Gregturley

My stock alternator is finally starting to go south and i have been looking at replacing it with a higher amp part. Anyone have any 1st hand experience with the Mechman 320 amp alternators? Its expensive at $500 with a 2 year warranty. They have a 240 amp alt for $400 but with my stereo and all the other electric crap I've added the 320 fits my needs better.

@Evan it was a blast. Today they just announced that on September 18-20 Louder Than Life 2020 will be headlined by Metallica. Metallica is doing a 5 festival tour in 2020 with 10 shows. At each festival they will do a different set Friday and Saturday. We got our tickets today in the presale. Tickets go on sale Monday for general public. $149.00 for 3 days. I am a huge Metallica fan and might buy tickets for Sonic Temple in Columbus OH in May.

I hear ya bud. Unfortunately where i live a bike is a target. No one has insurance. You're not safe on the sidewalk. I have destroyed 4 cells in 12 months. My crap comes from Ebay/Amazon now. Phone I'm using now $35 from Ebay. Neon belonged to a buddy. I put a tranny in it, his daughter tore it up just after the warranty. He told her she had to pay to fix it she said "I have 6k saveed up. I want a real car." They said no to a trade in. I hauled it out of his driveway for free rebuilt the tranny. My wife says its a ***** car. I can't argue.

It is a sad little car though. Its my "ah hell everything else is broke" ride.

@portlandareae28 I though i said DON'T JUDGE ME ABOUT THE NEON!!!! Not proud of it but it is a dirt cheap beater. I do need limo tint on windows so no one can see me.....

I was fortunate enough to hear some war stories from my step-grandfather...only grandfather i ever knew... before he passed. He was a B-25 pilot in WWII. Im 5'4" with my work boots on. I looked down to him but he was the biggest man I've ever met. There will never be another generation like the one we are losing/have lost. These men and women should never be forgotten. WWII, Korea, Vietnam.

I AM married to the sweetest (most evil-just depends on what i have done lately!!!!) chick you'll find. If it doesn't have a durability/mileage/reliability benefit I'm not up for it. In Loserville KY if you don't have a boy bun and skinny jeans most chicks don't want anything to do with you so the "chicks dig it" thing is irrelevant to me. I look at it as a practical usable tool. My truck is a DD/work rust bucket. I could save a bunch of $$$ driving the Neon(free car DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!!!) instead of the Cummins BUTT this truck gets used as a truck daily. Didn't mean to offend anyone with my leveling comments they were strictly based off my personal use of my truck.

I'm going to look into what i can do with a cable. It makes sense to me to have TV maxed out when in forced lockup. I had wondered about that before. Most of my trans experience comes from full manual or trans brake apps in hot rods/drag cars. Alto red eagle, koleen steels, turbo action full manual or tranzact brake, Lucas tranny slime, and hammer down. Well, besides stock ford crown vic, taurus, and exploder crap (25 year fleet mechanic). I want to try TV cable set at stock specs with my ?" slack adjuster "? spring set up , and a manual, forced max TV pressure for commanded lockup. Worst thing that can happen is @Dynamic gets a whole bunch of my money before I'm ready to part with it. Can someone please tell me what should my max line pressure with a stock VB and converter be set at? Are there any separator plate mods i need to do? Idle TV at rest and 1500-2000 rpm TV at max????? Cause in my white trash more is mostly better mind im thinking 50% more factory psi cant hurt too much right?

Only thing i found stashed in mine was....RUST

Leveling a pickup truck=i should have bought a Ford SUV. Looks like a usable vehicle until you try to USE it. To me a truck sits higher in the *** end to compensate for a load ie in bed or on hitch. If you're just tooling around in a pickup with no real use for it you're wasting money at the pump. I have a POS Neon that i can use daily but it hasn't left my driveway in 5 months. It might not even start now. Don't know don't care till i need it. I use my rust bucket daily. Leveling is only surpassed in stupidity by squatting. Hope to God no one would try to go down the road like this.

For those that may be near KY. Louder Than Life is an outdoor 3 day concert. Friday is done. Saturday has Guns And Roses as the headliner. Bunch of piss-ant bands as filler. Gonna be hot but should be cool. Hard rock/metal bands. If by chance you're here for the show hit me up. Be cool to meet some new people from m1973m.

Have done that many, many, mannnnnnny times on 727, 904 cars in the past. Slam shifts, bad manners, late upshifts, bad downshifts, etc. Not to mention 500+ cubic inches coming into a subdivision at 2am stuck in 1st. I didn't mind but for some reason ALL my neighbors were happy when i moved????? Oh well didn't like them either. I'm thinking about trying a pull cable to max out TV lever for use with lock up switch. I'd like to do a solenoid but damn they're pricey for a continuous duty. Next couple weeks are hectic but might get some time to play with it in Oct. I'll post what i do with pics. And for my stupidity after some research i see that there are many companies selling something to jack up line pressure with an exhaust brake. I'm not paying someone to do something i can do myself.

This works BUT if something happens to DS lens/bulbs/wiring/fuse whatever you will lose both side headlamps. Better to wire each side independent in my opinion. For my initial tests i only did 2 relays. When i decided to keep the relay setup i cut out the cross over wiring and made another relay pigtail for the other side. 4 relays each side independent. Get stuck in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, with your wife and 3 kids in your POS and no headlamps and you will realize how important redundancy is. I can fix ANYTHING on a car, but doing it on the side of a 70mph zone with everything i care about in it aint happening again if i can prevent it.

After looking at continuous duty solenoids I'm half tempted to do a cable set up. Those things are pricey. I'm cheap and broke.

Oh good. Something else research and possibly make. @IBMobile let us know what you find out about your converter please. I still haven't found my pressure gauge so i can get some readings. I think I'm going to start saving for a VB and skip the shift kit. Plans fell through for hauling a boat to Florida next month so I'm really not in a hurry to do anything. Plenty of time to gather info.

If this is true has anyone tried or heard of using a solenoid to pull the TV lever open to increase line pressure? Mount solenoid to trans and use a cable or small chain to go between lever and solenoid. When the lock up switch is activated the solenoid pulls cable. That should still allow factory cable to move TV lever freely. Thoughts?

Mechanical pump will probably be more reliable than any electric pump. Flow and pressure also increase with RPM. Most electric pumps will lose a little pressure at higher RPM's.

"System on" light. Tried it this am going to work. Tad bright in the dark but i cant miss it.

The red thing is the momentary switch. I used a blue led and forgot to take a picture of it. I'll get one later.

Lock up switches and air pressure gauge. Switch by air is for ZXT.

Easy to do and works. He did a really good job on it.

@Bullet Here you go. Amazon-- Volvo relay-MTC VP293 / 1259750 Transmission Overdrive Relay (M46 Blue, Volvo models) $12.60 mini toggle switchs--TEQStone Pre-wired Mini Toggle Switch SPST On and Off Control for Car, Boat and Truck (Pack of 10)$9.99 mini momentary switches--Twidec/10Pcs 1A 250V AC 2 Pins SPST Red And Green Normal Open Mini Momentary Push Button Switch with Pre-soldered Wires PBS-110-XRG-$11.99 relay bases--ONLINE LED STORE 10 Pack - Bosch Style 12V DC 5-PIN SPDT Interlocking Relay Socket Harness Base (with Wires)-$10.25 Ebay--33 ohm resistor-5 pack-$5.17 I used 18 gauge wire I had along with butt connectors, bosch style relay, solder, heat shrink, etc. If you have a Radio Shack go there for resistor. None of this is hard just make sure follow the wiring diagram. I drew out my own diagram with wire colors that i used. I think if I was to do just this it could be done in 2-2.5 hours. I should have used a toggle with a saftey cover just so it cant be accidentally turned on. I'm going wire in a 2nd toggle in series with 1st one as a safety switch. Total spent for this was $20. Had to buy Volvo relay (12.60)and resistor (5.17). But like i said i always have wire, heat shrink, connectors, fuses, all that. The relay bases and switches i bought last year when i ran out. Think if you bought everything to do this it can be done for around $60.

If the broken bolt is crossed, seized, completely un-removable it may be easier to fab up a new rear mount that uses a different bolt on the block. Better than nothing.

Ibmobile used scotch locks. I hate those things and will not use them. I did cut and splice wire.

Ill get you a parts/price list tomorrow. 8 hours spent today but i made a gauge mount, reran some wiring and an air line, replaced dash bezel, did laundry, chased kids and ate dinner along with the lock up. I prewired the relays at work but that can be done in 15-30 minutes depends on the person.