What are you working on today?

[Kennedy01]

2003 Ford F-150 5.4 2wd
Replaced front brake pads and rotors, repacked front wheel bearings, replaced idler arm, changed oil

1988 GMC Sierra 1500 2wd
Started a clutch replacement job. Got the transmission out, removed old clutch and flywheel, and took the flywheel to the machine shop to be surfaced. I'll pick the flywheel up tomorrow but may not put the truck back together until next week. Awfully cold.

 

[D60]

2006 Expedition, new interior door handles on both front doors. Note duct tape on old:

Also duct tape on driver's side:

Serviced front 8.8 with Lube Locker copy:

 

[mattd]

2020 explorer radiator. These ones take a bit of work. Not pictured but also had to remove push bar and cut all the wiring and rewire it to get the bumper off.

 

[Creekside]

Yesterday I ran in both of our local Christmas parades. Local welder was able to get my coolant tank fixed in time for the parades and to haul a few loads of gravel tomorrow.

 

[Sam_Julier]

2000 Volvo V70se 120k

20,000 mile service: OLF, PS, AT drain and fills. Engine and cabin filters.

Winter tire change. Chased the threads. Cleaned the lug bolts and applied anti-seize.

 

[Plumb Bob]

Brake job. The front pads were worn out, rear not so much, but replaced them anyway. I went with the CarQuest Gold Ceramic pads this time. Let's see how they work.

 

[D60]

'03 GMT800 rodent clean-up

Looking up where the blower motor was:

 

[cptbarkey]

Have had Folgers cans of bolts I kept after chopping cars or blown engines. Finally sorting them so I do not have to shop for them.

 

[Kennedy01]

Got the clutch installed in the '88 GMC and socked the transmission in it. I still have to re install the shifter and change the fluid. NV3500 5 speeds don't take gear oil, they take either Synchromesh or ATF, this one is overfilled with gear oil. I'll finish it tomorrow.

2016 GMC Terrain 2.4 Ecotec
Replaced the high pressure fuel pump, changed oil.

 

[Kennedy01]

2020 explorer radiator. These ones take a bit of work. Not pictured but also had to remove push bar and cut all the wiring and rewire it to get the bumper off.

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Absolutely ridiculous, but thanks for the heads up. That's another vehicle I'll avoid.

 

[Pablo]

Have had Folgers cans of bolts I kept after chopping cars or blown engines. Finally sorting them so I do not have to shop for them.

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Where did you get the thread sizer?

 

[cptbarkey]

Where did you get the thread sizer?

There might be better ones, went with this one

https://a.co/d/76A6JQi

 

[Revving2Redline]

Another 28 bags of leaves today and brought them all out front for pickup. Still have more to do once all these leaves are off the trees…

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[Revving2Redline]

Had car evaluated, I am getting new VTC actuator, timing chain, timing kit parts. Gonna go ahead and have the # 4 service done along with coolant, tensioner replacement, belt, oil, filter. Will take it in Friday morning and by the time it comes back i will have almost entire new everything. Hoping to have some pictures again with valve cover off.

 

[wander2039]

Two fold project over the last four days.. Installing new Lorex cameras and tidying up the mess of cables around the house. Installed 6 4k cameras… 2 2 lens, 4 cameras with 2 way audio and one cheap one for inside the house. Ran new Cat5e to the each location resulting in the mess below. After that was done pulled out all the old combo coax cables and at least 6 old network cables. Its hard not to be old school and just use wifi. Got these shortened to just a service loop but can’t find the velcro so maybe that pic will surface someday. Still another couple days of work. Alot of wire management Trying to make the house less scary.

 

[Plumb Bob]

Unfinished business from the brake job above- I had to replace the ABS Speed Sensor.

 

[shortyb]

Replaced the connector for the pad wear sensor on the Dadwagon. It was raining outside and I put it off long enough anyway. Connector broke right where it slid into the metal bracket. Exposed wires shorted together on the metal and threw the worn pad light. End of connector was molded into the end of the wiring harness and had to be cut out. Broke my new de-pinning tool in the process, but got it all back together and looks factory with heat shrink over the entire repair.

 

[Kennedy01]

Finished up the GMC today and replaced a passenger front outer tie rod on a 99 Toyota Tacoma 4wd.

 

[D60]

This one was a bit of a head scratcher for me (although I regularly try to pull on doors clearly labeled PUSH, so.....)

A local engineering firm brought me an '06 Trailblazer. One of the requests was to "please make the godd**n door panels fit right again." I gathered our local automotive audio shop (read: 16-year-olds who like to THUMP YO) had removed all the panels. I don't know why -- maybe new speakers although the head unit is stock.

The top of every door panel was no longer anchored.

This put the entire job on the interior handle bezels, and all four were broken. It looked terrible, and I found a Ziploc bag of all the broken bezels in the rear of the vehicle:

It was clear to me the panel wasn't slipping over the window opening or window sweep, and we all know 90% of panels do -- it's usually the last place you lift off during removal and the first place you slip on during install.

I FINALLY determined they had inexplicably removed all the interior window sweeps and installed them backwards.

Once I flipped it over, everything went back beautifully. @dogememe

 

[wander2039]

Finished up cleaning up the cables. Going to consider it good enough for a messy basement. A sane person would throw all of this away, but I’m a Smith and thats worse.