Category Archives: Vehicles
LED bulbs in the slug
LED bulbs, brightness yo!
Valve covers, crinkle em up!
Expanding on this from the post in the Silver Slug thread. With the valve covers in these cars being at best somewhere around 24+ years old, the tend to not be too well for the wear. A bit of refreshing is in order.
Slug mirror!
Going for some JDM fun here. Not full on proper mirrors. If I can find some legit honda fender mirrors, I’ll do those. If not. Oh well.
Motor whut?
So cleaning off my engine. Noticed this set of numbers. More research on this is needed.
What to call it? the Silver Slug!!!
Probably a fair bit of work, though hopefully I can do most of it. Just doing a photo dump for now. Will update and comment more later. Yay wee wagon!
Hella Supertone horns
Much to the irritation of The Lady Friend, I've put some massively annoying horns on the truck. I might do a write up of it, but I did videos and complied them for YouTube, so here is the tubetube video.
New steering stops on the Lil’ Donkey
So I put some new wheels on the truck, and at full lock I got a bit of rubbing on the suspension arms, which es no bueno. Icky! Shame on me =( I was trying to think of a way to rig up a steering stop, when a guy from the truck forum i […]
Weber 32/36 DGEV Throttle Return Spring
So a problem I'm having is that the throttle return spring on the weber carb on my truck isn't strong enough to pull the throttle all the way closed. It'll get it close, and the. Eventually get it there but an example, I set the idle to 800, snap the throttle a few times, and […]
Donkey check!
Yay the truck has passed inspection. Now maybe I'll do some more updates about it here that its street legal again.
Working on the steering gear
Part of trying to get the truck back up and running, and passing inspection is repairing the steering gear. It had a leak and wouldn’t pass inspection. While I could have just cleaned it off and probably gotten it done, I’d also like to actually have the truck not leak fluids. So I did a […]