What have you done to your wagon lately? (Let's keep the thread going!)

It's a Satty it has to be good looking.

 

OK I'm in here, my wagon finally got some love today.

I thought I had a vacuum leak because I heard a hissing sound every time I stepped on the brake. Been putting it off no big deal, right?
Yesterday, as the sound seemed to get worse, I realized it wasn't hissing, it was squealing, as in brake pad wear indicator-type squealing. Oops.

So she got new brake pads today. I even took the bus to go get them.

And although it's not a wagon, I replaced the steering linkages on my '96 Caprice 9C1 yesterday. Finally. Now it just needs ball joints. I hate ball joints. I won't be doing those.

 

Finally finished the detailing on the wagon. I also just got lucky and got new headlight surrounds, driver side mirror, and hood inserts. One of the "BAD" guys is ruining a perfect 2 door Buick and had no use for mint parts. I scored everything that would fit on my wagon. Below are updated pics of the wagon after polishing the bumpers and installing the NOS grill I scored of ebay for $20

 

Swanny, you lucked out. That wagon looks great. Or greater !

 

That grill looks great. Nice score! Hey....the whole car looks great!

 

Love that car! Looks fantastic Swanny!

 

Haven't really posted much about either wagon, but this I am pretty enthused about. My new to me Caprice had a horrible case of spark knock ever since I got in in Oct. I have only been driving it sparingly since Feb. It was driving me nuts that I couldn't remedy it.
In the attempt to cure it, a way too high idle and give it long overdue TLC- I did plugs, cap/rotor and all and the vacuum lines. Original cap/rotor and plugs at 91K, so they were pretty worn.
I found some huge holes in some lines when I did that, so that cured the idle. No change to the spark knock. Checked and set the ignition timing which was about 12 degrees retarded.
Wow- that made it much worse. Hmm. With that new development, I suspected the EGR valve might be sticking shut with what seemed like an intermittent misfire and the pinging- no codes stored in the computer. I had a spare valve sitting around so I cleaned it and the manifold up and put it on. I noticed the old one rattled quite a bit when I took it off, and noticed a crack in the cast iron near the gasket mating surface.
Problem solved! :banana:
Wonder how long the original elderly owner drove it around like that?

 

Gave her a routine oil change yesterday. Also the exhaust broke at the y-pipe, so a tie-wire, hose clamp, tin can repair was in order.

 

Swanny


GREAT looking wagon!

 

Custom exhaust cut-out

 

I managed to scare up four pounds of R12.

WoooHoooo!

 

changed the air ride controls from ridetech e1 to the latest accuair now comes installing the height sensors. also gathering the parts to remove the spacers i put on to adapters the ford wheels with the whitewalls to m chevy. this weeks project will be to drill the correct wheel pattern

 

Put some steelies on my Roadmaster. Picked them up out of a junkyard a while back, made sure to get some off a 80's GM wagon. Had them sandblasted and painted, put them on today. Put on a set of "Spider Caps" and waiting on some "ribbed" hot rod trim rings... I think it's going to look pretty cool. I'm saving the factory wheels in case I want to get them refurbished in the future...

 

HillbillyHipster just proves we don't need those stinkin fancy oversized wheels and tires to look nice!

 

Billy that looks really nice!! Love that look for sure, good on ya!!