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A lot of these pictures are going to be just admiration shots. I'm sure everybody will understand. Both '87s! Fun fact, that's not actually an El Camino, it's the lesser known GMC version, the Caballero. So I finally got a little time to give the BRAT a quick look over. Well first and foremost, I need to get some tires on this thing. At first glance I saw the last two date code numbers on the tires (all four matching btw) was '18' so I knew they were old but not ancient and should be replaced in due time. WELL I didn't notice the date code was only three digits long.... That means the manufacture date is actually *1998* ....🤦 Oi vey. So tires are now a very high priority. The e-brake is not hooked up on either front caliper. I went to attach them because everything seems to be in order but it seems like the lever on each caliper is in the wrong position. Something is definitely not right, when I bolt the e-brake cable bracket to the caliper the cable is way too Forward and not lining up with the lever. In brief glancing it seems to me that if I could re-clock the position of the lever coming off each caliper about 20 degrees toward the rear of the vehicle, everything will line up. As it is right now the lever on the calipers will actually come into contact with the metal bracket the cable passes through. The front left strut is broken. It is detached from the top hat. The weight of the front end holds it all together, but this is a very not ideal situation. I will need to fix that. The rust is there but not terminal. That can be addressed later. The braking system and exhaust system need gone through. They both function but are not very well repaired; more hacked together. All things in time. It still looks great, eh? 210 miles on it so far. 22 mpg avg.

After another 230 miles of mostly mountains (Leggo did great!), I got it home. When I finally got some time to give it a little attention I looked it over a bit and found the alternator belt was WAY too loose. The wrong belt was on the car, seemingly. This brat has no AC and no power steering and I think the belt was for a power steering equipped model so that was the first order of business. After getting the right belt on there, I felt confident in it enough to take it for a test drive. That was all going great until I had to cycled the brakes a few times and noticed the pedal ongetting progressively more stiff and the motor laboring more and more to keep moving the car. The brakes (at least one of em) were hanging up bad. Pulled over and it became very apparent the front left wheel was super warm and smelled like brake pad. I made it half a mile! Lol Fortunately I happened to be looking through rock auto a couple days prior and noticed a front brake hose on wholesale closeout and decided to buy it completely unknowingly and just because it was super cheap ($3!) that worked out well because it came in the next day, I slapped that SOB in there, bled the line, and hit the road again! Checked the air in the tires, filled the tank, hit the car wash. In all it's glory. And here is the earliest service record I was able to find. This explains the relatively good condition it's in. She's a WEST SIDE unit.

The AUDM series 1 RX turbo TPSwitch has A22-610 972 stamped in its backing plate. Its three pins not marked but manuals indicate if you look at pins with plug locator central slide alignment guide bottom central, they are A C B In that order C common black ecu ground in centre A &C is idle switch C & B is flat out switch that operates @32° (or 47° AUDM only) Now curious as to Series 1 Vortex XT non turbo were