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"Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness" (long-voyager-2nd-edition) 09/25/2019 at 17:43 • Filed to: Sold, Engine Swaps, Voyager

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Was laid off work for the last week, this allowed me to do a few things:

1. “Blue”, my 1992 Caravan was sold to an older couple. They wanted to replace their rusting/aging 1994 Caravan, came and looked/drove both of my vans. He wanted to take mine home, but she had the final say and they ended up driving the blue one home. So blue is with us no longer:

2. With blue gone I started searching for the 98-00 3.8L to get the final swap done in my van. Helping a good friend of mine Monday we ended up finding one. A guy he delivered firewood to owed him some money and happened to have a 99 3.8 with 100k sitting in his garage. He took the motor as payment and I worked for him for the day to pay it back. So now it begins:

Needs a good cleaning thanks to the oh-so-common leaky valve covers, otherwise it looks solid. I’ll be picking away at getting sensors and such swapped and installing new gaskets/correct fuel rail next week, once that’s done I’ll start tearing into mine again.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 07:21

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was laid off work the last week?

a temporary laid off? 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 07:31

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Ooo, this is good news! Sad to see Blue go, but the Rally Van will be more rally-y! :P

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/25/2019 at 07:31

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Ya, back at it today. Being a small machine shop when a customer drags their feet getting designs to us it ends up bringing us to a halt.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/25/2019 at 07:33

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I am sadder about Blue being gone than I expected to be. My youngest daughter doesn’t help any, she’s been asking to take it since it sold on Thursday.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 07:33

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Unemployment? More like Funemployment, amirite?

Seriously though, sorry about that, getting laid off sucks. Do you have any expectation that you’ll get called back? At least seems like you’re keeping busy in the meantime helping your friend with firewood. 

That aside, I’m kind of happy to see that the Rally Van is staying for a while, though I’m sure it’s sad to see Blue go. Best of luck with the motor swap, keep us updated.  

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/25/2019 at 07:38

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Eh, it’s never much over a week and I’m usually one of the last people laid off. I’m back at work today, so all is well. In the meantime I use the time to get things done/help others, so I enjoy the occasional layoff.

I’m happy the Rally stays and that I found a motor so soon, but it hurts more than it should not having Blue around, I’ve been very happy with that little van.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 07:43

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aah righto...gotcha

expecting something like that at my work soon to..not because of customers tho..

piss poor and over ambitious planning..we have too many people for the work we are able to do(not for the work we actually have tho)

the powers that be streamlined production and got in a bazzillion orders and new people first and then decided to check if the logistics side and off site suppliers could handle the extra demand

so yeah we are bottlenecked

vondon302 > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 07:49

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Yay rally van made the cut.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 07:59

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I’d be good with a week layoff. I never feel like I have enough time to get anything done between work, after work activities planned by my wife, and the baby. So things inevitably take a long time to get done. I just finally got the Corvette back together last night, just in time for the end of summer. I still have a whole bathroom to remodel and an electrical issue to figure out on my F150. Plus I need to remove the rear bumper on my wife’s Yukon to do some rust remediation before winter hits (there’s a bit of rust starting to show just above the bumper under the fuel cap)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 08:02

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Ah yes....that would tug at the heartstrings a bit...

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 08:43

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Glad to hear you’ re already back.

Every time there’s a gov’t shutdown they start talking about furlough days, but my organization typically has funding in place so we’ve never gotten them in the time I’ve been here. Sometimes I think it might be nice, though.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > vondon302 09/25/2019 at 10:08

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Can’t say I was disappointed. It took them over an hour of deliberating in my driveway to decide which they wanted though.

vondon302 > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 10:27

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Lol. Rally van has many admirers. 

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > vondon302 09/25/2019 at 12:20

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I let the market decide, I couldn’t make up my mind either. I loved them both for different reasons.

Even the couple that drove them both were surprised how totally different they were to drive despite being pretty much identical vehicles.

CB > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 17:57

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That older couple are now the proud owners of possibly the sweetest looking van around.

Chariotoflove > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/25/2019 at 18:02

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Not too surprised they took Blue. You did it up really nice.

Glad you’re back to work for your birthday too.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Chariotoflove 09/26/2019 at 07:11

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My birthday??????

That was months ago.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > CB 09/26/2019 at 07:13

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Excuse me:

Blue was damn good looking though.

Chariotoflove > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 09/26/2019 at 11:06

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Ugh. It was Longtime Lurker’s birthday yesterday, and I got you mixed up. That’s what comes from posting while working. 

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Chariotoflove 09/26/2019 at 12:04

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It happens.