What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

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Well, my fancy new steering wheel showed up today....... Damaged.

Inside the steering wheel box, the wheel was in a thin foam sleeve, also in the sleeve was the horn button and the horn ring, neither of which had any packing around them so they were just bouncing around in the sleeve with the wheel.
So the wheel has chips in the paint, a small dent, and the horn button has several pieces of plastic broken off.
At least i got some decent customer service. I emailed them with all the order info, and pics of the damage. Asked for a new wheel and a prepaid UPS label to send it back.
15 minutes after the email they called me, apologized for the condition of the wheel. They sent me the UPS label within a few minutes, and they will send a new one as soon as they get the damaged one back.

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Washed the outside of the "Noah" car cover using copious amounts of water (using Simple Green/sponge) with the cover installed. Let it dry.
Took it off, the vehicle underneath was now dirty, washed and dried the car.
Reinstalled the car cover inside out, washed the cover again, but the opposite side. Let it dry.
Peaked under the cover, vehicle is dirty again. Going to wash and dry the car again after sundown. (This is taking more than one day-cover has not been washed in years and it's very dusty around here)
 
did noth'n special.... just took the drag truck out of town and shifted the stock 318 2bbl at 5,000 RPM's for no other reason than "just because".
 
Variable switch and wiper motor install, on the Challenger This wiper motor has to be the prettiest I’ve ever seen. Not sure they were this pretty when new?

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R4Sedan said:
That looks awesome. Could you tell me who did it for you.
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A fellow I found on Ebay
I needed a wiper motor, as mine was probably gonna be a problem due to the welded on wiper arm, and it stopped wherever it wanted, plus I thought I saw a small crack in the case.
His eBay store is sniff-out-parts
I believe it’s Tommy you can figure out the rest who’s a renowned Mopar restorer, who does Barrett Jackson quality work for decades, I believe out of Racine Wisconsin.
It wasn’t cheap, but in the grand scheme of things he was way cheaper then some. His knowledge was immense, and he was totally cool in helping me solve some issues and making it correct.
 
Drill a piece of wood with the hole saw first then use it as jig to keep the hole saw from walking around. Been there done that.

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Got my suspension put together for the most part I only lack tie rods, torsion bars,and steering gearbox

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Mopar-Mitch said:
Looking great!
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It's coming along nicely. I'm so pumped about it for the first time in 2 years I'm putting parts on instead of taking them off. It's really cool to see all the rock auto and summit racing boxes that was stacked up in storage slowly shrinking. I have opened up a whole corner in my storage unit lol.
 
I put a chin spoiler back on the SC400 today. Mine was long gone and pick-your-part sent me an email saying they just got a 94 SC400 in, ready to part...available 5/11
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So I get there 5/13..2 days later and I find this:
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What a waste of F'n time! On the way out I spy the perfect chin spoiler already removed in the back trunk! SCORE! Came to get the gauge pod but that was gone like the rest of the car.

BTW....they lied: it was in the yard getting picked over since 5/5...and these go fast.
 
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our local pick-n-pull sold out to LKQ a while ago (might be a decade or more now)
as soon as they sold out they put a huge polebarn on the side and sold stuff out of there under the LKQ name

ever since that happened, the "new" vehicle get picked over before they hit the yard
 
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