Married2Vette2000
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Great texture on that! How much did that spray cost, if you don't mind sharing?
What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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Great texture on that! How much did that spray cost, if you don't mind sharing?
darwyn
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I got this pto driven MacKissic chipper off from Craigslist. Cleaned up the rust, primed and painted it. Then I welded some tabs on so that it will fit the 3pt hitch on my tractor. I may need to swap a pulley to get the rpms right, but it's close as is.
P.S. For those that pay close attention, I moved and changed the wheels too.
P.S. For those that pay close attention, I moved and changed the wheels too.
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Outlawmws
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Adjusted the valves on the DD rig.
Outlawmws
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Zcar; is that going to be the base for a desert camo job?
T_Roze
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It's next to my garage for the moment, but I went and picked this guy up from a co-worker, for free! The power steering went on it about 4 months ago, and it needs a bunch of other odds and ends, but it's extremely clean otherwise. I'm still debating weather or not I'll keep it or flip it, but we'll see.
Those are great vehicles. Cheap to work on, and they will run forever if you need them too. Nice find!
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DaleJR88Fan
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Raised the lightpole I turned into a flagpole. The weather sure made for some beautiful pictures!
Pathfinders
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Thank you for flying the flag. Nice photos.
JimVonBaden
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Added some accessories to my friend's new bike:
Rewind97
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Thanks for sharing your pics!!!! You'd never get me up that high on a ladder!!!
DaleJR88Fan
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You are both welcome. That wasn't me on the ladder. It was a buddy of mine who is a fireman. He does that type of stuff all the time, haha.
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Mentioned many bad Words getting this badboy off the engine Block. The imigrant on the other side off the road just learned many new words thats not in the Dictionary and should never be written there.
The head gasket looks good. Filled all the ports With white spirit to see if any of the valves leaks. I will lap the valves even if it dosent leak. I did have bad compression on cylinder nr one, so if the valves are ok im hoping that the rocker valves have just magicly tighten themselves so the valves dident Close correctly. I had little Power and on low rpm the engine back fire out of the carb and iv also heard it fire out of the exhaust. I just hope the piston rings are ok on cyl nr 1. What would you guys put Down the cylinder bore to see if the rings are leaking? The oil will be changed.
If everything is ok it might be the ignition system or the carb or both messing With me. With my Luck it is everything single part of the car is doing its part to not want to work properly.
I do have a Close to the floor clutch that you must hit hard to put in gear, and the best brake on the Whole car is the one right in the back.
The head gasket looks good. Filled all the ports With white spirit to see if any of the valves leaks. I will lap the valves even if it dosent leak. I did have bad compression on cylinder nr one, so if the valves are ok im hoping that the rocker valves have just magicly tighten themselves so the valves dident Close correctly. I had little Power and on low rpm the engine back fire out of the carb and iv also heard it fire out of the exhaust. I just hope the piston rings are ok on cyl nr 1. What would you guys put Down the cylinder bore to see if the rings are leaking? The oil will be changed.
If everything is ok it might be the ignition system or the carb or both messing With me. With my Luck it is everything single part of the car is doing its part to not want to work properly.
I do have a Close to the floor clutch that you must hit hard to put in gear, and the best brake on the Whole car is the one right in the back.
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FigureItOut
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I messed around today with some scrap copper trying my hand at brazing. My wife has been collecting curious little pieces of metal for a couple years to make some wind chimes, and I want to get good enough to do the brazing for her.
I figured out why I had trouble before getting a neutral flame with a welding tip and not any other tip. I cannot distinguish the inner cone from the outer cone with my naked eye, but once I put my goggles down, I can see it clearly.
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I figured out why I had trouble before getting a neutral flame with a welding tip and not any other tip. I cannot distinguish the inner cone from the outer cone with my naked eye, but once I put my goggles down, I can see it clearly.
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Added some accessories to my friend's new bike:
Jim,
What do you think about the AltRider stuff?
Seems like a cool company!
Interested in your professional opinion.
Thanks,
Tyler
zcar751
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I picked up the materials from Liner xtreeme. It was about $500 for the materials and guns. Its cheeper for the contractors kit if your wanting to go with black. Here is the link for them, I only recommend them as a happy customer. http://linerxtreeme.com/
zcar751
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Nah, I'm going with monochrome desert theme.
After putting in a new pressure tank in the house, I still had an hour of personal time left so I started to put away some tools from last week. I still have more to put away and general clean up after it looked like a bomb went off with **** every where.
JimVonBaden
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Overall their items are good quality. The price is less than some, more than others, but the customer service is very good.
JimVonBaden
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Completed a 600 mile service on my friend's new bike. Found a few surprises you would not expect on a $23K motorcycle fresh out of the factory.
As much as you post in this thread Jim, you could probably start your own thread like JVB's Garage. Sending the link to all those that show up at your open houses, you might just get quite the following and bring aboard some of your fellow riders.
Raised the lightpole I turned into a flagpole. The weather sure made for some beautiful pictures!
Where did you buy the pulley and truck parts from ?
Carrot-top ?
spent21
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It's a bit late now, but if you're down on compression, pull the plug & put a bit of oil in the cylinder. Run another compression check. If the compression increases, it's your rings.
It is to late. The guy With the compression tester dident want to wait for me to put some oil in when we started the test. It was the first cylinder we tested and the oil was there next to the car. I did put mineral spirit in the cylinders and all the valves. everything was leaking but the intake and exhaust valve on the number one cylinder head. The nr 1 cylinder in the car drank mineral spirit like a thirsty drunk person. The other 3 held the Liquid for at least one hour.
Ill get the pistonrings tomorrow. And if Lucky i get the car running this weekend. This car is my last car and is my daily driver. Sux to be unemployed, but you learn where to save Money and where to put em.
Took the USMC plates off the Mustang and replaced them with a Historical plate.
Unbeknown to me, apparently, the state only sends you one historical plate, now I don't have to run the front plate.
Unbeknown to me, apparently, the state only sends you one historical plate, now I don't have to run the front plate.
NewShockerGuy
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For the last couple weeks we were working on my wife's townhouse rental.
In the process of updating some things we changed out the older t12 4 fixture in the kitchen to an LED light that looks much nicer/newer.
She was about to throw out the t12 fixture but I saved it and put it in the garage in our house.
I already have 20,000 lumens so figured add another 5,000 or so wouldn't be bad.
Yes it's t12, but it was free and I have bulbs so no biggie. When the time comes I'll update it to t8 which seems super easy according to youtube.
It's not permanent as when I get all updated fixtures then I'd re-do the placement of them, but for now it's nice and adds light to where it was lacking. I have two Edison sockets in the garage that have a 5 bulb adaptor, with 5 CFL's on it: Works quite well and really illuminates the garage, but doesn't look as good as recessed lighting or florescent flush mounts.
-Nigel
In the process of updating some things we changed out the older t12 4 fixture in the kitchen to an LED light that looks much nicer/newer.
She was about to throw out the t12 fixture but I saved it and put it in the garage in our house.
I already have 20,000 lumens so figured add another 5,000 or so wouldn't be bad.
Yes it's t12, but it was free and I have bulbs so no biggie. When the time comes I'll update it to t8 which seems super easy according to youtube.
It's not permanent as when I get all updated fixtures then I'd re-do the placement of them, but for now it's nice and adds light to where it was lacking. I have two Edison sockets in the garage that have a 5 bulb adaptor, with 5 CFL's on it: Works quite well and really illuminates the garage, but doesn't look as good as recessed lighting or florescent flush mounts.
-Nigel
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NewShockerGuy
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Also did the headliner in black suede. Was harder than I had imagined.
Turned out well, no wrinkles or creases. Just took my time as it did take a couple hours. My gray headliner was both starting to sag in the back and faded/ripped in spots. On top of that but where the sunroof was it was all rippled due to me tucking the headliner in the fall and then come spring it expanded and looked bad. I did a different method tucking the new one so it looks so much better.
I am probably going to get fabric and do the sun visors as they look out of place now and should be black.
Not pictured which I'll get photos tomorrow is of the painted overhead console. It was the stockish gray, but I painted it black. Now it matches the interior black perfectly. I broke the rear light for the last and final time so I ordered a black mustang dome light as that will probably look better than that POS that ford used and a nightmare to remove rear light...lol
-Nigel
Turned out well, no wrinkles or creases. Just took my time as it did take a couple hours. My gray headliner was both starting to sag in the back and faded/ripped in spots. On top of that but where the sunroof was it was all rippled due to me tucking the headliner in the fall and then come spring it expanded and looked bad. I did a different method tucking the new one so it looks so much better.
I am probably going to get fabric and do the sun visors as they look out of place now and should be black.
Not pictured which I'll get photos tomorrow is of the painted overhead console. It was the stockish gray, but I painted it black. Now it matches the interior black perfectly. I broke the rear light for the last and final time so I ordered a black mustang dome light as that will probably look better than that POS that ford used and a nightmare to remove rear light...lol
-Nigel
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kaymccampbell
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Cut and milled some more PVC wood. Assembled the cupola door.
Itinerant
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Replaced engine and cabin air filters in the household DD's, replaced the valve cover gasket in my wife's car.
d.mcfarland
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Hand sanded and old side table. Corners and weird angles don't make this fun or easy!
bulletpruf
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New front hubs and suspension end links on my beater E46 BMW (1999 318i).
Having the right tools for the job sure makes things a lot easier.
Having the right tools for the job sure makes things a lot easier.
BonzoHansen
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I paid $100 craftsman 42" lawn tractor with grass catcher attachment off a facebook yard sale site. $35 for the new tie rod, thats why they dumped it, no steering. Adjusted the brake and $25 in mower attachment brake parts ans shes good as gold. Or at least silver
TedU
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Finished 'fishing' two sets of lines (2 x refrigerant, electrical and condensate drain) for the 2 mini split head units I'm installing in my daughter's room over the garage.
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Her dogs were not impressed.
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LS6 Tommy
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After our block party a while back my neighbor left me a cooler full of beer I threw a bunch in the freezer for a quick cool down to facilitate "proper disposal" of the unwanted devils and proceeded to dispatch some of them humanely...
Tommy
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I was screwing around with this thing repairing some threads that were stripped-out in the hand-lever clamps, a 1962 650ss:
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I also sharpened my wife's fabric scissors and cleaned up an old Disston hand-saw a bit.
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I also sharpened my wife's fabric scissors and cleaned up an old Disston hand-saw a bit.
Craptain
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steveivy
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What did you do "IN" your garage today?
Built a stand/box for my table saw, mostly so it has a slightly smaller footprint and to catch saw dust. Put a slanted price of drywall in it to direct the dust to the front, where eventually I'll out an outlet for the vacuum.
Next I'll add some locking casters.
Built a stand/box for my table saw, mostly so it has a slightly smaller footprint and to catch saw dust. Put a slanted price of drywall in it to direct the dust to the front, where eventually I'll out an outlet for the vacuum.
Next I'll add some locking casters.
raddksn
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thool
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I have a loft I built a few years back in a dead area of my garage. I bought a HF tool chest go under it, but the top lid kept hitting the joists of the loft from the bottom. I had planned to unload the loft, unbolt it and lift the whole thing one inch...
Then I took a closer look at the chest. The pneumatic tubes were anchored the box sides with an adjustable ball joint, but that joint was riveted in, so it couldn't be adjusted. So I drilled out the rivets, put in some small bolts, and now I can reduce the max open height of that top lid.
Then I took a closer look at the chest. The pneumatic tubes were anchored the box sides with an adjustable ball joint, but that joint was riveted in, so it couldn't be adjusted. So I drilled out the rivets, put in some small bolts, and now I can reduce the max open height of that top lid.