What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[harley jim]

Finished it and took a ride!

 

[kbeefy]

Finished it and took a ride!

Does it do burnouts or donuts? Wheelies? Thats cool!

 

[kaymccampbell]

Put together 2 Rubbermaid sheds.

That deserves an ice cream cone.

 

[kbeefy]

I've been too busy to post anything. What have I been up too?
Working my **** off on my campervan project. I'm T minus 10 days for a cross country road trip and behind schedule as usual.

Not sure how much of this I shared previously, but heres a photo dump.

Wall o' electrons...



Turbo R&R, cleaning





watery bits...



drawers



Added more exterior power connections...



More electrons, these ones can't sit still...



Made some light



Outdoor shower connection



Neato quick disconnect for the rear shower hose

 

[kbeefy]

More van stuff....



Holding tank hangar



Almost installed



Ball joints

 

[landrover bodger]

Got more of the insulation in the defender 90 rebuild next job is to learn how y recover a headlining

 

[Old Man Roger]

That deserves an ice cream cone.

Did I mention that I didn’t have the directions? Damn right I deserve an ice cream cone.

 

[GarageHobbyist]

Got my pitch and got my pitch bowl filled. Should make getting some detail in pieces easier.

 

[niget2002]

Wife is headed out on a 3 hour trip this afternoon. Did a quick look-see over her car before she left for work this morning.

Checked the oil in the wife's car. I never could find where the drips were coming from. Dipstick keeps showing it's full and I've noticed that it hasn't dripped in over a week.

Who knows.

 

[rsparks64]

Finished it and took a ride!

1. Is that a wheelie bar in the back?
2. Where are the brakes?

 

[GarageDan]

I did a similar thing and have a similar problem. Wife is leaving for a trip and I know the car is dripping oil so I checked it. It wasn’t low and I can’t figure out where that leak is coming from.

 

[GarageHobbyist]

1. Is that a wheelie bar in the back?
2. Where are the brakes?

It’s electric, so the motor probably is the brake. I’m assuming anyways.

 

[cannuck]

posted in the "what did you buy yourself" a couple days ago, but no pic. It took another day to clear a spot and figure out how I was going to move my new (birthday present from wife) valve grinder. There is no place to rig a lifting sling and the grinder just sits on the cabinet with 4 locating tabs. It came on a pallet, so had to rig the grinder with ratchet straps slide underneat the tiny slot at bottom. Needed 1" ratchets to fit the groove and be able to level when on the hook. Had to sling cabinet by wrapping a 2" ratchet strap around width wise, then lock in place with some light straps, one from front, one from back. landed the base first and grinder last by passing from OH crane in the cold storage bay to the main one over working bay and the second (original) that parks right against the North wall and could reach this location. Got things in place, plugged in and test run and everything works as it should (variable speed chuck, grinder motor and coolant pump), so quite pleased about that. What I can't find is any markings to set valve face angle, so if anyone familiar with this took please let me know.

 

[niget2002]

I did a similar thing and have a similar problem. Wife is leaving for a trip and I know the car is dripping oil so I checked it. It wasn’t low and I can’t figure out where that leak is coming from.

Yeah. Her car just rolled over 100k. Replaced the water pump earlier this year. Waiting to see what's next. It needs to last another year, then it's past down to my daughter as her first car. It will still be a daily driver, but it won't be relied upon as much.

 

[welder4956]

Yesterday - opened the door for the first time in two weeks after getting home from a road trip. Installed a new air tool organizer on the wall, then cut and drilled a piece of 1" x 2" wood for a hat rack for the wife. She liked the one I made for my hats and wanted one too. Still need to buy some hooks, rout the edges, sand and stain.

 

[ClutchXT]

Pulled the trans on the Taco for a TOB replacement, and found the frame is starting to get the Midwest cancer so I'll put that on my list to patch up this winter.

 

[tarmy]

1. Is that a wheelie bar in the back?
2. Where are the brakes?

We don‘t need no stinkin’ brakes!

 

[rd65]

Got more of the insulation in the defender 90 rebuild next job is to learn how y recover a headlining

I watched a couple of this guy's vidoes on YT. He really seems to know his stuff.

 

[Demon69]

Today I caressed a concrete step into submission, now I can fix the rest of the framing

 

[GarageDan]

Yesterday - opened the door for the first time in two weeks after getting home from a road trip. Installed a new air tool organizer on the wall, then cut and drilled a piece of 1" x 2" wood for a hat rack for the wife. She liked the one I made for my hats and wanted one too. Still need to buy some hooks, rout the edges, sand and stain.

Nice. Did you buy that or make it? I'd like that.

 

[welder4956]

Nice. Did you buy that or make it? I'd like that.

Ordered from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0B8LSYYLY?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Wrench97]

1. Is that a wheelie bar in the back?
2. Where are the brakes?

Who needs brakes?

 

[SweetD]

I am restoring a Dietz Little Wizard oil lantern found in my friend's shed when he bought the place. Will update.

Update, I'm done. Not perfect but pretty cool. Research shows this lantern was made in Syracuse, NY in September of 1944. So just turned 80. I'm not going to light it prior to giving it to my friend. Oh yeah, he also has no idea I restored it. Flat black high heat paint.



Grabbed an extra reproduction globe along with the red NOS globe shown on the lantern. Reason being is the old OEM colored globes can get bad crazing when heated, something to do with the chemical composition from back in the day. So he will have a "show" globe and a "lighting" globe.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Walked through. Twice.

 

[snorvet]

Doing some lacquering on jewelry boxes for the grand nieces. Multiple boxes need to be done by Christmas.

 

[kbeefy]

Picked up this pallet of stuff the other day.



Turns out the suspension on a ford van is only held on by 7 bolts per side... really just 4 frame bolts and the steering and shocks.
Actually, if you leave the brackets on its like 1 bolt and 1 nut per side.



Sans suspension....



I used this gadget today, first time. I should have used it earlier because I was getting really frustrated dropping the upper shock bolt, then having to disassemble all the shock bits to set it down and go find the nut.



One side is more or less done.

 

[CoogarXR]

Mounted my new subpanel, terminated and energized it. I remember thinking "I don't need to buy any breakers, I have a drawer full of them in my shop!". Well, I had 9000 QO breakers and ONE homeline. Of course this is a homeline panel. So I got one circuit done, lol.

I wanted to put a receptacle under the new breaker box. I thought "I don't need any handy boxes, I know I already have some". Well, indeed, I had some, and all of them only had 1" knockouts. I had no 1" fittings. I had 9000 1/2" fittings, but no handy boxes with 1/2" knockouts. So I didn't get my receptacle installed.

My parts stash was letting me down quite a bit today.

I got my new motion light put up though. So at least that went well, lol. Luckily it was on the only circuit that I completed.

 

[npp]

Pulled the trans on the Taco for a TOB replacement, and found the frame is starting to get the Midwest cancer so I'll put that on my list to patch up this winter.

I’m not sure about extended warranty on the frame in the US but here in Canada there is good warranty on the frames. Check with your dealership , it couldn’t hurt.

 

[Blackbyrd]

Playing with lineing up this quarter skin, got a little more work to do underneath then its time to stitch

 

[rharman]

Got out the roll of red rosin paper and cut out 10 pieces of 31"x18-1/2". Folded over to make a 2-ply 15-1/2"x18-1/2". I only need 4 right now but made spares.

These are the bottom layer of lining for our Rubbermaid hibernating boxes for our tortoises. Shredded newspaper goes in next. 4 tortoises go into hibernation this weekend for 6 months.

 

[DGersic]

Getting back to finishing a project I started in the spring, since it’s now ”leaves falling from the trees” season. I mounted the handle I made on to the yard vac. Hung the bag, and found that the “blower exhaust” port on the bag interfered with the handle. I’ve never used this as a blower, it seems poorly suited for that anyway, and the port end has been blocked off with a piece of cardboard wrapped in duct tape. So, no loss. I hacked off about three inches of port to gain clearance.



I cut a new cover / cap from some leftover galvanized sheet. Pop rivets hold it on permanently.



Now the bag clears the handle.



With the handle on, and the throttle cable mounted, ready to see how this all works. If it’s good, I’ll get some paint on the handle, probably in the spring.

Oil change (end of the year) for the hot rod. That still needs to be washed, but then gets to sleep through the winter. Started planning for some spring changes.

Oil changes for the small engines. Lawn mower, leaf blower, snow blower, and yard vac.

 

[landrover bodger]

Recovered the front section of the headlining for my defender 90 . This is my first attempt at a headlining and I have been dreading it. Plenty of help from my wife and we have got this far. 2 sections to go.

 

[Bob Heine]

My first car..’63 Rambler was a pleasure car,,factory Nash seats…

@Jazz1, I have evidence....

 

[tarmy]

@Jazz1, I have evidence....

We had one too…I think that had a flat head straight 6 cylinder engine…weird looking to my young eyes.

 

[Bob Heine]

Research shows this lantern was made in Syracuse, NY in September of 1944.

@SweetD, that looks to be in a lot better shape than me. Might be because I was made in Douglas AZ six blocks from the Mexican border.

 

[Bob Heine]

We had one too…I think that had a flat head straight 6 cylinder engine…weird looking to my young eyes.

@tarmy, our 1962 Rambler Classic 400 wagon came with an aluminum block and cast iron overhead valve cylinder head. It was one of the first cars to come with a dual-circuit master cylinder. My father appreciated that feature because we lost the brakes on our 1953 Oldsmobile 98 on the Alaska (ALCAN) highway coming down a mountain. Fortunately the 15-foot travel trailer had electric brakes so we made in the 105 miles to the next gas station. Mechanic fixed the severed brake line in under an hour -- not his first rodeo.

 

[Old Man Roger]

@Jazz1, I have evidence....

Im confused, is the evidence the car the kids? lol

 

[Old Man Roger]

1962 Rambler Classic 400 wagon

I remember some of the buicks had an aluminum v6, they were junk.

 

[Wrench97]

Im confused, is the evidence the car the kids? lol

The kids are the evidence of the "Nash seats"

 

[Wrench97]

I remember some of the buicks had an aluminum v6, they were junk.

Buick 215ci v8 introduced in 1961 ran til 63 in Buick, Pontiac and Olds(Skylark, Tempest, F85) GM later sold the tooling and design to Rover...................