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shemdogg
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JAN 25, 12:16 AM
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You must be referring to the halon system, its still in r&d. The fire extinguisher behind the passenger seat will hafta do for now. The batterys disconnected right now so low fire risk, till I rewire the car and connect the battery. Then the gauge may move lol.
Redwood city chp wrote me back about the vehicle inspection and his next appt is 3/1 at 8am lol
What a friggin adventure going to the dmv. Had an appt yesterday mornin, had all my papers like a good comrade. Get into the appt line its just me, I can feel the glare of the non-appt line wrapped around the building. Theres a check in person to give you a number before you go in. She ignores me and helps a few other non appt folks, then glares at me "you have an appt! lemme see your id and your paper, what are you doing here?!" I said special construction registration n she got a blank look, froze, then gave me my number. Step 1 done, bypass the evil gatekeeper check. Wait 30 mins, then get called to lucky window 7! "What do you want?" the non-jovial oversize woman asks. I say special construction registration, handing her the giant stack of papers that has 5 forms, reg, title, and pages i printed from the dmv website detailing exactly what im doing and the vehicle codes. She gives a yuuge sigh as she flips thru the stack, looked like she was going to send me away then she saw the papers I printed, asked the lady next to her. She had some idea, mentioned something about only a few hundred of the certificates available per year. Then she asked a guy at another counter, " You wanna help him?" The guy looks right at me, pauses, then says "no". I just start laughing, I had to. He tells the lady to "get the manual". She asks where the manual is. He says he doesnt know. I knew it wasnt going to be, but had just a teeny weeny bit o hop id get outta there unscathed. WRONG lmao. The lady goes off looking the holy manual, after 20 mins, dude goes to help her look. 15 mins later they come back with a top secret clandestine "orange" folder with the markings "SPCN" on it featuring all the classified docs needed to pull off the job. Hopefully. The manuals tellin them one thing while the computers asking for different stuff. 30 mins later she tells me to take a seat. 15 mins later she starts helping other people. After a while she calls me back, has me pay up the reg, enters some stuff in the computer, then tells me the "manager" is going to take it from here. Turns out the manager is the dude that didnt wanna help in the first place. Im in that damn chair for ages waiting. Im way bored of looking at stuff on my phone, wanna get up and move, getting crazy drowsy, big lady come and sits next to me that just took a bath in some god awful perfume that makin me crazy nauseous. I have no number, they have all my papers, getting paranoid. Finally after im about to drop dead, dude calls me. He got all the info into the computer, I owe more money lol. He says he has to call for the certificate now. I say I gotta go to work, I had to get outta there. I asked if I could come get the stuff later, he said yeah and took my number.
Whatta waste of time! Squeeze in a quick bike ride then my buddy comes over to finish painting his truck, came out crazy good. Even my cuz whos a awesome painter said I did good, hella compliments from people driving by. Neighbors gardener asked me to paint his truck, I said no lol.
Was in a huge rush as there was tons of prep work, he didnt wash it, I had to bounce in a few hours to get the kid, ran outta hardener. Still got it done. Starter tripping as the day went on tho, "theyre not gonna call me man" I kept saying and thinking all day. They got everything, I did have an old registration tho. Halfway thru painting the truck, I saw an appt for 9 this mornin and made it. Sure enuf, they never called.
Got there this morning, had a rough time w the evil gatekeeper. She was trying to get me to use the kiosk at safeway instead of letting me in. made up some bs and got inside. Looked for the guy that helped me, nothing. Saw the same lady that helped me at #7 again. After awhile I saw the guy with another employee. I waiting till she left then shot him a mental"look at me". He looked right up at me instantly for a sec but didnt give any indication of recognizing me even though I had the jeff spicoli smile going. I walked up to the counter hes at and with out looking at me, starts talking to me. Hands me all my papers back, and says the magic words," you got your certificate". I say now what just call the referee, he says yeah and goes back to work.
Who is this magic referee guy? Is is some dude w a shop? Is it an actual state of california thing? Does he wear a referee uniform? I called to see! You can wait on hold for the "estimated wait time of 35-55 minutes" due to high call volume, or leave a message and someone will call you back within 3 days lol.
Someone called back in a few hours, and I asked what the process was for my situation. He said I have to wait till dmv mails and actual certificate, then get a vin from chp, then I can make an appt w him. So I got some time.
Trying to figure out how im going to run this huge wiring harness, the front was nasty to run new wires in so
I attacked it w a chisel, paintbrush, and some rags to get all the fb drops and dust. Tons of leaves and random connectors hidden deep under stuff. Dug out a can of flat black
Cleaned up nice! the hvac and relay wires are on the top part of the front harness, all the light and fan stuff in the big lower. Those were all cut up or had unused ends so I pulled that whole bottom cable out. Drilled a 9/16 hole thru it, and ran the "front" section of wires. enlarged an existing hole in the rear. Ran the tail section wires. The column section had gm style plus so they plugged right into the column plugs. Has the right connector for the switch lever, but I have to pin it. Going thru the manual and labeling the wires that are listed to simplify as much as possible since this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay over my head. Keeping in mind this harness is for a front engine front battery car, i will have to move some things. And I have to decide the final battery location. waaaaah its just one more thing, nothins easy lol.
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zkhennings
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JAN 26, 11:36 AM
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Wow what a DMV saga, I admire your patience lol. And regarding the bus build, thanks! It has been an insane amount of work. I have more updates I will post soon but I have been slacking on the bus to work on my Fiero, and I been swamped at work. Your progress is looking great though! I gotta pick your brain on painting on a budget, that truck looks mint!
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IMSA GT
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JAN 26, 11:50 PM
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shemdogg
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FEB 06, 12:46 PM
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Yeah anything dmv related is a total nightmare lol. My buddy needed his truck painted cheap so he could sell it, I need practice- so I found him a gallon kit for $250. Kirker automotive finishes/ says tcp global on the can. Single stage stuff. Did come out super good though, orange peely but nice shine.
That kit is perfect, even comes w nozzles for driver and passenger lol! Thatll be down the road, gotta get thru this electrical jungle foist. Need directions though. Went on jegs and found instructions on a similar 20 circuit harness and all the wires match. Now I have directions lol. Got all the wires identified and labeled, everything routed to where it needed to be. Found 1 wire routed backwards, so re-ran that. Had the column, some of the dash, all the taillights wired up and tested w a 2ah battery. I got to hooking up the parking lights and found it was routed backwards too. Hot end terminated in the tail harness, all 4 light ends terminated in the cab lol wtf. That was the last straw, pulled it and shipped it back as defective. Seems like ages ago, been going to town on starcraft 2 co-op. Screen name LigmaJohnson lol. Got a gooder harness coming, painless- we shall see. All my grounds are already run.
Made a notch in the plastic to fit the battery, gonna fab a tray and hunt down cables. New harness should be here tomorrow.
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shemdogg
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FEB 25, 08:40 AM
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Havent worked on the car much at all, procrastination in full effect! Work picked up, got a 20 square roof job to knock out once the rain lets up and lots of roofing and fence repairs. Drove to nevada to get my toy hauler outta storage, 5 hours up, 6 hours back in one day. Located the owner of the empty lot behind me and asked if I could pull my trailer thru his property into my backyard. Cool cat, asked if I could mow the almost acre of space he has so now im looking for a sit down mower. Going to town on the trailer, replaced some of the roof, changed some pipe flashings, installed 1x1 alum angle on the roof corners and sealed w dicor, replaced all the screw trims, made a tile entry and stove backsplash, new flooring, shelves, solar panel and controller, got a sticker kit for it- tons o stuff getting done.
The few hours I have put into the car is going good, column wiring is done, taillight harness is done loomed and working(lights never been so bright!), power windows and locks hooked up and working, everything routed to where it needs to be. Having trubble w the hvac hookups trying to convert it to the honda one. Once thats done ill throw in the dash and finish up. Got the original harness tail section pulled thru the dash, now I have to find and remove the wiper and blower wires from the main harness and it can come out. When I was looking at the back of the car yesterday trying to figure out how to get the tail harness out from under the battery tray, I had a- now just whut in the hell bobby moment. Thru one of the holes in the battery tray, dark as it was, I saw a wire nut wrapped in tape underneath. Reached under the tray and pulled it out, and a whole slew of chinese names came outta my mouth. Ho lee phuc!
started unwrapping the entire roll of tape that was on it
The entire harness had been cut and spliced and every wire boogered together w wire nuts lmao. wtf?! Disconnected all that and pulled the harness into the cab. Once I get the blower and wiper wiring figured out, the rest is easy peasy. Just time consuming, tedious, and hard to find wires in the main harness. These whole car harnesses come w the basics for hookups, Im having to keep the original wires for the locks, windows, wipers, and hvac, the window and lock wires are in their own harness so that wasnt too bad. Everything else is in the main and I gotta dig em out. But yeah, almost there lol
shem
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zkhennings
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MAR 02, 02:37 PM
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That hurts to look at. My buddy bought a super clean Foxbody that was built by an electrician, he was like "I wired it all myself" and we were like "wow, wired by a real electrician, this thing must be done right". Fast forward to electrical issues and pulling the loom off to find A MILLION WIRE NUTS WTF.
That is some next level stuff right there though.
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shemdogg
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MAR 04, 10:09 PM
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Mighta been the same "electrician" who did mine lmao. Quite a few wire nuts fell off or came off w the entire roll of tape by the time I took the pic. But yeah, taillights never worked right, I had ran new brake and parking light wires. And at least one turn signal too lol. Finding some of those wires brings me back to that time.
Sooooooooo, I threw a few hours at it and the entire harness is out now. Errythang. Except what I wanted to keep, got all the hvac wires and wiper wires IDd andcut outta the harness. Hands took serious damage wedging them into the areas where the harness was. Sadists installed those harnesses, how they got it in-I dunno. I had to cut the sumbiotch out in sections. The car was definitely built around the harness lol. Comparing the amount of wires in the oem harness to what I have in the new one, new one looks much better and cleaner. Heres the old harness
and its heavy!
Stuck on the honda hvac conversion, wires arent putting out power and its not lighting up. Only the fan high works. Prolly just gonna move on but im attempting to modify the innards of the thing to work my way. Its holding me up, everything else is ready to be wired up. Ordered some headlights, 6"round so I can finish up the wiring on the front end.
shem
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shemdogg
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MAR 11, 10:21 AM
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Figured out the honda hvac. Its fried! All the board traces have a short to ground, and the board is sealed so I cant see the traces well enuf. Got the fan to work as I want by wiring it backwards, then did some magic to get the display lights working. Fan and lights work, good enuf for me.
Now the dash can go in and I can start to wrap this up b
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shemdogg
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MAR 23, 10:32 PM
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Dash is in and a fair amount of wiring done. Pulled the roof scoop and drilled a hole in the roof to run the rear camera. Was nice to see the displays and other stuff come to life. Got a good view w the camera but has those backup lines showing all the time.
Camera was made to be mounted under a trunk lid, so I made holes in it to flip the bracket to mount it the way I want. Cut a groove in the roof scoop for the camera, and got the first layer of fb on. Also got some on my center console gauge cluster thing, ready for some futzin n bondo. Had an idear fer the headlights, ordered a chrome eyebrowed motorcycle headlight, and a turn signal housing, and boogered it all together and came up w this
Eyebrows didnt fit, so theyre getting canned. Gonna make a shroud for the lights to poke out of, and im at the stage to wire up the headlight switch. Most of the headlight wirings done, waiting for the udder headlight. Stuck on how to make the turn signal and parking light work together, I think I have to wire in diodes to each and connect em both to the hot wire. I dunno lol. Thinkin about where to put my relays, and connect my accessories to everything.
Pretty much done w the toy hauler remodel, showed it to the wife. She wants to keep it now lol. Finally figured out my roof leak, I went over my work so many times lol, it was killing me. Went overboard on the roof and its was still dripping inside the back top vent. Finally I gave up and started to pull the ceiling panel, wanted to see the roof leaking around the vent. Tried to wedge my chisel between the panel and the rafter around the vent, it was almost like it was glued together. Chisel didnt wanna go in. Started hitting it w my hand and the chisel started going in. Got it in deep and turned it and boom. Hella water started puring out from the hole. Tons of water lol. I opened up all around the vent and water just kept coming. This is 2 days after the rain stopped lol. Turns out there is no roof leak. When I drove it home from reno thru the snow and rain w the damaged roof, that much water got inside and stayed in until now lol. Waters all out, areas dry, went thru some rain and no water inside at all.
Got me a sitdown mower. Craftsman 42" 24hp automatic. Rebuilding the deck once the parts come in, took it for its first mow today. Hauled ass thru18" grass, luved it.
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Trinten
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MAR 24, 12:42 AM
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Can you elaborate on the camera?
It's going to go on the roof, but be positioned under a permanent fiberglass scoop, facing forward? What is it's purpose? Just sort of like a permanent go-pro? Is it going to be sitting close enough to the opening to where it can be removed and another installed if needed?
You also mentioned the Honda HVAC controller was (mostly) fried, and it sounds like you did some jury rigging to get it to partially work. Is it an expensive part to replace?
Congrats on finding the leak reservoir and drying it out!
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