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    • BigRigButterz

      Hooptie El Camino Part 6: Actually using my Ute as a Utility Vehicle
      Oppositelock • el camino hooptie ute project car chevrolet g body • • BigRigButterz

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      sn4cktimes

      @BigRigButterz Amazing things Utes are. I used the hell out of my Rampage's bed prior to it getting smashed into car heaven. I'm sure I've got pics on here somewhere I can link to...

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      Long Live the TRUKLET! I shall have another!

    • Green Truck

      Son's Fiero project update - the alternator debacle
      Oppositelock • fiero project car • • Green Truck

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      jminer

      @Green-Truck solid fix! Strange old cars have all sorts of random problems like this. It's an adventure to fixing them!

    • Dieselification: RUST! CONCRETE! FIRE!
      Oppositelock • dieselification mercedes 300d project car rust rusty bolt • • WhoIsTheLeader

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      RallyDarkstrike

      @WhoIsTheLeader There is a reason they and the Peugeot 504 are still so popular in Africa!

    • Green Truck

      Another Fiero update
      Oppositelock • fiero project car • • Green Truck

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      AkioOhtori

      @Green-Truck
      lol you may have ruined a life today
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    • Green Truck

      Son's project Fiero update
      Oppositelock • fiero project car • • Green Truck

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      davesaddiction

      @Green-Truck said in Son's project Fiero update:

      Some things are self repairing.

      Great success!

      Glad he's enjoying it - awesome project for you two.

    • BigRigButterz

      Hooptie El Camino Part 5 - Summer Sanding Sequel and Beach Week Shenanigans
      Oppositelock • el camino hooptie ute chevrolet project car g body • • BigRigButterz

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      BigRigButterz

      @WhoIsTheLeader My thoughts exactly on the paint choices. I'm hoping to do an Appalachian Trail adventure this summer with a few friends. Finding a time that works for everyone AND getting the weather to cooperate will be like herding cats, but it's sure to be memorable.

    • BigRigButterz

      Hooptie El Camino Part 4 - Mending Miscellaneous Maladies
      Oppositelock • el camino hooptie ute chevrolet project car g body • • BigRigButterz

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      BigRigButterz

      @Taylor-Martin said in Hooptie El Camino Part 4 - Mending Miscellaneous Maladies:

      Speaking of which, early next week, you want to rip the engine out?

      Yeah sounds like fun!

    • Old Busted Hotness

      Declaring the End of Project Stage
      Oppositelock • diy project car love boat • • Old Busted Hotness

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      Qaaaaa

      @DuckDuckGreyDuck He's just bragging

    • Britishvillaininatl

      FB Marketplace find Questionable Clown Shoe
      Oppositelock • bmw z3 fb marketplace project car • • Britishvillaininatl

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      xsnowpig

      @RacinBob I recognized that airplane hangar in the background. That seller has quite good taste in the cars he flips. I think he was doing pretty well on BaT, even before that went beserk.

    • BigRigButterz

      Hooptie El Camino Part 3 - The Summer of Sanding
      Oppositelock • el camino hooptie ute chevrolet project car g body • • BigRigButterz

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      @HoustonRunner Now that's a boat! Not sure if a pickup bed or a large roof is worse to do

    • BigRigButterz

      Hooptie El Camino Part 2 - Random Repairs and Civil War Sightseeing
      Oppositelock • el camino hooptie ute chevrolet project car g body • • BigRigButterz

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      BigRigButterz

      @Green-Truck That two-tone looks great! I've heard that FI Tech EFI can be troublesome. I ended up replacing the computer controlled carb with a late 70s Qjet three years ago and have been really happy with it.

    • BigRigButterz

      Hooptie El Camino Part 1 - Getting to Know my 1st Project Car
      Oppositelock • el camino project car chevrolet ute hooptie • • BigRigButterz

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      john norris

      @BigRigButterz

      "... can of Aircraft Remover, ... but the name cracks me up ..."

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    • Green Truck

      Project car disaster averted
      Oppositelock • project car pontiac fiero • • Green Truck

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      Green Truck

      @Nauraushaun said in Project car disaster averted:

      get an mr2 instead 🙂

      His cousin has a first gen MR2. They've been planning a race for years 🙄

    • Saab 900 Wrenching Recap
      Oppositelock • saab 900 wrenching project car • • Urambo Tauro

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      jminer

      @Urambo-Tauro Solid progress happening here! It makes me want to start digging into delayed projects of mine...

    • chan

      Project cars are timeless.
      Oppositelock • project car project car hell shitpost shitpost o clock • • chan

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      SilentbutnotreallyDeadly

      @chan
      Not at the moment!

    • Red Flag?
      Oppositelock • datsun 280z project car • • Highlander

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      Italia

      @Highlander yeah unless you're planning on never running factory fuel injection I would not buy a car with wiring problems AND fuel injection.

    • xsnowpig

      Sadness from another vehicle sold
      Oppositelock • truckyeah project car • • xsnowpig

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      sn4cktimes

      @HoustonRunner valid choice!

    • xsnowpig

      Just put my BMW e12 project on the swappo.
      Oppositelock • project car • • xsnowpig

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      nickhasanexocet

      @cb Unfortunately, I'm moving as well (hence selling the Jag) so this would just complicate matters 😉

    • Craigslist Find: Electric 1955 Fiat 600
      Oppositelock • fiat fiat 600 electric vehicle electric vehicles electric conversion craigslistp project car • • 1969r16

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      jminer

      @1969r16 Wow this is cool. I'd have been seriously tempted by it, but it didn't end up in my garage.

    • 1/34 Scale Majorette '57 Chevy Project
      Oppositelock • 1957 chevy 57chevy build thread live and let diecast project car • • gertman2000

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      Brickman

      @gertman2000 Very nice as always! I never thought about gluing toothpicks to the underside of small parts to paint. I'll have to remember that

    • More irrational parts buying for Project Making a Faster Horse
      Oppositelock • mach1 making a faster horse makingafasterhorse project car • • orneryduck

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      @bicyclebuck I know shipping things is weird at the moment (likely to be that way for at least a year longer), but FedEx seems to have settled into a trend of mediocrity, and any shipping issues I have experienced this last year have ALWAYS been with FedEx shipped parcels.

    • When it Absolutely, Positively has to be there overnight.
      Oppositelock • mach1 makingafasterhorse mustang project car • • orneryduck

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      I’m getting excited! At least they are back in the correct state.

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    • Shifting Gears (or at least making it more fluid)
      Oppositelock • dodge dakota convertible project car wrenching transmission • • bwp240

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      @bwp240 The pan might have "dimples" around the screw holes that would need to be hammered back the other way with a ball peen hammer. They get there by the screws being over torqued and keep the rest of the pan from sealing since they stick down where they should be flat.

    • So. Many. Fluids...
      Oppositelock • project car dodge dakota convertible • • bwp240

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      MM54

      @bwp240 If it's leaking where the overflow ties in, then that shouldn't be pressurized (unless it has a pressurized expansion tank?) so if you can find the source of the leak, some epoxy may be able to seal it back up until you find another radiator.

    • Mach1 Mini-Modding
      Oppositelock • mach1 making a faster horse makingafasterhorse mustang project car • • orneryduck

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      Urambo Tauro

      @orneryduck I can't believe I haven't done this to my '95 yet! It's such a popular mod, yet somehow I keep forgetting about it. But first, I've got a lot of other wrenching to do at the moment which I'll post about later. Gonna add this to my list though!

    • Reviewing the TPS Report
      Oppositelock • project car wrenching dodge dakota convertible • • bwp240

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      pip bip

      @bwp240 progress on the vitals. all good.

    • Drumming Up the Brakes
      Oppositelock • project car wrenching dodge dakota convertible • • bwp240

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      MM54

      @old-busted-hotness For a long time my only car was my chevelle with manual drums at all four corners. Any time I drove someone else's car I'd about go through the windshield the first couple stops.

    • I Can't Stop Myself...
      Oppositelock • project car wrenching dodge dakota convertible • • bwp240

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      LooseonExit

      @bwp240
      Rear ABS only uses a tone ring in the rear diff with a speed sensor on top of the diff. There's a module in the passenger kick panel IIRC. 4 wheel ABS has tone rings on the front hubs too. The only sign under the hood is if you have 4 wheel ABS is there is a hydraulic manifold/module next to the master cylinder IIRC. But you shouldn't as that was an option on 94(???) up - pretty sure it coincided with the CHMSL tailgate light. For rear ABS, there should be a valve on the inner driver frame rail (with pigtail harness) near the frame axle kickup. There is a bleeder on it that looks like this

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      Notice the bleeder on it as well for bleeding upstream of the wheel cylinder (I think, it's been wayyy too long) as opposed to at the wheel cylinders which is for wheel cylinder replacements, but it's good to bleed both as you have no brakes... I don't think it's the MC that's the problem btw. Early Dakota rear ABS is pretty not great. If you pull the tone ring (or just unplug the top sensor) you'll get an ABS and brake light, but it will default to "standard" brakes sans ABS.

    • HillRat

      New Project Car, Who Diss?
      Oppositelock • project car vwtdi dieselgang gambler500 baddadgarage • • HillRat

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      @rallydarkstrike Rust is why I spent $175 for a PPI. A big part of not fucking things up is knowing what you don't know, finding someone who does, and asking them what's up. Shop said the car was rust free and I will work diligently to keep it that way.

    • orneryduck

      Everything that was wrong with my Mach1
      Best of Oppo • making a faster horse makingafasterhorse mach1 mustang project car • • orneryduck

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      @old-busted-hotness said in Everything that was wrong with my Mach1:

      I don't have any pics of my '98. Back when I had it, digital cameras saved to floppy disk, and I didn't even get one of those til later.

      Atlantic Blue V6/auto with white rocker-panel stripes.

      2003 digital camera:
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      Still works, takes fantastic close-up shots. But I no longer have a floppy drive, or the desire to change disks after taking six shots. Hell, can you even still buy floppies?

      Atlantic Blue is such a lovely color! It would have been fantastic had it continued into the New Edge generation.

    • It Cannot Be This Simple?
      Best of Oppo • project car wrenching dodge dakota convertible • • bwp240

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      UpCreekwithShitPaddle

      @bwp240
      This is a great lesson on being able to see the big picture before making the call. Thanks for sharing before we all dive into our projects for the weekend.

    • Biiiit of a stretch
      Oppositelock • project car • • zipfuel

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      pip bip

      @zipfuel if it were $500. buy it, otherwise CP

    • How It Started...
      Oppositelock • project car wrenching dodge dakota convertible • • bwp240

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      beefchips

      @bwp240 said in How It Started...:

      Here is a brief summary of where we left off.

      It doesn’t work.

      Ha man you had me there.

    • Well, I made another irrational decision
      Oppositelock • squarebody project car • • HoustonRunner

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      HoustonRunner

      @otto The ideal build would be leave as much patina as possible and swap to a 6.2 or 6.5 diesel purely for nostalgia (since it would definitely not help value). In the near term I may level the ride a bit, but overall just planning to get it safe and drivable in the Houston summer (i.e. fix the AC).

    • This is Single-Handedly the Dumbest Thing I Have Ever Done…
      Oppositelock • project car wrenching dodge dakota convertible • • bwp240

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      @bwp240 said in This is Single-Handedly the Dumbest Thing I Have Ever Done…:

      There were 12 2.5L 4 cylinder Dakotas made in 1990. All 2wd with a 5-speed.

      That would earn unicorn status.

    • Qaaaaa

      Oooh that’s sketchy, I went like 90 in this
      Oppositelock • cabriolet kinda shitty but kinda cool project car • • Qaaaaa

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      CoolMinivan.......Nobody

      @mm54 Yep.

    • orneryduck

      Rain on my Mach1 parade.
      Oppositelock • making a faster horse makingafasterhorse mustang mach1 project car • • orneryduck

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      @atfsgeoff weather changed to my favor and I stopped being a boob.

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    • Making a Faster Horse [Overnight Parts From Michigan]
      Oppositelock • making a faster horse makingafasterhorse mustang mach1 project car • • orneryduck

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      Albino Kangaroo

      Wow, that really is a pallet-o-parts. I just saw your new post about the shock install and followed the link to this post. I am kinda upset that I missed it. This would certainly have been a trending article on old Oppo for a couple of days. This is amazing dedication and one of those -I probably shouldn't get neck deep in this - but awesome projects. I can't wait to follow your progress and vicariously enjoy your success on this project.

      This is really neat.

    • Making a Faster Horse [Step 1, Skip To Step 3]
      Oppositelock • mach1 mustang making a faster horse makingafasterhorse project car • • orneryduck

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      Update, my package has arrived.
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    • Making a Faster Horse [An introduction]
      Oppositelock • mach1 makingafasterhorse making a faster horse mustang project car • • orneryduck

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      @manwich beat isn’t fair of me to say, especially after having another look at it.

      Outside looks clean and well looked after, under hood presents like a used car (aging coolant bottles are a pet peeve of mine, especially as they present a failure risk, but it isn’t out of the ordinary for an otherwise ‘clean’ under hood. The interior is where I still see concern, unless it is illusions from the low-quality images. The steering wheel and seats look badly worn/stained.

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      The ‘cheap’ wheels and Batman centers aren’t evidence of a hard life, but those sort of mods are alarm bells for me with most cars. Seems the owner bought good Goodyear tires, indicating they weren’t the usual cheapskate that gets the finest Chinese made option out of the bargain bin.

      I suspect that is a very good deal for someone, but it still isn’t the right fit for me, as it doesn’t solve several of my present concerns, and manages to introduce two more (weight and payment). I’d entertain a Challenger, but it’d have to be a newer Scat Pack or SRT392, which doubles the price tag from the example shown.

      I’ve committed to my cause now, procuring several major parts to uplift the Mach1.

      https://opposite-lock.com/topic/6724/making-a-faster-horse-step-1-skip-to-step-3?_=1612130146939

      My wife and I love cars, and a wide variety at that. I suspect we’ll get something else eventually, maybe even take on a car payment, but if I’m patient enough, the Mach can gain a roommate instead of trading places.

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      Fun Updates, Upgrades & Projects
      Oppositelock • project car fabrication • • Powershiftmatt

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      BaconSandwich

      As much guff as people give the Mirage, it really is an Oppo car. It's lightweight, has variable valve timing, and is good at what it was intended to do.

    • g_body_man

      "Those Lexus commercials are so unrealistic, nobody buys a car for Christmas"
      Oppositelock • project car exotic pharmaceutical salesman stonks look ma no b-pillar • • g_body_man

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      @chariotoflove said in "Those Lexus commercials are so unrealistic, nobody buys a car for Christmas":

      @g_body_man
      So you bought yourself some garage “me” time for Christmas. How thoughtful of you!

      This should be a December to remember.

      Honestly, the garage "me" time will be dedicated to swapping the diff bushings in my mate's Mk2 Supra before his child arrives into this world. That being said, expect some interesting garage-related developments soon.

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      Lovely & Period Correct - Impressions After Mods
      Oppositelock • lancer project car • • Powershiftmatt

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      Improvements & Fixes - Saturday Shenanigans
      Oppositelock • lancer project car turbo • • Powershiftmatt

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      @urambo-tauro said in Improvements & Fixes - Saturday Shenanigans:

      @powershiftmatt I have a bad habit of looking at pics before reading text... the red wire going to ground had me worried for a second there!

      Haha yeah red is a unique color for a ground but I chose it for the old school vibe and theme I have in mind