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Hello Vanners!

I had a good day today. I Found and fixed an annoying rattle that turned out to be a loose upper shock bolt.

Then I removed my rear door handle. The Thumb press decided to no longer rebound on it's own many many months ago.
Found a broken spring. So I Fab'd up another and got her working again good as new with only minimal cursing involved. Did not throw a single tool though, I'm getting better.



After this success, I installed some new prothane dust boots to replace 2 which prematurely split. One on a tie rod end, one on a 3 month old Moog draglink. A pitman arm puller made the job super easy. I also regreased all my zerks

Then I installed a new PCV valve grommett.

Not a bad day. Casa Dodge is happy.

What did you do to your Van today?

Sweet find Charlie.

Packed the van up and took Dad camping at Deer Creek in Ohio. He's staying in a tent while I'll be sleeping in the van for the first time tonight.

Pulled the windshield on the GMC to address some surface rust at the gasket. Sanded, cleaned and prepped. Second time for this and I wanna get it right this time....

Did sound deadener and polyfill on my rear doors and "door panels" today. They sound outstanding. I love that I can hear how good they are insulated when I slam em shut.

Got a beer with my girl to celebrate with some tunes.

Power stop front kit, and literally every new part for the rear drums have been delivered.

My three new conversion windows showed up from Parkins today as well.

I've got a lot of work ahead of me.

This morning before work I finished up installing my front carpet. Glad that's crossed off the list!

Today I insulated my engine compartment & doghouse, then tore up the rear carpet and replaced it with some killer black shag.













I had nothing but trouble with that OCC rear carpet. The two layers separated and bubbled up right in the middle of the van and after trying several different adhesives (two of which were recommended by OCC), nothing I did would get them to stick together again. It was a nightmare. Thankfully they gave me my money back. I'm much happier with the shag!

Hopefully I can get the dash back in tomorrow.

If you keep that up, you're going to have to change its name.

Looking very familiar Scrojira, nice work. I just replaced my dash speakers and cleaned up some wires on Friday. Speedo cable gave me a bunch of trouble re-mounting the gauge cluster until I rerouted it over the air duct.

I also threw caution to the wind and just pulled the trigger on the whole kit and caboodle accessory drive kit from Chevrolet. "yolo"...or whatever
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/NAL-19418818

I scored a sweet vintage piece for the bed I'm planning on building.

WHAT DID i DO .... I went out and raced it ....lookin for some Horsemeat .. found one but he shakes his head No

Today I installed my stereo and some wood trim on my dash.

Finished my custom lights for the van. Now to decide where they fit best.

if a glass company cant tell you what gasket to order and install, its time to find another installer.

What Scrojira said.
I changed mine myself last time.
Both the locking strip gasket and the new glass will have 853 in the part number regardless of the manufacturer.
Also a thin line of 3M 08509 will seal the deal. Best stuff on the planet just don't over do it.

Yep, he had screwed that fiberglass insert into it and I removed just enough screws to rip it down. I got some stagnant water in my face for my troubles. LOL.

Up here in Sacramento the junkyards are still very busy and most vans with anything good inside are made quick work of in a week or so.

I'd consider the dinosaur a score and would put him somewhere funny in my shop.

My wife would be glad to know that you found the pieces to the puzzle she was working on recently.

Cool steering wheel.
(I have the same one)
Got two different horn buttons for it...
The one like yours, and the black one with the red, white and blue ring.