The Wanderers build

[superbuickguy]

soldering aluminum

and the monstrosity is glued together

and no more leaks

then a wiring task

can you see me now?

so I was ready to fill the system and then the fan wouldn't come on.... oh good grief. If the heater/cooling fan doesn't come on, the a/c pump won't come on. It's not a fuse. So next time I'll figure that out

 

[superbuickguy]

and if anyone has suggestions.... not sure why the fan is not working or why it stopped working....

 

[superbuickguy]

the above solution was a new resistor and a non-lit fuse (the fuse allowed just enough current through to fool my tester into think it was working... it wasn't)

and now, the turbo. To remind, it has maybe 5 psi of boost - where this very same turbo on my suburban is limited to 12 psi and would happily hit 20 psi if I let it eat (okay, eat the head gaskets from lifting the head).

when I first got this running, I had 12 psi, went an adjustable(ish) exhaust wastegate.
and have only gotten 5 psi. I switched back to the other regulator, I've tied the wastegate closed, and tied it open with the same result. So it was time to pull the turbo

and, outside of an exhaust leak, find nothing

other controller on it. tempted to buy a new one but given the gate open/gate closed test - I don't think that's the issue. Turbo spins freely, wastegate isn't broken (why I fully pulled it) - even tested it with the spring and it moved with resistance (no broken arm)

1/2 the reason I did this was redo the heat shield over the injectors and bypass line - so it's not a complete waste but I'm stumped

 

[superbuickguy]

I don't know.... so I put it back together but also did the heat shielding for the fuel lines, so, again, not optimal but necessary and did fix something important

 

[superbuickguy]

did a minor fix, the boost gauge needed a better fitting... took 2 stores to get this - whatever happened to the everything stores? even Home Depot has reduced their selection

So, the springs for the ash tray were garbage, why just replace the springs?

extended

so some eyeballing happened

this should work

so the plan is a charge station that is actually covered. When open, phone will sit on a charge pad and above it will have the various ports to run other accessories
and this arrived... 7 boxes
I'm concerned that my shop won't be up by winter so it's time to work on plan b with car port(s) - I want the Blazer and the FJ40 at the house not my workshop.... and my wife could use covered parking...

 

[superbuickguy]

New filter helped a lot...
anyway, onto important things...like a powered ashtray
[VIDEO]reality is I wanted a phone charging port which could wirelessly charge the phone..

I don't smoke, so I ended the ashtray

so let's see how many have powered phone charging ports at SEMA....

 

[ITTOG]

You had me there for a minute. I was like WHO WOULD ACTUALLY REPLACE AN ASHTRAY???? Even if you did smoke I feel that wouldn't be replaced. But I don't smoke so what do I know.

 

[superbuickguy]

You had me there for a minute. I was like WHO WOULD ACTUALLY REPLACE AN ASHTRAY???? Even if you did smoke I feel that wouldn't be replaced. But I don't smoke so what do I know.

This is one of those 'mostly because I can' mods.... I also thought about whether or not I could do a retractable pew pew holder with that space - and I could, but the fire stick would be so small that it seemed pointless.... with that said, with the size of some cell phones, this space may be too small soon as well.

And the background on this - the springs were broken so it wouldn't stay shut. the springs wrap around the rivets - so then I started looking at options. The benefit here, it stops the rattles from the tray....

I don't smoke either - and you'll note I also removed the children's ashtrays from the back panels...