What are you working on today?

It was one of those days yesterday.

Finally got started on the above mentioned u-joint and one of the flange yoke ears was excessively worn and the cap could be pressed in and out by hand. Got a spare flange yoke out of the parts pile and got that sorted.

I then discovered one of the ears on the drive shaft yoke was also worn. I didn’t have a spare drive shaft so I put 4 small chisel marks on the inside of the ear so that the cap will hopefully hold tight.

Got it assembled and tried to grease the joint but couldn’t get the grease flowing out of all 4 sides. By this time I had been at my parents place for 9 hours and was exhausted from working in 95° heat and decided to borrow the spare car and go home.
Honestly I'm running a yoke on my daily '07 F150 (with anemic 2V 4.6) that is not really a press fit but more of a slip fit.

As long as it's at least size-for-size you've probably got time.
 
Have to have holes throughout the house for 2 weeks, so made some better covers for them so its not as much of a death trap

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I’m guessing you’ve already tried a continuity test on the wire between the plugs to make sure critters didn’t chew it and also tested to make sure it’s not grounding?
I ain’t an auto electrician so would also just run a new wire.
I have not done a continuity test on that circuit yet, but I did check to see if it was grounded, and it was not. I'm going to feed that circuit 5 volts near the ECM and then test the pin at the DLC either with my multimeter or a test light to see if I have continuity and to load test that wire. If that test is good, then the only thing it could be is a bad ECM for that circuit. Everything else seems to work.
 
This weekend which is now over for me: 1) New front struts in the 2004 Focus with Motorcraft parts, 2) Oil change and car wash of my wife's 2018 Mazda 3. Not so easy when it takes an hour to vacuum as last time was two weeks ago, 3) Replace valve covers and especially leaky worthless gaskets. Cover bolts only hand tight in 72 Ambassador wagon I got last year. Original covers will get cleaned and blasted so I have a spare set. Top of cylinder head extremely clean for age and 124,000 miles.
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Washed the Festiva and BMW. Did a visual check on the vacuum hoses on the Dakota, had issues with the cruise and hvac going to defrost. Looks like the harness rubbed a small pinhole in one spot so sealed that. Reran a new line to the cruise control. Think I’ll go to picnpull and find a reservoir if that doesn’t help. Took the airbags off the RV, way too rough riding all the time on the internal jounces. It just needs new springs.
 
Pad slapped the rear disc brakes on a '14 Sonata for a friend who just dropped a grand on his Pacifica. I think the crap they spray on the roads causes lots of brake issues. The driver's side was metal on metal on one pad while the other was at least half pad left. The slider pins were fine but the hardware was extremely corroded. The passenger side looked like there was 40k left. Oh well. Good to go for several years for $50.
 
Rodent damage on the MAF connector on a 2000 Eldorado
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Owner wants a fast, cheap fix in the work parking lot
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That's exactly what he got
Now I'm not cruel, I used a GM pigtail, and I'll have it back to shrink the connectors and some Tesa + Honda rodent tape
It was so windy it kept blowing out the little torch I use for melting weatherproof connectors 😭
Least of this cars problems 🙄
2011 Sonata ripped the mirror button off the windshield, along with some of the glass
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A cheap Amazon mirror and the Permatex Extreme mirror mount kit got him back in business
Not perfect, but when you want fast and cheap this is all you're gonna get out of me 😒
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Found some time to tinker with the flip Civic
The B/A valve cover gasket and Mahle cam end plug were all made in Japan, and fit quite nicely
This little R18 is quite clean for ~247k
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Working on calipers for mini cooper.
I may just have them poadercoated.
Baked them to get the grease out, use eastwood degreaser to clean them up and used 2 part special caliper epoxy paint and paint still has poor adhesion.
So either my lowe Buffalo NY temperatures or something else is at play here.

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Drug the '21 Ranger back to my non-profit. I already had my little trailer hooked up so I figured I'd try it.

The SxS and the trailer are almost exactly size-for-size. If you make sure your sidewalls are skimming the side rail and you drive ALL the way into the front bump rail it makes it. Barely.
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^oh I know the single 1" ratchet strap is lame but the SxS literally has nowhere to go and I only had to travel three miles

The most frustrating is these little pieces of channel at the rear of trailer. They stick out ~1" and the spring pins for the ramp pop in there. You have to SQUEEZE your sidewalls into these and it's unnerving. I may modify the trailer to eliminate these. It's far worse than it looks in the pic:
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