Finishing install on my exhaust cut outs. Manually operated.

2 hours ago, Stephen Hawking said:

You need a new mechanic if he missed that. 

yep todays wrenches are very problematic  there's only a few good ones left ,, they will run a flow chart ,or goggle shit till you are broke

Edited May 22, 20233 yr by polaris7541

14 hours ago, Stephen Hawking said:

You need a new mechanic if he missed that. 

 

When I got the shaft out I put it in my truck to take to my buddy's place. I had sent him a text and he had a ujoint on the self. Today is a holiday here in Canada. When I got to his place and we looked it over, Who ever had done the work had replaced both front and rear ujoints and the hanger bearing but left this u-joint in place. This is the middle one behind the hanger bearing.It had to be removed to change the hanger bearing so how did they not notice? Why not just change it for good measure since they were already replacing the other 2 and had the shaft out?

We've only put 200 miles on the truck since getting it back. No way that joint got that bad that fast.

I'm going to have a talk with them tomorrow.

Truck runs smooth as glass now.

 

Edited May 23, 20233 yr by Blackstar

Putting a supercharged V6 in a Rover..

1 hour ago, Rigid1 said:

Putting a supercharged V6 in a Rover..

Pretty newish Rover for a new motor, no?  I really like the looks of some of the new Land Rovers, but anyone I know in the car business says "walk away".     

2 hours ago, DriftBusta said:

Pretty newish Rover for a new motor, no?  I really like the looks of some of the new Land Rovers, but anyone I know in the car business says "walk away".     

It's a 14 with a 100k on it, so it's due for a motor..Hence the "walk away" 

Changed condenser again tonight in the wife’s car another rock put a hole in it at some point over the winter.

Just did the Inner and outter tie rods and front brakes ...Threw on the the summer wheels also. 

 

Getting ready to rebuild this Yamaha YZ450F crankshaft. Part of a complete overhaul for a customer.

12 hours ago, 800renegaderider said:

Changed condenser again tonight in the wife’s car another rock put a hole in it at some point over the winter.

Gutter guard inside the grill works wonders.

3 hours ago, Mag6240 said:

Gutter guard inside the grill works wonders.

👍 That’s a good idea. I did end up this time around putting in the smallest wire mesh I could find over the back of the grills but I think the gutter guard idea might work better with smaller hole’s possibly. I gotta take the bumper back off to redo grill mounting since the zip ties I had were to big to fit through the holes in the mesh so I used the kids pink yarn 😂 so I’ll look into the gutter guard idea for the redo.

@800renegaderiderThis is about 115k on one side of my license plate.  You can see three places the gutter guard is cracked or missing.  Not sure if what hit it would have taken out the condenser, but mine is still original.  I know other owners who have had theirs taken out without this additional screen.

 

Edited May 24, 20233 yr by Mag6240

41 minutes ago, Mag6240 said:

@800renegaderiderThis is about 115k on one side of my license plate.  You can see three places the gutter guard is cracked or missing.  Not sure if what hit it would have taken out the condenser, but mine is still original.  I know other owners who have had theirs taken out without this additional screen.

 

Nice 👍is the gutter guard plastic? Definitely gonna run down to the hardware store and look at the gutter guard options. Cars got almost 70k and this is the second time I’ve done a condenser on it. Poor design by Toyota or just paper thin shit condenser idk. I’ve never had it happen on my daily with putting on over 250k. Hopefully this is the last time 🤞 

Lots of stuff going on in everyone’s life. Good to see.

Got my exhaust finished up. My buddy gonna be surprised when I pull in his driveway and uncork the headers lol.

Making hubs for our BAJA racer.

 

Changing the water in the hot tub. Then changing the oil in 2 vehicles if I feel like it. If not tomorrow….lol

9 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Changing the water in the hot tub. Then changing the oil in 2 vehicles if I feel like it. If not tomorrow….lol

Do you have a quick drain on your oil pans?

1 minute ago, Steve753 said:

Do you have a quick drain on your oil pans?

Just the usual drain bolt.

9 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Just the usual drain bolt.

Get the quick connect

https://nospillsystems.com/

Edited June 19, 20233 yr by Steve753

Rebuilt this 800 E-tec crank today. All new rods, bearings and a new mag end. Going to weld the pins but ran out of gas for the heliarc.

The “last word” indicator lol…

Got some motivation yesterday and edged the last section of my car. Few dings to fix on the outside and ready for paint.

Put a timing belt kit in the Accord today… had to make a special tool to hold the light weight crank pulley to get that damn bolt out… the rest was just knuckle grinding wrenching!

 

Edited July 8, 20233 yr by Mag6240

Interesting challenge here. I need to make 2. Front steering knuckle for our BAJA car.

Interesting challenge here. I need to make 2. Front steering knuckle for our BAJA car.

 

 

On 7/8/2023 at 4:49 PM, Mag6240 said:

Put a timing belt kit in the Accord today… had to make a special tool to hold the light weight crank pulley to get that damn bolt out… the rest was just knuckle grinding wrenching!

 

That looks like fun, not.  My hands looked like that first couple weekends after I got the boat home and spending time down in the bilge.