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Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #748928 May 26th 2019 10:39 pm
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Finished my tail lights mods:

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Put in new windshield wiper motors on the top so my wipers can be hidden under visor cap:

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If it's broken- I'll fix it! If it's not- I'll break it to figure it out how it works so I can fix it.
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Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #748930 May 26th 2019 11:07 pm
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Thats different .... cool !


SUNSHINE VANS-VAN DIEGO
ADRENALIN BY THE GALLON & CHASIN RACIN
ONE FOR THE DIRT & ONE FOR THE STREETS
'93 CHEVY G30 454 4X4 SPORTVAN EXT 146" WB
'92 CHEVY G30 454 BEAUVILLE EXT 146" WB
Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #748932 May 26th 2019 11:51 pm
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Thanks man! Nothing is good enough for me out of the box, I just have to have things my way:)


If it's broken- I'll fix it! If it's not- I'll break it to figure it out how it works so I can fix it.
Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #749325 June 06th 2019 7:43 pm
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Removed the ride assist shocks from the back in favor of some KYB gas-a-justs. The ride control shocks coupled with the air bags even at minimum was way to hard unless I had a ton of people and gear back there. I decided I'd rather have the adjust-ability of the air shocks. So! I'm now about to go on a test drive to see if I'm happier!

- Rich


1991 Dodge B250 Zephyr Conversion. "Bi-frost" 89,000-ish original miles and counting.
- 318TBI; has headwork and other bolt on upgrades. Runs strong and smooth!
- Powertrax locker
- 3" aluminum radiator.
- Rear air springs, rebuilt suspension, steering stabilizer.
Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
RichardB #749326 June 06th 2019 8:25 pm
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Originally Posted by RichardB
Removed the ride assist shocks from the back in favor of some KYB gas-a-justs. The ride control shocks coupled with the air bags even at minimum was way to hard unless I had a ton of people and gear back there. I decided I'd rather have the adjust-ability of the air shocks. So! I'm now about to go on a test drive to see if I'm happier!

- Rich


What a coincidence, I had ride assist shocks on the back of mine and took em off Tuesday. Rode like trash. How do you like the adjustable shocks?

Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #749371 June 09th 2019 7:27 pm
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It's a lot nicer when empty now. Still a little hard because of the air bags even at minimum pressure. But I'm much happier. I do think for me either the air bags or ride assist shocks would have been fine by themselves, but the the paired combo was too much unless the van was loaded down pretty heavy.

Today I mounted a set of contractor style cross bars to the roof. And fabricated custom brackets to attach my Yakima spacebox to them. Taking a road trip with 5 other guys in August, we need to have some of our gear up top!

My wife scored a roll out awning a few months back, I was looking at that today. Decided to order some box aluminum to make a custom mounting strut thing so it can attach to the uprights for the roof bars. This will be great for fall and winter camping because we can have a dry spot at the side doors to take shoes off in and not muddy up the carpet. That will be a next Saturday, or maybe an after work project this week.

Cheers!

- Rich


1991 Dodge B250 Zephyr Conversion. "Bi-frost" 89,000-ish original miles and counting.
- 318TBI; has headwork and other bolt on upgrades. Runs strong and smooth!
- Powertrax locker
- 3" aluminum radiator.
- Rear air springs, rebuilt suspension, steering stabilizer.
Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #749727 June 17th 2019 1:37 am
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Since putting bigger/heavier rear wheels, I noticed a vibration at a specific speed. I had the tire shop re check the balance of all tires and found a few out of balance. Ran it back to 55, still noticed it. I felt it in the pedal so I had a sneaking suspicion...
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And I was right. Transmission mount was toast!
Comparably to a new one.
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Annoyingly the center bore on that new mount was too tight and as I was knocking in the large bolt that went through the center of the mount to the cross member, it got wedged tight and wouldn’t budge. I had to ream the center and file the bolt a bit itself from some corrosion over the years and it finally fit perfect. I had to remove the crossmember to get it all apart after it got wedged which was an annoying extra step but it made installing the mount bolts to the trans itself much easier.


1987 B250 - Painkiller
Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #749765 June 17th 2019 9:00 pm
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I started it. It runs. It's alive. 5.3L Vortec swap almost done! Just need to do some wiring cleanup and put it back together. So damn excited.


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1984 Chevy G20 5.3L/4L60E (SOLD)
Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #749781 June 18th 2019 10:14 am
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Bet you can't wait to drive it.

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