What are you working on today?

Haven't been as active on the forum lately. Not much automotive work in the last month, and I've been working five days a week instead of three to make more money and spend more time learning. Still making lots of aluminum suspension and steering link bars, other odds and ends. I've spent the last few days modifying hydro boost brake boosters. We get reman Cardones, disassemble them, turn the center section of the spool valve down from .580-.585" to .476-.478", drill out the supply and return openings with a Milwaukee 18 v drill, clean everything up and reassemble. We also do a leak/flow bench test but I haven't learned how to do that yet. These mods are supposed to increase volume and flow through the unit for better braking pressure.

Yesterday I repaired a customer return unit that was leaking out the back of the unit around the input shaft. I was looking for pinched or torn o-rings. Grabbed another input shaft from a different unit and noticed the fitment in the housing was tighter. Measured the outer diameter of the sealing surface of the shafts and the one from the offending unit was .045" smaller than the good one. A difference of .540" and .595". I installed a .594" spare into the returned unit, reassembled, and it's waiting to be leak/flow tested.
 
Kennedy01 said:
Haven't been as active on the forum lately. Not much automotive work in the last month, and I've been working five days a week instead of three to make more money and spend more time learning. Still making lots of aluminum suspension and steering link bars, other odds and ends. I've spent the last few days modifying hydro boost brake boosters. We get reman Cardones, disassemble them, turn the center section of the spool valve down from .580-.585" to .476-.478", drill out the supply and return openings with a Milwaukee 18 v drill, clean everything up and reassemble. We also do a leak/flow bench test but I haven't learned how to do that yet. These mods are supposed to increase volume and flow through the unit for better braking pressure.

Yesterday I repaired a customer return unit that was leaking out the back of the unit around the input shaft. I was looking for pinched or torn o-rings. Grabbed another input shaft from a different unit and noticed the fitment in the housing was tighter. Measured the outer diameter of the sealing surface of the shafts and the one from the offending unit was .045" smaller than the good one. A difference of .540" and .595". I installed a .594" spare into the returned unit, reassembled, and it's waiting to be leak/flow tested.
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Hydroboost for what application?
 
Mounted the new tires on the truck last night. A solid 3” in height added. I reprogrammed the pcm/bcm for the changed tire size. Now I have to replace the ball joints on one side. Found a smoked lower ball joint on the driver side doing the tires.

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Channeling @BrianF , worked on my neighbor's '00 Cavalier with 2.2. Replaced the downstream 02, which has its plug in a kinda dumb spot. There was NO way I was getting two hands between the trans pan and subframe xmember, so I had to do everything creatively with one hand up there:
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I realize visual means nothing, but the sensor had this odd almost spot weld on it:
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Also replaced the driver seat belt button, you can see I totally nailed it on the color match:
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D60 said:
Hydroboost for what application?
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I believe they are installed on the off road vehicles they build, but I imagine they could be installed on OEM vehicles that came with that power braking system, or could be retrofitted to a vehicle that originally had vacuum power brakes.
 
@D60 good on you!! White trash is a dying breed!! We decided to name our blue sunfire. Originally I was calling it Sunny Shtbox but my wife decided on Shtty Blue. We have Big Blue, Little Blue and now Shtty. We did name the mini truck though, Shelly the Shtwagon.

Maybe tomorrow evening, I'll finish up digging around the Sunfire. Hopefully check those pulleys out.
 
Wife and I marked off where we’ll have a 40ft HC container. Difficult to place since its so heavy and not sure where the house/garage will go. First official building on the place being delivered Thursday.

Brush hogged a spot for the start of the wifes orchid. Have peach, apple and 2 pears to be planted. Want to brush hog one more time before. bought a LS tractor Friday which will be delivered next Friday, probably mow it then. Also brush hogged a small section thinking for a garden .. last pic. Thinking a good soot for tomatoes and potatoes. Not sure if I’ll get to this year. Dad has a tiller for the tractor need to pick up.
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cptbarkey said:
Another go kart acquired. This one will need some welding repairs, and TBD if i'll try to revive the engine or predator swap. Dont know much about GY6 engines.

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Finished most of the welding repairs on the main cage of the Yerf Dog go kart, the entire front pipe was basically gone but I was able to salvage and rebuild it with some scrap I have on hand. The front suspension rebuild is next. A spindle needs to be bent back into shape then reinforced. The rear needs welding too for a Predator engine instead of the GY6, reversing the axle, moving the brake caliper bracket to the other side. I love welding even thought I'm not great at it. Many more welding projects in the queue.

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Set up the Weight Distributing hitch for the new truck. Thankfully all I needed to do was get a standard shank....where my original one went and buggered off to I'll never know, but the extended one I had to buy for the Ranger wouldn't work for the F150. The Ranger carries its hitch something like a full 2" higher than the F150, which doesn't sound like much, but it was enough that I needed the standard shank.

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Swapped out the Grade 5 bolts for some new grade 8 and new Nylocks, just because...
 
wander2039 said:
Wife and I marked off where we’ll have a 40ft HC container. Difficult to place since its so heavy and not sure where the house/garage will go. First official building on the place being delivered Thursday.

Brush hogged a spot for the start of the wifes orchid. Have peach, apple and 2 pears to be planted. Want to brush hog one more time before. bought a LS tractor Friday which will be delivered next Friday, probably mow it then. Also brush hogged a small section thinking for a garden .. last pic. Thinking a good soot for tomatoes and potatoes. Not sure if I’ll get to this year. Dad has a tiller for the tractor need to pick up.
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Looks like your own little corner of heaven.
 
Passenger side CV shaft off of a 2006 Toyota Corolla with 123,700mi. Car was in for something leaking. Axle shaft seal and torn inner CV boot on the passenger side. Can kill two birds with one stone job.

Original shaft disassembled for new boots. OEM boots were discontinued so had to go with Mevotech boot kits.
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CV shaft reinstalled along with new axle shaft seal and axle hub nut. Also performed an ATF drain and fill with M1 ATF.
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Cleaned under the drop in liner on my 2012 F150 truck I bought last July. About five lbs of bark, gravel, sand etc under it. A little bit of rust. I used copper wire in a couple of different sizes bent like a fish hook to pull gravel out of front bed drain holes.

I might use Herculiner for a thin coat, then drop the same bedliner back in.

I also worked on replacing the 2 idler pulleys on my riding mower. Only 70 hours, seems premature. I'm going to replace the bearings on the old ones for spares.
 
BrianF said:
Finally got the new wires in. Much smoother!! Now that's she's actually firing on all cylinders, I can do a monitor of the oxygen sensor and see if that's good and then i figured I should check the pulleys and water pump for play. I really like this little beater for commuting!

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Reminds me of wjen I had my 4 Dr Chevy Cavalier. That car saw tons of EMBLEM 15w40 blended in Warren PA
 
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