What did you do "IN" your garage today?
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smalltown
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fordkid88 I hope you will post more pictures.
EOC_Jason
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kaymccampbell
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Dragged a bunch of **** in to work on/use up tomorrow.
I will as I progess on the table, but it this picture did turn out to be pretty good for a cell phone pic.
Better weld than I could ever do...
Thanks! Im working on enrolling in a tech school so might be able to weld for a living. I love it.
isb cornbinder
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J_J_
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I think I would've stayed with the 396.... lol
Richsgarage
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I made this video
I started this thread
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=381819
Then I worked on this 4 wheeler.
I started this thread
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=381819
Then I worked on this 4 wheeler.
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d.mcfarland
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SgtHawkUSMC
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I can imagine the death rattle noises that engine made, yikes! It looks like it ran that way for quite a while, too.
couldn't help myself.
Yep. Push rod through a rocker was the first thing I saw when I pulled the valve cover off. Actually my 17yo saw it first... The death rattle wasn't as bad as you'd think with that mess. It sounded like a loose rocker. After the guy dropped the van off at my house, I got it running and drove it up the street and back. They drove it like that for 15k miles or so! Work truck. Kids driving... I asked him who rebuilt it and found out it was some putz that worked for him. I kind of figured. He had no business being inside that motor... At least a pro did the bottom end. Not that it really matters now.
The good news is that I dropped the heads and crank off at the machine shop last night. The only real issues were the cam, lifters and a nicked crank. The cam, lifters and rockers I was already going to replace. $250 to get the crank ground and the heads cleaned, re-threaded for 7/16" rocker studs and the valve guides cut for Posilock seals. Next week the block will get tanked and magnafluxed. This should end up being a good runner with a little effort. The only extra cost is getting the crank ground.
BoostAddiction
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Installed a set of carbon fiber canards on the car project.
JimVonBaden
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Pulled off the Maier hand guards(for sale) and installed these from Ebay. Cheaper and much nicer.
Maier:
Ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Hand...d=172581610245&_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042
Ignore the color oddness. IRL they look the same dark black of the add-on parts.
Maier:
Ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Hand...d=172581610245&_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042
Ignore the color oddness. IRL they look the same dark black of the add-on parts.
kaymccampbell
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Fixed a bunch of drawer knobs. Cut out some more stars on the bandsaw..
dittle fart around
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Actually did something in my garage. Replaced the wiper motor in my "going to the dump" truck.
Didn't even bleed. Feels good.
Didn't even bleed. Feels good.
Varty Yo
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Finally had a heater installed!!! After 5 years of wishing i said what the hell am i waiting for haha. Went with the 45k modine unit. Pretty happy so far its only been 2 days. Plumber buddy did it all for $1500 i couldnt argue with that price.
PhantomEB
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Just gonna tidy up the floor, clean up the car and pack it up for my trip north for work.
Glad I can leave it in the condition I want it in when I get back, cold beer in the beer fridge and all!
Hope brown santa is given the ability to deliver me some goodies before i come back. Prepared to work 31+ straight.
Glad I can leave it in the condition I want it in when I get back, cold beer in the beer fridge and all!
Hope brown santa is given the ability to deliver me some goodies before i come back. Prepared to work 31+ straight.
Crazyjake8493
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Swept out the wood stove pipe and finally installed the riser block on my bandsaw. Next I have a beer flight to work on for a late birthday present.
Bessy
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Finished the two stationary sections of the miter saw bench today, it's just 3/4" plywood with a few pieces of two-by for rigidity. Tops measure 27-1/4" deep, 36 high (once it's sheeted with melamine) and 8' and 4' sections. Chopsaw will be sunk into the center of the two sections on a mobile base with the shop vac snugged in under it. Lighting above will be moved slightly to better light the surface and long stock will be put on brackets on the wall above to about 3' from the ceiling down.
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deftone490
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Awesome!!
zmotorsports
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Finally had a heater installed!!! After 5 years of wishing i said what the hell am i waiting for haha. Went with the 45k modine unit. Pretty happy so far its only been 2 days. Plumber buddy did it all for $1500 i couldnt argue with that price.
Good for you.
Having a warm space to work makes it so much nicer. Nice you’re just gonna wish you had done it sooner.
Enjoy.
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Worked on prepping the new toy for a ceramic coating
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Pitalplace
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Started this tool cart yesterday and finished this morning. Bought the wheels at Menards and the rest came from the iron pile (metal storage for those not with a farm background). It will telescope to 4 1/2' to slide over the fender of the pickup. The tray came from the scrap at my local sheet metal shop. I may add some more tool storage on the out side for screw drivers etc. later but for now it's done. It may get a coat of paint if it ever warms up enough.
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EOC_Jason
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I managed to smash/bend my thumb back between two very heavy objects... Nothing broke (I don't think), but hurts like hell... decided to call it quits for the day before I managed to seriously injure myself... lol
PassnThru
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When will we stop thinking that our appendages are expendable when a job has to be done?
As I get older, I'm leaning that way but I still lean toward getting the job done.
To answer my own question - apparently never.
smalltown
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Ouch EOC Jason. Hope you can keep the swelling down. When I do something like that it's usually the last thing as I was finishing up.
Outlawmws
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I hope it DOESN'T swell up! I smashed my thumb once and packed it in for the night.
About midnight we went to Emergency as the pain from the swelling was killing me... (I nearly puked) They used a hot wire thing and poked a hole low in my thumbnail and the pain instantly stooped. (They also said "this might hurt/sting" as they did it. No such thing; the pain from the swelling FAR exceeded the hot wire...)
I simply kept that hole open with a clean needle for a day or three...
About midnight we went to Emergency as the pain from the swelling was killing me... (I nearly puked) They used a hot wire thing and poked a hole low in my thumbnail and the pain instantly stooped. (They also said "this might hurt/sting" as they did it. No such thing; the pain from the swelling FAR exceeded the hot wire...)
I simply kept that hole open with a clean needle for a day or three...
dittle fart around
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I've drilled a hole through my fingernail before.
It works. I feel stupid admitting it but it works. Have a beer and get it done.
kaymccampbell
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Measured some plastic stock I bought. Found out they lied about thickness. Monday it goes back.
EOC_Jason
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Wasn't rushing or anything, just strong gust of wind caught what I was holding and flipped it back before I could let go and get my hand out of the way.
It's not swollen thankfully, and I can bend it okay with just a little pain. Definitely bruised though.
It's not swollen thankfully, and I can bend it okay with just a little pain. Definitely bruised though.
Outlawmws
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(relatively speaking! MrSurly
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I've drilled a hole through my fingernail before.
I have done precisely this. Under my Chevelle, hung the new McLeod pressure plate on the flywheel by one bolt, of course, while laying on the ground. The Muncie was laying across my stomach, floor jack was now collapsed but still under there because it was too hard to
Move on the dirt. Holding the plate up to stab the bolt had me in a helluva bind and then a charley-horse and man I was so glad that bolt started so I could lay back for a second, letting go of everything. My hand was relaxing just above the floor jack lift pad when the pp dropped.
Hours later I had to use a pocketknife to drill the nail.
Now, damn near fifty years later, that nail still has a flat spot.
Vividly.
I recall that pain
Vividly.
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MrSurly
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What did you do "IN" your garage today?
I’ve been refurbing an older Worth two-post and put my pickup on it for the first time.
I found that (exactly as expected) the tracks of the *other* garage door are sure-enough, right in the way.
So then I started on the task of reconfiguring the 18x8 door as s high-lift.
Because my Craigslist foraging over the last year, I already have the basic parts on hand (used). I bought two 10x10 commercial doors that were high-lifts (18.7’).
I converted one of those to a 14’ for the lift door (South wall) but now I’ll use the other parts to convert the door on the East wall. Of COURSE I didn’t make the Shop big enough..
Do the first legit use of my lift is as sawhorse.
Then a chance to
Play with my garage sale PortaBand.
Next I propped up the door so it doesn’t move during the swap out.
Some of the parts.
Spring and spools are a lot different of course.
Had to move parts to the longer axle
The brackets are much larger
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I’ve been refurbing an older Worth two-post and put my pickup on it for the first time.
I found that (exactly as expected) the tracks of the *other* garage door are sure-enough, right in the way.
So then I started on the task of reconfiguring the 18x8 door as s high-lift.
Because my Craigslist foraging over the last year, I already have the basic parts on hand (used). I bought two 10x10 commercial doors that were high-lifts (18.7’).
I converted one of those to a 14’ for the lift door (South wall) but now I’ll use the other parts to convert the door on the East wall. Of COURSE I didn’t make the Shop big enough..
Do the first legit use of my lift is as sawhorse.
Then a chance to
Play with my garage sale PortaBand.
Next I propped up the door so it doesn’t move during the swap out.
Some of the parts.
Spring and spools are a lot different of course.
Had to move parts to the longer axle
The brackets are much larger
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Outlawmws
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Yep, fingers and thumbs seem to take a lot of abuse! I've noticed my left seems to get more than my right as I'm right handed and the left is the "holder", and the right the "abuser"...
The one I can't quite figure out is the time (I was maybe 5 or 6?) I put my left middle finger through a bike chain and gear. My older brother had my bike upside down, and had spun the pedals as fast as he could. (This bike was locked up in the rear hub so the pedals were spinning with he wheel after he let go) I decided that was bad for the bike, and tried to catch up with the spinning pedal with my left hand and then grabbed for it.
The bike also had no chain guard and my middle finger got caught in the spinning gear, and made the loop. It nearly severed the tip of the finger at the base of the nail. it was still on just by a corner.
Off to the hospital, where they cleaned it up, said it could not be stitched, (hamburger..) and simply pushed it back in place and bandaged it with LOTS of gauze to keep it there and said to see it it took and grew back on...
It actually did! That gauze "splint" was changed periodically, but was on there for several weeks as I recall. I'm certain the bone had been severed/broken/mangled as well. I had no feeling in the tip for a number of years, and the scar still has minimal if any feeling. Most of the tip regained feeling, and after being "shed" the nail even grew back. That finger is now about an eight of an inch longer than the same finger on the right, and the nail has to be trimmed far down the side on the side that was severed. Overall I was lucky.
Buy WHY did I grab with my left?
I'm VERY right handed. Almost awkward with my left doing delicate or intricate things. Was I left handed then, and the trauma made me switch? 
Did the trauma to my left make me stop using it unless forced to? 
I'll probably never know...
The one I can't quite figure out is the time (I was maybe 5 or 6?) I put my left middle finger through a bike chain and gear. My older brother had my bike upside down, and had spun the pedals as fast as he could. (This bike was locked up in the rear hub so the pedals were spinning with he wheel after he let go) I decided that was bad for the bike, and tried to catch up with the spinning pedal with my left hand and then grabbed for it.
The bike also had no chain guard and my middle finger got caught in the spinning gear, and made the loop. It nearly severed the tip of the finger at the base of the nail. it was still on just by a corner.
Off to the hospital, where they cleaned it up, said it could not be stitched, (hamburger..) and simply pushed it back in place and bandaged it with LOTS of gauze to keep it there and said to see it it took and grew back on...
It actually did! That gauze "splint" was changed periodically, but was on there for several weeks as I recall. I'm certain the bone had been severed/broken/mangled as well. I had no feeling in the tip for a number of years, and the scar still has minimal if any feeling. Most of the tip regained feeling, and after being "shed" the nail even grew back. That finger is now about an eight of an inch longer than the same finger on the right, and the nail has to be trimmed far down the side on the side that was severed. Overall I was lucky.
Buy WHY did I grab with my left?
I'm VERY right handed. Almost awkward with my left doing delicate or intricate things. Was I left handed then, and the trauma made me switch? Did the trauma to my left make me stop using it unless forced to? I'll probably never know...EOC_Jason
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Been re-organizing my toolbox. I got in a couple sets of the Ernst wrench rails:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005ZIS8QU/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Fit my combo wrenches perfect and basically halved the space they all take up.
Now trying to organize the DBE & DOE ones...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005ZIS8QU/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Fit my combo wrenches perfect and basically halved the space they all take up.
Now trying to organize the DBE & DOE ones...
They look better than those at HF and at a better price. Win win!!
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chrislehr
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Did what i do when i cant find a place to put something down. Cleaned. All. The. Things.
JimVonBaden
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I installed the mirror block-off plates and finished the instrument surround and front fairing install. The bolts are just countersunk SS with Sharpie paint for temporary. I am going to powder coat them for final install. I am considering a small roundel on the face of each, but am not sure yet.
Ignore the paint, it is covered in smudges from handling, but looks way better than the photos suggest.
Ignore the paint, it is covered in smudges from handling, but looks way better than the photos suggest.
BonzoHansen
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I replaced this in my 93 k1500. Took advantage of some warm dry weather. It's the e brake adjuster. $20 for a gm adjuster and Wagner right rear brake cable from Amazon and its all set. Now the e brake works and the e brake pedal has no play. The damn brake light on the dash kept coming on because the cable had to much play.
