What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Bear]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Cleaned the deck and replaced belts and the tensioner pulley bracket on the mower. Crapped out on me in the middle of the "before the rains" mowing last week. $%#. Got the lawn remowed and cleaned up before the next set of rains. Ha! JD only wanted $40+ for the $12 bracket %^$#*!

 

[rohartman]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

got my zep parts cleaner up and running that I paid $50 for and cleaned so pontiac engine parts tonight.

 

[IONH]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Finished trimming out the garage doors on my front wall.

 

[bobcatdan]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Replaced the wiring harness in a bobcat 743, old foundry machine with 30,000 plus hours. Worked first try and no magic smoke.

 

[bfarroo]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Replaced the wiring harness in a bobcat 743, old foundry machine with 30,000 plus hours. Worked first try and no magic smoke.

I hate trying to put the magic smoke back in!

 

[mdbeck1]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

R&R'd the garage beer box. It's funny... the bottom section was warm and the freezer section was still working just fine. I tried blowing out the coils last week but no joy. Oh well, it was free and the replacement was a C-note.

 

[don long]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

cleaned up the chevy after three years in shop for overheating problem

It now has front disc brakes
new power steering system
Be Cool polished core support, radiator and condenser
Vintage air conditioning
completely rewired with american wire kit
headers
polished valve covers
polished intake and Edelbrock carberator
smoothed firewall
Stainless exaust 2 1/2 " new mufflers

So I believe it will run cool now

 

[lowbucktruck]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I spent a fair amount of time removing about 40 years of old crud off the frame of my 1972 Chevy Cheyenne truck... multiple doses of Simple Green, lots of scaping and six wash-downs with the pressure washer and she is getting clean. Then treated any surface rust I could find. Sprayed primer. Finish coat of chassis black will be going on today!

 

[Megadodo]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I spent most of the day tidying, moving boxes to the shed with a view to getting my latest tool in place. One portable hydraulic scissor car lift. Finally got it in but moving it around on my rough concrete yard is "fun". I need to look at a better way as I want to able to move it in and out of the garage easily.


It goes more than high enough in my garage and if I was to lift my kit car to the top of the travel I'll have to take the screen off! You use the power unit to lift and move the whole thing around.
Although it sits very low when down......

......I had to put my kit car on to the wheel dollies to get it over the lift. I feel some 4 by 8 planks of wood are required. It should go under our daily drives easily enough but the kit has very little clearance!

The lift speed is more than adequate, best £1100 I've spent in ages!

 

[Jawn]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Started taking apart my truck's engine. It's ready for the head to come off as soon as I come up with something to hold the timing chain and tensioner in place.

#%&$@* head gasket.

 

[930dreamer]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I picked up this Country Flame wood stove on CL. Needs a little work. After some cleaning, sanding and paint.

 

[katotter]

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[Lippyp]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Took a car and trailer load of **** to the dump, the car load came out of the garage mostly stuff thats just been chucked in and stockpiled until we had enough for a car load. Then I washed the wifes car and mucked it out inside, hasn't been done since out big summer holiday in France and it was a total tip. The me and my boys washed my car (there goes any shine that was left on the paintwork thanks to two six year olds!) I also wired in a small flourescent light over the new bench and tacked up an odd strip of insulation I found.

 

[j p smith]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Finished up this Oil Spill Containment Pan for our Trash Compactor at work, loaded and ready to got the Powder Coaters. Too heavy to ship to the Mistress of Metal.

 

[crewchief888]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

a whole lot of nothing..

havent had the door open in 2 weeks...

 

[Outlander]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Washed the ATV after our 180km run through the woods yesterday. Total count was over 300 ATVs, dust was amazing..like a snowstorm.

 

[k-os]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Mounted up the prybar rack to the HF cabinet.

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[FF_Chevy]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Mounted up the prybar rack to the HF cabinet.

What brand is the prybar rack?

 

[floridaguy]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Cool Art

Finished my lamp. Want to re-do the cord so it comes out the back.

Check out how it is switched.

 

[Flatland Dave]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

A little plumbing, a little electrical, and a bunch of cleaning....

 

[k-os]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

What brand is the prybar rack?

Sunex. I bought it used from a member on here.

 

[volaredon]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Well in the last 2 days...
---Replaced all the rotten steel brake lines on a rusty Chevy 4WD truck (NOT MINE)
---Muffler and tail on my 97 Wrangler
---Oil change, back brakes, and new rear axle seals on my 93 Dakota (started out just doing the oil change and saw the pass side rear backing plate was soaked,,, ****).
---changed trans fluid and filter on the 78 Sport Fury before it goes into hibernation for the winter
---Chevy back on the rack to replace the driver front hub bearing, (ABS sensor is bad, twisted off in hub when I went to pull the sensor) its apart, but all the parts stores in town are closed now, so can't go get the replacement til tomorrow

 

[IONH]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Was raining so worked inside and did some more electrical work on the front wall.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Started adding sillplate in prep for drywall.

 

[ADSR]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Damn! That's a big sticker!

 

[henrysgarage]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Removed the good frame from the 53HenryJ and then put the bad 51 frame under it, all covered up until I get the 51 done.


Here is the 51 with the 80 Buick turbo V6 test fit. This frame is badly bent and cracked.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Not a lot really that you could say was garage related however I did get a heap of stuff done around the yard and house,
. Moved and stacked a pile of very old house bricks.
. Moved a few plants from the fernery area that will soon become a storage shed.
. Fitted new smoke detectors in the house.
. Cleaned carport gutters out that were blocked with leaves.
. Watered potted plants.
. Swept and cleaned yard.

 

[RbrtAWhyt]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

The kit car looks cool. Do you have a thread about it?

 

[FF_Chevy]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Sunex. I bought it used from a member on here.

Thanks, I really like that... and the red matches well. I might have to add one down the road.

 

[dreamingmuscle]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Put new bearings and and races in my 16' flatbed trailer today. Bought it new in 95. This is the first time I've had the bearings open. They had got pretty hot at one point. Took about a hour per hub. I really need to get a race driver. A Knocking the races out and back in with a big brass drift takes forever.

 

[Justanoldguy]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Put new bearings and and races in my 16' flatbed trailer today. Bought it new in 95. This is the first time I've had the bearings open. They had got pretty hot at one point. Took about a hour per hub. I really need to get a race driver. A Knocking the races out and back in with a big brass drift takes forever.

There are plenty of race drivers looking for jobs.
Are they quicker at replacing bearing than the average Joe Bloggs?

 

[alpinewhite]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I replaced my 2004 Prius battery.

 

[katotter]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Damn! That's a big sticker!

Even bigger in person, took three of us just to stick it into place.

Came out looking sharp though.

 

[Lippyp]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I replaced my 2004 Prius battery.

Bit bigger than whacking a few AA's in then!

 

[IONH]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I replaced my 2004 Prius battery.

Did you replace it with a used battery?

How did the old one fail. No charge or just less MPG/E?

 

[awdblazer]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Did you replace it with a used battery?

How did the old one fail. No charge or just less MPG/E?

how much was that battery?

 

[aka Larry]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I helped my buddy a little more on his V8 Miata project. We installed the aftermarket frame rail stiffeners, re-attached the fuel and brake lines, and cut the shifter opening to accomodate the T5 ******.

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[tskills10]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I am usually a bit behind on my posts, so this is actually from last week. Not really garage work but around the house type.

A friend was having a pool dug in so I was able to get a few truck loads of fill dirt. After deciding that a shovel and wheelbarrow just wasn't going to cut it. I lined up a rental Bobcat skid steer to do the work. Well the day before I was going to do the work, I had the opportunity get some asphalt grindings from the road project on my street.


My side driveway extension for the extra car for my boys, I hate playing the driveway shuffle.


I was also planning on making a pad to park my trailer on. Only problem is that I had WAAY more grindings than places to put it all. So my pad grew just a bit.



The good thing about this asphalt project was that I got the side part done before the road crew finished the new street. So I was able to talk the guy driving the roller to roll out my side extension for me. So between the FREE fill dirt and the driveway extension work, I have just over $200 in the project. And that is from the bobcat rental.

 

[trainman1385]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

Me and my son finished and put in place the new toolbench top, I also painted my pegboard red
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[wyomo]

Re: what did you do in your garage today?

I've been working on a couple of old blowtorches (Otto Bernz + Dunlap).
I like old quality stuff. My wife calls it hoarding. I call it collecting.
Wyomo