What are you working on today?

2019 Pilot: Oil Change, Tire Rotation, Cabin Air Filter, Transfer Case Fluid, Rear Differential Fluid, Drain and Refill ATF, F/R Wiper Inserts.

2018 Accord 1.5T: Oil Change, Reseal Cam Holder Covef, Replace Valve Cover Gasket.

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clinebarger said:
Finished the Ram today & will deliver it tomorrow.

Only one snag....Purge Solenoid was bad (stuck open) causing high fuel trims, Plugged it off for the test drive/break-in, New OE solenoid will arrive in the AM.

Turned the MDS off in the calibration via HP-Tuners along with DTC 1521 (Incorrect oil viscosity).

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Bruh, no Hemi tick ?
 
2011 Silverado RCSB 4x4 with 4.3 V6. This truck may need to get a restraining order against me because I find it very attractive. Love the no-nonsense RCSB and the 4.3 is plenty for a parts runner, although I'd prefer to see the baby V8. Transfer case lever on the floor as God intended!! Five miles shy of 99k even so far!
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The 4.3 means you can literally stand in the engine bay
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Anyway I serviced both diffs and transfer case.

Replaced leaking left rear wheel seal. O'Reilly stocks the OEM AC Delco so that's what went back in. Leaky seal here:
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Installed a Reese 6k hitch because it's all O'Reilly could get next day from our Lubbock hub. I usually use Curt but the Reese was alright
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Working on another lathe I had in storage. New but unused. It is a 3 phase and the static converters aren't up to snuff I tried.

I have to get a rotary phasre converter and I have a spare Baldor 5hp motor I'm thinking of making the rotary out of.
 
D60 said:
New struts on rear of '02 Forester. I just can't bring myself to install cheap quick struts, so I used Sachs. Ordered a pair of TRQ strut mounts on Amazon for $55, and they fit well. I figure rear strut mounts are less important since they don't have a bearing to rotate.

I'm often blown away by how expensive strut mounts are in the big picture of the job, and that's one thing that makes quick struts attractive.

Reused the bellow and upper & lower spring isolators, which were dirty but in otherwise good condition View attachment 215886
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Quoting myself, I had this vehicle back and the ride in the rear was REALLY harsh and busy. It felt like it had about an inch of travel and then it just bottomed out. Merely driving on the highway would hurt my neck because it was constantly bucking the rear a very SHORT distance with an imaginary bumpstop.

There was no noise or BAM or clunk, just an incredibly harsh ride in the rear with near zero travel.

Now, BEFORE I realized (remembered) I had replaced these less than a year ago, I ordered the CHEAPEST struts on RA because the owner has had some financial struggles, I'm working for free and the vehicle has 424k miles.

So, today I replaced Sachs (which I used to consider some of the best) with some Mega branded struts at $12.08 ea. There was about $17 shipping so two struts delivered were ~$41.
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During the job I was almost doubting my diagnosis once I realized I was replacing ~11 month old Sachs, but I was right and the vehicle once again drives as it should.
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I'm returning to RA under warranty

REALLY disappointed in Sachs ATM. @Trav have you ever experienced anything like this??
 
BrianF said:
@D6 I had been eyeballing some Sach's foe my daughters Escape...... perhaps not so much now....
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Makes me nervous because I've put Sachs on a LOT of stuff the past few years. Maybe just an isolated incident by application here, but how hard is it to build struts for the rear of a 2002 Subaru??
 
D60 said:
2011 Silverado RCSB 4x4 with 4.3 V6. This truck may need to get a restraining order against me because I find it very attractive. Love the no-nonsense RCSB and the 4.3 is plenty for a parts runner, although I'd prefer to see the baby V8. Transfer case lever on the floor as God intended!! Five miles shy of 99k even so far!

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Has a transmission line leaking at the crimp...Sweating at the very least.

I repair them by cutting the aluminum crimps off & use Fragola synthetic reinforced #6 Hose & 15.3mm Ear Clamps.

Link to the hose HERE, Enough to do a couple trucks. Lasts MUCH longer than TOC hose & at least on par with a new OE crimped line set.
 
The lathe is the one I'm doing the rotary on. It's looking old but it was new in 2005 and I never used it. Seems like yesterday...lol
I'm removing years of factory rust proofing- grease - varnish and flushing the headstock... excuse the chips.. Taiwanese made

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Zee09 said:
The lathe is the one I'm doing the rotary on. It's looking old but it was new in 2005 and I never used it. Seems like yesterday...lol
I'm removing years of factory rust proofing- grease - varnish and flushing the headstock... excuse the chips.. Taiwanese made

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Don't you already have an RPC? Are you running everything on buzz boxes or single phase???
 
D60 said:
Don't you already have an RPC? Are you running everything on buzz boxes or single phase???
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I'm single phase except I have one lathe that's running an old moli phase static converter that I really liked but no longer
made. It had a dial where you could alter the HP setting from 1 to 10 hp and its on a 20x40 lathe as dedicated.
Most of my equipment is only 2hp with one being 5hp
 
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Above I mentioned MEGA struts from RA at $12.08 ea (closeout)

The one minor fitment issue I ran into was for the lower spring insulator. The insulator is located with three rubber nipples -- they don't do much except kinda hold the rubber in place during installation and act as a bit of sanity check (but that ship has already sailed for me)

On the left strut two of the three holes were correct, and I simply lopped off the third rubber nipple. On the right strut only one hole was correctly positioned, so I lopped off one nipple and quickly drilled a hole to maintain two (two just helps keep it in place better)

This isn't a big deal but on the previous Sachs all three holes were correct on both struts, so it's clearly an oversight on the bottom dollar MEGAs.

That said, they ride "good." I can't give you a detailed review because it's not like I took the car to the track, but if the average mekanik were driving it he wouldn't think twice about a problem with the rear suspension (shrug)
 
Zee09 said:
I'm single phase except I have one lathe that's running an old moli phase static converter that I really liked but no longer
made. It had a dial where you could alter the HP setting from 1 to 10 hp and its on a 20x40 lathe as dedicated.
Most of my equipment is only 2hp with one being 5hp
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Yeah man you gotta put on your big boy panties and get an RPC. Then you can plug everything into it. There's really no limit on the number of machines they can power ;)

That said, I run my Bridgeport on a buzz box from Anderson -- I think he was just an old guy in AZ building them and selling on ebay. That was circa 2006 so I don't know if he's still around. At the time he was ~half price of commercial static converters
 
D60 said:
Yeah man you gotta put on your big boy panties and get an RPC. Then you can plug everything into it. There's really no limit on the number of machines they can power ;)

That said, I run my Bridgeport on a buzz box from Anderson -- I think he was just an old guy in AZ building them and selling on ebay. That was circa 2006 so I don't know if he's still around. At the time he was ~half price of commercial static converters
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Yeah I know Anderson. His statics looked like a drunk electrician's dream, but they were very durable.
My buddy talked to him once, soured by life like us all ...lol
I think he quit-not sure
 
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