^ Great Pic!

I worked on my tan…I’m aboard the “Sky Princess” in St. Maarten today during our annual Thanksgiving cruise to the Caribbean.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Boy, you just HAD to rub that in, eh ??...:smile:

Burping the excess air out of the cooling system on the old 93 Viper after changing the 20 year old coolant. It is a week-long process since the thermostat and heater hoses are the highest point in the cooling system on the car. They are mounted at the rear of the engine block up against the firewall. You have to disconnect a heater line from the heater core and trickle in the coolant a 1/4 cup at a time til you get to the full 16 quarts. You then reconnect the line, start it and run it up to temperature and then shut it off to cool down to room temperature. Wait 24 hours and do it again. It's day 5 and I am finally finished.

Dodge fixed the problem for 1994 by added a remote coolant reservoir and redesigning the system.

Do you drill an 1/8" hole in the thermostat to help air travel to the highest place ? I, also, have an Air Lift tool to put the entire system in a vacuum and that then pulls the coolant in. Leaving the system under vacuum for an hour will reveal if there is a leak too, that can then be addressed without needing to drain the system again.
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So, I'm looking ALL over this site and can't find where you started the thread on this treasure....:wink:

Yup, I always do that with all my cars, to let the air bleed through. The Vipers have a unique multi-chamber thermostat housing with a multi position thermostat. The housing has various internal passages that direct or bypass the coolant to an outer perimeter metal tube system that returns it to the water pump if the temp isn't in the proper range - too cool or too hot. One of the heater hoses is connected to this bypass system and the other is connected to the housing. This is one of the reasons why it is so involved to bleed the air out.

That looks like an amazing tool. Wish I had shop air or an air compressor. I'm still working with 19th century hand tools. Maybe one day I'll get some 20th century tools now that it's the 21st century.

I don't know that this particular car would interest that many. I certainly can?

Tim

Say WHAT ??? a 1965 L79 Corvette not being of interest ?

L76 solid lifter!!! very interested and congratulations!!!

Tim is starting to be the master of finding cool cars!!!

Love me some 365hp!!

NO KIDDING. When I win the lottery, I can just go to him for 1 stop shopping for 2 Corvette's and an L78 Camaro...:laugh:

That is a tool most everyone on this site should have! I have one and use it constantly.

Tim

Every Thanksgiving and Christmas, Annie loves to cook a full blown multi course meal for the (2) of us. Hey, more power to her. Every time this happens, she tells me to go somewhere outside the house to entertain myself and stay out of her way. A few years ago I went bow hunting and got a very large buck. It ran deep into a swampy area and down a ravine. Needless to say, no one was available on thanksgiving to help so Annie put our 1:00 dinner on hold to come help me drag it out. Dinner was served at 7:00 that night (she's a tree hugger and likes to eat when the meal is done, NOT when it is overcooked so needless to say, I was WAY WAY down on her list).

Soooooooo, this year I decide to go to the shop, stay out of trouble and work on Fred Cini's LS6 convertible that just came out of the paint booth and Jamie Cooper's magical spray hands and set it on the chassis. We need to get this done as we are way behind schedule so I need to work whenever possible. Should be stunning when completed with it's red interior.

You Sir......are a good time!!

Right back atcha Tim!!

Chilly day. Good for a workout and to do truck stuff.

Also finished my air compressor radiator. 50 soldered joints with no leaks. Happy shop builders here. :)

Very nice manifold.

That's awfully nice to be a "Wood hauler"!!

Did you notice how carefully the logs are stacked in there...:grin:

Yes I did, that's beautiful truck!

Thanks guys. I have a big canvas tarp folded 4 times to pad the bed and wheel wells. Placed logs easy, no throwing. Got it unloaded and split today, no evidence of doing truck stuff. 👍

Yesterday, enlisted my Grandson to decorate the tree. The '69 Hurst Olds was his favorite.

Today, gave the trailer a bath, then tucked it in for the winter :frown:

That is a gorgeous trailer.

Thank you, it has served me well. The truck will be put up as soon as I get it cleaned up.

Hand-polished the set of rims for the Viper. I have a new set of tires coming in hopefully next week. I figure it's time since the newest set I have is 28 years old. These are the original BFG R-1 racing tires from the first year they were introduced in Viper sizes.

(Dogs for scale)

I'm thinking either you aren't married, or you have a SUPER understanding partner... there's NO WAY I would be allowed to have tires on a beautiful wood floor like that...:no:

It’s not real wood, it’s Pergo. And we’ve been married 28 years! The dogs were the mad ones. I’m blocking their beds. He's even sticking his tongue out at me in the photo. :-)

LOL, I saw the tongue. Our 13 yr old Cavalier's tongue sticks out a lot too because he only has a few teeth left and nothing in front to hold it in.
28 years...cool. My wife and I are coming up on our 27th in Feb. She is the best thing that ever happened to me

He's 13 and was just being spiteful. The other dog has snake tongue. She walks around sniffing the air with her tongue just like a snake.

My wife is a keeper. Over in the Mopar section I restarted the Viper thread and showed the award that Dodge Management gave her in 1994 for attending the First Viper Owners Convention ON OUR FIRST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.

Come on, what wife would ever pass up the chance to go to Detroit on her first anniversary? :-)

If the weather warms up, I'll bleed the brakes on the yellow car. The calipers don't appear to be leaking, but there seems to be a bit of air in the system. This is a J56 car and the front calipers were replaced by me about four years ago.

:Can-I-Have-It:

NO, you already have a Yellow Corvette. You need to share the toys...:laugh:

----No pics, but I've been working on my latest winter beater. Some of you have seen my old 94 Caprice wagon (with LT1). I had it eleven years and it served me really well. It was approaching 200,000 miles and a lot of small stuff was irritating me. With that though it still showed well. Lee (from the sight and a good friend) found me a customer so down the road it went. I then went up a year and bought a 95 Caprice wagon with 75,000 miles. It needed paint and I couldn't take the wood so off to the body shop for paint. While it was a nice car in many ways it was really dirty, so I stripped the interior completly. It's back now and I'm putting in an SS Impala interior and a few other upgrades. I know I'm going overboard, but I figure, with luck, I'll have it the rest of my life.....Bill S

Definitely start a thread! My first "work car" was a bubbletop police package Caprice with the Kaiser Manhattan rear wheelwells. Great car to cruise through the backstreets of Newark, New Jersey in, back in the late 1990's.

Decided to take some wall art and turn it into something useful. Open element air cleaner with (I'm told) an L88 drop base on the compressor

Cool