What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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bshusted
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Did you really run that intake through the dishwasher? What does your significant other think of this method?
Scott H in Wheaton
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If you train them right they will marvel at your ingenuity and offer to make you a sammich.
As for me, what she doesn't know won't hurt her
welder4956
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Fixed the knocking noise on my 60 gal. Kobalt air compressor. Turned out the belt that came on it was too long and it was flapping against the belt shroud. Had a nice little rub mark on the inside of the shroud. There was no adjustment left on the motor mount, so I had to get a 1" shorter belt at AutoZone. While there, I had to show the counter jockey how to read the part number (4L530) and look up a 1" shorter belt (4L520).
wintermute
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Finally got the intake and exhaust manifolds off of the Valiant – The exhaust manifold to pipe bolts were a real pain! Took a bit of thermal persuasion to free the forward one up.
Anybody know what's coating the #3 exhaust port? It's only on the top and some of the sides of the port and seemed to stop at the gasket. Bigger version here.
Anybody know what's coating the #3 exhaust port? It's only on the top and some of the sides of the port and seemed to stop at the gasket. Bigger version here.
CudaChick1968
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if you train them right they will marvel at your ingenuity and offer to make you a sammich.
As for me, what she doesn't know won't hurt her
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56vette461
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Worked on my granddaughters Mini. Can you say PITA. There is NO room to move your hands. I need mini tools just to fit into some of the spots. But, that's my girl, and ****** knuckles and all it will be done.
Jagmandave
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The best way to work on them is if you have something major to do is to remove the front end, it's only a few bolts and wire connections, then you have plenty of room. Ask me how I know.....
Lazylaser
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Water pump on the wife's trailblazer started leaking. I needed to get the clutch type fan off. It would be near impossible without the tool and I didn't feel like driving to the auto parts store.
Clutch type fan.
A pos HF groove pliers and two stainless countersink bolts.
Clamp.
TIG.
Now TIG the bottom.
Fits perfectly.
Slide a pipe on the tool and one on a large adjustable wrench.
And success.
Basically its just an adjustable pin wrench that I get to add to my collection. And the ACdelco parts for her car on their way from rockauto.
I'm so glad to have the space and tools to do this kind of stuff at my leisure.
Clutch type fan.
A pos HF groove pliers and two stainless countersink bolts.
Clamp.
TIG.
Now TIG the bottom.
Fits perfectly.
Slide a pipe on the tool and one on a large adjustable wrench.
And success.
Basically its just an adjustable pin wrench that I get to add to my collection. And the ACdelco parts for her car on their way from rockauto.
I'm so glad to have the space and tools to do this kind of stuff at my leisure.
Today I checked the clearance on the main bearings for my project car.
Getting ready:
Everything torqued:
The mains checked out at the loose end of the specs, but that's just what I wanted since the clearances Nissan recommends are VERY tight.
Cleaned the main girdle:
I've recently discovered the de-greaser called "Formula 88" and am in love with it. I've never seen something clean aluminum this well with such little effort. It's bio-degradable, non-flammable, non-hazardous and non-corrosive to boot. Best of all it's cheap at around 5 bucks for a gallon at my local lowes and it lasts very well (I used some that was a week old and brown from cleaning other parts on the girdle).
Getting ready:
Everything torqued:
The mains checked out at the loose end of the specs, but that's just what I wanted since the clearances Nissan recommends are VERY tight.
Cleaned the main girdle:
I've recently discovered the de-greaser called "Formula 88" and am in love with it. I've never seen something clean aluminum this well with such little effort. It's bio-degradable, non-flammable, non-hazardous and non-corrosive to boot. Best of all it's cheap at around 5 bucks for a gallon at my local lowes and it lasts very well (I used some that was a week old and brown from cleaning other parts on the girdle).
Lippyp
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I've used clothes washing powder (the biological kind with enzymes) before to get oil stains off concrete/blacktop. Put it on dry, sprinkle enough water on to make it into a thick paste, work it in with a brush and leave for a few hours, another scrub and hose it away.
Great to hear the fun you guys are having. My shop is calling me as I gaze out the kitchen window. I am pretty much in bed with a herniated disc. Really *****! Had my first day of physical therapy today and it helped. Always tried a chiropractor but doing things different this time.
Keep having fun and be safe. Tom
Keep having fun and be safe. Tom
jkherd
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GCncsuHD
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Great ingenuity, and I may have to keep that in the back of my mind for future reference, but typically those GM clutch fans come off quite easily without using a tool like that. Every one I've removed have come off with just a large wrench and a couple taps with a hammer to "impact" it off, a couple I had to put a wrench on the tensioner pulley to add a little more friction to keep it from spinning, but that has always worked so far.
Lazylaser
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All the videos I watched online it seemed like it would be really easy, just hold it with a vice grip or put a 13mm wrench on one of the four pulley bolts. Mine was not the case, even with the tool I had to use 2 pvc extensions to break the 125,000 mile bond free, and that is after trying to persuade it with the dead-blow.
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IONH
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All the videos I watched online it seemed like it would be really easy, just hold it with a vice grip or put a 13mm wrench on one of the four pulley bolts. Mine was not the case, even with the tool I had to use 2 pvc extensions to break the 125,000 mile bond free, and that is after trying to persuade it with the dead-blow.
I've had stubborn WP pulleys as well. I basically would work a couple of bolts back and forth to loosen each against enough. Then I was able to just hold the pulley to get the last one off.
polexican23
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assembled my first AR lower. spikes tactical zombie edition in the garage. then it fell into the lake during a freak boating accident.
GCncsuHD
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cburnscrx
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In "my" garage. Just replaced all the light fixtures with low temp fixtures. This required converting them from hardwired to outlet based fixtures. No big deal, but time consuming. This is for my rental property.
Fun, fun!
Fun, fun!
polexican23
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So how cold was the water when you dove in....or was it unretrievable?
irretrievable, seems that maybe a freshwater great white shark must have swallowed it.
1jjpop
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Cleaning my ''T'' bucket , getting ready for car shows & driving around this summer. Great fun, I enjoy it....
Stevie-Ray
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Opened both OH doors and set up a fan blowing in all that 50° air, seeing as though with the insulation, it was actually colder than the outside. Preparing it for those pesky 20s again tomorrow.
AMCguy
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Drilled some holes in some chunks of wide flanged beams.
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brian lee
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put tilt steering in my yamaha rhinoView attachment 325117View attachment 325118View attachment 325119View attachment 325120
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truckin23
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Finally got the intake and exhaust manifolds off of the Valiant – The exhaust manifold to pipe bolts were a real pain! Took a bit of thermal persuasion to free the forward one up.
Anybody know what's coating the #3 exhaust port? It's only on the top and some of the sides of the port and seemed to stop at the gasket. Bigger version here.
Why you have it down that far if it doesn't already have a steel gear on the distributer shaft throw the Teflon one away and replace it . Also run a set of steel gears and new timing chain throw Teflon camshaft gear away . I've had 7 of those slant sixes through the years some with over half a million miles I made a setup to hold a GM single wire alternator to eliminate the Chrysler regulator Good luck with it .
IONH
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I love those random warm days when I can open the front and back doors and warm the garage up 10 or more degrees from where it was before.
Scooter Scott
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Opened up the door and let the inside warm up! Went from 46 to 64 inside the garage. Love it.
Lots of little projects. Most notably, hung the racks for my summer/winter tires and tinkered with Mrs. Hencini's Vespa-- diagnosed and repaired a cross threaded muffler support bolt (thank you, PO) that was allowing the exhaust to rattle and hopefully resolved an oil leak that's been annoying me for about a year now. Little guy runs smoother than ever and if there's not two small puddles of oil under the kickstand legs when I go out there today, I'll be a very happy man. :thumbup
Jagmandave
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Re-foaming the driver's seat on my classic Mini Cooper, it was pretty beat down but all the springs and frame are OK except one - I'll fix that with some stainless safety wire, then start gluing foam down and pull the covers back over the new foam. It should sit a lot better when I'm done....
Later - wiring up the front and rear fog lights and repairing the wooden dash panel.
Later - wiring up the front and rear fog lights and repairing the wooden dash panel.
Stroked383
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Finally got my CB radio swapped over from the Ford to the Dodge. Call me a nerd but I missed this thing. People think I'm talking to martians with it... Ha!
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LS6 Tommy
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I miss my Connex 4300-300. It doesn't fit in the daily driver & my boss won't let me put it in the work truck...
Tommy
Stroked383
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I miss my Connex 4300-300. It doesn't fit in the daily driver & my boss won't let me put it in the work truck...
Tommy
My brother has a Connex 3300hp that he likes, I just have a galaxy 929. We both have little 1 pill amps and they both swing 160ish watts. I'm trying to get a base station set up for my old man while he's lay'd up on the couch. The parents house is 15ish miles away and I can talk to my bother like we're sitting next to each other. Mom says that we're nuts and CBs went out with Smokey and the Bandit. I said Smokey and the Bandit is still in!! lol!
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wintermute
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Being a '73, I imagine all of the gears are steel, could be wrong though. I have the manifolds off to replace the gasket - fixing an intermittent vacuum leak. The plan is to convert to EFI and EDIS, among other modifications.
Hpozzuoli
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Exercised my generator for an hour while I sorted, nuts, bolts, screws, washers, and other tidbits.
LS6 Tommy
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Hard to make it out, but it looks like burned coolant residue. Maybe time to check the head gasket...
Tommy
zcar751
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Wired in a new electrical circuit as part of my shop build.
Oilpan86
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Dropped transmission pan replaced filter and 5 quarts worth of pan oil. 06 f150 can't drain torque converter. And flushed radiator.