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Got back from Montreal yesterday evening. It was a lovely vacation.
Canna that put ours to shame. This was in Magog, Eastern Townships
waterfall near QC
Topiary exhibition, QC
nice architecture & sky
converted church now a library
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Today I swapped out the center carrier support on the pickup - the first one I buggered the carrier installing the bearing originally, and my attempted fix only lasted 1K miles. While I was under there, I did the usual look around for leaks, etc., and noticed what looked like water around the base seat for the radiator. Following the trail, I could see that in fact the radiator end cap had cracked around the base of the expansion tank return hose. Fortunately these are all the same (200/700/900 -92, auto) so still readily available from reputable manufacturers. I got one from FCP Euro, as they are reasonably close (CT) and give a lifetime warranty on ANYTHING you purchase through them. So, couple bucks more than other vendors in some cases, but worth it.
Besides that I worked on the cruise actuator cable a bit. Got the open cable length figured out & fitted a solder-type barrel end to match the K-Tuned TB wheel
tried soldering it in place, didn't work so well, but that was just the test fit anyway - I hadn't cut the cable sheath back yet. Removed the cable from the actuator & did the final (silver) solder job in the vice, much easier & vise helped act as heat soak to prevent damage to the strands beyond where I needed the solder to permeate.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully make the anchor bracket to locate the cable at the TB
the brass barrels are sold in 10 packs, which is just as well as I lost one & damaged another, so it took three to finish
bits removed from original cable
final result
Canna that put ours to shame. This was in Magog, Eastern Townships
waterfall near QC
Topiary exhibition, QC
nice architecture & sky
converted church now a library
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Today I swapped out the center carrier support on the pickup - the first one I buggered the carrier installing the bearing originally, and my attempted fix only lasted 1K miles. While I was under there, I did the usual look around for leaks, etc., and noticed what looked like water around the base seat for the radiator. Following the trail, I could see that in fact the radiator end cap had cracked around the base of the expansion tank return hose. Fortunately these are all the same (200/700/900 -92, auto) so still readily available from reputable manufacturers. I got one from FCP Euro, as they are reasonably close (CT) and give a lifetime warranty on ANYTHING you purchase through them. So, couple bucks more than other vendors in some cases, but worth it.
Besides that I worked on the cruise actuator cable a bit. Got the open cable length figured out & fitted a solder-type barrel end to match the K-Tuned TB wheel
tried soldering it in place, didn't work so well, but that was just the test fit anyway - I hadn't cut the cable sheath back yet. Removed the cable from the actuator & did the final (silver) solder job in the vice, much easier & vise helped act as heat soak to prevent damage to the strands beyond where I needed the solder to permeate.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully make the anchor bracket to locate the cable at the TB
the brass barrels are sold in 10 packs, which is just as well as I lost one & damaged another, so it took three to finish
bits removed from original cable
final result
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