What are you working on today?

[mr_boring]

Just cleaned all the battery terminals and put those felt pads since Amazon put a pack in my last delivery and didn't want them back.

Bought a cheap $20 12v battery tester and trying to determine if it or the BatteryTender is off: car that has been in garage for about a year on the BatteryTender shows a 90% SOC and the battery tester says the battery is "Good - Recharge".

Trying to figure out if the battery is fine and BatteryTender only charges to 90% or if battery tester just says "recharge" if battery isn't 100%

Battery tester or multimeter/voltmeter? Harbor freight multimeter (7$) is better than one of those cheap 12 volt battery testers that show nothing really useful. It might say "good, recharge" at 12.6 volts - which is fine.

 

[atikovi]

Maintenance yesterday on the 2020 Corolla,

Toyota air filter

Toyota cabin filter

Toyota battery filter

Throttle body cleaning

MAF sensor cleaning

Toyota spark plugs

Transmission fluid change

 

[Kennedy01]

Yesterday I did some cleaning around the house, then a neighbor brought over their Chevy traverse for an oil change and tire rotation.

 

[cptbarkey]

Started clearing leaf cactus. Being a newb at tractors I discovered the front end loader is pretty destructive, so instead next time will experiment with the backhoe and a mini dump.

 

[TiGeo]

Final bit of track prep for VIR HPDE next weekend. Bled brakes on the Sportwagen w/Motul RBF600....I do it before every event....5 pumps out of each bleeder with 14 y.o. as the pedal man.

 

[InvalidUserID]

Battery tester or multimeter/voltmeter? Harbor freight multimeter (7$) is better than one of those cheap 12 volt battery testers that show nothing really useful. It might say "good, recharge" at 12.6 volts - which is fine.

It showed 12.5x volts. Battery is about 5 years old rarely driven but is always on the BatteryTender.

 

[meep]

saw my oldest daughter married last weekend, and a friend this weekend, both out of town. Washed both cars today, no wax. Spent some free moments continuing building a new ESX-based server for the home - the last one is 10 years old and starting to have hard parts fail. i know this is less about motor oil, buts its an activity. I’d forgotten how persnickety ESX can be, but mine was up for 10 years without a rebuild, 24x7. I lost a hard drive recently and a power supply. (Supermicro bones). New chassis is a refurbished dell workstation.

the 2.7 eco has gained a little oil on the dipstick, which it’s not really done very often. It’s done a ton of highway miles lately. Loving the stupid-expensive shocks I put on the rear last month (happy birthday to me).

2015 CRV has consumed 0 oil in 5000 miles and she’s driven it hard lately too. It got a solid cleaning (leaf blower style) and I did wash all the door sills, all 5, and took it for a spin. 86k miles on it, and it drives like new.

mulched leaves with the rider friday in the dark, trimmed a tree today…

 

[Creekside]

Cold and rainy here today so I winterized the pressure washer and the pasture sprayer. By mid morning I was totally bored and decided to gas up the pickup and go for a drive. Ended up a couple hours from home close to West Mineral Kansas and decided to stop and see Big Brutus. Huge is an understatement. 16 stories tall and 11 million pounds. The pictures don’t do it justice. It had two 3500hp AC motors that ran DC generators to supply 13 DC motors. Ran on 7200 volt 3 phase power supplied by 650 MCM cables(bigger than my forearms) that trailed behind it. No gas or diesel at all, only grease for lubrication. It even had a break room inside for the people that staffed it under normal operation.

 

[The Critic]

2010 Venza. Dash lit up like a Christmas tree. Only code was P0118. Much like an XJ I just dealt with, I did notice the electric fan was running non-stop after a brief test drive. I should have also noticed the dash temp gauge had no reading, but I was distracted by the rear struts which sounded like a box of rocks.

Anyway rodents decided the ECT wiring was the best wiring. And they didn't leave me much to work with so I'm looking for a new connector (NAPA claims to have one). Would lack of ECT trigger VSC/traction control error lights too? @The Critic View attachment 185281View attachment 185282

Any CEL will…

 

[cptbarkey]

I brought home a BX2350 tractor from Missorui last weekend, its been sitting for nearly 2 years after the owner reported bogging and "low compression." He took it to a local mechanic who was a shill. He took the head off and thankfully thats it. After inventorying, the only part that is missing best I can tell is one of the valves pictured here. My thoughts are it was completely misdiagnosed and really either a fuel pump, fuel filter, or possibly injection pump issue. I am placing that bet pretty soon.

Used a bristle disc and buzzed off all this nasty mix of rust and old head gasket and applied some oil to prevent further rust. I didnt take an after photo because it was cold, wet and windy outside. There were no cracks or flaws in the cylinder head. I just bought a full set of used OEM valves off ebay. Kubota doesnt sell the valves new, they only sell complete cylinder heads, or I would have had to get chinese parts. No thanks to that.

Next steps: tommorow will be to clean the engine top, see if pistons move, then if things look good, order a new head gasket, exhaust gasket, fuel filters and the all important steering wheel spinner knob.

 

[Kennedy01]

2000 Ford Ranger
Replaced upper control arms, left outer tie rod, changed oil

2011 GMC Acadia
Replaced front and rear brake rotors and pads

 

[meep]

Cold and rainy here today so I winterized the pressure washer and the pasture sprayer. By mid morning I was totally bored and decided to gas up the pickup and go for a drive. Ended up a couple hours from home close to West Mineral Kansas and decided to stop and see Big Brutus. Huge is an understatement. 16 stories tall and 11 million pounds. The pictures don’t do it justice. It had two 3500hp AC motors that ran DC generators to supply 13 DC motors. Ran on 7200 volt 3 phase power supplied by 650 MCM cables(bigger than my forearms) that trailed behind it. No gas or diesel at all, only grease for lubrication. It even had a break room inside for the people that staffed it under normal operation.

how is big Brutus used? Impressive!

 

[Creekside]

how is big Brutus used? Impressive!

It was used to move material in a strip mine for coal until the mine closed up operations. It is cheaper to bring coal into this area by rail than to mine it here.

 

[meep]

It was used to move material in a strip mine for coal until the mine closed up operations. It is cheaper to bring coal into this area by rail than to mine it here.

Thanks for sharing.. that’s some heavy equipment there. The crane is a hoss.

 

[michaelluscher]

Planning the weekends work, because weather dictates what and when I can do things
And the season is winding down
Got a few oil changes to knock out, sunroofs to either stop leaking or tape over

I can't remember, is there a user here who's still doing mail in C&P of oil filters?

Because It just dawned on me that the HPL EC has been in the Camry for ~4500 miles, I wonder how full of carbon that FL400s is

 

[Kennedy01]

1987 Chevrolet R10
Replaced left upper and lower ball joints

2004 Chevrolet Avalanche
Replaced left front wheel hub, left outer tie rod, changed oil

 

[Creekside]

I brought home a BX2350 tractor from Missorui last weekend, its been sitting for nearly 2 years after the owner reported bogging and "low compression." He took it to a local mechanic who was a shill. He took the head off and thankfully thats it. After inventorying, the only part that is missing best I can tell is one of the valves pictured here. My thoughts are it was completely misdiagnosed and really either a fuel pump, fuel filter, or possibly injection pump issue. I am placing that bet pretty soon.

Used a bristle disc and buzzed off all this nasty mix of rust and old head gasket and applied some oil to prevent further rust. I didnt take an after photo because it was cold, wet and windy outside. There were no cracks or flaws in the cylinder head. I just bought a full set of used OEM valves off ebay. Kubota doesnt sell the valves new, they only sell complete cylinder heads, or I would have had to get chinese parts. No thanks to that.

Next steps: tommorow will be to clean the engine top, see if pistons move, then if things look good, order a new head gasket, exhaust gasket, fuel filters and the all important steering wheel spinner knob.

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What part of MO?

 

[cptbarkey]

What part of MO?

Close to Steelville in the mountain/hills. It was absolutely stunning beautiful. It is definitely Kubota country, here was a gentleman who waved. Was that you?

 

[Creekside]

Close to Steelville in the mountain/hills. It was absolutely stunning beautiful. It is definitely Kubota country, here was a gentleman who waved. Was that you?

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Nope wasn't me! You were about 3 hours east of me. We're not too brand specific in this neck of the woods. There's a dealer for nearly every brand within an hour. JD and New Holland are only about 15 minutes from me and CIH and Kubota are 45 minutes away. Other lesser known brands are available close by too. My experience with JD this week is starting to sway me to try red or orange next go-around.

 

[nthach]

Got a call from the Ranger’s owner. No crank. AAA diaged a bad starter. Drove over earlier tonight and swapped in a Motorcraft reman. Starts on the first try.