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CoopVA

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Hung out, drank coffee. Took apart a thread dial for the lathe to clean up and paint. Searched the interwebs for collet sizes that match my mystery collet holder. Watched the snow...

Ended up with 7". The wife didn't make it up the mountain and had to get a room at the inn...

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Blew the snow off the driveway...

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goodysgotacuda

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"Moved in"

We just bought a house and the fish got transferred...it'll be a little while until I can get to it. Building a shed this weekend to get a bunch of stuff out of my way!

 

stonesfan68

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I helped my brother and nephews change the fluid in their "new" 2006 Audi A4. We also helped my Dad change the spark plugs and air filter in his BMW.

It was good to be here working with the family for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
 

TheEquineFencer

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I walked in and my sister called and asked me how the new job is going. I told her if they fired me next week it wouldn't really bother me. I'm spending a LOT of the $$$ I'm making paying people to do what I don't have time to do because of all the hours I'm putting in. I'm sitting here today looking at 3-4 days of work that I need to do to get stuff in the shop "right", you know, like finishing and wiring in the Taylor wood fired water heater to heat the shop. Installing the uprights for the overhead hoist, plumbing the air compressor lines instead of having the line I now have hooked to it just stuck in the side of the tank w/o sealant and hearing it leak when it's on. I want to wire the Air Compressor to the automatic overhead lighting control wiring so it only runs when the lights are on with a manual over ride. On top of that, there's nothing to eat in the shop. The gas grill has crapped out at the house, metal-mites have chewed the burners up. I'm seriously thinking about doing something I've not done in six weeks, Nothing, and take the day off and go finish that bottle of Evan Williams Honey Bourbon before Thanksgiving dinner at 3pm.
 

kingnba6

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I started to "winterize" my bikes. Oil changed, tire pressures, stands and battery tenders.
 

bshusted

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Replaced both primary O2 sensors on my Audi. Was getting intermittent failures. Cleared codes and nothing came back on the test drive. Now I just need to wait to see if readiness is set so that I can get my 2 year emissions test.
 

Outlander

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Winter tires, changed windshield wipers, watching the internet guy fiddle with wiring (I think he has issues at the main road). I am behind in winterizing everything, like lawn mower. Tomorrow I will put the winter tires on my ATV.
 

JimVonBaden

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Lone Star Blaze

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18 years ago I bought this gooseneck trailer model on trip to Daytona Beach. I never put it together. Last weekend my son found it on a shelf in my parents garage and laid claim to it. This is the boy that I posted about and many of you prayed for a couple of weeks ago you can see he is feeling much better. Thanks for the prayers and kind words


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we used PPG Deltron 2000 basecoat city of Medesto blue and the top is Harley Birch white. He is going to build a couple of Classic truck models to go with it and have a classic truck restoration display.
 
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NUTTSGT

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Got busy the other day, changed oil in the daughters car and she said she had a vibration. I get to looking at the tires and one has a broken belt and part of the belt is sticking out. Once the tires were off, I found it had a broken sway bar. A trip to O'Rielly's for a sway bar, oil done and put the tires back on.

Today, I pulled it back in, pulled the front tires off and had new tires mounted. We came back home, tires back on and off to work she went.
 

Lippyp

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Removed the old couch I stuffed in there last weekend and took it to the dump along with the four sacks of fired fireworks from Guy Fawkes night, a car full of cardboard boxes for recycling and assorted other old **** that had built up.

Then this evening I managed 45 minutes out there and started weatherproofing the main doors , put some beading down the sides of the frame with some rubber seals on to get rid of two gaps, stuck some self adhesive rubber seal along the top and down the middle where they meet and caulked down the sides. Much better now I can't see light all round the door, just got to slice the conveyor belt bits up into strips and make some seals for the 2 inch gap at the bottom!
 

Tarheelgarage

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I walked in and my sister called and asked me how the new job is going. I told her if they fired me next week it wouldn't really bother me. I'm spending a LOT of the $$$ I'm making paying people to do what I don't have time to do because of all the hours I'm putting in. I'm sitting here today looking at 3-4 days of work that I need to do to get stuff in the shop "right", you know, like finishing and wiring in the Taylor wood fired water heater to heat the shop. Installing the uprights for the overhead hoist, plumbing the air compressor lines instead of having the line I now have hooked to it just stuck in the side of the tank w/o sealant and hearing it leak when it's on. I want to wire the Air Compressor to the automatic overhead lighting control wiring so it only runs when the lights are on with a manual over ride. On top of that, there's nothing to eat in the shop. The gas grill has crapped out at the house, metal-mites have chewed the burners up. I'm seriously thinking about doing something I've not done in six weeks, Nothing, and take the day off and go finish that bottle of Evan Williams Honey Bourbon before Thanksgiving dinner at 3pm.

Daym good plan; I'm still drinking from last night; doing nothing in the shop today but watching old western movies.....:thumbup::beer:

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Outlander

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Changed the tires on my ATV, then spent time with the heat gun removing last year's membership sticker. Cleaned it with rubbing alcohol. Trying to keep it a bit warm in there so new sticker attaches itself - tough at -8*c.
 
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Tarheelgarage

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I sobered up enough today after drinking a bottle of whiskey :beer: to do a $CASH$ side job. (Our shop was closed today) This 98 Chevy pickup had a defective temp gage (read HOT all the time) and had been to a jack-leg shop in the area and they fired the parts cannon and replaced the coolant gage sender in the engine block without any troubleshooting nor success and then through up their hands....:wtf:

Owner heard about me and brought it to me and I diag as bad gage coil for the temp gage in the cluster.

I had a couple old "known good" clusters and I robbed the coil and swapped it into the owners cluster and completed the repair.:thumbup:

Easy repair and a quick $200 CASH in my pocket....:thumbup:


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AndrewnTX

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Well it was a great day in the garage, spent the afternoon wrenching on my Mustang and in particular swapping a couple of superchargers. The car has a 5.8L EFI Vortech supercharged motor, I put the blower on way back in 2001. It's an "S" Trim which was their hot street high performance unit developed in the 90's.

I picked up another Vortech 5.0L blower set up off CL, this one a "T" Trim. The "T" has more oats over the "S" so we'll see how they compare. The brackets and set up is all the same for both, so it was just a matter of pulling one head unit off and fitting the other. Snugged up the belt and fired it up. The "S" trim is earmarked for another project.
 

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TheEquineFencer

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Well let' see....After the alcohol fueled good nights sleep, I finally got up and started stirring around. I'd made it to Food Lion and got some groceries for the shop frig. Then a buddy that does odd jobs for me called and said the guy he worked for this week didn't show at the job they were working on this week to pay him and needed some $$$. He'd pay me back ASAP when he got his $$$. So I told him to come on over ad I'd go see if I could find someone else to work with him while I did some other things. We finally got to working around 11:30 AM. I then fired up the fryer burner and boiled some chicken gizzards and hearts, then deep fried them for us for lunch and had some Potato salad with them. Afterwards, I fired up the Husqvarna 576 chainsaw and cut up another 30 ft x 3 ft log for them to split. Then Linda called and said the "log jump" needed to be moved. I moved it alright, right to the wood splitter. They split wood for about 8 hours into the dark. The new T-8 shelter lights now make wood splitting at night possible. I did some searching for HF coupons and settled on (3) 4-T, (1) 3-T, jacks (2) 50FT hose reels, a small 880 Lb 120V hoist and a couple of SAE and Metric wrench packs from HF. I called Linda to see if she wanted to go and was told to just take her car and her debit card and go. So off to HF I went at 8pm. I got there, walked in and told the first guy I saw, "if you want to get out of here on time, get a dolly to haul a bunch of floor jacks and stuff and come on." They were closing in 30 minutes. They loaded everything in/on carts and I was out of there in 15 minutes. Back home I went up to the house, ate and just woke up to come back here to unload everything. I've got my service truck on the charger, I killed the battery leaving the inverter and computer running today. In the middle of all this today, Linda actually caught a horse for me, brushed and tacked it up and I got to ride for the first time in 3 weeks. Now if I can figure out a way to get the fittings for plumbing the airlines without having to take off from work. I want to get over to Cavalier Hydraulics and get the nice push lock fittings to run the airlines. I need to find a reasonably priced 200 PSI rated regulator to cut the air pressure down on my air compressor too.
 

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nit2wn

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Started putting new speakers in our 2000 Corolla. Put some in the back deck and turned on the Pioneer to see how they sounded... no joy. I went ahead and pulled the door panels and swapped those out and they worked fine. Well.. now I had myself a mystery. Started pulling trim out all the way to the front and traced the wiring as best I could. Didn't see a problem but my only solution was to rewire the rear speakers. Ran new wiring and tried it again. No joy. The old speakers didn't work with the factory radio and I put a new Pioneer in a few months ago out of my old Camry. I did the only thing I could think of and unplugged the radio. As soon as I plugged it back up and cut the switch on, viola.. nice clear sound from all 4 speakers. My only guess is the radio only detected two speakers on the install in the beginning and turned off the power outputs to the rear.

Spent the afternoon adding RV antifreeze to my rear zero turn tires to help increase traction. Not sure how this will turn out or how much it will help but ant improvement will be nice.
 

lhc_cj7

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Went thru my 3 floor jacks. They wouldn't stay up. Replaced 1 o-ring in two of the jacks. Mostly they were dirty. Took longer to clean everything up then tear down and put back together.
 

JasonJ

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Did more electrical work on my Police Harley, managed to fix the horn. Feeling accomplished, I called it a day and drank some more beer.
 

WildwoodChuck

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Backed the 02 Nissain Fronteer in, removed the hood, fan, shroud and anything I could reach and remove topside for an engine swap. Then went outside in the woods and cut limbs off a down tree folated them down creek then hauled them out and cut most of it into rounds to season.
 

Ms6peters

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Re-riveted 1/2 of the floor of a M422A1 Mighty Mite restoration. Majority of the 65 year old ivets were done in due to crevice corrosion and stress.

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Uldlose

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Worked on my cousins Jeep Grand Cherokee. Replace motor mounts and trans mount, tune up, full manifold back exhaust with new O2 sensors, resealed the a/c, repaired some hack wiring to various sensors, belt and tensioner, last but not least blend doors and recirculation doors using heater treater steel doors. Started at 10 am just finished at 12:15am. Of course nothing gets done without my supervisor.
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