What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Maxcustody]

Which Flowmasters are you running? Like them? Thinking of Delta 50s for my 80 F350

I love them, they sound great. They are 3". I am also running TTI headers.

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[Old Man Roger]

I installed the turndown pipes and seatbelts in the Dart.

Narrowed Dana? I would love to see a shot from the rear showing the fat tires.

 

[Maxcustody]

Narrowed Dana? I would love to see a shot from the rear showing the fat tires.

Dana 60.............4.88's

 

[rd65]

Searched for some under 7" carry-on legal tools for vacation plane ride. Screwdriver handle w/ bits, pliers, and crescent wrench. You just never know. I'm pretty sure there could be some manipulation of the shower head in our room.....

 

[Maxcustody]

Waiting on the post office so I can change the starter on one of the ATV's...........................................

 

[Brent T]

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[Brent T]

Nothing, it's almost 100deg IN the garage...

One word. Mini-Split. Maybe that's two words? Anyway, it's been a game changer for me here in Phoenix.

 

[CoogarXR]

Grabbed a bunch of tools and fittings and headed into the basement to swap out my water heater. The old one still worked, but it looks like hell; all rusty and gross. I'm thinking about selling this house, so I figured a shiny new water heater is a good look, lol.

Swapped it out and noticed a dribble from the drain valve. That thing was 2.5 turns loose! Crazy. I tightened it up and it stopped leaking, thankfully. Welp, it's done, and it's sitting on a nice concrete paver stone instead of the rotten 2x4s the previous owner had under the old tank.

 

[rzims]

Finally finished and reassembled the Savage. Found some bent railroad spikes on etsy and mounted to an old board....viola!

 

[Maxcustody]

Well you get what you pay for........................cheap Chinese starter installed and still won't fire up

Just ordered the OEM one. I should have known better.

 

[niget2002]

Started on a new picture frame for a project for my wife.


And finally drained and filled the rear diff on my '13 F250. I bought the fluid and rtv a couple years back... 137k

Did you make that jig?

 

[niget2002]

Kayak progress. Prepped for gluing the halves together.

 

[Maxcustody]

Well you get what you pay for........................cheap Chinese starter installed and still won't fire up

Just ordered the OEM one. I should have known better.

Must be Chinese magic, I let the ATV sit and went back out to the shop, and it fired right up...........................

I will have a back-up starter I guess.

 

[Metallitubby]

Rolled the new race car project into the shop to begin stripping it in preparation for the roll cage.

 

[Metallitubby]

Must be Chinese magic

It gives you both sweet AND sour?

 

[kaymccampbell]

Moved the PC oven out. Swept up. Realized I'm missing a couple things, left the **** on the floor for searching later.

 

[larry4406]

Rolled the new race car project into the shop to begin stripping it in preparation for the roll cage.

Build thread? You know by now we like pictures...

 

[Metallitubby]

Build thread? You know by now we like pictures...

Unfortunately no. I don't like documenting my projects.

 

[Maxcustody]

Unfortunately no. I don't like documenting my projects.

we need at least a pic of the car......................

 

[Metallitubby]

we need at least a pic of the car......................

Here's a picture from the FBMP listing (in Kansas):

 

[Outlawmws]

Must be Chinese magic,

More like a Hypochondriac - "I'm not going to work until you don't need me!"

 

[Old Man Roger]

Dana 60.............4.88's

Nice, gotta love some fatties.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Kayak progress. Prepped for gluing the halves together.

Wait? What? The kayak was made in 2 pieces?

 

[ogdawg]

Oil change on the wife’s car. And got the trucks put into the parking are of the shop

 

[Ultradog MN]

I worked on building a stand for the Wilton C3 vise I picked up recently.
A couple of parameters:
I was NOT going to install it on my big welding table. Had a 4" vise there for a while and hated it. So it had to be stand alone. And it HAD to be moveable - not bolted to the floor.
So looking around in my scrap piles I found some items I could use. Some 1/2" plate, heavy channel iron, 6" pipe and the tray from an old machine base.
I added a bunch of extra ballast in the base so with the vise installed it will weigh upwards of 500 lbs and not tip over. But slip the pallet jack under it and it moves easily.
Vise goes on the end with the beer.
More work to do yet - softening corners, plug those holes in the top pan, prime and paint, etc.
I'm lucky I was born a boy -
And now have have a garage -
Where I can make stuff...

 

[Magnum440d100]

Still chasing wiring gremlins on the Lincoln.

Couldn’t find a NOS right tail light on the bay, so I got a used one with good wiring and a NOS lens from another seller.

Tomorrow it goes on the car.


Should get me by until I find a complete NOS one.

 

[02Xterra]

Did you make that jig?

I did! Saw it in a YouTube video a while back


Sanded and stained the frame today, 'espresso'

 

[micromind]

Oil change on the wife’s car. And got the trucks put into the parking are of the shop

The white car or the blue one.........lol.

That's really cute by the way.

 

[ogdawg]

The white car or the blue one.........lol.

That's really cute by the way.

Haha, the white one. Blue is electric, no oil needed but kids gave it a tune up

 

[DGersic]

Inspired by @kaymccampbell comments earlier in thread, I decided I do indeed need a router table. So I started making one, kinda based on some plans I found online, and some other previous projects, and some ideas, and what I had on hand.

Base will go on a WorkMate. The base, and fence parts were all leftovers and scraps from my various “I’ll use that for something eventually” piles. Bonus: the piles are now smaller.



Router is new from HF because I didn’t have a fixed base router. I should be able to finish the fence and get the base mounted tomorrow before leaving for the park for the festivities.

Then back to this.



Coming home tonight from rehearsal, the fan cut out again. I pulled in to a convenient gas station, grabbed my test light, and confirmed that the circuit breaker has power on one terminal, but not on the other.

So, I need a new circuit breaker.

 

[GRN96WS6]

Sent a text to some friends that I bought a blow up doll and had no idea they were so compact....




But it was a car part..

 

[Wrench97]

Inspired by @kaymccampbell comments earlier in thread, I decided I do indeed need a router table. So I started making one, kinda based on some plans I found online, and some other previous projects, and some ideas, and what I had on hand.

Base will go on a WorkMate. The base, and fence parts were all leftovers and scraps from my various “I’ll use that for something eventually” piles. Bonus: the piles are now smaller.



Router is new from HF because I didn’t have a fixed base router. I should be able to finish the fence and get the base mounted tomorrow before leaving for the park for the festivities.

Then back to this.



Coming home tonight from rehearsal, the fan cut out again. I pulled in to a convenient gas station, grabbed my test light, and confirmed that the circuit breaker has power on one terminal, but not on the other.

So, I need a new circuit breaker.

Have you verified the amp draw of the fan?

 

[kaymccampbell]

Coming home tonight from rehearsal, the fan cut out again. I pulled in to a convenient gas station, grabbed my test light, and confirmed that the circuit breaker has power on one terminal, but not on the other.

So, I need a new circuit breaker.

Change the breaker. It could be sick. Make sure the new one is the correct amperage, just in case the current one is not.

Do not be surprised if it's actually the fan. They're kinda cheesy and live in a hellish environment, so they're not the longest living part on the car. I've seen them start to draw really high amps intermittently as they die.

On my kid's car the fan had bad bearings, causing it to freeze momentarily as it ran. When the little freezes became slightly longer, it would pop the breaker. Then, after the car had sat for a while to cool down, it would be mysteriously OK, till the next event.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Hartville.......................

Their store down here in Mansfield has a slightly shady reputation.. .. daughter bought 2 cars from them and I asked her why ? I won't even drive on their lot because of their radio commercials.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Which Flowmasters are you running? Like them? Thinking of Delta 50s for my 80 F350

I have some Thrush welded mufflers on the Mustang, a FlowMaster knock off. Much, much cheaper and I am happy with them.



Dumped the condensate bucket this morning. Wife dumped it last night about 6pm.

In about 13 hours, it filled a 5 gallon bucket an inch from the top.

 

[Hal]

Helped a neighbor do a quickie pad slap on an E350 Ford van. The owner had been offered a $800 complete front brake job, and didn’t want to pay that much. I wish he had. Parts would have been $550, my cost, and the labor would have been about the same. He opted for “Take it apart and see how bad it is, then do the minimum.”

Calipers were crusty and the pins were stuck, but the pistons retracted all right. Rotors were serviceable, one pad was almost to the metal. Guess what? An air hammer bit for driving valve guides in a Farmall tractor just fits the pins. It still took me nearly three hours, on the floor with my bum knee complaining the whole time. Replacing everything, including packing wheel bearings and bleeding the new calipers wouldn’t have taken much longer.

Funniest part was watching him put the wheel covers on after we finished. Don’t know if they were OEM or aftermarket, but they just wouldn’t catch. He almost wore out my rubber mallet by the time he was done.

 

[larry4406]

I have some Thrush welded mufflers on the Mustang, a FlowMaster knock off. Much, much cheaper and I am happy with them.



Dumped the condensate bucket this morning. Wife dumped it last night about 6pm.

In about 13 hours, it filled a 5 gallon bucket an inch from the top.

Sounds like you need a condensate pump and proper outfall/drain.

 

[niget2002]

Got one side of the kayak inside seam glassed... then ran out of epoxy hardener. Really odd since I have plenty of resin left. I can pick the container up and shake it and hear some still in there, but I went ahead and ordered some more. I'll pour whatever is left in this container into the new one after I've used some of it. There might be more in this container than I think.

Either way. It doesn't look like I'll be getting all the seams glassed this weekend as planned. It ***** because work gave us a nice long 5 day weekend.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Got one side of the kayak inside seam glassed... then ran out of epoxy hardener. Really odd since I have plenty of resin left. I can pick the container up and shake it and hear some still in there, but I went ahead and ordered some more. I'll pour whatever is left in this container into the new one after I've used some of it. There might be more in this container than I think.

Either way. It doesn't look like I'll be getting all the seams glassed this weekend as planned. It ***** because work gave us a nice long 5 day weekend.

Have you tried just stabbing the hardener container and pouring it into a cup?

 

[ZRX61]

Planned to grind out more cracks in the F350 running boards, which is done outside so I don't have white **** all over the garage.







Stepped outside, it's already 99deg. Had a FTS moment & gave up that idea for the day.