under it doing an oil change I noticed I've got a clutch fluid leak. I suspect it might be a bad slave cylinder. It's a driveline drop repair, so I'm not doing it myself and I'll eat the resale hit. What was likely a $12-14,000 car is now a $10-11,000 car, but we will see what values are doing across the board in the next 5-6 months. Bummed, but I'm not dropping the rear cradle and torque tube in my garage for something I want to move on from. I've started listing all my spare parts. See how I do with them.

I did get my new Squier guitar to build my Replicaster. I recently got a Tom Delonge signature Fender Strat which I'm super stoked about. However, my kids like nothing more than to pop into the room when I'm playing (poorly, I should add) and want to strum the guitar and don't know how to be gentle. Building a replica lets me basically play the guitar without worry about damage. Then when the kids are out of the house I can pull out the real deal. It's going to need some adjustments, but what better to learn on than a $230 guitar. I may still end up replacing the body with a Daphne Blue one, but we will see what the future brings.

 

What year vette ?

 

That Delonge is badass man

 

Killed it at Home Depot and bj’s today.

 

I feel like @MikeyMcFly lol. Supposed to be an easy time. Undercoat the truck, put on skid plate, and new splash gaurds. Dropped a quart bottle of woolwax, had to clean that up. Couldn't get my transmission skid back into high clearance holes so settled for the lower one. Broke a bunch of the clips for the new splash gaurds so I now need to buy new ones lol.


Didn't even finish spraying the truck.....not that there was much left for me to coat. Just wasn't my day lol

 

Modding is not easy I don’t care what anybody says

 

Also for those if you with a lift or aftermarket leafs do you still have the bracket holding the ebrake cables on? Mine is rubbing thru one of them and I Def want to stop that from happening

 

I’ll have to check mine. I didn’t run it on my 2013 and the line flopped everywhere. On the 2016 I have it, but I bent / adjusted it to slack it a bit. Now you’ve got me curious.

 

I used a self tapping bolt and used the bracket most forward to the axle. So far so good. 2 inch lift. They were hanging for a few weeks. Before that thou. So far so good

 

Seeing Goalkeeper tonight. Was just chatting up Ryan and Cody (singer and drummer)

 

Sounds like fun stuff. Last one I saw was Wildside a couple of weeks ago

 

I do still have those backets on my IronMan 4x4 leaf packs, and the cable seems tight, but the cable's jacket is not wearing through, nor is the bracket getting worn through. If the cable was any tighter in the bracket, it would have to be modified it give the cable more slack.

 

Ironman pack has threading for the ebrake bracket. Luckily didn't cut mine off after AAL. So far looks like mounting the bracket is working well (not the original position co.pared to OEM).

 

I’ll post pix in the morning on my relocation mod. For the e brake cable bracket.

 

On a really random note, for the 4 days I’ve been in Hawaii, I’ve seen 4 UpTOP Overland racks on vehicles, while back in Mass I only recall mine, lol. They must be popular out here.

 

Well they can overland in a tee shirt year round so there is that.

 

I do not use the bracket anymore, I took my off and made a newer one that places the line further away from the leaf's. I will take a picture and send it to you. Mine started to rub through as well that I why I did it.

 

Here it is

 

yeah I kind of want something for mine too, just forget to look for it

zip ties break the second I hit a trail, maybe I just need to use the metal ones