What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[Bronson]

Beer.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

I drove one of those awhile back.

Did you steal that from James Garner?

Tommy

 

[Tundra]

I brought someone home today

 

[Wingnut65]

I brought someone home today

Awesome Ride! Love the color! The C3 is my far my favorite!

 

[LS6 Tommy]

I brought someone home today

Is it an LS6, by chance?

Tommy

 

[smoking stroker]

Cab off old motor out painted frame new motor mounted and started mounting new turbo

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[sprntpshr]

Run the Dodge 3500 4x4 into the shop & on the hoist to check out a new noise that has made itself louder than the radio. The truck has sat since early March, front brakes were dragging too.

Found u-joints seizing up on the front drive-shaft at the transfer case end CV. I guess shouldn't complain too much, original joints, 160k miles w/o grease fittings. Found that rust has pin-holed the oil pan and rotted the transmission lines in a place that can't be seen or accessed without pulling the starter and PS pump.

I hate road salt!

 

[wylee]

[/URL][/IMG] all waxed and cleaned for the season..

 

[zmotorsports]

Serviced the front and rear diffs on my Jeep, serviced the transmission and the transfer case in preparation for the coming off-road season. I then backed it off the lift and gave her a good detailing.

Mike.

 

[CudaChick1968]

[/URL][/IMG] all waxed and cleaned for the season..

WOWWWWWWWWW!!! Maybe it won't come as a big surprise here but I'm sending you a Friend Request so next year I can come and help. That's a beauty there wylee!

 

[Hpozzuoli]

Is it an LS6, by chance?

Tommy

It's a 1971 LT-1. I have a different 350 in it now. The original engine is at my dad's. I haven't had time to rebuild it yet. The 350 was meant for someone else then they changed plans so I kept the engine. I took the ac out to get some more room under the hood. Everything that came out is in storage in case I ever sell it. I have the original tank with sticker in storage as well.

 

[wylee]

WOWWWWWWWWW!!! Maybe it won't come as a big surprise here but I'm sending you a Friend Request so next year I can come and help. That's a beauty there wylee!

thank you! I also love your cuda, always loved the notched backs.

 

[Ben Buck]

I got my lights working in the barn.

I have to reorganize, but both lights are up! I'm so tickled with this. I'm not putting the shields on either one, I like this look.


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[zmotorsports]

Pulled mine and my son's hard tops off of our Jeeps. Installed the soft top on my Jeep. My son wants to keep his top and doors off for the weekend and it is supposed to be a beautiful weekend so we will throw his soft top on Sunday evening.

Mike.

 

[Scooter Scott]

Pulled mine and my son's hard tops off of our Jeeps. Installed the soft top on my Jeep. My son wants to keep his top and doors off for the weekend and it is supposed to be a beautiful weekend so we will throw his soft top on Sunday evening.

Mike.

Once it finally warms up here in the midwest, the top and doors will be off my rig all summer long.

 

[top drive]

Stripped down my 90 for a wee rebuild.

How it was before i took it off the road.

Rear cross members rotten , both bulkhead outriggers , the seat box was rotten in the battery box and on the seatbox ends( repaired that yesterday , the tub is rotten on the seatbelt bar , the tub to chassis mount and the cappings/corners. The bulkhead needs new top corners ,doorposts and a drivers footwell

Ordered up 400 quids worth of parts hopefully get it rolling for my wedding in 16 months time.

 

[Lippyp]

I'd forgotten just how badly a Landy can rot for something thats mostly aluminium! (I had a series IIa some years ago)

 

[mcgyverit]

put my floor jack back together with some new seals, anxious to try it out now.......

 

[polexican23]

went to put a coat of clear on the cabinet I cleaned up....one edge was peeling and scratched off. DAMN...need to sand and reshoot a small edge.

 

[CudaChick1968]

I'm ALMOST ready to show off the shop's new -- and FINALLY organized!!! -- layout after 17 months of tripping over all the stuff he inherited from his dad. This one teaser picture of my work bench from November of 2012 should give you a bit of an idea how it's been. I believe he had 20 of everything and couldn't find any of them.

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Happy Dance warmup pending. My pole dancin' shoes are around here someplace ... I think.

 

[top drive]

Ach its only where the steel contacts the alloy its rotted, it doesnt take a genius to really slow it down , unfortunantly land rover were short of barriers it seems.

Everyones got to have a hobby , got 16 months to get it ready to use as our wedding car.... Its been a feature in our family for a while

 

[K Powers]

Finally painted my used 80gal tank. If a used tank isn't safe enough I put that bizitch on casters.

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[levithedognextdoor]

You wimped out though and put on locking castors!

Let that baby roll!

 

[Lassen Forge]

Nice tank! (Tanks for the memories??)

OK. I am busted, guilty as charged... I was not in the shop today, but instead stringing electric fence around our beehives... I'd rather have been a shop rat, but when I think of our future honey (and mead!!) which *will* come from the back room of the shop, it's kinda sorta all connected...

Still.. my welder looked at me accusingly, and all I can do is shirk away, and make promises that tomorrow WILL be better!!! --lol--

 

[JimVonBaden]

Added AC for the summer!

Going in the corner next to the fridge and the tread mill (Old photo, the fridge is where the red rack is now):

Boxed in the hole:

Added the AC:

From the outside.

I had fun cutting the Hardy Board.

 

[Jimmy_B]

Nice work JVB! I've wanted to do that for a long time, but probably never will. I have stucco and don't want to cut a hole in it. Maybe I'll be brave enough someday.

For now though, I have about a quarter mile of 14 gage stranded wire to bury for my invisible fence. It's rained for the last week here, so I'm hoping the ground is soft enough for my cobby set up to work. I'll adjust the threaded rod 1-2" deep and 'plow' a trench.

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[Hpozzuoli]

Finally painted my used 80gal tank. If a used tank isn't safe enough I put that bizitch on casters.

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I like the castor idea. I put them on my blast cabinet and was going to do my big compressor, but didn't have time. I might now after seeing yours.

 

[dethomson]

I'm curious to see how that works out Jimmy_B. It was fairly dry when I put one in a few years ago. I used an electric sidewalk edger to cut a 1.5" slot in the dirt. It worked great. For areas that were a little wet, I used a large heavy axe.

 

[Lassen Forge]

I'm ALMOST ready to show off the shop's new -- and FINALLY organized!!! -- layout after 17 months of tripping over all the stuff he inherited from his dad...

Looks like mine... between my stuff, my dads stuff, and the stuff the former owners left for us... Space? WHAT Space??

So yeah, today I think (since I have to do a run for the electric fence and chicken coop anyway) we're tackling wiring. Got the 6-3 for the 220 run, so we may have (hope hope) power for all the cool 220 toys I'm accumulating. Also need to sort wheat from chaff in the tool drawers - got a gawdawful lot of duplicates of some things, and already found I'm missing other stuff...

(For which I am ever grateful for the want-ad section here... )

 

[ADSR]

Added AC for the summer!

Going in the corner next to the fridge and the tread mill (Old photo, the fridge is where the red rack is now):

Boxed in the hole:

Added the AC:

From the outside.

I had fun cutting the Hardy Board.

Looks solid! Well done, Jim!

 

[TheClaw]

Finally got around to taking the snow tires off the X5. Let my son help me.

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[stonesfan68]

^^ Put some safety glasses on the boy!


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[TheClaw]

^^ Put some safety glasses on the boy!

Good point. Thank you.

 

[crewchief888]

egads, what a disaster of a morning....

i started out loading up some scrap i had laying around, and i noticed a flat tire on my off road s-10 blazer.
****,
i just filled that tire last week.

made my scrap run, on my way back my low fuel light comes on, i had loaned my truck to my SIL a couple days ago, and she brings it back empty.

double ****

i jack the truck up, and start to pull the flat tire, figuring it's a bead leak, and i'll have to break it down...

last lug nut and snap, broken wheel stud

of course i dont have any extras...
road trip to the autoparts store for wheel studs..
now i'm really low on gas

install the new stud, now i really have a problem.

my wheels use a special long shaft lug nut.

no extras of those either !!!!

clamp the nut with the broken stud in the vise,
just drill a hole through it, ez out.....

not happening,
i cant budge it at all, and destroy an extractor in the process

so i drill through the nut with the proper tap drill and rethread
chase the thread on the rest of the nuts, and studs, neversieze everything.

now i can start trying to find my leak in the tire

it aint leaking now that i can see

i'm done, i quit

 

[GirchyGirchy]

Cut some wood
Drilled some holes
Sharpened lawn mower blade
Removed side mirror mount from busted mirror to use with replacement mirror on my truck
Gathered tools and took them to truck to adjust steering gearbox

 

[ITGuy1998]

Took care of some little tasks that I have procrastinated on for a long time.

Painted the heat pump condensation lines on the side of the house -no more ugly white pvc pipes sticking out against the brick.

Removed the metal dealer logo plate and adhesive from the truck tailgate.

Began re purposing some old picture frames. they were purchase from Pier1 10 years ago and we haven't had them up in forever. The frames are still nice, so i removed about a thousand staples from the back of each frame (4 frames) and took out the old picture and mat. I'm going to get some new mattnig and attempt to do it myself. nothing fancy. I'm going to frame the race bibs from my son's (and me as well) first two 5K races.

Began repairing the push mower. I have a riding mower that I use for most of the yard, but I need a push mower for a tiny part that is just too steep. I have a piece of junk wal mart mower my father-in-law gave me, but it's runs crappy. It starts fine, but the revs constantly fluctuate. I got it from him last summer (traded him my Honda push mower for his riding mower and the junky push mower - he downsized house and yard). This spring, i decided to try and save it instead of buying a new one. First gave it a new air cleaner, spark plug, and changed the oil. Same problem. OK, carb must need some attention. I picked up a new diaphragm for it this morning, and began taking it apart. That's when i found the problem. the intake manifold was cracked in two. Unfortunately, all the small engine places here close at noon, so i just ordered a new manifold on Amazon for 6 bucks. That, and the 4 bucks for the diaphragm, is a lot better than $200 for a new mower, especially when I need it to cut at most the area of a 3 car garage.

 

[brian lee]

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[NitroShark]

Replaced the rear wheel hub on the daily driver...


Shawn

 

[Mike Miller]

Sharpened the blades on the PTO chipper for my tractor. Works like new, DOH! Should have done it before chipping up all those trees.

 

[chrismenke]

I moved out of five toolboxes and into one other. Now I've got to reorganize every drawer and re-program my mind about where my tools live. Not entirely surprisingly, the new box at 30" deep is bigger than the 5 it replaced.