Post A Picture Of Your Shadetree Repairs!

[Skin]

Good idea for a thread? Thought it might be neat to have a more gritty thread posting what people are working on in their driveway as opposed to your run of the mill show car/sports car threads that most forums get.

03 CRV (142k) getting a new engine wiring harness. Initially took the intake out just to solve a runner control code and found a bunch of cut wires on the harness immedietly behind one of the cooling fans.

Total tally for this will be

New harness, cleaned intake with a new rotor assembly and intake valve solenoid, new (used) throttle body (body disintegrated during removal) and a bunch of new brackets, hoses, clamps, and fasteners as well as a new ground strap (rotted) and air cleaner top since the breather was broken during servicing at a shop some years ago and re-breaks every time you go to change the filter. Go to repair one problem and find a laundry list, such is life in the rust belt .

 

[GreaseMonkey45170]

this should be a great thread!

 

[928'er]

This should get'er done...

 

[AndrewV]

Not my work, but valid post to thread.
This came in my shop, and was squirting coolant from the back of the "patch."

 

[NKlamerus]

 

[AndrewV]

^^^^^^
Stroke of genious. Not bashing you nk.

 

[zkling]

NKlamerus

Awesome. Did you just zip tie the flywheel brake open or completely remove it? I take it the switch cuts the ignition wire?

 

[NKlamerus]

Nah it's just wired into the ground wire, before this we just used our shoe to tap the ground wire onto the block until it died....

What is this flywheel brake?

 

[NKlamerus]

My dad does one better; I stole his shoelaces one time on a camping trip. The next morning he had used zip ties instead of laces on his boots.......

 

[zkling]

What is this flywheel brake?

Most push lawn mowers have a safety bar that has to be held down against the handle while in operation. What it does is it acts as a brake on the flywheel, if the operator lets go of the handle, cable tension releases and a brake shoe spring loads against the flywheel to instantly kill the mower, stopping blade rotation. I guess yours didn't have that? I usually just wrap a piece of romex around it to keep it down.

 

[Lost Road]

This is a great idea for a tread! I have three vehicle projects I am working on currently. My Camaro is always a work in progress. I race two full seasons in a row, and I am taking part of the season off to upgrade my '66 F100 and make the car a bit better. I'll be at the track a few times before the season is over, but I am looking ahead to make a very competitive effort in 2015.

The Ford is getting a fresh 390, which has been machined and is awaiting assembly. The truck is also getting a freshly built C6 trans. Last year I added disk brakes. The last step will be to get load leveling air bags or heavier springs for the rear.

The dunebuggy is new to me. I've began work stripping the paint. I'm going to clean it up, paint it and run around pismo dunes with my wife.

 

[NKlamerus]

Most push lawn mowers have a safety bar that has to be held down against the handle while in operation. What it does is it acts as a brake on the flywheel, if the operator lets go of the handle, cable tension releases and a brake shoe spring loads against the flywheel to instantly kill the mower, stopping blade rotation. I guess yours didn't have that? I usually just wrap a piece of romex around it to keep it down.

So THAT what that is. It's been gone a long time, I think we just clamped the wire so the brake never actuates. So the only thing that kills it is loss of spark

 

[ScottsGT]

OK, you asked for it. All done in the driveway or garage.
14.5 years ago, in a driveway far, far away....(well, this was actually the previous owners back yard....)

Not my driveway, but the first time anyone other than me has ever touched it other than me. This was getting the exhaust installed a few weeks ago.

It was all done in either the garage or driveway. Sandblasted everything outside, painted it in the garage with about 10 years and a hell of a lot of work in between the two.

 

[383 240z]

I blew the maxi fuse on my truck. I had some Romex scraps so I fashioned this to get me home. The fuse was blown when a co-worker asked if he could jump his dead battery off my truck and he hooked the cables up backwards. Keith

 

[woody 73]

My wife used to make fun of the music, but since the show went off tv she stopped giving me a hard time; lots of good Tips...

 

[owenst7]

Broke my steering arm off the knuckle when I was in college. We managed to get it off the trail and home that night this way. That was the last time I drove it without crossover steering and a Dana 60.

Shortly after, I picked up some 39.5"x16.5"x15"r tires and the frame rail fatigued. I ran hydraulic fittings fore and aft of the piston in the steering box and connected them with aeroquip hose to a 1.5"x8" ram I welded to the axle tube and tie rod. Now I can pull up next to a wall and use the tire to push the truck over with just the tip of my finger on the wheel. Still has return to center and good feedback though.

 

[crewchief888]

a few years ago, a friend of mine had an early 80's jeep. we were out wheeling, and suddenly he was "gone" we found him about a 1/4 back on a rock ledge with the right rear front spring mount torn off the frame, the frame broken, and a sad look on his face.


4 ratchet straps later we had the axle and spring more or less back where it was suppose to be. he drove back to the parking area and right up on the trailer, figuring he's done for the weekend.

45 minutes later we had the frame welded back togther, fish plated and a new spring mount fabbed up and welded into place.

onlooker thought were were crazy :tard:

all in a days wheelin'

 

[George in Rancho Cordova]

Was working on a Ford Windstar while on a mission trip in Mexico.
A vacuum elbow had failed & had been replaced with a 90 degree spark plug boot. It collapsed most of the way & made a horrible sound.
Couldn't get anything better, so I found a piece of rigid plastic tubing from their water storage system. I lined the boot with the plastic tube in such a way that the boot sealed the factory tube connections, and the plastic tubing kept the boot from collapsing. A foot of spare tubing should keep them in business for years!

 

[Rummel]

Someone tried to steal my truck and burned my cab, so I put a new one on it and it is being rebuilt as we speak.

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[xwarp]

Silver solder and 3 dimes took care of some holes in the bottom of a Honda Magna gas tank.

 

[azhatchback]

OK, you asked for it. All done in the driveway or garage.
14.5 years ago, in a driveway far, far away....(well, this was actually the previous owners back yard....)

Not my driveway, but the first time anyone other than me has ever touched it other than me. This was getting the exhaust installed a few weeks ago.

It was all done in either the garage or driveway. Sandblasted everything outside, painted it in the garage with about 10 years and a hell of a lot of work in between the two.

Awesome job! I love mustangs. I am currently working on a fox. What site are you all using to host your pics? Haven't done this in a while and image shack is different than I remember. This is a good thread Lets keep it alive!

 

[azhatchback]

I think I figured out the pic thing. Here is the fox mustang I am working on. Defiantly not as cool as the fastback! The engine bay has consumed too much of my time! The goal 3 years ago was to strip it, slap a carb on it, and run it at the strip. My OCD spiraled out of control after removing the injection **** and all the accessories!

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[Jeff95TA]

350 with spun bearings coming out, and new 383 stroker with forged internals going in.

 

[azhatchback]

350 with spun bearings coming out, and new 383 stroker with forged internals going in.

Wow that looks like a challenge with out a lift. Are you using the hoist to lift the body?

 

[ijroorda]

Just got done replacing the head gasket on a friend's '98 Honda Civic. He just bought it recently and discovered after the fact that the head gasket was leaking (first picture is inside the valve cover). The head had definitely been off before; however, I don't think it had been resurfaced and it was definitely warped. A quick trip to the machine shop, a new OEM gasket and he is back in business. I replaced the timing belt and water pump at the same time; turns out the cam timing was a tooth off before, too. It runs a lot better after fixing that and resetting the ignition timing!

 

[colin39]

Just got done replacing the head gasket on a friend's '98 Honda Civic. He just bought it recently and discovered after the fact that the head gasket was leaking (first picture is inside the valve cover). The head had definitely been off before; however, I don't think it had been resurfaced and it was definitely warped. A quick trip to the machine shop, a new OEM gasket and he is back in business. I replaced the timing belt and water pump at the same time; turns out the cam timing was a tooth off before, too. It runs a lot better after fixing that and resetting the ignition timing!

Looks like a k series engine ( yuk )

 

[ijroorda]

Looks like a k series engine ( yuk )

I'm not real knowledgeable on Hondas, but I think it's a D-series. It was really pretty easy; the head comes off with the intake still attached which helped a lot.

 

[colin39]

I'm not real knowledgeable on Hondas, but I think it's a D-series. It was really pretty easy; the head comes off with the intake still attached which helped a lot.

D series on a honda k series in our rovers ive removed and intalled those in a couple of hours nice jobs, shocking engines, water jacket between engine and liner is to small we use a lotus gasket and head saver on the k's not sure on the d's only done a couple over the years

 

[48RON54]

Just got done replacing the head gasket on a friend's '98 Honda Civic. He just bought it recently and discovered after the fact that the head gasket was leaking (first picture is inside the valve cover). The head had definitely been off before; however, I don't think it had been resurfaced and it was definitely warped. A quick trip to the machine shop, a new OEM gasket and he is back in business. I replaced the timing belt and water pump at the same time; turns out the cam timing was a tooth off before, too. It runs a lot better after fixing that and resetting the ignition timing!

Just did the same work on my 98 civic in my driveway about 9 months ago in the rain. That engine is really easy to work on.

 

[NKlamerus]

Just did the same work on my 98 civic in my driveway about 9 months ago in the rain. That engine is really easy to work on.

Man we just did a water pump on a 91 hatchback, that was the WORST. Why do they put it so far down in the block?!?!?!

Not to mention the balancer was a @&#^$& to get loose.

 

[Jeff95TA]

Wow that looks like a challenge with out a lift. Are you using the hoist to lift the body?

Yes. I left the heavy parts on the ground!

 

[seagullplayer]

I could fill this thread! I just need to start taking more pictures of my work.

This is from last week. I broke the stock on my Crosman Storm XL pellet gun while working on the trigger. Long story, stupid mistake on my end.

So I used Gorilla Glue to put it back together and then refinished and painted the stock in "camo". Could have done a better paint job, but this is what I had.
The trigger work I did came out even better than expected even if the refinished leaves a bit to be desired.

 

[stonesfan68]

I changed out the engine mounts in my wife's 2004 XC90 in my garage (no lift). I used a Harbor Freight engine support bar and did the job for about $400, which I felt was a lot better than the $1,200 that I had been quoted.



I later used the same support bar to do the same job on my 2006 BMW.

 

[Dave in Mass]

Wish I had pics but one of my first bonding experience with my late father in law was swapping out a blown motor in my 1975 (I think ) C10 Silverado with a used motor from a junkyard.

Literal shadetree mechanic stuff. Chet was a fleet truck mechanic (car hauler) by trade but his one car garage hadn't seen a vehicle inside probably since he moved in. We did a lot of work over the years in his driveway but for the engine replacement, we went to the back yard and used a chain fall over a good size sycamore branch as our hoist.

 

[NKlamerus]

9' cobia special....rod guide broke on the water...

 

[NKlamerus]

Bump! I wanna see some more!

 

[ADSR]

Bump! I wanna see some more!

 

[Tallted]

My first project car. Nothing fancy, but lots of fun and learning lots. 2.5L turbo

 

[NKlamerus]

My first project car. Nothing fancy, but lots of fun and learning lots. 2.5L turbo

I can dig it!

 

[NKlamerus]

God I just absolutely love this thing. What ever company thought this was a "fix" for shower knobs I hope is long gone. They apparently expected everyone to have Allen wrenches and a Phillips in their bathroom 24/7