Totally washed and cleaned the powder coated gloss black ltz 18s.
What did you do to your Impala today?
OK, lets hear it. What did you do to your Impala today?
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Well I made most the drive out from WI to UT yesterday and today stopping to overnight in Evanston WY. A check engine light popped on about 100 miles east of here but I decided to continue on as the motor seemed to run smoothly (I had to stop at Little America for my $0.75 cone). Upon arriving here I stopped at Autozone who lent me their scanner. This was good timing as the engine idle did not seem to be smooth.
“P0021 Intake Camshaft Position System Performance Bank 2
Intake Camshaft Position Timing - Over-Advanced (Bank 2)”
The printout actually shows a photo of the VVT solenoid and insists that’s the fix. So I buy a Duralast TS1013 for $39.99. This took about three minutes to replace. The hardest part was removing the electrical connector as small bits of disintegrated plastic from the wire loom had fallen into the top of the connector and wouldn’t allow me to press the lever down to release the connector.
When I pulled the connector out the solenoid side of the connector was FULL of black oil! Ugh.
I cleared the codes with the scan tool and it appears to be running very smooth again.
“P0021 Intake Camshaft Position System Performance Bank 2
Intake Camshaft Position Timing - Over-Advanced (Bank 2)”
The printout actually shows a photo of the VVT solenoid and insists that’s the fix. So I buy a Duralast TS1013 for $39.99. This took about three minutes to replace. The hardest part was removing the electrical connector as small bits of disintegrated plastic from the wire loom had fallen into the top of the connector and wouldn’t allow me to press the lever down to release the connector.
When I pulled the connector out the solenoid side of the connector was FULL of black oil! Ugh.
I cleared the codes with the scan tool and it appears to be running very smooth again.
Looks great!I flushed out my radiator and replaced the coolant cap and switched out my headlights for some I pulled at the junkyard earlier this week
Before and after pics😊
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Wow I’ve never seen UV damage that bad before. Good idea on replacing instead of sanding lol.
Oh it wasn’t even an option to attempt to fix them 😂 I did use one of those little headlight restoration kits on the ones I pulled after I installed them thoughWow I’ve never seen UV damage that bad before. Good idea on replacing instead of sanding lol.
They reach a point where the plastic is too oxidized to sand and polish.Oh it wasn’t even an option to attempt to fix them 😂 I did use one of those little headlight restoration kits on the ones I pulled after I installed them though
I upsized my alternator and ground wires.
4 aught. Idk if it’s too big but it works very well. OCD
Tomorrow I will be clay barring. Met a woman who has a curious turkey, thanksgiving dinner pecked my car a couple hundred times, leaving marks. SMH
A little benzene removed much of the mark but perhaps it’s greasy enough to need the clay. Many many marks… I’ll wash, clay and wash it again then wait til dry to wax w turtle ceramic and ryobi orbital.
Dang turkey!
4 aught. Idk if it’s too big but it works very well. OCD
Tomorrow I will be clay barring. Met a woman who has a curious turkey, thanksgiving dinner pecked my car a couple hundred times, leaving marks. SMH
A little benzene removed much of the mark but perhaps it’s greasy enough to need the clay. Many many marks… I’ll wash, clay and wash it again then wait til dry to wax w turtle ceramic and ryobi orbital.
Dang turkey!
Barred that thing again then rewaxed it. Have a case of dex 6 synthetic on the way and Saturday or maybe tomorrow night I’ll prematurely change oil and transmission fluid.
Lots of folks confuse 4 AWG with 4/0 AWG. 4/0 is otherwise known as four aught. 0000 and 4/0 are the same thing. 4/0 is the less confusing way to write 0000. 4/0 can't be confused with 3/0 but you could confuse 0000 with 000.I upsized my alternator and ground wires.
4 aught. Idk if it’s too big but it works very well. OCD
Tomorrow I will be clay barring. Met a woman who has a curious turkey, thanksgiving dinner pecked my car a couple hundred times, leaving marks. SMH
A little benzene removed much of the mark but perhaps it’s greasy enough to need the clay. Many many marks… I’ll wash, clay and wash it again then wait til dry to wax w turtle ceramic and ryobi orbital.
Dang turkey!
4/0 AWG is 0.460" of stranded copper conductor. Just shy of 1/2" of stranded copper. SGX crosslink polyethylene jacket brings it to 0.699" diameter and it weighs in at roughly 12oz a foot (a lb is16oz).
4 AWG is 0.2043" of stranded copper conductor. A little less than half the diameter of 4/0 and still massive overkill for the job. I usually run 10AWG SXL crosslink polyethylene jacketed wire for the alternator charge wire with a 12ga fusible link. 10ga doesn't get hotter than the surroundings even when I run jumper cables to dead batteries in the CAT loader.
Hi
I upgraded my rear rear swaybar on my 2012 chevy impala ltz.
I replaced it with the 22mm 639 addco swaybar and used Energy suspension 22mm bushings
Ens- 9-5165G. To make the mounting brackets work I drilled out a hole just above the slot wear the stock bushings mounted to Accept a bolt of the same size as the stock bottom bolt and used a shim to fill in the gap between the bracket and Carriage . I will post pics to show what it looks like .
The difference in handling is amazing I Encourage anyone who wants better handling to try this.
I upgraded my rear rear swaybar on my 2012 chevy impala ltz.
I replaced it with the 22mm 639 addco swaybar and used Energy suspension 22mm bushings
Ens- 9-5165G. To make the mounting brackets work I drilled out a hole just above the slot wear the stock bushings mounted to Accept a bolt of the same size as the stock bottom bolt and used a shim to fill in the gap between the bracket and Carriage . I will post pics to show what it looks like .
The difference in handling is amazing I Encourage anyone who wants better handling to try this.
Well gave her Gold pin stripesOK, lets hear it. What did you do to your Impala today?
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Removed my rusted out resonator with some a couple pipes and pipe adapters, don't got a welder so screwed together for now
Awhile back I kept having a clunk from that addco rear bar. After about a year of listening to it and changing bushings I put oe back on and clunk was gone. Upon inspection of addco bar I noticed it was rusting in many areas. The inside of where each end attaches to links the ends of the bar were unevenly flattened likely during manufacturing this left a conical shape on the receiving side toward link. Although it was tight it still had room to clunk. I ground the crap out of it and sent it to Powdercoat. Getting it back and installing tonight.
Picture?... IMHO it looks awesome!
Veary nice 😊
Thanks for the pics! I also have a black Impala, but it isn't as souped-up as yours.
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