Recent content by Crazy_Pilot

Re: Let's see your lap dogs. Our little retard. I think there was a scary movie on.

He's in for a surprise when that last lug nut comes off...

I love the electrolysis de-rusting method, followed by a bath in POR-15 Metal Prep to give it a zinc phosphate coating.

Subaru wanted $50 apiece for the rear exhaust hangers on my SVX.

Short version: Can a solar battery tender and 12V battery be used to run a 12V fuel transfer pump? For say 30 gallons at a time, once a day. Long version: My flying club has a 500-gallon tank with a manual crank pump that we use to refuel our planes. It works, but when you've got an airplane...

Excellent points, just want to add one small gotcha: Some folks go nuts with the anti-seize (particularly up here where they make the roads out of salt in the winter), especially between the rotor and hub face. Overdoing this can basically form a liquid gasket between the rotor and hub. The lug...

Not so much in the garage, but in front of it. Oil change day for the Legacy:

At a previous house I was renting with friends we shared a 10x24-ish garage. I had my car in there for a winter while I rebuilt the rear suspension and it was challenging, because we also stored 4 or 5 spare set of wheels (winter/summer tires), a couple bicycles, camping gear, lawn stuff...

A fellow was killed near my hometown a couple years ago in a compressor explosion. He initially lost his lower leg but complications developed overnight and he didn't survive. It was a story that many of us have lived, three guys hanging out and working on a car together. Pressure vessels are...

Those are my two primary garage rules. Everything's a hammer, and everything's a prybar. And if something doesn't work you need a bigger hammer/prybar.

Pace yourself. It's tempting to ring up the credit and buy all of the toys in one go but that can bury you forever, even with a better than average income. My fiance and I just bought our first house in November. We found a place for a low enough purchase price that I can afford it on my own...

A couple of my amateur projects: Subaru wanted $50 each for these hangers that rusted out (car takes 2). $20 and a couple hours later I had my own. Lighter too, the originals were overkill. And the exhaust I built for the car:

Real life story: I used to work in the garage at Canadian Tire while I was attending school. One day a guy came in with a flat on his boat trailer (single axle light trailer that was badly overloaded). One of the other tire monkeys used a jack to lift and hold the trailer while he replaced the...

Yep! I used to work in a 10' wide garage with the car pushed right to one side. To get the stands in on that side I had to slide under the car while it was held by the jack. Much more scary than pulling a 150lb transmission lying on my back. Glad I have more space now.

I don't know the exact temperature, but I have a freezer in there that hasn't had to fire up in weeks and snow that doesn't melt. Also found a rock hard mouse in the garbage can yesterday. Not exactly toasty. I can't wait to insulate it and install heat.