Well, the last couple of days have been pretty busy for me. I'm sure you have noticed the videos have slowed down and that is mainly because of the 'other' things I have going on. I'm trying to work on a way to get everything done all at once, but holy crap is that hard.
So yesterday (Friday) I couldn't sleep worth a crap and ended up waking up at 0230 in the morning. Not the worst that could happen, but I finally fell asleep at about 2330. Yea, not good. At about 1000 my step dad brings over his new (to him) boat and he needs me to wire up his truck with a trailer plug and rewire the entire trailer since most wires were just twisted together, had wire nuts on them (if you work on cars, and you use wire nuts, please stop working on cars...) and others were just cut.
He was thinking about just putting the new 7 pin plus a 4 under the receiver hitch, but I told him that just drilling a hole in the bumper to the left of the license plate would be a better option, and no risk of dragging it off and it would look better since there was already a black door for his spare tire on the right side (2000 Chevy Silverado). He agreed, and I pulled out the hole saw and went to town. Once that was done, found the trailer plug wires, wired them in and the truck was done. Since he has nothing to pull that has brakes or reverse lights, I didn't bother to hook those up. I also didn't hook up the Aux power either since I didn't feel like running a wire the entire length of his truck. Some day.
So with that done I was pretty much spent for the day. Came inside and started working on the new site. I'm also working on the other YouTube channel as well which we still need a LOT of help with. If you want to help, it's
Z28.com All we are asking is to subscribe and help us out since youtube is giving us the shaft. After all of that, the day was over and it was time for some netflix and then bed.
Today, I wake up and realize I had not had to work on cars like that in quite a long time. Damn I was sore. But, things needed to happen today, big things. I have got to clean out my garage so that I can start shooting some videos in there. So I get started on cleaning and I am doing a pretty good job, but the friggin radio is playing horrible music and the banter on the morning show is absolutely atrocious. I need Spotify out there. So I stat looking for a tuner or a radio or something that has a 3.5mm input jack, and I only have two. The first one is the one that I'm putting in my camaro, but saving that for a video. So that is out. The next one is the flip out screen that I had in my camaro, but it quit working, hence why I was changing it. Figured what the hell, lets see if we can get it to work. An hour and a half later and nope, still broke. But as I was testing it, something else got in my way.
My sister started her truck and then yelled at me while I was working on the flip out radio and tells me that her truck is telling her it's not charging. I take my volt meter out there and sure enough, not charging. "You need a new alternator". The battery without the truck turned on was 12.36 volts. With it running was 12.08. It wasn't charging. I tell the guy at the parts store to pull the right one and I send them in my grandmas car to get the new alt. They are gone for a really long time. It's only a 5-10 minute drive to the parts store.
They finally get back (truck blocking my garage door that I had open so couldn't remove a bunch of metal that I wanted to get out of there with the tractor) and they hand me a piece of paper. They tested the alt 3 times and it passed all 3 times. Great, there is a bad connection somewhere. I take everything apart between the alt and the battery and I clean everything. I pull off some stupid wiring her husband did and had her start it. Nope, not charging. So just for S&G's I decide to take a wrench and tighten the nut on the back of the alt, which I have already tightened, any more and it starts to turn in the case, and I hear the engine go under load. Yup, it's charging and I get told this very loudly from my sister.
So the alt is bad, it has a broke connection inside the alt. I look in there and see nothing. I tell her that she needs a new one and yea, she just ended up leaving since it was charging and by that time, the sun had already gone down.
Thankfully my tractor has lights on it so I loaded up the scrap trash I have (Ford 5.0 mustang parts, nothing but trash like intakes, headers and so on... it's for a ford, so it's trash...) and I dump it behind the garage in my scrap pile. From there, I was pretty much spent and decided to call it a night. Came in, did my usual, went to bed. The wife was already asleep when I decided to go to sleep, but as I was getting ready to go to sleep, I knocked something over on my night stand and that woke her up. That was about two hours ago.... Yea, it's going to be another long day tomorrow.... See you then!
