Hello Vanners!

I had a good day today. I Found and fixed an annoying rattle that turned out to be a loose upper shock bolt.

Then I removed my rear door handle. The Thumb press decided to no longer rebound on it's own many many months ago.
Found a broken spring. So I Fab'd up another and got her working again good as new with only minimal cursing involved. Did not throw a single tool though, I'm getting better.



After this success, I installed some new prothane dust boots to replace 2 which prematurely split. One on a tie rod end, one on a 3 month old Moog draglink. A pitman arm puller made the job super easy. I also regreased all my zerks

Then I installed a new PCV valve grommett.

Not a bad day. Casa Dodge is happy.

What did you do to your Van today?

Went shopping for her....20-amp fuse blocks ,#4 butt connectors, blue tape to start the black out of the grill, sand paper for the trim....had a safety meeting to pause and think about the process of what Im about to do...yep good day

I could use some safety breaks now. All I got is a can of Bud, and a bottle of 2 buck chuck. Neither of which is very appetizing at the moment.

not a darn thing , to dang cold out .lol

Im not driving

Nice job on the repair!

Here is a little known fact. On the GMC rear doors there is no handle or lever to open the door from the inside.
Emergency exit not required!

Now back to your regularly scheduled thread...

Dont I know that ...I think the engineer that thought that one up was riding shot gun during the whole test....never got in the back...or got out...it still at the bottom of the test lake...hence as fester says "fish tank"ed...needed to have a safety meeting over that one..

Freaking bean counters win again.

Meh, one less hole when fabricating door panels.

they could have had at least put a small lever...