30 years ! Either you never use it or you do a wonderful job of cleaning and maintaining it. It looks like new.Finally got time to finish the tune up on the snowblower, replaced oil, greased axles and cleaned her up with a shot of wd40. Now to see if the auger bearing needs love and check belts while i have her split. Not bad for a 30smthg year old machine!
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Well its a mix of all mentioned, my dad bought it new early 80's and he always brushed remaink g snow off before storing it in the heated garage, i tool the habit of doinv the same when i was old enough to use it and he gave it to me this summer as he sold the house. It looks a tad newer in the picture since i rubbed hr down in wd40 but she sirw does look good for the work she has done, we have had some pretty gnarly snow over the last 30 winters.
Finished installing a new timing belt / water pump kit in my neighbor's '03 Tundra 4.7L V8.
Thing fought me every inch of the way. 14yrs, 140k mi, don't think any of the bolts had ever been removed. And their steel was so mild I had to buy some fresh 6-pt tools to keep from making a mess of things with my older worn 12-pt stuff.
original plugs to, with center electrode greatly worn / sloped. And hard to get out, with a ring of carbon built up on their last couple threads inside the cylinder. Had to work them back and forth and shoot some penetrating oil down there and let them soak, to break that up and not gall or strip the threads in the aluminum head.
One other bit, I could not get the crank pulley bolt loose. Tried all sorts of things, three different impacts, etc. Torch heat. Chilling the bolt. Nothing. Got down to two last methods -
1) pull the flywheel inspection plate and jam it with a pry bar so I could get a big breaker / cheater on the nut, or
2) breaker and cheater on the crank bolt, with the cheater wedged against the underside of the passenger side frame rail, and bump the starter. That's the one that worked, plainly heard the 'tung' as it broke loose. Spinning totally free and easy. Should have started with that technique, instead of screwing around for a full day with other methods.
Ya know every outlet past the first GFCI has the same protection as the GFCI. You could purchase a GFCI breaker and have the same result. All the outlets on that branch circuit would then be protected against a ground fault.
I knew you knew that ya know.
TTT? or AZC?
Started the disconnection part of my engine bay restoration and motor swap
Thanks, yeah i love it. searched for a long time to find one not completely destroyed by rust. this one came from Nevada. The engine is out and currently being disassembled and parted out. the new motor is the one wrapped in the plastic bag in the background.
here it is freshly built right before i had to bag it up
Thanks, yeah i love it. searched for a long time to find one not completely destroyed by rust. this one came from Nevada. The engine is out and currently being disassembled and parted out. the new motor is the one wrapped in the plastic bag in the background.
here it is freshly built right before i had to bag it up
bought from a buddy, was gonna mount a ford 2.3 turbo in it, cut the firewall and a just couldnt make it fit the way I wanted and eventually scrapped the car which was a good solid chassis, but came with no engine when I bought it.
Try to organize the "kaos" in my garage........
I hade a small dustbin to put all short lenghts of metal material that has been left over, the dustbin was always in the way and when touched it did fall and spread everything on the floor and if I try to lift it away it always stick a pipe in my nose, etc, etc.....
Time to do progress!
Took 110mm PVC pipes, cut 5pcs in 50cm lenght, cut 10pcs in 25cm lenght.
Welded a frame of angel iron, mounted 4 wheels and put a plywood panel in it.
Glued the 5 long ones in the middle and the short ones on both sides of them.
Put a steel band around all of them just for to get more strenght.
Got 15 holders that holds the material almost straight up
As a bonus there is 8 more holders between the long pipes and the short ones.
And as an extra, extra bones I got 12 material holders between the short pipes and the steel band
A total of 35 ways to organize my material! And its movable l I like it!
Just some painting left to do, the rack is gonna be babyblue colour.
Hope you can understand my old school English....
That's an RB26DETT, they came with twin turbo's as in two, most people swap to singles and loose the stock intake as they use 6 tb's in favor of the single found on the RB25. It's not a drop in swap but there are bolt in kits available. the RB is an evolution of the L6 that came in the Z cars, the RB head will even bolt to the L6 block (unfortunately oil and coolant passages do not line up).
Not only have i heard of a starlet, I had one, and ruined it
I unloaded two new tool boxes, one for me and one for my father in law. My great wife found this deal and decided that I needed one also!!!!!!!!!!!
Husky 52 in. 18-Drawer Tool Chest
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-52-in-18-Drawer-Tool-Chest-and-Cabinet-Set-Black-HOTC5218B1QES/204344321?
This is what it will look like.
It is still a mess but it's a lot better out there now. I can actually move around and not trip over stuff. I won't dread going out there tomorrow!
