What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Mike65]

I did a little more old paint & rust removal from the inside area of the front valance for the Mustang.

 

[16again]

Finished the last piece of the 110,000-mile maintenance on my 16 Camry.
Serpentine belt, easiest thing to do, 10 minutes tops. NOPE! Need 3 freaking hands to hold the belt on the crankshaft pulley, move the tensioner AND place over the alternator pulley. All at the same time. After more than an hour, I called one of the techs from my shop for a third hand. 30 seconds after he got here, all done.

 

[^&right]

Welded (I use that term loosely) the broken passenger seat frame on my '05 Buick. Replaced some missing bolts on the driveshaft on my Wrangler and finally got around to putting the snow blade on my 1025. It was 50* out and wanted to get this done long before 0* and 12" of snow was flying.

 

[JEFFREYWisconsin]

Hi, I'm new here. I just signed up. I like old things that were built right and built to last. One of my biggest hobbies is restoring old Weber gas grills. 1st and 2nd generation Genesis. Now I want to dabble in Vises. I picked up my first. Just a Craftsman 3.5 made in USA. Now I want something bigger and nicer. From my recent research I'm thinking a nice Reed. Maybe 4" or bigger. Think I'd like a swivel base.

Any thoughts or Advice?

What defines first and second generation Weber Genesis? I have a 2002 Weber Gold stainless and I have replaced almost everything more than once, but it is the best grill I have ever owned. It is amazing.

 

[Bob Peach]

Removed the mower deck from the X-350 and mounted the 44" blower. Put it back in the cover-it and hope I don`t have to use it !

 

[Josh Dekubber]

What defines first and second generation Weber Genesis? I have a 2002 Weber Gold stainless and I have replaced almost everything more than once, but it is the best grill I have ever owned. It is amazing.

Fist Generation Weber Genesis model 1-3 1985-1992
Second generation Weber Genesis model 1000-5000 1993-2001. I'm pretty sure the end of the run was 2001.

I have friends that love those stainless frame gold and platinum grills also.

 

[Outlawmws]

Refilled the "VJ day" lantern I lit yesterday evening for Pearl Harbor day. (9-1945 dated lantern)

Got the trees down from the shed loft and into the house, then setup. Got the inflatable snowman anchored and test inflated, Sidetracked to clearing more of the patio of oak leave, but at least all the leaves are now off the trees. House lights are operational again

 

[Mr.zippy]

Refilled the "VJ day" lantern I lit yesterday evening for Pearl Harbor day. (9-1945 dated lantern)

Got the trees down from the shed loft and into the house, then setup. Got the inflatable snowman anchored and test inflated, Sidetracked to clearing more of the patio of oak leave, but at least all the leaves are now off the trees. House lights are operational again

I had an Uncle that was at Pearl Harbor on one of the ships. I had asked him several times for some stories of that day. His eyes would glaze over and he would just walk away, or change the subject abruptly. As I got older I figured I probably didn't need to hear them either. Thanks for having a flame in their honor!

 

[Outlawmws]

I had an Uncle that was at Pearl Harbor on one of the ships. I had asked him several times for some stories of that day. His eyes would glaze over and he would just walk away, or change the subject abruptly. As I got older I figured I probably didn't need to hear them either. Thanks for having a flame in their honor!

One of he guys in my Coleman group I'm in had a relation that was there in the Navy, he worked Torpedo recovery and had to defuse/dismantle an unexplored Japanese Torpedo. This guy has the piston from that torpedo and its marked as coming from PH, having failed to explode after hitting the West Virginia. He has the same date and model lantern as me, so he had something from the very start and something for commemorating the end.

 

[02Xterra]

Replacing a $12 o-ring on my F250 turned into draining all of the coolant out of the primary coolant system (~6 gallons) to also replace the o-ring on the radiator drain valve that wouldn't seal after I initially drained ~1 gallon to empty the hose.

Luckily I had a kit of o-rings and had one the correct size to replace it. Got it back together and refilled, no more leaks!

 

[bulletpruf]

Man I hope that's not my issue on my 95 T-bird.

Can you hear the motor turning but your glass isn't going up? If so, that's likely what's going on. Not a difficult job.

 

[Outlawmws]

I can and its a "sometimes" thing sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't the passenger side recently decided to start working.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I can and its a "sometimes" thing sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't the passenger side recently decided to start working.

I HATE intermittently dead things. Even if it's expensive, I'd rather that the damned thing died dead.

 

[DGersic]

Took advantage of the ridiculously nice weather (55F and sunny). Made a bunch of sawdust cutting new shelves for the cabinets project. Then got the Christmas decorations out of the shed. Put up the lights on the house, with all new mounting clips. Got the big plastic ornaments in the tree. Got the row of light up candy canes stood up. It’s festive now.

 

[Jakemedic]

Well technically it was “yesterday“ but I helped a friend of mine who lost her son in a tragic car crash a year ago. Her husband called me in Saturday and asked if I could help with a project. He made his son’s urn and wanted his name carved on it. They came over and I carved his name on the lid. Designed, set up and carved in about a half an hour. It was an honor to be able to assist them in that way. My CNC machine had it done in less than 3 minutes. Made my day I could help them out.

 

[FLHCHAZ]

Pulled the deck and put the plow on the XT2, Charnged the oil in the daily driver and cleaned all of the rock salt off of it.

 

[PhantomEB]

Stuffed some 28x9.0 Radial slicks onto the 88 coupe. Car has a complete OEM setup so full exhaust with tailpipes and quad shocks. Did not modify the inner fenders or roll the outer lip at all. I was surprised.

Can’t wait to build a quick 5.0 street car myself.

All I want to do is slap on the slicks, fill er up with Co-Op premium(lowest ethanol in these parts)…..and bang out some Low-low 11s on a pro charger, I talking having the tech guy who’s a coworker of mine ITCHING to tell me no cage , too fast, here’s your warning……then last pass of the season, open up the bottle.

 

[PhantomEB]

Looking at the bank account……nope can’t order those three switches to complete my dash on the Bronco……friggin CRA… I do have a Nuetral safety switch coming today and LED indicator lights on Wednesday.

wife wants me wait on a bottle of MiG gas until after at least one of my trips to the big city…..I should talk to my brother about this empty bottle he mentioned last week.

Guess I should clean up my scrap steel buckets as I getting my engine crane back tomorrow apparently, it’s gonna resume it’s life back in the shop, as it qualifies as ‘gearhead toolage‘ in my books.

 

[bugnut]

Got out the scrap lumber and the kindling cracker. Ready for a few more wood stove firings!

 

[Dixie_Flatline]

Previous owners must have spilled a gallon of all-purpose cleaner or another chemical with a similar odor, because the wife's Beetle has had this heavy smell since we bought it several years ago. Yeah, years, and the smell did not dissipate in the slightest. Air freshener masks it, but its still there, this chemical note which mixes with whatever scent you try. I really wanted to buy myself an ozone machine, but that will have to wait for another day. In the meantime, P&S Odor Doc is what I am trying. The only two negatives I can see right off is that one, I have to leave the car running for 50 minutes. Two, there will be a chlorine smell once this is finished. Supposed to dissipate over the next 24-hours and leave nothing but a neutral scent behind. $22 for this experiment is less than an ozone machine, so I am hoping it gets the job done!

 

[zmotorsports]

Almost wrapped up the Jeep JKU that's been in my shop for the past couple of weeks.












I have many more details about the project in my Projects 2.0 thread.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Previous owners must have spilled a gallon of all-purpose cleaner or another chemical with a similar odor, because the wife's Beetle has had this heavy smell since we bought it several years ago. Yeah, years, and the smell did not dissipate in the slightest. Air freshener masks it, but its still there, this chemical note which mixes with whatever scent you try. I really wanted to buy myself an ozone machine, but that will have to wait for another day. In the meantime, P&S Odor Doc is what I am trying. The only two negatives I can see right off is that one, I have to leave the car running for 50 minutes. Two, there will be a chlorine smell once this is finished. Supposed to dissipate over the next 24-hours and leave nothing but a neutral scent behind. $22 for this experiment is less than an ozone machine, so I am hoping it gets the job done!

You'd probably be hours ahead of the game if you just pulled out the carpet and washed it with soap and baking soda. Especially if you know exactly where the spill is.

Almost wrapped up the Jeep JKU that's been in my shop for the past couple of weeks.












I have many more details about the project in my Projects 2.0 thread.

Thanks for looking.

What's the jig in the last picture?

 

[kaymccampbell]

Previous owners must have spilled a gallon of all-purpose cleaner or another chemical with a similar odor, because the wife's Beetle has had this heavy smell since we bought it several years ago. Yeah, years, and the smell did not dissipate in the slightest. Air freshener masks it, but its still there, this chemical note which mixes with whatever scent you try. I really wanted to buy myself an ozone machine, but that will have to wait for another day. In the meantime, P&S Odor Doc is what I am trying. The only two negatives I can see right off is that one, I have to leave the car running for 50 minutes. Two, there will be a chlorine smell once this is finished. Supposed to dissipate over the next 24-hours and leave nothing but a neutral scent behind. $22 for this experiment is less than an ozone machine, so I am hoping it gets the job done!

Last time I tried one of those my car went from funny smell to wet dog with orange juice, to fully wet dog. Good luck.

 

[kaymccampbell]

You'd probably be hours ahead of the game if you just pulled out the carpet and washed it with soap and baking soda. Especially if you know exactly where the spill is.

What's the jig in the last picture?

It's a pumpkin spreader, among other names.

 

[wfopete]

Christmas came early! New wheels AND tires for my 20yo Hand Truck.

 

[cannuck]

We had a very unusual break in our normally frosty December weather, so I cleared out the access trails into farm yard on Friday then pulled a 14k car/equipment trailer buried under a few feet of snow. Had plugged in block heater of crane after clearing snow with D5 but when I went to dig it out found a tire had gone flat so fired up the excavator to drag trailer into cleared trail. It is 20 years old and was parked at least 5 years ago since the electrics were a disaster, so spent Sat and Sun repairing the mess while parked in snowbanks on street in town. Will replace the 20 year old rubber with some 235/85 16G Sailun trailer tires before we load BIL's 1500 3.0 project to haul it 5 hours to engine rebuilder. Was quite a thrill to be able to work bare handed outside for 2 days this late in the year (my hands and feet very poor circulation due to fixing cars and airplanes in sub arctic when I was a lot younger and even more stupid.)

 

[zmotorsports]

What's the jig in the last picture?

Case spreader.

 

[Old Man Roger]

It's a pumpkin spreader, among other names.

Case spreader.

Makes it easier to get the carrier in and out?

 

[zmotorsports]

Makes it easier to get the carrier in and out?

In my opinion the ONLY way to properly build an axle/carrier is to use a case spreader. I have covered this extensively over the years in my projects thread as well.

Not just to make it easier to get it in/out, but in order to provide the proper carrier preload it is a necessity. Otherwise as the pinion pushes the ring gear aside, it runs higher up to the face of the gear tooth, which is the weakest point. Using a case spreader to open the case .010"-.020" is enough to provide enough clearance to insert and remove the shim stacks, but more importantly it allows the proper carrier preload to be applied for a long living gearset.

 

[Old Man Roger]

In my opinion the ONLY way to properly build an axle/carrier is to use a case spreader. I have covered this extensively over the years in my projects thread as well.

Not just to make it easier to get it in/out, but in order to provide the proper carrier preload it is a necessity. Otherwise as the pinion pushes the ring gear aside, it runs higher up to the face of the gear tooth, which is the weakest point. Using a case spreader to open the case .010"-.020" is enough to provide enough clearance to insert and remove the shim stacks, but more importantly it allows the proper carrier preload to be applied for a long living gearset.

Changed a bunch of gears in my race cars over the years, one of those definitely would have made it easier to get the shims in.

 

[DAVE94LIGHTNING]

Can’t wait to build a quick 5.0 street car myself.

All I want to do is slap on the slicks, fill er up with Co-Op premium(lowest ethanol in these parts)…..and bang out some Low-low 11s on a pro charger, I talking having the tech guy who’s a coworker of mine ITCHING to tell me no cage , too fast, here’s your warning……then last pass of the season, open up the bottle.

Easy to do with these cars. I have a virtually stock 88 coupe that runs those times with a little shot of nitrous.

 

[Dixie_Flatline]

You'd probably be hours ahead of the game if you just pulled out the carpet and washed it with soap and baking soda. Especially if you know exactly where the spill is.

What's the jig in the last picture?

It was not a localized smell, like a spill or something left sitting for a time, it smelled almost exactly like Meguiar's All Purpose Cleaner was used in MASSIVE quantities to clean something before it came to live with us.

Last time I tried one of those my car went from funny smell to wet dog with orange juice, to fully wet dog. Good luck.

The first thing we tried when we bought it was one of those Meguiar's odor bombs, it was like vanilla and APC mixed together until the vanilla just disappeared entirely.


As of now, the car smells like a swimming pool, which is making the garage smell like a pool. I was warned that this would happen, and once the chlorine odor is gone it will leave nothing behind. For now its parked with the windows and sunroof open to air out, if it didn't look like it was going to rain at any moment I would park it outside in the breeze. I find the chlorine odor less offensive than that APC scent, so already its a win in my book. Guess I will find out tomorrow if I can chalk this up as a victory...or if I get to buy myself an ozone machine!

 

[Outlawmws]

Guess I will find out tomorrow if I can chalk this up as a victory...or if I get to buy myself an ozone machine!

Well, the can was labeled "satisfaction guaranteed"

 

[PWC Repair]

Today I tore down a Rotax 800 from an old Seadoo. Poor guy bought it, didn't get to ride even ONE HOUR before it quit........and it wasn't running right at that! I found compression in front cylinder a bit low but that wasn't what prompted a complete teardown. After cranking and letting off the start button I could hear a "click click". Not rythmic really but I've heard that noise a few times through the years. Compression issue:.....the piston tops show a decent "wash" pattern but see how the carbon on the left is disappearing? =water intrusion.....which also washes the lube off and the piston skirt and cylinder wall are all scored up.
Clicking noise:.....look inside that mag cup, you can see a shiny pattern from rubbing, a "witness" mark. And once I got everything off the front.......LOOK MA, NO BEARING CAGE! When that cage disintegrates the balls are free to run around the race and bang into each other........"click,clack, click".
Now I just have to tally up the total and call the customer with the bad news.......complete overhaul!

 

[Old Man Roger]

It was not a localized smell, like a spill or something left sitting for a time, it smelled almost exactly like Meguiar's All Purpose Cleaner was used in MASSIVE quantities to clean something before it came to live with us.



The first thing we tried when we bought it was one of those Meguiar's odor bombs, it was like vanilla and APC mixed together until the vanilla just disappeared entirely.


As of now, the car smells like a swimming pool, which is making the garage smell like a pool. I was warned that this would happen, and once the chlorine odor is gone it will leave nothing behind. For now its parked with the windows and sunroof open to air out, if it didn't look like it was going to rain at any moment I would park it outside in the breeze. I find the chlorine odor less offensive than that APC scent, so already its a win in my book. Guess I will find out tomorrow if I can chalk this up as a victory...or if I get to buy myself an ozone machine!

I probably would have left the windows closed a little longer to make sure it kills what ever is in there.lol

 

[Old Man Roger]

Today I tore down a Rotax 800 from an old Seadoo. Poor guy bought it, didn't get to ride even ONE HOUR before it quit........and it wasn't running right at that! I found compression in front cylinder a bit low but that wasn't what prompted a complete teardown. After cranking and letting off the start button I could hear a "click click". Not rythmic really but I've heard that noise a few times through the years. Compression issue:.....the piston tops show a decent "wash" pattern but see how the carbon on the left is disappearing? =water intrusion.....which also washes the lube off and the piston skirt and cylinder wall are all scored up.
Clicking noise:.....look inside that mag cup, you can see a shiny pattern from rubbing, a "witness" mark. And once I got everything off the front.......LOOK MA, NO BEARING CAGE! When that cage disintegrates the balls are free to run around the race and bang into each other........"click,clack, click".
Now I just have to tally up the total and call the customer with the bad news.......complete overhaul!

The ear of a pro.

 

[oldmxracer]

Today I tore down a Rotax 800 from an old Seadoo. Poor guy bought it, didn't get to ride even ONE HOUR before it quit........and it wasn't running right at that! I found compression in front cylinder a bit low but that wasn't what prompted a complete teardown. After cranking and letting off the start button I could hear a "click click". Not rythmic really but I've heard that noise a few times through the years. Compression issue:.....the piston tops show a decent "wash" pattern but see how the carbon on the left is disappearing? =water intrusion.....which also washes the lube off and the piston skirt and cylinder wall are all scored up.
Clicking noise:.....look inside that mag cup, you can see a shiny pattern from rubbing, a "witness" mark. And once I got everything off the front.......LOOK MA, NO BEARING CAGE! When that cage disintegrates the balls are free to run around the race and bang into each other........"click,clack, click".
Now I just have to tally up the total and call the customer with the bad news.......complete overhaul!

Is it worth saving ?

 

[PWC Repair]

Is it worth saving ?

That's always a loaded question. It's pretty easy dumping in as much (or more) than what the "retail value" would be. Compared to a new one.........you'd save thousands upon thousands. But maybe the real value is in countless smiles and family weekend memories. I just let the customer decide and I stand behind my engine work for 1 full "season".

 

[Jgaz]

Nothing near as interesting as some of what is posted here.

Sharpened 3 paring knives, one of which was in really rough shape but had good steel.

Finished a theatre prop for a friend that is costuming the Wizard of Oz.

I took a funky alarm clock from Jeff’s Jungle site, gutted it, and turned it into an over sized pocket watch for one of the Munchkins.

She wanted it to be a larger diameter and much thinner.

Hey, I’ve made weirder things.

 

[PhantomEB]

Well heres a little of my let’s clean up and organize the steel buckets.

now to decide if that’s where my engine crane will sit…