What are you working on today?

[D60]

That cup holder is too nice for that truck. Need to drop it in the mud then kick it around the yard a bit.

Don't worry, the owner is (obviously) a slob -- she'll take care of that. Honestly she hauls like 5 dogs in the cab which is how it got broken in the first place. I'm pretty sure it will just happen again within 30 days.

The repros are only about $40 on Amazon and quality seems better than you'd expect for a Chinese copy. I was a little surprised.

 

[Pablo]

Don't worry, the owner is (obviously) a slob -- she'll take care of that. Honestly she hauls like 5 dogs in the cab which is how it got broken in the first place. I'm pretty sure it will just happen again within 30 days.

The repros are only about $40 on Amazon and quality seems better than you'd expect for a Chinese copy. I was a little surprised.

Yeah interior growing hair!!

 

[marc1]

It wasn't today but I replaced the water pump on the Impala Saturday. NAPA (it was a Gates 43106 inside the box, that is fine, I like Gates) $61 CDN no core, took about an hour. Old one was not leaking but very noisy (rattling), I have not had that happen before, usually they just leak. Went to a farmers market in another town on Sunday 2 hour round trip drive, all is well.

 

[Kennedy01]

Don't worry, the owner is (obviously) a slob -- she'll take care of that. Honestly she hauls like 5 dogs in the cab which is how it got broken in the first place. I'm pretty sure it will just happen again within 30 days.

The repros are only about $40 on Amazon and quality seems better than you'd expect for a Chinese copy. I was a little surprised.

My truck interior isn't clean, but dogs are a no no. About as bad as food, spit bottles, cigarettes and soda spills.

 

[walterjay]

Painting the barn

 

[cptbarkey]

new rad, water pump, idler, thermostat, hoses installed. The water pump was a slight pain with 3 bolt sizes and the ackward thermostat housing. topped off the coolant to see if anything leaks overnight. The dayco idler and hoses were the same visually as Lexus/Toyota OEM. Tomorrow will finish the fan, fan shroud and test for leaks. I decided not to replace trans oil cooler lines but will note it in service logs to re-do in 30k miles.

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Finished this morning, buttoned up the grill, bumper and new plastic push pins here and there. took it for a good 20 mile test drive. no leaks. The temperatures seem a little more stable, I didnt do scientific temp measurements before/after but it did subjectively seem to take longer to warm the trans fluid. I can forget about the cooling system for awhile. I anticipate piling on the miles over the next 5 years and less things to worry about will be a life long goal.

 

[walterjay]

Stopped painting the barn since the sun came around.
Since I had ladders out I went to the north side of my house and sprayed it with Wet and Forget. As you can see pretty bad.
I'll post in a month or so to show what it did. Done for the day. Hitting the shower.

 

[Kennedy01]

2010 Ford ranger
Replaced right upper control arm, front brake pads and rotors, changed oil

1999 Chevrolet Lumina
Replaced spark plugs, wires, air filter, fuel filter, changed oil

 

[D60]

2010 Ford ranger
Replaced right upper control arm, front brake pads and rotors, changed oil

1999 Chevrolet Lumina
Replaced spark plugs, wires, air filter, fuel filter, changed oil

I can't remember the last time I saw a Lumina in the wild.....

 

[Kennedy01]

I can't remember the last time I saw a Lumina in the wild.....

They are getting fewer and far between, but there's still quite a few soldiering on in my neck of the woods. Good cars overall.

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

In real time

Belt is coming off

It's fixed.

Coolant still looks disgusting but. Partial drain and fills to achieve 1. Cleaner 2. 50/50.

 

[michaelluscher]

Topping off the charge on the xB
Whatever these readings are at idle, are too low
I believe this is one of those variable drive compressors, so charging by pressures doesn't really work
I estimate I added about 6oz, which doesn't seem like much until you realize system capacity is ~17oz
Seems to be an annual thing with it, but I'll spend $4 in refrigerant per year until I could be bothered to leak check
I did add a splash of dye with my top off, maybe when I find the special flashlight/glasses I'll give it a once over

When I started, couldn't do better than 60° out the vents, with a noticable imbalance between driver and passenger sides
Now I get an even ~40° across all 4 vents

$4 well spent

Now while this is still technically driveway hackery, it's still far more professional than AC Pro
I loathe AC Pro with a passion

 

[Kennedy01]

This morning I replaced the water pump on the 2008 Pontiac Torrent I did brakes on last week. Also replaced serpentine belt and tensioner while I was there. Eating some lunch now. Might mow grass later this evening.

 

[D60]

'98 CRV front wheel bearing. The Eric O sit 'n spin trick with the blue wrench dropped the inner race off the spindle in just a few seconds and drama-free

 

[D60]

I also had time to re-boot a rear CV on this '98 CRV. The OEM boots had not yet broken but were starting to look like Brandon's furrowed brow.

I've never actually done joints of this style with the tri-spider retained by a little snap ring, but they're easy. Not sure if you're theoretically supposed to keep each "disc" with the spider leg it came from, but I didn't. I did, however not mix inner and outer ends and maintained the same clocking in case "phase" is important (I don't think it is -- they appeared to be 30 or 60 degrees out of phase)

 

[Creekside]

Today was a day of more truck repairs, lost the purge valve on my air dryer on the Mack dump truck yesterday and tried to limp home. Ended up getting too low on air to be comfortable and hitched a ride to the farm. I save these air dryers whenever I swap one out and was able to pull a used one off to get home. Replaced the whole dryer today.

Got the new gear reduction starter installed on the cabover. Next is all new fuel lines, Davco fuel filter housing to replace the two spin on filters, power steering hoses, and all new AC hoses. Power steering reservoir was picked up from powder coating today.

 

[Creekside]

Tonight is only about half over but I’m working on a wreck rebuild on one of our Freightliner trucks at work, specifically installing a Stemco Kaiser king pin kit.

Just came back from replacing contacts in a 480v 3 phase NEMA motor starter. It had the C phase weld open last night but I was able to free it up so the motor could run.

 

[michaelluscher]

new rad, water pump, idler, thermostat, hoses installed. The water pump was a slight pain with 3 bolt sizes and the ackward thermostat housing. topped off the coolant to see if anything leaks overnight. The dayco idler and hoses were the same visually as Lexus/Toyota OEM. Tomorrow will finish the fan, fan shroud and test for leaks. I decided not to replace trans oil cooler lines but will note it in service logs to re-do in 30k miles.

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That radiator looks like the cool side of the pillow on a hot summer night

 

[Marcozi]

Flushed the brake fluid yesterday with Motul RBF600.

 

[agarb]

Farmall 656 front end loader. I bought parts from two towmotors and welded the plates together to make a pallet fork assembly for when I take the bucket off.

Finish the pallet fork assembly for my tractor and painted it.

Plus I added a cheap reverse camera from Amazon so I can see the tips of the forks when they are hidden behind the hood.