Not much tonight.. tired! Just put up 4 pieces of drywall. Yesterday though rebuilt the base around the stairs leading upstairs and reran romex for the west side of the living room from the attic to the basement, that was a job! At a standstill I think.. need to tear off the carpet off the stairs, pull off each tread glue and screw back down. Then I can finish the drywall. Unless I want to mud.. yuck
What are you working on today?
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Denso radiators are quality IME
The packaging was horrible, I received two damaged ones before getting a good one
I thought I'd be able to pad slap the Fusion to get it rolling again, but this seized caliper humbled me real fast
Raybestos new calipers, and an Element3 pad/rotor kit is on the way
...$310 later
2014 Silverado with a L83 5.3L, Owner tried to ford some high water at wide open throttle, Water got in the intake hydro locking cylinders 6, 7, & 8 breaking all 3 connecting rods & ruining the block.
Used low mile L83's are expensive & crate engines from GM are on backorder, Customer doesn't know what he wants to do.
Used low mile L83's are expensive & crate engines from GM are on backorder, Customer doesn't know what he wants to do.
That's a hard lesson to learn.2014 Silverado with a L83 5.3L, Owner tried to ford some high water at wide open throttle, Water got in the intake hydro locking cylinders 6, 7, & 8 breaking all 3 connecting rods & ruining the block.
Used low mile L83's are expensive & crate engines from GM are on backorder, Customer doesn't know what he wants to do.
That is a real mess.
Finished up my 1958 Detroit 2-53.
And we all pay for his lesson in higher premiums. Sometimes insurance should refuse to pay and let it be the cost of a life lesson everyone has heard about not driving into high water.2014 Silverado with a L83 5.3L, Owner tried to ford some high water at wide open throttle, Water got in the intake hydro locking cylinders 6, 7, & 8 breaking all 3 connecting rods & ruining the block.
Used low mile L83's are expensive & crate engines from GM are on backorder, Customer doesn't know what he wants to do.
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What's it going in?Finished up my 1958 Detroit 2-53.
Not that I really want to air the guys business....But he first had the truck towed to a Chevy dealer to try the whole insurance claim BS, But the dealer mechanic only pulled the front 4 spark plugs, 6, 7 & 8 were all 3 full of water & the Intake Manifold had quite a bit of water in it. The dealer stated water intrusion didn't cause lock-up.....That the engine was mechanically locked.....Not hydro-locked.
While that's technically true, Hydro-locking IS what caused the 3 connecting rods to bend & break causing the rotating assembly to mechanically lock.
Not my problem as I DO NOT/WILL NOT deal with insurance or warranty policy claims.
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I have done many water crossings - even in an appropriate vehicle the operative word is SLOW …
Warranty swapped a pair of Delphi rear sway bar links for my daily driver Camry, I inadvertently stripped one out on installation
(Pain to remove is an understatement)
And had to rig a new pair of "bushings" for the TRD rear sway bar, they're just Energy suspension poly shock mount bushings that I cut a slit in, and lube up with PTFE silicone paste
No more god awful clunking from the rear end, was driving me insane
For an 18 year old NYC car, with nearly 200k on it
, the undercarriage is pretty rust freeThe newer lower mileage Fusion replacement I bought doesn't seem to be as good
Gotta take the good with the bad
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Got the engine install finished on the 01 Tahoe. Performed the break in procedure, then drove it about 50 miles. Changed out the shop water for proper coolant. Ready to be picked up Tomorrow. Next few weeks, maybe the better part of a month I'll be back working at my friend's shop doing service work and piddling with his old project cars and flippers.
After blood draw I did a dump run.
It was pouring rain, HARD. Soaked at the dump and blood sugar way down. Wife starts bitching at me for Toyota crap rear camera but I'm using the mirrors. Then she gripes at me for wanting to buy some kind of protein bar at Safeway. What a crab! Now crabbing about being invited for Easter dinner. Ugg.
It was pouring rain, HARD. Soaked at the dump and blood sugar way down. Wife starts bitching at me for Toyota crap rear camera but I'm using the mirrors. Then she gripes at me for wanting to buy some kind of protein bar at Safeway. What a crab! Now crabbing about being invited for Easter dinner. Ugg.
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She's a great sport generally. Just a bit crabby today. Very happy with the clean-up I did today that resulted in the dump run! She's cooking a good dinner, so all is well!Should have left her at the dump.
Joking
Yard clean up from the storms, sharpened the mower blades, burn sticks/branches in the fire pit, and throw the baseball around with the boys who started practice this week for rec. ball
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Mowed grass between rain showers - almost between …
Then a bunch of work stuff on computer …
Then a bunch of work stuff on computer …
