Saint Michael (was: Big Things in Eagle Land)

[mr.mindless]

Pulled the head liner tonight, sealed up the body side hatch hinges and the top of the windshield. Bailed out the spare tire well and left things open to dry. Bad rear leak was definitely the passenger side hinge.

That's a really big headliner. I don't know if I'm good enough for that with the thin material I bought. Need more spray goo anyway. Probably do it in the garage this weekend.

[rejeep]

Use tinted bed liner

[mr.mindless]

Headliner only half done. Shoulda bought two cans of spray glue



I r&r'd the leaking side window. Took a lot of elbow grease to get all the old seal off the glass. It was the body side that had let go, pretty much the entire top and back of the window. Fixed a bad part of the seal in the back glass and put on the missing trim there from the parts car too.



So hopefully I'm done with this situation!



Semi productive but I slept too much and did too little. Didn't get anything underneath looked at at all (oil change, cat, 4x4, trans mount) nor did I get the Nissan buffed out.

[Wingman]

Slacker...

[mr.mindless]

I am! :-/

[mr.mindless]

Found and fixed a vacuum leak after I got home. Idles like a champ now.

Turned down full choke idle too, should be a little less than the 2750 it sounded like before, now. That'll be more reasonable.

Internets say this stupid Carter BBD that NO ONE knows how to tune right is good for 25-27 Em Pee Gees when tuned right. We'll see if it gets any better than my ~11 now that it's idling at idle instead of sitting at low throttle all the time. My bet: no. Probably will still be set way too rich.

[jacel86]

11?!?!?!?!
I'm assuming this is a 26' box truck in disguise?

[mr.mindless]

Strangely, it's not much faster. It will cruise happily at ~80 once it gets there though. (nobody who gets 25+ ever does 80, but that's details )

[M4wdFab]

this machine will not and can not get more than 15mpg ever, and to even get near that you would have to go back to stocker low pros

[rejeep]

i use to get more than 15 out of a 258...

[M4wdFab]

and then you woke up,

[rejeep]

no I deff did...
stock 258 w/weber TFI ignition Ba10 and 307 gears...  30" bfg AT's...

all through HS and first 2 years of collage..

I was getting anywhere from 18-21 combined city and Hwy...

would make sense to me that a car vs a brick would get more just from the areodynamics

[Wingman]

The planets and stars were definitely in alignment there!  Nice.

[rejeep]

sorry .. correction.. I ran AT tires

[mr.mindless]

There are a TON of people on eagles nest who get 18-20. Some who get 25-27 highway. Believe them or not, I just know I'd like to at least get what Paul's XJ gets.