I have a nissan epas column laying here....
I have a nissan epas column laying here....
No help on the power steering.
But my family (me, wife, both kids) had "strep" 2x this summer and my wife had it 3x. I say "strep" because by the time my wife went in to the doctor the 3rd time in 3 months the doctors treated her for thrush (yes, the same one babies get) in her throat. Apparently both thrush and mono can be present with strep, so while a strep test will come back positive your real problem is the thrush or the mono.
The antiboitics that treat the strep essentially level all the bacteria and that leaves an empty playing field for the thrush and/or mono bacteria to proliferate. It is common for people being treated for strep multiple times to actually have an infection of something else.
Maybe talk to your doctor about this?
In reply to Robbie :
I'll ask. Good call.
All the cool kids are using the Saturn Vue column with electric power assist.
Pete
Good to see you poking your head back in, Tuna.
I'm no help with the column or with being under the weather, but glad you're still around and still plugging away at the truck.
NOHOME said:All the cool kids are using the Saturn Vue column with electric power assist.
Pete
That's the extreme end of "OEM near plug and play", which gets me everything I want, but in an awful looking incompatible design language.
The other extreme end is to just pay a rebuilder and send them my column and ask pretty pretty please if they'd give me a tilt column in exchange and accept it as-is otherwise.
I drove it for over a year like that, after all.
In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :
What is that?
In reply to JohnInKansas :
WooHoo to still being alive!
tuna55 said:In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :
What is that?
It is an electric power assist steering column like the vue unit, but with a divorcable ecm and noo need of a seperate controller as it works at half assisst in failsafe mode.
I also have a 70s tilt gm column here i forgot about. I think it was a truck or camaro. Got it from Patrick for the 64 el Camino before it was totalled.
Dusterbd13-michael said:tuna55 said:In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :
What is that?
It is an electric power assist steering column like the vue unit, but with a divorcable ecm and noo need of a seperate controller as it works at half assisst in failsafe mode.
I also have a 70s tilt gm column here i forgot about. I think it was a truck or camaro. Got it from Patrick for the 64 el Camino before it was totalled.
Can you find the details on that last item?
And maybe a picture of the first one.
Has it really been five months?
I apologize to the board. I've been busy. The kiddoes constantly need things, and the wife's health is slipping. We had a scare (mass found on CT scan, turned out to be a cyst) and a surgery she didn't want (got canceled 'cause Corona, based on cosntant strep, long long story) and a return for my brain fog for a bit (soldiered on, nobody cares), joined a gym to get some actual excersise (canceled 'cause Corona), got a whole cow in the feezer ($2500 ouch) and started the years garden.
In the last week I cleaned the garage. A lot. Then I went to work a bit a few nights ago. No pictures, because it was boring. I organized my tools a bit, and looked around. The truck was sitting a little crooked in the front, so I took the springs out, remeasured, cut one a smidge, replaced them, realized that they were not seated properly, reseated them, assured myself the swaybar from heck was pretty straight, and shimmed the radiator support to level the fenders.
It's close now.
Here are my immediate goals, which will definitely be governed by funding issues (got laid off last year, still fighting with paying off some debt, 0%, but still debt)
I am going to make an effort to get out there at least twice per week. This is getting stupid. Any thoughts on what I attack/spend first?
Send the shifter in and start shimming the body? I don't know what all is involved with the body part, but that should be a pretty low cost thing to do? If so, you've got a cheap activity going on while waiting for the thing that will cost you something with Hurst to get finished. Really could just start picking anywhere on that list though. Brake lines sound good and tedius...
I reccomend nicopp for lines.
And column: forgot!!!
The electric assist is a Toyota unit. Power and groung and switch power. Goes into limp mode and gives medium assist at all times.
The tilt column ill get a picture of at lunch.
Shimming the body can be a long drawn out affair. The reality is that it is a Rubbicks cube situation where one small change affects everything.
So, what I would do is put the body alignment at the top of the pile, but then focus on the "GO: or "STOP" items and complete one or the other so that the system is complete.
Having you back on the truck is a ray of sunshine in this otherwise dismal period.
Pete
In reply to Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) :
Yes, a Prius column I believe. Supposedly it can be stabbed in to keep a sort-of OEM look with the existing vehicle equipment.
Second on the NiCop lines. I put some on my GMT400 and they were about the easiest thing I've ever done.
In reply to NOHOME :
Pete,
Indeed this list, other than the rear wiring and gaps, is required to bring the thing into the driveway to put primer on it.
Trying!
Life is hard, busy and tiring.
I am going to assume that the brake lines are going to be made from a roll of steel tube? Nicop is nice, but more $$$.
A trick I learned is to "Shock" the line into being straight. In order to do this I would clamp one end of the line in the vice and at the other end attach a stop that I can slam a weight against be sliding it down the line. Leaves a nice straight piece of brake line. This is a piece of NiCop that came in a roll. You do sacrifice a few inches at each end where it was clamped.
The other option is to see how long of pre-made lines you can get at the local car parts place. I think 8" is the limit around here, but it will get a lot of the lines done and the you cut them to size and only have to flair the one end.
Pete
In reply to NOHOME :
My wife is super sensitive to this thing if she gets it. This means that if I get the virus, chances are 50% that I'll be a widower. Therefore I don't go to any stores, or anywhere but work.
All said, I'll likely mail order prebent lines, maybe even SS, because I hate flaring, don't own the right tool, and want the cool factory touches on them.
I'll likely use your trick regardless, as I think most straight mail order pieces come as large circles.
In reply to tuna55 :
I, too, hate flaring, but the NiCop lines make it a breeze, and the tool is cheap. But I do understand the appeal of nice neat pre-bent lines.
In reply to tuna55 :
Not sure how you would do this with premade lines since you need to secure the ends of the tube to give it the "stretch" whack. There is a tool to do the job, but once again $$$ spent. Would not be hard to fab the tool.
When we reclaimed all the NiCop lines out of the challenge Volvo, we got pretty good at making them straight by using the vice. Simply open the vice a little bit so that the line lays in the crack, then using a soft hammer, pound the high spot down. First pass results in a line with a long curve, but then go back and do it again and again until it is good enough. Helps to have a helper to hold the end of the tube and rotate to find high spots.
+1 for getting the nicopp lines and bending yourself
it will be cheaper than prebent lines, and you can actually flare them yourself. plus I think the color looks cool.
Also, I have been waking up 60 minutes early each day so that I can spend my first 60 minutes in the shop working. It's very much keeping me sane right now, AND my project is moving along with great pace.
In reply to Robbie (Forum Supporter) :
+1 on shop sanity. I do mine at the other end of the day, though, in the hour before I go to bed.
You guys remember this kid? He got bigger.
We did a few small things and made a list.
He has his Dad's hair
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