What are you working on today?

Wednesday
2000 Buick LeSabre
Installed rotors and new front pads, ended up throwing a misfire, bad ignition coil. Replaced that and changed oil.

2005 Ford Expedition 5.4 V8
Started an intake manifold replacement that carried over into today because I get in no hurry on these Ford modular intake jobs. Too much brittle crap to break. Finished it today, changed oil
 
ripcord said:
That always seems to happen to me, too.
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It hasn't been good for me being a truck down for 3 days.
The parts came about 1pm today, and I stayed in the shop till it was done. Tomorrow it can go do overdo jobs, and instead of being parked this weekend, like it was going to be, it will be worked all weekend.
I really need another tri drive body job tanker.
 
Replaced some very crusty rusty original power steering lines, plus added a little cooler and Magnefine filter. If fluid would hit 170F on a mild day after a short trip around town, I'm scared to know hot it got during extended stop and go traffic during a 110F heat wave, even if that data would be helpful for my before and after curiosity.
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Pressure line looks like Volvo hired Dr. Seuss on the design team. Took a convoluted and curse-laden contortionist procedure to get it swapped without needing to drop the subframe and take the rack loose. If not for small hands, I'd be out of luck!
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Put my previous HVAC experience to good use to bend up sections of aluminum tubing for much of the new run to the cooler and filter. Wanted all the clamp fittings I added to be accessible, unlike the OE lines where could barely inspect the crimp fittings without pulling the intake manifold off. Yes it's damp because that clamp decided to give me trouble and needed adjustment. Darn thing dripped on me when I was trying to take a video of the progress!
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VeryNoisyPoet said:
Replaced some very crusty rusty original power steering lines, plus added a little cooler and Magnefine filter. If fluid would hit 170F on a mild day after a short trip around town, I'm scared to know hot it got during extended stop and go traffic during a 110F heat wave, even if that data would be helpful for my before and after curiosity.
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Pressure line looks like Volvo hired Dr. Seuss on the design team. Took a convoluted and curse-laden contortionist procedure to get it swapped without needing to drop the subframe and take the rack loose. If not for small hands, I'd be out of luck!
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Put my previous HVAC experience to good use to bend up sections of aluminum tubing for much of the new run to the cooler and filter. Wanted all the clamp fittings I added to be accessible, unlike the OE lines where could barely inspect the crimp fittings without pulling the intake manifold off. Yes it's damp because that clamp decided to give me trouble and needed adjustment. Darn thing dripped on me when I was trying to take a video of the progress!
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I've often wondered about p/s fluid temps in my JL on Moab slickrock with the front locker engaged. I probably don't want to know ;)

edit: at ~12psi with 37" rubber LOL
 
D60 said:
I've often wondered about p/s fluid temps in my JL on Moab slickrock with the front locker engaged. I probably don't want to know ;)

edit: at ~12psi with 37" rubber LOL
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I imagine the pump and steering gear aren't too happy! Most people I see adding coolers are doing stuff like autocross, drifting, or offroading. Mine's just a daily workhorse and never had a boil over but I really didn't like how warm it got even on a nice day.

That heat wave excursion had the sides of the freeway lined with broken down cars and I could tell mine was close to the limit. Extra gauges let me know how much I had to spare and if I'd need to shut down the AC and roast myself so the car kept running. Got through it alright with AC still blasting, which is a good sign for the radiator and such still holding alright!
 
Received my Cardone HEI distributor for my 1968 Firebird 350. The distributor looks well made with nice polished machine work, heavy duty cap and rotor, and a module that has the same part number as an Delco module. Looking forward to a warm day next week to getting installed. The old distributor (module, pick up coil, or ignition coil) failed right after breaking in the new cam and lifters. I’m glad it hung in there at least that long….
 
D60 said:
Deep dive into a BW4493 in an '06 H3. To be fair, I've got the case stabbed back in but have not driven this yet.

Symptoms: randomly goes to 4-lock and back. This is notoriously a plastic shift collar but this case was allegedly recently gone through by a DFW area shop (clearly, not @clinebarger)

We opened it and everything looked good, EXCEPT I noted the rear collar which engages the differential could just free float. It turns out this shop -- who literally botched every single thing they touched on this vehicle-- simply put a spring on the shaft for the worm gear rather than the shift rail where it belongs.

This collar can only get shoved back by the worm gear, but it canNOT be pulled forward, so it MUST have the spring to push it forward when the worm gear allows

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Quoting myself, just had a successful test drive. It takes a minute to return from 4-lock to AWD, but it does do it and is repeatable. This makes sense as it's just the spring pushing that fork forward when everything lines up just right.

Also replaced the transmission dipstick tube on the 4L60. OEM GM from Warehouse Deals for $13. The old one had torn at the mount and previous attempts to weld it just weren't good enough. The new one was redesigned at the mount so it would seem GM revised this part. No more ATF on the exhaust collector as you fill the transmission!!
 
With the lovely cold snap we got in Houston this week, thought I should check the battery out in the wife’s car. The factory 5yr old ACD H6 AGM tested out at 280 CCA… it’ll (barely) do, but not ideal!

Went down to our local Interstate dealer and got her fixed up with a fresh Interstate H6 AGM.

Normally I would prefer an East Penn/Deka, but with Interstate 5 mins away from the house, I went that route so the wife would have somewhere close to go if needed.
 
Found another leaking water pump. Came in for another issue but noticed coolant was extremely low. Luckily I found this one when I did, bearing was very noisy and loose, but did not grenade and take the motor out with it luckily. Caught it just in time. This one got secondary chain guides and tensioners, as well as full primary chain drive (other than sprockets).

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Picked up the two Toro Workman's I won at auction yesterday. Today pushed the inop unit (Lil Belch) into the backyard, it clicks when you turn the key. Could be any number of issues and will look at it later. Changed the oil on the working unit (Lil Chooch) and greased up fittings. All the other fluids look okay. Its heading to the ranch tomorrow morning to live a hard life hauling cactus to the burn pile. The latch on the older trailer-winch-wiring-tool-box exploded, picked up an Apache box and swapped everything over. The winch (Badlands 3500lb) worked awesome, will be using it quite a bit more soon.

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When I got Starlink I attached it to my weatherhead, which made a lot of people cringe. Since I had never used it before, I wanted to test it there before I made holes in the roof

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Today I mounted it to the roof of the garage. Cable will go into the roof tomorrow when more parts arrive

I used Bishop tape under the J-Pole mount which then wrapped over the top of the lags. Also filled the holes with roof patch

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For those wondering, Starlink is my tertiary backup internet. Primary is AT&T Fiber 1G/1G, secondary is Verizon 5G Home 300/30 and then I keep Starlink just in case all hell breaks loose

Underside of the roof for those wondering, I may have gone overboard on the roof patch based on how much squeezed through, oh well! In this case more is better than less

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2015 Volkswagen Jetta 2.0 4 cylinder
Replaced alternator and serpentine belt, changed oil

2001 GMC Yukon rollover 5.3 Vortec V8
Starting pulling the high mileage 5.3 out. It'll be getting rebuilt and eventually installed in a 79 Chevy C10. I'll have it out Monday.
 
SupremePossum said:
When I got Starlink I attached it to my weatherhead, which made a lot of people cringe. Since I had never used it before, I wanted to test it there before I made holes in the roof

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Today I mounted it to the roof of the garage. Cable will go into the roof tomorrow when more parts arrive

I used Bishop tape under the J-Pole mount which then wrapped over the top of the lags. Also filled the holes with roof patch

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For those wondering, Starlink is my tertiary backup internet. Primary is AT&T Fiber 1G/1G, secondary is Verizon 5G Home 300/30 and then I keep Starlink just in case all hell breaks loose

Underside of the roof for those wondering, I may have gone overboard on the roof patch based on how much squeezed through, oh well! In this case more is better than less

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That is a very solid looking mount. Our starlink has been flawless and have been able to work remotely, take teams calls, and the wifi range extends over 200 feet outdoors. Very happy with it.
 
SupremePossum said:
When I got Starlink I attached it to my weatherhead, which made a lot of people cringe. Since I had never used it before, I wanted to test it there before I made holes in the roof

View attachment 260493

Today I mounted it to the roof of the garage. Cable will go into the roof tomorrow when more parts arrive

I used Bishop tape under the J-Pole mount which then wrapped over the top of the lags. Also filled the holes with roof patch

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For those wondering, Starlink is my tertiary backup internet. Primary is AT&T Fiber 1G/1G, secondary is Verizon 5G Home 300/30 and then I keep Starlink just in case all hell breaks loose

Underside of the roof for those wondering, I may have gone overboard on the roof patch based on how much squeezed through, oh well! In this case more is better than less

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Three internet uplinks? How many 9’s are you going for??
 
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