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Over the holiday, built my poor-man's paint booth and sprayed my '67 Mustang unibody in red oxide epoxy primer, then followed up with grey high-build on everything that's going to see another layer of paint a couple days later. Once I finish getting the underbody seam sealed it's ready to come...

Completely rebuilt the A/C in my '85 F-250 XLT Lariat diesel this weekend. I mean the works. Compressor, condenser, evaporator, accumulator, all the hoses, EVERYTHING. Evacuated it for 3 hours yesterday, charged it with nitrogen and let it sit overnight to verify it was sealed up thoroughly...

I'm in mid-TN and put one of those in my 30x60x12 CC building and have been pleased. I have closed cell foam throughout. It cools better than it heats, but it kept the shop in the low 70s during July/August last year no problem. Heat-wise, the couple of times it got into the 20s this winter...

Wrapped up putting the new fork seals in the '83 VT750 this morning. Shined it up and I declare it ready to ride....as soon as it quits raining... Guess I'll put the new door hinges on the truck now. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

Spent the day getting the '85 F-250 diesel ready for Spring property maintenance. Replaced the leaky p/s pump and hoses, changed the oil and fuel/air filters, installed a Racor 10 micron water separator and vacuumed out the interior. It's ready to go pick up the first load of mulch. Sent from...

I had a 30' x 60' Carolina Carport building installed November 2019. I'm in the middle TN area. Vertical style roof, horizontal siding. 12' walls, 3 10x10 roll up doors, 1 man door, 1 window. Bare building shell was about $18k installed. The 6" thick 4000psi rebar reinforced slab with 12"...

Lamps are getting extremely difficult to tool up and more and more complex, and it's only going to become more commonplace as more and more manufacturers shift away from incandescent lighting, particularly when you consider that more and more models are getting adaptive lighting at least as an...

Already on that. Been a parts guy for 30+ years & bought the rad at work. Going UPS to be lab tested tomorrow. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

Finished replacing the transmission in my kid's 2004 F150. ***** when a $150 radiator kills a $2000 transmission. Never a good thing when you see the strawberry milkshake of death. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

Did the hammer/dolly work yesterday, got started with skimming some filler on the quarter from a little minor fender bender somewhere around 1970. Goal is to use less filler than was in the original repair. Should be able to achieve that. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

Nice. Mine's been in the family since 1973, but was a victim of the "I'll get to it next year" disease. I wasn't old enough to remember the last time I rode in it. I'm taking care of that now. Slowly getting the body ready for paint. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

Having cleaned out 43 years of accumulation in my dad's shop and attic after he passed in 2016, I gained a whole new respect for the phrase "when in doubt, throw it out." We literally filled 4 open top dumpsters just getting the pile down to the stuff that we actually WANTED to move, and then...

I bought one of these a few years ago, costs less and works great. Would have never found the vacuum leak on my M3 without it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVAP-Smoke-Machine-Diagnostic-Emissions-Vacuum-Leak-tester-BRAND-NEW-/281805683189?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292 I modded it with an...

They're the same except for no reflectors on the European model. North American spec models have amber reflectors and the resulting holes in the corners. Company I work for used to have a bumper remanufacturing plant in Mexico that somehow came up with an out-of-market core that I had them run...

Yesterday I finally got around to painting the European-spec front bumper cover for my M3. Assembled and installed it today. Now I gotta wash the dirty thing so it will actually blend in with the shiny new bumper. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk