What are you working on today?

Day 3 of vacation for me. Been working on my Escape replacing the ABS tone ring that split. Would have it done by now but wanted to eat and get a soda and I’m just riding around with my parents now I’ll finish it by the end of the day. Also need to change the oil in both Camrys then do some work to my 94 Camry as well. Still no reverse but haven’t had time to tinker with it. I’m thinking it’s low on transmission fluid because when I pull the stick out the first time (with engine running like your supposed too) there is fluid but you do a second and third dip and nothing no fluid. I’ve never seen that before. I also need to change the oil in it as well and I need to put the new plugs in the 2004 Camry too. It feels nice getting paid 8 hours for 5 days in a row and not having to even leave my house lol.
 
Watching my girl at her swim club practice.

We are going to the mall to get her some new clothes after swim club, she has out grown a lot of hers.
Drop off some old clothes of hers at the salvation army thrift store.
I want to buy a 1/4" to 3/8" adapter, cannot find mine.
Then she wants to go to Boston pizza for lunch.
After we eat we are going to play mini golf and drive go carts.
 
Sold the Lexus. Carmax gave me the stated online offer, which included me noting one panel needed repainting. Their offer was substantially higher than carvana.

The Lexus was basically traded for a contract on crawlspace encapsulation. Considering that I bought it when Covid hit and prices were low, then sold now, it was ok. I’m glad to have had the options. Gonna be putting a lot more miles on the f150. Not sure when or if I’ll pick up another fun/commuter car, but I really enjoyed having this one. And I’ll enjoy not having mold in my house.

ordered 4 jugs of M1 and 6 oil filters today. A friend is bringing both sons and both their cars by next week. He works overseas and I look after their car needs while he’s gone for months at a time. Plus my son’s, my wife’s, and my own vehicle are all about to hit their interval. In what crazy world is Mobil1 selling for less than penzoil platinum? And why is it getting so hard to find a 10w-30? Grr. Everyone is getting Mobil 1 this time.
 
AutoMechanic said:
Day 3 of vacation for me. Been working on my Escape replacing the ABS tone ring that split. Would have it done by now but wanted to eat and get a soda and I’m just riding around with my parents now I’ll finish it by the end of the day. Also need to change the oil in both Camrys then do some work to my 94 Camry as well. Still no reverse but haven’t had time to tinker with it. I’m thinking it’s low on transmission fluid because when I pull the stick out the first time (with engine running like your supposed too) there is fluid but you do a second and third dip and nothing no fluid. I’ve never seen that before. I also need to change the oil in it as well and I need to put the new plugs in the 2004 Camry too. It feels nice getting paid 8 hours for 5 days in a row and not having to even leave my house lol.
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You're still going to call me right 😃😃😃
 
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went inside, ate and napped
 
Spent WAY too long chasing a leak on this KL Cherokee where I just installed a new Nissens radiator.

I decided to check system integrity before filling and it wouldn't hold a lick of vacuum or pressure. Part of the time suck was me lacking a good way to provide constant, regulated shop air to the system -- practically mandatory for finding LARGE leaks.

Turned out to be the o-ring on the upper bleed petcock (the KL's have a second petcock up high in the rad and one in the t-stat housing to bleed the air out).

This o-ring was flattened and conical. I have no idea if it is SUPPOSED to be this way or was cheap and malleable. I can tell you OEM is a basic round o-ring but -- of course -- the OEM petcocks (background) are different than in the Nissens
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Now I'm shopping for adapters to pressurize with shop air for future use.....
 
D60 said:
Spent WAY too long chasing a leak on this KL Cherokee where I just installed a new Nissens radiator.

I decided to check system integrity before filling and it wouldn't hold a lick of vacuum or pressure. Part of the time suck was me lacking a good way to provide constant, regulated shop air to the system -- practically mandatory for finding LARGE leaks.

Turned out to be the o-ring on the upper bleed petcock (the KL's have a second petcock up high in the rad and one in the t-stat housing to bleed the air out).

This o-ring was flattened and conical. I have no idea if it is SUPPOSED to be this way or was cheap and malleable. I can tell you OEM is a basic round o-ring but -- of course -- the OEM petcocks (background) are different than in the Nissens View attachment 167963

Now I'm shopping for adapters to pressurize with shop air for future use.....
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Don't you just adore working on cars? It's so easy and it's never frustrating at all. 😊
 
Kennedy01 said:
Don't you just adore working on cars? It's so easy and it's never frustrating at all. 😊
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I hear ya. I try to adopt Laugh-or-Cry and try to laugh, but it can be difficult to always keep your cool

Some of the issue here was aftermarket parts even though Nissens is supposed to be decent.

Beyond that I spent WAY too long using an old Stant pressure tester cap and hose cobbled to adapter fittings for NPT cobbled to a an old regulator I had lying around cobbled to an old air-over jack trigger.....to EVENTUALLY wind up with a way to provide constant, regulated air to the system.
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THEN I still had to disassemble part of the front clip cover to get at that stupid upper bleed port -- which I would have had to do anyway as I was overly enthusiastic about putting things back together. Some say you can open that bleed port without doing anything else. I call BS. You can feel that bleed port with a fingertip without doing anything else and that's about it.
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Days like this I wonder if I just really do suck that much because I don't know how techs who have to crank out 6+ cars per day pull it off?

And yeah, I've now got an Ares 15044 master kit on order (apparently more comprehensive than the AP kit) and an Astro 7856 shop air tester.
 
While on vacation about 860 miles from home, plugged a tire that had a nail in it. While packing the Durango at 8pm on Tuesday I did a look over of the vehicle, fluids, tires, etc. and found a roofing/shingle type nail in the drivers rear tire.

It was holding air fine so I drove up to Advance Auto parts in Southport, NC a few miles at 8:30 pm from where we were staying to buy a plug kit and mini air compressor. Thank the lord they are open till 9pm. $50 later went back to the condo we rented, pulled out the jack kit, removed the wheel, plugged the Michelin Defender. Reinstalled the wheel, put the mini compressor on it for about 6-8 minutes to bring it up to 36 psi.

Done by 9:45pm then showered, off to bed to wake up at 3:30am for the drive back to Michigan. Vacation was good up till that point but didn’t want to drive back on the spare without a spare and the nail was about an inch from the sidewalk which most would not patch that location. Plug worked fine, no issues on the 14 & 1/2 hour drive back. Plug kit and mini compressor will stay in the spare tire area going forward but I will pick up a new breaker bar and 22mm six point socket son to store in there as well just in case.
 
Bighorn2500 said:
While on vacation about 860 miles from home, plugged a tire that had a nail in it. While packing the Durango at 8pm on Tuesday I did a look over of the vehicle, fluids, tires, etc. and found a roofing/shingle type nail in the drivers rear tire.

It was holding air fine so I drove up to Advance Auto parts in Southport, NC a few miles at 8:30 pm from where we were staying to buy a plug kit and mini air compressor. Thank the lord they are open till 9pm. $50 later went back to the condo we rented, pulled out the jack kit, removed the wheel, plugged the Michelin Defender. Reinstalled the wheel, put the mini compressor on it for about 6-8 minutes to bring it up to 36 psi.

Done by 9:45pm then showered, off to bed to wake up at 3:30am for the drive back to Michigan. Vacation was good up till that point but didn’t want to drive back on the spare without a spare and the nail was about an inch from the sidewalk which most would not patch that location. Plug worked fine, no issues on the 14 & 1/2 hour drive back. Plug kit and mini compressor will stay in the spare tire area going forward but I will pick up a new breaker bar and 22mm six point socket son to store in there as well just in case.
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Nice work!! I've crammed three plugs side by side in a sidewall tear before, but that was to get off the trail. I can't remember, but back then I likely drove it home on the highway, too.
 
I’m going to change the oil in the truck, detail the truck, my Escape and moms Camry and if we have time I’ll do the rest. Enjoying vacation while it lasts lol.
 
I had some 2.5" aluminum round so I made some pinch weld adapters for this KL Cherokee. I now service two KL's so I figured they'd be useful.

I went 1/2" deep with my slot and that may actually be too much for some imports.....not sure yet.

Getting started:
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Engaged at front of KL:
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Engaged at rear of KL:
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A week ago I was checking the oil level and air filter on the wife's 2018 Sienna, a vacuum hose snapped off the intake. Its been really, really hot. I found the same issue a few times from other owners on other toyota forums. The fix was a simple $5 1/4 to 1/8 barbed fitting from Home Depot and a small amount of Ultra Grey RTV. It wont fail like that again.

I'm done futzing with the 1ZZ-FE, the head bolts are seriously caked up. I'm too much of a princess to get that dirty. God the engine smelled BAD after taking the cams off, and the oil pickup. I forgot how nasty that smell was. Like a tomb. Since the block and head are all aluminum the recycler folks wont care too much. Tommorow after work I'm getting my Truck / Trailer from the ranch back to my house to move a vehicle, saturday taking a bunch of metal, car batteries and electronics to the recycler, and finally on Sunday a John Deer oil change festival.

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Timing belt kit and a radiator came for my '99 Camry. Trying to convince myself that I want to dig into this--take me a day I'm guessing, but still a bit worried about digging into it (did it like 7 years ago, and used anti-sieze on everything, so it should all come right out, right?). Need to get a bit more paying work done first, then see about doing this job.
 
D60 said:
I had some 2.5" aluminum round so I made some pinch weld adapters for this KL Cherokee. I now service two KL's so I figured they'd be useful.

I went 1/2" deep with my slot and that may actually be too much for some imports.....not sure yet.

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Finished:View attachment 168079
Engaged at front of KL:View attachment 168080
Engaged at rear of KL:View attachment 168081
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These newer cars with high up pinch welds or a blatant lack of lift points really get on my nerves. You can't tell me the oems aren't trying to discourage maintenance and repair on these things. Nothing like starting a 3 hr job by taking half an hour to figure out how to raise the stupid thing. 😒
 
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