Thanks! Looks to be healing up pretty good, stitches should come out next week
Keep a goin’! My ‘08 sienna is still going strong. That said, the cable for the passenger side sliding door just snapped today. I replaced the drivers side cable a few years ago, so I suppose it’s due.
That's a spammer.
The eyeballs gotta be shiny too. I had to give mine the headlight restore treatment. If they aren’t shiny, the birds think it’s dead, and they try to eat it.
Ordered a new one off the web, spent some time on YT watching videos and viola! A new side view mirror! Not as difficult as I was expecting...and things actually went according to plan....
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Ah. At least someone is paying attention…
Wow. What brand is that scoop? Are they findable?Cleaned up pretty good!
This is a Gilchrist #31 scoop. Very findable, but they pretty much all need work to be food safe or presentable.
I can relate. 20 years ago while living in Michigan I built my woodworking bench. When I built it I knew that, lord willing, I would be moving back to AZ.
Your "groan" problem reminded me of a similar 'phantom' noise on my daughters Expedition a while back. She lives a couple hours away but mentioned having an intermittent noise when stopping. When she came home we drove around and it sounded like possibly a disc brake cylinder sticking then when enough pressure was applied it would 'jam' the pad against the rotor. Long story short, I replaced two calipers to no avail. Few weeks later she was home and I was driving the Expedition around and when approaching a stop sign I simply took my foot off the gas and 'coasted' toward the stop. That's when I found the problem. Transmission would slip/grab/rub/whatever when it downshifted to first/low gear. Every time. She took it to a shop when she got home and they suggested first putting some 'instant fix' additive in the transmission which resolved the problem. Been probably 6 months and all is quiet.
I also had a plymouth van that had a weird groan that only happened at highway speeds. I got it up to speed, shut the engine off and coasted, and it still made the noise, so that ruled out anything drive-related. Long story short, I did a hillbilly wind-tunnel test by pointing a leaf blower at the front of it, and it ended up being the electric AC fan behind the radiator. The AC didn't work in that van, so that fan never actually ran, and it was a separate fan from the engine cooling fan. But as soon as I pointed the leaf blower at the grille "grrrooooaaannn". When you get up to highway speed there was enough air coming in the grille to spin that fan with it's bad bearings.Your "groan" problem reminded me of a similar 'phantom' noise on my daughters Expedition a while back. She lives a couple hours away but mentioned having an intermittent noise when stopping. When she came home we drove around and it sounded like possibly a disc brake cylinder sticking then when enough pressure was applied it would 'jam' the pad against the rotor. Long story short, I replaced two calipers to no avail. Few weeks later she was home and I was driving the Expedition around and when approaching a stop sign I simply took my foot off the gas and 'coasted' toward the stop. That's when I found the problem. Transmission would slip/grab/rub/whatever when it downshifted to first/low gear. Every time. She took it to a shop when she got home and they suggested first putting some 'instant fix' additive in the transmission which resolved the problem. Been probably 6 months and all is quiet.
@Outlawmws, I'm at weekend 1,352 as in 26 years. My break-even day is approaching fast. Collected a paycheck from IBM for 30 years and now I've collected their pension for 30. I believe the pension payments will surpass the paychecks next year. The payout from the SEP (Simplified Employee Pension) IRA from the 4 year gig at AOL will take a little longer.
@GrayFlattop, like toilet paper, it moves faster as you approach the end of the roll. Seems like two weeks passes in a day for me.
I barely sleep when I need to set the alarm for some early event. I wind up going to appointments looking like the cat dragged me in.
The character tells the stories. I built mine in '05 in my late G'dads shop. It was the first thing we put in place in the garage to my first house. The house remodel followed from the studs out, one room at a time. As I think about it, I could always just flip it and let the bottom surface become the top if the damages become to much. It gets another coat of polyurethane this evening, then maybe one more. I'll decide once this coat cures.I can relate. 20 years ago while living in Michigan I built my woodworking bench. When I built it I knew that, lord willing, I would be moving back to AZ.
I laminated 4 thickness of 3/4” BB plywood figuring I would have to worry about wood movement when moved the bench to the desert. Thought that if the top got too beat up I‘d replace it later.
Not sure I’ll ever have to. It’s scared but still flat
I have however had to plug and smooth over holes from screw mounted fixtures, and yeah a few oops.
Like you, I use a wood plug if necessary and Metal Set epoxy.
In this photo you can see the various plugged holes for different attempts at fitting a tail vise along with other repairs. The plugged and filled counterbores don’t hurt the function at all.
The scratches look much worse than the are. Most can’t really be felt with the palm of my hand.
Not happening here; My "fail safe" alarm is a 70's vintage Sansui stereo timer with both turn on, and turn off setups, and is attached to the Sansui stereo in the MBR. The other alarm is my Cell phone. Turing them off is sufficient.
Made a simple brake bleeding catch bottle
I dont think that motorcycle master cyl can pump that much air inside the bottle to stop the flow... but i might be wrong. In can i need a vent its easy to grill a hole and install a tire valve with removed core or something like that.
Will give it a try soon,i hope it will work...if not i will figure something out to make it work
I have not set the alarm since I retired(Semi), The shop opens at 8am I'm there at 7 and sleep in til 5 every day.......
@cannuck, all the calipers I've rebuilt have two seals. Mine have an internal seal, either on the piston or in the cylinder and it makes the high pressure seal for the fluid. They also have an outer dust seal that moves with the piston, as you say, to keep dirt from contaminating the inner seal, piston and cylinder walls.
