What did you do "IN" your garage today?

[jeep63]

Looks awesome. I need to look into those for door bangers, as I have told the better half that I want a mall crawler jeep as my next daily driver. 5 more years of this car though!

Thanks.

They willl definitely serve that purpose. They are pretty strong too. I had a 4 door with these and it took some hits from rocks that saved the rocker panels. I don’t beat in this Jeep but I do go wheelin.

 

[Zebedeewesty]

A pair of new rear lower shock mounting bolts arrived this morning. She's now got a little bit more ground clearance.

 

[Flat Thunder Channel]

Late night turning the other evening to make some replacement pins for the snow plow! She's back in business!

 

[ambenz]

Continuing my efforts to bling up and clean up my engine bay on the Mustang convertible.
You can see my past comments here.
The Fed Ex guy came today and delivered my chrome alternator! Woohoo!
Looks good!.... gosh it really is a mirror!!!! ....wrenching it in with my Craftsman...


It making the scratches on my chrome fuse box cover stand out...eeeeek! Bob warned me about a rabbit hole I was creating!

Be careful or you could fall into a pretty deep rabbit hole. I grew up admiring the chromed out show car engines and discovered I am in a very different bracket. My solution was to polish the aluminum on my engines.....$$$$$$

Another pick of it all together....


Looking at the bracket I polished, it's pretty buried.
But what I can see looks better next to the chrome then it would have, if I didn't polish it.
So my polishing work wasn't for nothing.


While I was doing all this work in the alternator area, I had my battery charger unplugged.
After plugin everything back in, the charger said the battery was at 65%.
Took the charger back off and started the car and ran it out in the driveway to make sure everything as okay.
I brought back into the garage and put the charger back on the battery and it was at 95%!!
So I know the alternator is charging the battery and was surprised it charged the battery that fast.
I do believe the old alternator was getting close to being undependable at 99,600 miles, it was due.
So glad I sprang for the new chrome alternator...a real win, win!!!!

All and all, pleased with the cleanliness of the engine bay.
You usually do not see a Ford Racing Power Package 4.0 V6 this blinged and cleaned.
It may not be a Ecoboost, Cyclone, Coyote, Voodoo, or Predator, boosted or blown, but it is fast enough, a five speed, gets 27mpg (fixed it!), and best of all.... "IT'S PAID FOR!"

 

[Maxcustody]

Put fresh PB on my bucket trap in the compressor room and fished out another victim.....................

 

[RonnieC]

You usually do not see a Ford Racing Power Package 4.0 V6 this blinged and cleaned.
It may not be a Ecoboost, Cyclone, Coyote, Voodoo, or Predator, boosted or blown, but it is fast enough, a five speed, gets 27mph, and best of all.... "IT'S PAID FOR!"

Never saw a guy get so excited that his sports car goes 27 mph.

 

[ZRX61]

Got the other three corners of the ST cleaned up. Did the wheels, inside wheel arches & the large plastic valance panel under the front (didn't get an after pic of that).

 

[Magnum440d100]

“Finished” organizing my road box (for now).

Added some to the junkyard box.

Now have extras that are gonna get catalogued and either sold on here, or evilBay. Gotta do some research first.

 

[Mr. Roboto]

Added this piece of diamond rubber to one of my benches. We’ll see how it works. Also started surgery on the overhead console for my Jeep. Building one good one out of 3 (hopefully!)

 

[kaymccampbell]

Took the Dingo out. Brought in all the frozen together attachments to melt a bit. Made up the 4' plow. Put all the leftovers outside in the snowbank. Swept the water n snow out. Dragged out the welder. Welded up some aluminum rails for a friend's sliding truck box project. Put away the welder. Put the Dingo n dogeater in neatly.

 

[Outlawmws]

Fixed an old Ronson lighter/Cigarette box I picked up today (I don't smoke but like lighter.s..) the Flint had corroded into an amorphous mass, and was stuck (no spark...), so I had to drill/dig that out adn that took taking the flicker assembly off. got the mess cleared and cleaned the crud off the wheel and reassembled. new flint adn it sparked perfectly after a few stokes to scrape the sealant off.

filled with fluid and it work perfectly! Thinking about putting other fire starting stuff into the box and sticking it in the camp gear.

 

[PhantomEB]

No pictures for this post, dropped the rear of the bronco down 2-3” so now she’s set up for 6” uptravel and 8” down. It’s been a long time since I have felt motivated to work on her. Sunday I plan to self isolate out there more and button up some more loose bolts as well bolt down the cage and seats.

also while cruising FB I saw a not so local post for a Sniper EFI kit complete with screen for 1500, we agreed on 1400(similar on Amazon would be 2000+ when taxes tacked on) next week at a swap meet down this way.

 

[nadogail]

Made a trip to see the damages to the garage door on a rental, the door tech can be out Tuesday morning. To me it looks like we will be be replacing the door with a new one.
I am leaning toward an insulated steel lined door like on the on my home, garage but with the tenant unable use we might have to take the first available door.

 

[Flatland Dave]

Worked in a couple fishing rods, replacing guides, and discussed some philosophy with the dogs.

 

[Outlawmws]

Did you learn anything?

I've been playing with round wick kerosene lanterns this evening. Found another good one "lost" in the collection...

 

[BonzoHansen]

Not in my garage but at my buddy's house tonight we sat and sorted out a couple boxes and buckets of bolts and drank beer. Twas a lovely evening.

 

[Krfjkm]

I decided to prepare my tractor for the spring season, Yeah I know the tractor is smallish a John Deere 2305 with a front end loader, backhoe and mower deck. Yesterday I fully service the engine including replacing the air, fuel and oil filters also draining and refilling the coolant and the front drive axle 90 wt oil. Today I did the transmission by draining replacing the spin on oil filter and removing, cleaning the screen filter and magnets and then reassemble everything and filling up the various fluids. At 375 hours the entire tractor has fresh fluids and ready for the next year.

Also gave the tractor a bath before I started but the dirty side of the tractor just gets rinsed off as it is impossible to get everything and I just leave a fine layer of dirt as nobody can see that.

That’s a great tractor!!

 

[streem26]

In the garage I organized and cleaned loft parts storage, I need to build a couple shelves for heavy parts.
Finished trim on mud room door windows, let's a ton of morning light in now plus I'm not taking a door to the head when somebody wings it open.
On my patio I did some el cheapo sandblasting and tried out my new power washer I got back in March for $30

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[Mikeske]

That’s a great tractor!!

Thank you and that tractor is a small mule. It has been 100% reliable for the entire time I owned it since it I got it with 8 hours on it. The only failures on it was a battery and one of the backhoe hydraulic piston on a outrigger had a leak. A repack of the hydraulic piston and back in business. I do take caution for the plastic cooling fan on the hydrostatic transmission but otherwise it has done so much for my property.

 

[JDGolden]

Another Jeep project. NOS Recon rock rails. These are super rare, especially for a 2 door.

Nice Jeep and nice score. When I bought my JKUR, recon rock rails were on my list. After looking every week for 4 months, I found a set an hour away at a price I felt was a steal. After selling my regular JKUR rock rails, I was out about $60 for the new ones.

 

[DeeDubz]

Finished up getting the poluan running then added a filter for my compressor

 

[DGersic]

I've actually been looking at those as my Toro needs new skids. I was going to build something a bit more stout than the OEM ones but then saw the SnowBlowerSkids and they appear to be reasonably priced. Don't know that I would really save much building them myself.

Have you had a chance to use the snowblower yet with them installed? I'm curious how they work.

I upgraded my Snapper with those several years ago. They’re good.

 

[BuffettFan]

Made a trip to see the damages to the garage door on a rental, the door tech can be out Tuesday morning. To me it looks like we will be be replacing the door with a new one.
I am leaning toward an insulated steel lined door like on the on my home, garage but with the tenant unable use we might have to take the first available door.

Hope you don't have to wait as long as I have.
I ordered my door in August, hopefully I'll get it tomorrow.
But, mine is a 6'6" tall, not the standard 7'.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Popped the new cheepo Amazon storage cover on the Scoobie's summer tires. The first one that arrived was not even close to what I ordered. I'm pretty sure it was a round patio table cover.

 

[XJSuperman]

Back on the yota gears again since KOH is over. Got the crush sleeve in, seal tapped into place, and waiting on paint to dry on the inside of the yoke/dust cover.

 

[Jazz1]

stinking cold outside so neighbours in my garage cooking up "doubles". Trinidad street food

 

[cannuck]

Yesterday, we polished off the last details of reinstalling NV5600 and electronic xfr case (743?) in my '03 3500 SRW CTD. Did this in best bud's shop on his farm, as I don't have a lift (so keep my trans jack at his place. Followed that up by taking eldest grandson out in M-F 7490 to clear the road into our storage building at his place. Not my tractor so can't let him run it. Wanted to take the other gear I had at his farm out to my storage building this morning, but when we got to the farm, the D5 wasn't ready to start (-20C or so, not plugged in) and got the Ram thoroughly stuck (frozen drifts over bumper, so lifts truck off of its wheels) so gave grandson a lesson in running the Hitachi track hoe to retrieve the truck and clear a bit of a path to get home. He has to be the only 10 YO around who has run a D5, overhead cranes, Gallion 1250 and now the Hitachi A25 hoe. Yes, he has his own 25 horse garden tractor and trailer as well (of course). No bigger thrills for a young boy than actually running stuff. Just putting tools away today - might tape some damaged vapour barrier after dinner though.

 

[nadogail]

Did some grocery shopping and picked up a Valentines Day card for Mrs. Nadogail.

 

[Magnum440d100]

Walked into the garage. Turned the torpedo heater on as well as the space heater.

Grabbed the rechargeable flashlight, and some electrical tape.

Grabbed the heat cables I bought, along with pool noodles, fiberglass wrap, and a 10” 90° connector, and duct tape.

Proceeded to head under the house. Apparently this storm blew a bunch of snow under the house. That was fun to army crawl through.

Got to the shower drain first. Undid the old heat cables, and ran new cables. Wrapped the p-trap with the fiberglass wrap and plastic. The piping did crack somewhere, but I’ll address that this spring. For now, I just need it to not freeze solid and stop drainage. It’s getting TIRING crawling under the house with a heat gun to unfreeze the drain.

After the shower drain was taken care of, heat cable plugged in and heating the drain for a couple minutes, and then hearing the water drain, I moved onto the well inlet to the house.

The heat cables on it were really really old. Old as in no ground on the plug. Old as in instead of thick black cables, they were skinny wires separated by a flat piece of insulation. SO OLD as in when I touched the exposed portion, it snapped in half.

So, same as the drain, I put new heat cables on, wrapped in pool noodle, then wrapped THAT with fiberglass wrap, then wrapped THAT in plastic.

The questionable part is where the poly comes out of the ground. I was able to put the heat cables up to the point where it goes into the ground. Same with the insulation. I was only able to wrap from the ground up, all the way to the pressure tank piping. The old heat cable went into the ground. There was also insulation around the poly in the ground. The new insulation meets the old insulation, with maybe 1/8” “exposed” poly. There was nothing I could do about that due to the angle it was coming out of the ground. I was not able to dig the old heat cable or the poly up. There was just no room to dig with the tools I have. There roughly 13”-14” clearance between the house and ground, and barely enough room for my body between the drains and piers in that section. I’m going to have to get a hand shovel and dig when the ground isn’t rock solid frozen. I couldn’t even dig with my E-Tool at 90°! I just couldn’t get a swing in.


So, after all THAT was done, I went to fixin on the ducting. The HVAC guys installed new ducting between the halves of the house, but where the horizontal meets the vertical, they just bent the ductwork which collapsed the plastic inside. So no airflow to one half of the house. I’m wondering if that’s the reason the heat pump has been working so hard? It’s only warming half the house.

I got the 90° installed, and some critter damage “repaired”. It’s not the greatest, but I was running out of light. Got the heat pump runnin, and heat is coming from all the vents now. Not as warm as the wood burning stove, but it’s “comfortable” in here.

Then went back into the garage and turned off the heaters lol. I thought I was going to work out there, but dinner needs cooked, I need a shower, and a nap lol. That army crawl in a foot of space wears a fella out!

Stay warm all!

 

[Outlawmws]

WOW a lot of work! For breaking up the soil, frozen or not - air chisel or equivalent?

 

[16again]

Hope you don't have to wait as long as I have.
I ordered my door in August, hopefully I'll get it tomorrow.
But, mine is a 6'6" tall, not the standard 7'.

I ordered mine 4 weeks ago. They have the door. Waiting on county permit to install. Shooting for this Friday. EX wife #2 works for garage door company.

 

[Mr. Roboto]

Plugged in the battery tender. Hard days work!

 

[jonshonda]

Used my highly modded Craftsman miter saw to build a cage for the little beasts (aka 9 labradoodle pups).

 

[Higgins]

Looked at a house with a 22 x 31 x 9 ft outbuilding. Has PWR. panel, Insulated walls with horizontal pine, insulated ceiling and 3 garage doors! Main garage is 2 car with 10' 6" ceiling.

AL

 

[Duster346]

Machined our 6 quart 48RE pan for our stud kit, started assembling another transmission that is now on parts hold, and generally goofed off in the shop. Have 7 transmission builds to get done .. parts on back order, some for almost a year .. not to mention almost all the parts I put in these have DOUBLED in price ..

 

[Dogmeat]

Slopped down a few Stroh's, and polished up the engine area of my '39 Poncho Silver Streak!

 

[Flat Thunder Channel]

I burned the torpedo heater for what seemed like an eternity the other night. I am working on a basement refinishing project and walk out to the shop to make all my cuts. Foam board dust and saw dust flying around everywhere. The gas company is going to make record profits off me this year!

 

[HPRifleman]

Added illumination and hung up a 45 year old motorcycle sign.

Details in my build thread.

 

[vwpieces]

Finished the router table last night.
Little things that take too much time...
Fence stop was blue anodize and I stripped it to be silver (raw aluminum) to match better.
3D printed all the knobs and modded 5/16 carriage bolts to be the T bolts.
Window on access door is glass. All drawers are soft close ball bearing. The bit tray lifts out of the drawer if needed.
Wiring; router is removable with a receptacle outlet accessed inside, under left drawer. Inlet plug on side of cabinet. Power Stop SW is positioned to be hit with knee easily.
Used the very last scarps of formica out of the full sheet to cover the mounting block for the dust collection pipe mounting. Dust collection works well, left 1/4in gap under door to help sweep the floor in the box.









Learned a lot on this project.

 

[stonesfan68]

Finished the router table last night.
Little things that take too much time...
Fence stop was blue anodize and I stripped it to be silver (raw aluminum) to match better.
3D printed all the knobs and modded 5/16 carriage bolts to be the T bolts.
Window on access door is glass. All drawers are soft close ball bearing. The bit tray lifts out of the drawer if needed.
Wiring; router is removable with a receptacle outlet accessed inside, under left drawer. Inlet plug on side of cabinet. Power Stop SW is positioned to be hit with knee easily.
Used the very last scarps of formica out of the full sheet to cover the mounting block for the dust collection pipe mounting. Dust collection works well, left 1/4in gap under door to help sweep the floor in the box.

Learned a lot on this project.

Wow!