Ace-Garageguy

Just get a giant moa and pluck it.

'Twere me, I'd rebuild the engine that came in it...but I have the equipment and skills to do it. LS swaps aren't particularly difficult, but remember a junkyard pullout will need the complete wiring harness and computer as well, and don't forget the throttle pedal assembly if it's drive-by-wire. If you go junkyard LS, save yourself some grief by buying a standalone harness and a reflashed computer, or you'll inevitably have a ton of dangling wires that do nothing and most likely a lot of operational bugs to boot. You will also need a new fuel tank most likely, or one modded to accept an in-tank EFI-compatible pump, and all the lines. Last LS swap I did was an LS1 from a Corvette with a slushbox into a '47 Caddy convertible. Made a nice car, a whole lot faster and lighter that what was OEM. As mentioned above, most everything for a relatively painless LS swap is probably available aftermarket...but remember too that most of that stuff never works and fits right out of the box...like your diff cover. On the other hand, what would be really cool is a 3X2-equipped 389 "GTO" engine in there, since it's already Poncho. GMCs also had Olds engines...

Yes, but I can't recall where I saw it.

"Read"? What's "read"? And this "book" thing you speak of???

I won't buy anything from Bezos if there's any other possible source, period.

Yes, this is happening for real...and may very well change the future of Thanksgiving.

Amen, brother.

How could anyone not love cats? Their facial expressions are priceless.

Nice work.

Looks great....and makes me want to get one.

Exactly. It's not at all unusual to see older ratchets, even high-end pieces like SnapOn, that have no release button on top. You just pull the socket off...or as Tim says, pry it off with a flat-blade screwdriver if it's particularly tight. And I have a few larger drives where one has to be careful to only use sockets with holes drilled in the retainer pin location, as the square-shouldered detent pin can not be depressed any other way than by using a small round rod.

Increasing amounts of "expert" advice served up by what seem to be entities as generally clueless as consumer-grade AI. They used to call this "the blind leading the blind", but since the advent of the interdwerbs, it's become SOP.

"Accurate" has unfortunately become a relative term like "beauty", often said to be in the eye of the beholder.

So...ummmmm...where are the consumer class-action lawsuits for billions in punitive damages?

Sticker shock has reached epic proportions.

Cows aren't usually very well versed on global geopolitics.

Great thread, and a good example of how much really useful information is "old".

Forum members are a mostly friendly, helpful bunch.

PM'd

Thanks for the heads-up...especially for JackModeling.

Very nice work, well thought out.

We've been lectured here before about being too stoopid to grasp the fine subtleties and complexity of "logistics".

Congrats. It's still a kinda shame when people just doing their jobs is news though...

Texas floodwaters rose over 30 feet in one hour, and the National Weather Service (which was fully staffed, contrary to many media reports) was sending out evacuation messages the whole time...but unfortunately, it happened in the middle of the night when most people were asleep.