I started to put brake shoes on and noticed springs on one side were distorted and parking strut spring broken into pieces. One adjusting screw frozen, so had to order parts. Installed new wheel cylinders (GM 1 ton). Painted drums.

Also pulled differential cover (it was leaking) to check it and change gear oil. Everything looked good, cleaned and painted cover before replacing.

Did a little more sanding on body.

 

forgot to mention i put in the 3500 wheel cyls instead of the 1500's. the truck brakes so much better overall. havent had to pull anything yet so we will see how that feels

 

Sold it!

 

Bummer

 

Did a compression test.
About 60-85PSI across all cylinders.
Repeated as a wet test with a bit of oil in the cylinders. 150PSI.
I have worn or stuck rings

194,000 miles though, so not too surprising.

 

Yeah, that's most certainly rebuild territory there..... the fact that they come up so dramatically speaks to the bores still being in pretty good shape.

 

I took off the throttle body and cleaned it. While the throttle body was off I took a look at the plenum plate. It looked fairly good. It looked clean.

The shop had changed the spark plugs earlier, so today I changed the wires, rotator cap, and button.

In the last month I have changed the serpentine belt, replace the u joint on one of the front wheels. Pooped out before I changed the other side. I also changed the water hoses and flushed the radiator.

Next up is oil change, and doing something about the electric lock switch on my door not working. My arm just can't stretch to reach the other door.

doing some thing about the exhaust. I am hoping to change over to something that will improve the mpg a bit. Perhaps a little later I will add a CAI.

 

Today I looked at it and said "Nah, I don't feel like going anywhere". I'm practically gonna live on the road this week. Got 730 miles of driving to do in 4 days then up to Virginia, another 500+ ish

 

Started primer today.

 

Gonna do mine next.... Right?