What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[mdbeck1]

mdbeck, Thank You! I've still got ideas floating around in my head but this is pretty much where it was heading. I really appreciate your input. < hug >

Glad I could help.

 

[Benzlover]

I know what you mean, It shows you care and have a heart. I used to take care of certain things around the house for my old neighbor and his wife, who have now passed away. Change light bulbs, take out branches, and large trash. During the hurricane Wilma I got them food, Ice and fuel for two weeks, since I'm a cop I can get it easier then most. They were in my house on thanksgiving Christmas new years. Their kids lived in NJ and barley came down to see them, that is until they died now she cleaned there bank accounts and sold the house, scum bag.

I never asked for anything in return, but one day I walk into my garage and he left me all his rifles and guns, I said no I can't take them, he told me "go **** yourself they are yours". Every time I hold one of his rifles I think of them both. Just keep doing what you do Benzlover I bet she appreciates it

She surely appreciates it, even wanted to give me money for the job. But i told her to keep it, don't want money for helping an elderly neighbor.
When I have something that needs sewing, i'll take it to her, she's a fabulous taylor and can repair nearly everything. But i rarely have something that's worth repairing though. Every now and then a new zipper for a pair of jeans but other than that...

It's good to keep the memories of your neighbors alive. I strongly believe that this kind of karma with helping others comes back at a time when we need any kind of help eventually.

best regards

Sven

 

[Lippyp]

Finished stripping the wooden slats off a garden bench with the help of my twin 7 year old sons, they took it in turns to use a ratchet to hold the bolt heads whilst I unscrewed the nuts off the back. This is a bench I built for my wife about eight or nine years ago from two old cast iron victorian bench ends and some nameless tropical hardwood. I had the ends sandblasted and painted and cut the wooden slats to size, each one is different believe it or not! Anyway, its spent that time outdoors and is long overdue a repaint and stain, it looked particularly bad as it had been sat under a Yew tree in our garden and the pigeons must have roosted above it over the winter and it was covered in shite. First step was to powerwash the **** and green slime off it a few eweeks back, then haul it into the garage to dry out.

Today we unbolted all the wood (Great decision to use stainless hardware!) sanded it down and wiped it with white spirit so its ready for a couple of coats of stain. The bench ends got wire wheeled, some of the worst casting marks sanded out with a flap disk in the grinder and power washed again. They will be getting some primer and a coat of nice gloss black.

My helpers having a go with the orbital sander, nice to get them involved and interested.

 

[CudaChick1968]

A bit off topic, but after reading Sven's and elronin's stories and many, many others here on the GJ Forums, it's obvious we have a lot of kind-hearted good souls on board. I've been a huge believer in "Pay It Forward" myself after going through Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and personally benefiting from random acts of kindness as a result. (As just one example, an internet friend I've never met mailed a 2-liter bottle of A&W Root Beer and a 3-pound brick of Velveeta cheese because he'd heard our power had been out for 11 days and no stores were open yet.)

Anyway, for those of you out there who think like Sven, elronin and me, you'll dig this little YouTube video called "One Day." Thanks for being you, and keep up the fine work ya'll

 

[dladcock]

Not today, but a while back, a friend asked me to build his 390 FE engine for a 1966 GTA Fairlane. Fab'ed all the fuel lines, vacuum lines and brackets out of 316 stainless. He was tickled "Blue".

dla

 

[ezriderga]

Detailed a '56 Ford for a friend. Second picture is a reflection off the paint on the front fender.

 

[sean Buick 76]

Today I rebuilt a wheel for one of my bikes and checked out this old school engine analyzer kit that I bought:

 

[JimVonBaden]

New pads and rotors on the wife's Rogue!

 

[Mike Miller]

Built a seal driver and installed inner axle seals in the front end of my Jeep.

 

[coby65]

Just finishing up new old man emu 1.5" lift leafs, coils ,and shocks on wife's 99 Cherokee XJ.

 

[mcgyverit]

built my long range shooting target

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then built a garden hose holder that will easily hold 100' of hose and should hold up for a long time.

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then worked on re-routing my air lines of the compressor, but just ran out of time, this way I have something to work on tomorrow.

 

[ambenz]

Helped the wife wire up her new show car lights in her engine bay.
She has a Grabber coupe and I have the convertible.

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She placed all the LED pods in places she wanted them, routed all the wires to dedicated loom and I made the final connections.

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Test everything before you button it up!

My wife sure likes her Mustang and the whole community associated with car shows, cruisin and get togethers. Even though it costs double when we go to a event, ie: gas, entry fees, mods...it's those times, we enjoy the same things together, that we will always remember.

 

[CudaChick1968]

Not today, but a while back, a friend asked me to build his 390 FE engine for a 1966 GTA Fairlane. Fab'ed all the fuel lines, vacuum lines and brackets out of 316 stainless. He was tickled "Blue".

Wow dla, it's easy to see why! That's beautiful work right there and you should be proud of those runs. (I know those FR valve covers are sure fun to play with.)

 

[dladcock]

Wow dla, it's easy to see why! That's beautiful work right there and you should be proud of those runs. (I know those FR valve covers are sure fun to play with.)

Thanks CC, This project required more time than I planned, but watching the fellow slobber on his engine was worth the extra effort.

Now, if I could learn to do what you do with that powder, I'd know something. Always impressed with your work.

dla

 

[TheJudge]

Lets see...
Cleaned up the left over mess from the scrapping me and my father did recently... $1000 profit on that run (And there's more to come!) Including all the hardware, Stainless, Galv, you name it I got nuts, bolts, washers. Enough Hardware to keep any fabricator busy for a while.
Pushed my truck in, and started pulling some fuel lines. Gotta love the New York climate. But, for being the originals to the truck, which is a 2003, I can't complain. All went well until 1 small part put a halt to it all. Mechanics law, right?

 

[CudaChick1968]

Just a quickie follow up here about my new-to-me metal shop shelves since mdbeck was kind enough to offer a suggestion and took the time to track down a relevant thread for me. << hug >>

I sort of "moved in" and got a basic mock up of how they'll be used and it turns out that my idea for the pegboard doors isn't really going to work out. Just one customer's box for an old dual snorkel air cleaner assembly was enough to change my mind: It sticks out too far and overhangs the edge of the shelf by several inches ... and it's pretty typical of some of the boxes I get in here from my guys. The door idea will work for most but I'll still have huge boxes sitting on the shop floor anyway.

It looks now like they're going to be hidden behind plastic shower curtains hanging off of pvc frames instead. Easy to clean, easy to move when needed and very lightweight ... but no extra tool storage. Dammit.

Now to find some shower curtains in High Impact Mopar Colors .......... heh hehhhhh

 

[unslow1]

Yesterday tuning an Edelbrock 1406 for this 1966 Tempest. Jets, metering rods and timing. My O2 sensor gauge stopped working so I had to do it by driving and reading the plugs. Nice day to have to drive a convertible. 78* and sunny. Today I'm undercoating my Corolla.

 

[mdbeck1]

Just a quickie follow up here about my new-to-me metal shop shelves since mdbeck was kind enough to offer a suggestion and took the time to track down a relevant thread for me. << hug >>

I sort of "moved in" and got a basic mock up of how they'll be used and it turns out that my idea for the pegboard doors isn't really going to work out. Just one customer's box for an old dual snorkel air cleaner assembly was enough to change my mind: It sticks out too far and overhangs the edge of the shelf by several inches ... and it's pretty typical of some of the boxes I get in here from my guys. The door idea will work for most but I'll still have huge boxes sitting on the shop floor anyway.

It looks now like they're going to be hidden behind plastic shower curtains hanging off of pvc frames instead. Easy to clean, easy to move when needed and very lightweight ... but no extra tool storage. Dammit.

Now to find some shower curtains in High Impact Mopar Colors .......... heh hehhhhh

I've got some shelves similar to those. I left the bottom shelf out and put a HF cart in and a cart with sides (a box on wheels) to store heavy stuff out of the way. This way I can drag the cart and boxes out when I need to get into (and behind) them. It also lets me use the storage above the boxes.

...on a further note I put some real narrow shelves on the floor in the back behind everything. This gave me some more badly needed storage.


...and don't give up the idea of doors. You can still put them on. You might want to make them where they fold back flat.

 

[Outlander]

Swapped out snow tires for summer tires on the truck, called my Mom

 

[zcar751]

Cleaned some rusty parts and painted them. Then spent time installing my air compressor.

 

[Steevo]

Today I moved everything and mopped the floor.
I really appreciate things on wheels more now.

 

[gregtwojeeps]

I put new wheels all around on my five year old 22" self propelled Snapper lawn mower and removed the offensive dirt from my unhappy Jeep.

 

[Mike Miller]

Reassembled the front axle on the Jeep and finished servicing the chassis. Now all I have to do is fix the exhaust and install my reupholstered seat.

 

[RandyL]

Detailed a '56 Ford for a friend. Second picture is a reflection off the paint on the front fender.

Beautiful 56 crown.......... Gawd I love these!!!!! The first 12V Ford production car and totally elegant. I owned many 55-57's and loved every one..thanks for the post and pics.

Randy

 

[RandyL]

Had to throw in my favorite "reflection" pic... I was taking the pic and my pal, Joe was doing the directing. We were at Oshkosh in front of a beautiful P-51 Mustang...cancer took my pal last year.... way too soon.

 

[bulletbob]

Welded longer legs an a military tanker desk to use as a workbench in my machine shop area. Raised it to 36" high, what do you guys think?

 

[littlebritishcar]

I bought a couple 44" HF tool boxes and started trying to organize my tools. It seems like the more storage I have the more I need. I also made a jar storage rack like my grandpa used to use in his garage.

 

[ezriderga]

Beautiful 56 crown.......... Gawd I love these!!!!! The first 12V Ford production car and totally elegant. I owned many 55-57's and loved every one..thanks for the post and pics.

Randy

Thanks Randy for your comments. Still pretty much original with 292 / automatic.

 

[Super Sport]

I got my garage cleaned out enough to fit a second vehicle inside finally!

Tomorrow I'll be attempting a brake job on the rear drums on the Wrangler. I'm excited to finally get some work done in the garage, but I dread drum brakes...

 

[chrismenke]

@ littlebritishcar

Nice to see some local scooter folk. Today I inventoried a new to me Lambretta TV200 project and realized I need a left side panel.

 

[CudaChick1968]

Here's one of my fav reflection pics, part of my Auto Enthusiast photo spread from May of 2010. That's my shop in the fender.

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Fourteen hours of detailing the day/night before, seven outfit changes and over 200 photos taken that day; 2 made it into the magazine and 'my' story got butchered so much that most people now think Billy built my car (I had it for 12 years before we ever met). LOL!!! I'll know better than to take them up on that offer again.

 

[crewchief888]

started repairing some damage on my s-10 blazer trail truck from sunday's unfortunate tree "incident"

the taillights are going bye-bye, didnt work anyway

i've got the patch cut and tacked in place on this side, probably tackle the other side sometime during the week if i get a chance...

 

[ewils35]

Not just today. Pretty much Saturday up to today. I welded braces under my hot water tank on my camper as a temp fix until winter. I cleaned up a bit and ripped down a shelf to put cabinets up. Today I built said cabinet. Tomorrow I figure out how to put said cabinet on wall with a sprained hand by myself haha

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[CudaChick1968]

Not just today. Pretty much Saturday up to today. I welded braces under my hot water tank on my camper as a temp fix until winter. I cleaned up a bit and ripped down a shelf to put cabinets up. Today I built said cabinet. Tomorrow I figure out how to put said cabinet on wall with a sprained hand by myself haha

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Since you'll have a free hand be sure to get some pictures for us. << duckin >>

No worries, I'll beat me myself. LOL!!! Hope you get back to 100% soon ewils.

 

[ZRX61]

I screwed a piece of plywood to the wall next to the compressor, attached a drier outlet & pressure regulator to it.

 

[Rossco]

Converted my compressor Filter to a larger Quincy unit.

 

[ewils35]

Since you'll have a free hand be sure to get some pictures for us. << duckin >>

No worries, I'll beat me myself. LOL!!! Hope you get back to 100% soon ewils.

Thanks cuda. I should be fine in a week once its up on the wall and my bench cleaned up I'll snap some pics. I had a bunch before but broke my phone and couldn't transfer to my computer

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[DrivewayDave]

bannerd: It's Krylon Italian Olive Green. I like it. Thanks for your comment. Happy trails!

 

[JimVonBaden]

Changed a rim out that was damaged by a pot hole on a MC you have to swap out the brake rotors and tire, as well as ABS ring.

 

[ewils35]

Changed a rim out that was damaged by a pot hole. n a MC you have to swap out the brake rotors and tire, as well as ABS ring.

Bet that was a fun and expensive rim swap

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