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You would have a better chance of fixing it if it was inside for sure, or it could be used as a counterweight to make sure the shop doesn't flip over, I have a few of those, either way inside is always better, until it isn't. ;)

Status update on your son and the new job? Enquiring minds want to know.

I hope the warm weather isn't coming with rain, we are getting some 50s, but it will be raining.
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Rain on Sunday, i'm working outside today and tomorrow. I have a road trip planned for Sunday afternoon.
I have more than enough stuff to keep the shop from flipping over, lol!

The kid starts on Monday. Part time, he just isn't ready for 7 x 12 days. He's not hungry enough i think. The county's largest employer. We'll see how it goes. Cautiously optimistic. He's his own worst enemy if you ask me.
 
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Part time, he just isn't ready for 7 x 12 days. He's not hungry enough i think.
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Unpopular opinion maybe, but I don't know that an 84 hour work week is worth living for. 40 tires me out enough and TBH I don't get a lot done on the evenings, meaning I'm working to live 2 out of every 7 days. Living for 0 of 7 days though...

I dunno, maybe I'm not hungry enough. I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically.
 
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Unpopular opinion maybe, but I don't know that an 84 hour work week is worth living for. 40 tires me out enough and TBH I don't get a lot done on the evenings, meaning I'm working to live 2 out of every 7 days. Living for 0 of 7 days though...

I dunno, maybe I'm not hungry enough. I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically.
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I'm in the same position on this. I aim to put my 40 in at work, but try to keep it to that (salaried). I don't mind going over once in awhile, but don't want to make a habit of it.
My issue lately (all year) is leaving work stuff at work and being able to transition to working on my stuff. It ends up that not a lot of my stuff gets done.
Hence, I'm a little more choosey about which projects I want to work on....
That said, there is something about being able to plaster on a fake smile at work and play the game. I have learned to be careful about being too transparent about issues and things at work. Most of the work people don't understand my projects and "fun" stuff and I've gotten over the desire to want to tell them.... Hence, why this forum is great - to shoot the breeze with others that have interesting projects and hobbies.

One other comment and observation, it seems that one has to work hard in early years for it to pay off in later years... Meaning, use the opportunity at each job to level up - learn new things - skills, connections, etc. Then to make more money, it's usually faster to switch jobs than increases within a company. There's a lot more to be said on this subject, but maybe I'll stop here...

Hopefully the heat is working and parts are going into the Audi!!
 
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I hear you guys. I am sort of in the same boat. I could work overtime every single day, and usually do, but don't want to. Heck i was working Thanksgiving morning from home. Not that i wanted to. Eventually, for salaried people, the goals you have to hit are hard enough you can't work enough hours to get it all done and still have a life. Most companies want you on the edge of burned out to squeeze as much as possible out of you. It's better when the labor market is better, and much much worse when the labor market ***** and there's no jobs.

that said, my comment regarding the kid was that he's having a hard time wanting to give up all his free time, like a lot of the younger set. The people around here that eat up the 80 hour a week jobs are the ones with no other choice to pay for a family and home, because frankly, in this state, you either have plenty or have nothing. And a lot more people fall into the later category. Wages aren't very high. You can make $13/hr at McDonalds and $15 in a factory. We're a "blue" state. It's been my observation over the years that tends to go hand in hand. I'll leave it at that.

Taking advantage of the warm weather and cleaning up the scrub trees outside the shop. Tomorrow is supposed to rain. There's time enough to spend in the WARM shop. In fact, the burner just started by itself. Man i like that.

I've taken a few vids, need to finish that up and edit it all together. I'll try to upload a little bit of a polished vid.
 
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I was out in the shop, trying to disassemble the forklift steering gear. I had to POUND the sector gear out of the housing, the diameter was larger than the bore. There's only one way it goes in, it scored the bore coming out. I don't get how it got in there. NOT happy.
 
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I just don't get it. That housing bore is round. The steering gear is larger in diameter than the bore. Short of freezing one and making the other near molten, i don't see how it fits in and out. New one is just as large/bad.

The seal on that bore is just a stationary o-ring so it's not the end of the world, but cripes i would not have designed that sort of fit. Just crazy.
 
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I just don't get it. That housing bore is round. The steering gear is larger in diameter than the bore. Short of freezing one and making the other near molten, i don't see how it fits in and out. New one is just as large/bad.

The seal on that bore is just a stationary o-ring so it's not the end of the world, but cripes i would not have designed that sort of fit. Just crazy.
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That's really odd, but that's the only way that I can think of to do it - freeze one and heat the other. I generally just put parts in the freezer for a few hours, but what if you got it a lot colder? I'm not sure how to do that, but if you could get significantly colder than 30* F then maybe it's possible?
 
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I'm not sure how to do that, but if you could get significantly colder than 30* F then maybe it's possible?
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Scott, our freezer is set to 0° F but if I wanted to cool something well below that, I'd use dry ice. It's solid at -109° F and I recall seeing it for sale in a grocery store. I don't recall which one but that would be my first stop.
 
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86turbodsl said:
I just don't get it. That housing bore is round. The steering gear is larger in diameter than the bore. Short of freezing one and making the other near molten, i don't see how it fits in and out. New one is just as large/bad.

The seal on that bore is just a stationary o-ring so it's not the end of the world, but cripes i would not have designed that sort of fit. Just crazy.
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Is there another larger access port and this is inserted from the inside first comes out last? Do you have to gut the whole gear box and remove this from the inside?
 
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Scott, our freezer is set to 0° F but if I wanted to cool something well below that, I'd use dry ice. It's solid at -109° F and I recall seeing it for sale in a grocery store. I don't recall which one but that would be my first stop.
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Thanks, Bob. That info will come in handy at some point.
 
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Is there another larger access port and this is inserted from the inside first comes out last? Do you have to gut the whole gear box and remove this from the inside?
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No, the sector gear has 2 rows of teeth on it, one on each side, and you insert the splined end into the bore first, it goes through a brass bushing and the opposite side cast iron wall. The splines stick out when installed. I rotated it every which way, but in no orientation did it come out. Only thing i can figure is installed hot and/or the cast iron with the bushing is slightly off a bit causing the sector to angle.
 
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Cleaned everything up, filed down the giant ridges created by pounding out the sector gear. checked the old gear fit in bore.
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Will not drop down in any orientation. NO idea how it got in there. Measured the diameter at maximum (it's tapered).20221128_210606.jpg

Then grabbed the new gear and dropped in the bore. PLENTY of clearance.

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And diameter of new gear at maximum.

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So that's what, like 70 thou difference at the bore? NO WONDER it didn't fit. I don't think the original gear is right for this housing, AND how the heck did they get it in there without damaging the housing? I have no idea. I believe i can repair the housing enough to make it leak free. And the new gears are correct for this application. This is not my first Saginaw / Oliver gearbox rebuild. Never seen anything like this problem before. Maybe the gears were from some other application?

Don't know. I do know i can't find the new pitman arm i ordered up from my used Oliver dealer. I guess i will have to clean the shop some more. I'm in for the night. Mayana.
 
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If you go to your Youtube dashboard, then there is a tab for Analytics, and then you can look at that video and it will show you a breakdown of when and how many views over time.
Then you can see how many views it is getting per day/per week/per month.
 
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If you go to your Youtube dashboard, then there is a tab for Analytics, and then you can look at that video and it will show you a breakdown of when and how many views over time.
Then you can see how many views it is getting per day/per week/per month.
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Exactly.

My problem is my quasi-viral video caught on a 13 or so months ago - December/January. I'll have enough subscribers to be monetized in a few weeks, but I may be losing watch-hours if the new watch-hours aren't more than the ones that are aging out as they hit a year (you need 4,000 watch hours in a year to be monetized, and I think if you drop below 4,000 they yank your monetization).

Anyway, you may want to try to post a few shorter videos just to get things moving and get the hang of it. I wouldn't recommend doing what I did and posting a big long video for your first "real" video.
 
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That was my issue with youtube, I was monetized, and making at least a little bit that helped give me incentive to make the videos... then they up'd the number of watch hours in a year and then I lost my monetization. You've got to have a lot of subscribers and be continuously generating content to have any prayer of a chance of making money on Youtube.
 
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I think your repeat customers and hours watched is going to depend on video quality. Those end up being the ones i subscribe to. I will watch the little vids that people post that are related to something i am interested in, but i do not watch vids of a guy with a selfie stick walking around in circles talking about something. There needs to be something happening, telling a story of some kind.
 
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I ran an experiment last night, declining to go clean the boiler. that makes it over 24 hrs since a cleaning. I woke up this morning to a cold boiler and lockout. LOTS of ash in the burner tube. So that's the metric, 24hrs. I think i can do better with more combustion air, but i can't add any more right now. So that will be for the Burner 2.0.
 
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Today i went to help a friend by installing a new muffler on his ride, turns out i ordered the wrong muffler, so i have to return that one and get another, cheaper one. Danged cars these days with multiple mufflers. If i had been able to get further under the car the first time i inspected it, i'd have probably gotten the right one first time.

On the plus side, i cleared enough floorium to get a whole car in the shop besides the audi with the door shut. That's pretty nice. On the down side, now i cant GET at the audi anymore to work on it.. damned if i do, damned if i don't.
 
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Today i went to help a friend by installing a new muffler on his ride, turns out i ordered the wrong muffler, so i have to return that one and get another, cheaper one. Danged cars these days with multiple mufflers. If i had been able to get further under the car the first time i inspected it, i'd have probably gotten the right one first time.

On the plus side, i cleared enough floorium to get a whole car in the shop besides the audi with the door shut. That's pretty nice. On the down side, now i cant GET at the audi anymore to work on it.. damned if i do, damned if i don't.
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Little steps are good. I cleaned my wreck of a shop today
 
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And now i'm stuck not working on the Audi. I think i'll just finish the forklift so i can put more stuff away outside. At some point i also need to do a clutch job on that thing. I can't get enough floor space...
 
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86turbodsl said:
Today i went to help a friend by installing a new muffler on his ride, turns out i ordered the wrong muffler, so i have to return that one and get another, cheaper one. Danged cars these days with multiple mufflers. If i had been able to get further under the car the first time i inspected it, i'd have probably gotten the right one first time.

On the plus side, i cleared enough floorium to get a whole car in the shop besides the audi with the door shut. That's pretty nice. On the down side, now i cant GET at the audi anymore to work on it.. damned if i do, damned if i don't.
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Never heard of "floorium" before, but I know what you mean...

I have the same problem with shop space in my garage in San Antonio - stuffed with toolboxes, tools, benches, 3' deep shelves with parts storage, and the worst offender - the 4-post lift. Got to the point that I could work on parts in the garage, but really not cars, so I was wrenching on stuff in the 100-degree temps out in the driveway.

Now I have A/C being piped in and I'm going to get rid of the lift as soon as I get home. I'll also reconfigure parts storage and hope to make my garage useable once again. The 4-post lift was really only good for storage; I didn't find it to be very good for working on stuff, except for perhaps a transmission swap. Plus, when I have a car on the lift, it blocks so much light from all the dadgum extra LED lights I had installed.

Anyway, my point is that if you can't pull a car into the garage, protected from the elements, and wrench on it, you may need to spend some quality time reorganizing or rethinking your layout.
 
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