Recent content by Mike S.

Good idea! I'll put some blue loctite on them this weekend. The door has all of the proper carriage bolts with the serrated nuts. I made sure to inspect them all. I can't explain why this one came loose. You know, it's one of those things we talked about a few times. We've just never put the...

I had a scary moment yesterday morning opening the garage door. The door lifted normally, but when it stopped at the top position, I heard a metal clanking sound followed by the sound of a small metal object falling onto the hood of my car. I turned around and noticed that one of the garage door...

I think that's what I'm going to do. It'll move the post in a little over 5 inches. (y) I made the template last night, which showed me how screwed up the post is against the wall. I'll move the this post inwards and drill 3 new holes. Unfortunately, the hole that deviates the most from the...

Thanks, I could probably do that. Do you have a MaxJax or is that a full size lift? I'll try to put a template together tomorrow. It's probably a good idea to see what I would be working with. Tonight I tried to put an outline of my smallest car on the garage floor and marked the lift points...

So the the guy that I bought my house from had a MaxJax installed in the garage. I wanted to buy a new MaxJax M7K kit and wanted to know what your thoughts are on installing a new kit using the old anchor bolt locations. I would prefer to do this rather drilling new holes into the concrete. The...

I took the zinc plating a step further and added yellow chromate. It took some time to find the right mixture and figure out how long to dip the parts. Ruined several nicely plated bolts in the process.

Thanks, I stumbled across these instructions which work pretty well. https://www.cmoist.com/2020/12/31/zinc-plating-on-the-cheap/ I'm not using the corn syrup, however. I've learned that too much salt and sugar causes the plating to become bumpy. After backing it down a couple of times, the...

This weekend I learned how to zinc plate old fasteners and hardware for my restorations. I had been looking at the Caswell kit for several years, but never pulled the trigger. This past week I did a little searching and found out that it can be done with normal household materials for very...

I picked up some rear trailing arms to do a rear disk brake conversion on my project car. Then stripped them down to find one of the spindles is gouged up. Would it be worth it to run it as-is, or would you look for a replacement? If I could remove the spindle from the trailing arm, could a...

I've been cleaning up some steering knuckles that I picked up from the salvage yard. Normally I would just hit it with a wire wheel and then powder coat. This time I picked up some Evaporust to try out. Wow, what a difference. I've always assumed that cast iron was just a dark brownish color...

^^ It looks warm and sunny there. Great photos of the pup. Here's ours from yesterday.

Wheel bearing adapter kit arrived right before the snow storm.

I turned my cluttered 2 car garage into a cluttered 3 car garage for the upcoming ice storm.

I picked up some knuckles from the salvage yard to upgrade my front brakes. I also decided to buy my own ball joint press instead of renting one from the local auto parts store. I didn't realize how large the Icon press was going be until I opened it. It's a lot larger than the OEM Tools press...

I put pads and rotors on the wife's SUV, then put a rear sway bar on my project car.