Recent content by c4e

Son of a... I've done that at least 47,312 times. This month.

Thank you!

My first car, 86 Chevy Caprice. It was like a couple couches on wheels, comfortable as hell, hauled balls, sucked gas, and got me some... groceries. :bounce: Good memories in that thing. I decided to let it go when the timing chain let loose one cold night. Having seen how much of a PITA it is...

There are some truly exceptional people on this board. Good guys like Unclemoak go above and beyond just to help another guy out. I didn't ask him for help directly but boy... that guy is a life saver. He does some great work too! :bowdown:

On a positive note, at least you're going in the right direction. More young people need to get off the couch and into the garage.

Can you weld?

Well in case anyone was wondering... here is the final product. Now here's the good part. You'll notice at the beginning of this thread that my intent for finding a new vise was to get something US made to replace my HF Chinese piece that I was not too fond of. Now after doing a little...

The fastener is in a place where the closest i can go to it with my hand is about 16" away.

That's pretty hard to do when you can't get the first wrench on the fastener.

That's understandable, considering it's a huge PITA to adjust and a POS on top of that. My car has 75k miles and im on the third tensioner (no, not overtightened). The design of many things on the car ****. For example, having to unbolt the front differential housing to change the water pump...

Is there a good way to get those oil stains out of the floor? I don't plan on doing an epoxy floor but I guess it would be nice to know i have the option.

It would be fair to say that after 30 minutes of scraping up my arm and dropping the wrench because there was no clearance that I was adequately pissed off. There were plenty of options for holding the wrench in the pipe but, like I said, I was pissed and I take every opportunity to use my BFH...

2004 Chevy Tracker (Suzuki Grand Vitara)

A serpentine belt. My car does not have a automatic tensioner with a big bolt on it. It has a manual tensioner that needs adjustment with 10mm lock and swivel bolts. PITA.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys... I found a solution that worked out. Like you said i just went and got one of those cheapo Task Force 10mm wrenches, cut the open end off, put it in a piece of steel pipe just large enough to fit and then proceeded to beat the hell out of the pipe in the...