Hääauto Wedding car

Just a short video of my Caprice used as a wedding car. This is outside of Ulvila church.

Sananen suomeksi -something in finnish too

Laitetaan nyt pieni teksti suomeksikin, kun täällä kuitenkin käy porukkaa.

Tämä on siis blogi harrasteautosta, joka tuurilla tuli hankittua vuonna 2012.

Auto on aito poliisiauto jenkeistä, palvellut Los Angelesin sheriffillä partioautona kymmenen vuotta.
Tekniikka on edelleen rautaa, tosin yli 300tkm mittarissa on jättänyt jälkensä.

Olen auton "entisöinyt" perustaidoillani, en ole ammattilainen mutta pienet virheet antaa anteeksi kun tekee itse, eikös vain?

Olisi mielenkiintoista kuulla jos joku on sattunut vaikka bongaamaan auton jossain, ottaamaan jopa kuvankin. Lisäisin mielelläni muiden ottamia kuvia tähän juttuun.

Myös kysymyksiä olisi kiva kuulla; laittakaa niitä vaan tuohon alas niin vastailen varmasti!

Changing door handle

It was long time painful to get inside car. Pulling door handel didnt do nothing, had to you push door inbound to door open.
That is annoying.

My last trip to junkyard was succesful. Managed to find 1995 Caprice there and get some good parts from it and those were frikkin cheap too. I think I paid 5 dollars for that door handle.

Yesterday I opened my door panel (it is worn out, want to find new one same day).
Old handle is easy to remove. Its just two nuts 11mm (I think they are supposed to be 10mm but it didnt fit and 11m was a bit too big but did the job).

Door handle is only attached with one small plastic plug. It goes inside to that rod in picture and then snaps to it by locking it. I didnt do it right first time, didnt notice that top of rod goes INSIDE that handle. Got it right second time. (try it first until putting all parts and panel back, dumbass....).
Old door handle moving parts were very loose. Thats why it didnt worked as supposed to.

Now I am happy. It is so much better to go inside car. Small things make big difference...

From those holes you can access nuts. You need long tool.

That rod bends inside door handle, but it is only thing attached. Very easy to remove and replace.

Black is where the rod is. Red arrow spots the hinge that gets loose.
 

Its been a while

I have been lazy, havent even driven my car for a while....
Yesterday a managed to take this video. Sorry about camera been a bit too down.

Enjoy.

Service and more service

So many new nice shine parts changed to my Caprice.
New police shocks, police springs and new brake hoses. Now it rides like it should.

Also got it Inspected, MOT passed. Now its road legal an other year again...
Also thing that they didnt liked, was those serach light. Finnish road law doesnt know what kind of lights they are. But its okey as long as they dont work.

Car also has new winter tires.

Shake shake baby

There is few fixes made to this car this week.

Gearbox was a bit loose, it gave awful noise when speeding hard. But its fixed now (new rubber holder) and there is no more extra noises. And I am happy!

I also changed light switch panel, it had too many holes drilled in to it:

Lower panel off first, then just open one screw on bottom and just pull it towards you. It comes off easy.

Two connectors need to be remove. Here you also see left and right clips that holds that in dash.

There was nothing wrong on my lightswitch by I opened it in case somebody likes to know what it looks like...



New panel on. That nasty bit thats missing is on lower panel, have to fix that someday or find new lower panel

You can never have enough LEDs

My lightbar originaly only has amber LEDs. I added some blue and red there, to make it more cop...

Those are not very bright. but in showroom they look like (and when its dark). Lights have 18 flash patterns but I just chose those.

Note to myself: When going for a spin after assembling more lights, remember to turn them OFF...