Finished up the rust repair and third light replacement on the Silverado today. Used an aftermarket LED fixture. Still have some compounding and touching up to do.

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Here's how the boat trailer repairs came out. New torsion axle, new wheels, new jack, new tongue, new fabricated keel roller brace, new keel roller, new fabricated winch stand brace, new winch stand, and new winch.

Tomorrow I will install new LED trailer lights. I got these cool little cable ties with push in clips to attach to the trailer frame.

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Tried to put a new Kenwood radio in the E36 M3 after the old JVC died. Jeez, it should have been a simple 2 hour job, even with having to add a new Sirius module, as they keep changing the connections, but NOOOOOOOOO!

Wired up power and speaker connections, unit powers up fine, but absolutely no sound. 5 hours later, after disassembling about half the car, and still no sound, I say eff it and decide it's Yuengling time. Apparently, this activated some dormant neurons, so I fired up Google and re-discovered that this car has a built in amp that has to be triggered. Since I had ripped out all the wiring I had just done, I got to do it all again AND the blue amp wire. Works fine now, except the antenna connector broke off, so I get to fix that, too. Then, the thunderstorm rolled in..............

My fixit day was all trivial stuff but it felt satisfying to get a whole lot of it done in 4 hours.

I took the kids to their college apartment on Saturday. This is my daughter's place and my son is moving in with her. It's a standard issue cheapo two bedroom student place in Eugene OR, meaning there's a lot of little things broken and the management company won't fix anything that doesn't actually make it uninhabitable. We get there, move in my son's stuff, I'm supposed to spend the night, but I look around and see dozens of little things that need doing. So I drive 2 hours home, the next morning I load some tools and drive 2 hours back. Start checking things off the list at 10:30 am, done and headed home at 2:30 pm.

What I did.
1. installed door chain (wife insists, for safety)
2. hung mirror
3. reversed refrigerator doors
4. installed 100 w daylight LED bulbs in bedrooms (had to extend the threaded whateveritis that the shade screws to, to fit the larger bulbs)
5. set up the espresso machine
6. oiled kitchen cabinets (they are utter crap cabinets, falling apart, but still do look a little better now)
7. oiled dining table
8. fixed hall closet door (it wouldn't close)
9. fixed bedroom #1 closet door (to the extent possible, it’s really a mess, but it closes now)
10. fixed outside light (wife insisted on this too, safety again)
11. installed daylight LED bulb in hall fixture (apartment was too dim, needed more “happy light”)
12. re-attached kitchen drawer face (glue, clamps, nails) - this isn't the first drawer face that's fallen off!
13. installed magnetic knife holder
14. installed 100 w equivalent daylight LED bulbs in kitchen (more happy light, had to extend the whateveritis)
15. installed brighter daylight LED bulbs in bathroom
16. put up hooks at entry to hang keys
17. set up dual monitors for son
18. pumped bike tires
19. fixed a broken "mood lamp" thingy
20. installed new swivel spray head for kitchen faucet (it was simply splashing water all over)

Jyl, I;m impressed. Those are the sort things I do. But I'd call that three weeks hard labour.

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Dang John.......putting us all to shame! :cool:

Trying to attend to my Silverado cosmetics - the little cab badges have melted on me so I found some on eBay and got the first one today. The other arrives later in the week.

Little things I know - but they all add up. I want to restore the truck to it's magnificent original state. :p

The old ones - yuck!:

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Replacement - ahhhh!:

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Met a local guy who wants to install an engine conversion in his Vanagon. I gave him a test drive in my converted van, he decided to do it, I'm like "how would you like to borrow my engine hoist" which he heard as "such a generous offer" and I meant as "get this effing thing out of my garage for awhile".

Busy day today. Getting my '83 SC ready to visit my mechanic so he can get the engine back up and running plus a few other things. Transport supposed to take place Monday.

I power washed my boat and tried to use my new foam cannon but ultimately it was easier and more effective to just load some cleaner in a little 2 gallon pump sprayer I have and use that to apply the cleaner and later blast everything clean with my washer.

Here is the Bimini top I cleaned on my driveway. I will be installing new deck hinges for it next week before re-installing.

Also some finger ratchets I bought. Never used them before but thought they might come in handy. I got the 3 pack - 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 inch drives.

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This morning I.....

Refitted the refurbished rear prop shaft to my Toyota 4Runner, drives so much smoother, I can see stuff in the rear view mirror now :D but think the rear axle links need new bushes as there is still a slight vibration under acceleration :confused:

Also fitted new front pads/discs to Mrs Ahab's Fiat 500 Twinair. It's great fun working on a toy sized car, everything is like half scale to my truck, parts cheap too, brake discs were $10 each :eek::cool:

Replaced my submersible well pump because I had nothing better to do with my time today. For the real story, I woke up around 5:30, made a cup of coffee, was sitting in my family room surfing the web when I heard my well pump kick on. Then it kicked on again.... and then again... and I thought "WTH? there's no one up but me!?" Turns out the check valve in my pump went bad which was allowing water pressure to build in the pressure tank but when the pump shut off it would back flow to the well pretty quickly then the pump would come back on. What Fun!!

For my next "because I'm bored" fix... a new well pressure tank which will require moving an iron filter to make room for it because the new tank is 22" and there's only 21" between the iron filter and the water heater.
For the real reason, after installing the pump, I checked the run time from cut in to cut out... 36 seconds. A pump should run for a minute or more. If it doesn't you'll decrease the life of the pump. If I shoot for the 2 minute run time the guy I bought the pump from recommends, I'm gonna need a lot bigger tank! UGH!

I told my wife "It could be worse. We could be in a position where we couldn't afford the repair and need the repair"

Wish I had a set of those!

The fuel shut off valve on my log splitter engine started running fuel. Realizing I couldn't fix it, I bought another carb for 20$ shipped. Installed it and ran the splitter for about 45 minutes, and the engine started faltering. I looked and saw gas running out of the overflow port. The needle valve in the fuel bowl wasn't shutting the gas off, causing it to overflow out the port and also into the intake port. Couldn't adjust/fix it, so bought another carb on Amazon. I'm hoping I'm not just buying more junk, although I'm very suspicious.

I also had to fix my log slitter today. It was running like crap stalling every few seconds. Dropped the bowl and cleaned the carb 3 or 4 times. I think it must have had water in the gas. By the last few logs it finally cleared up.

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Came from Amazon. Can you get stuff sent to you by Amazon?

Performance Tool W1716 Thumbwheel Ratchet Set, 3-Piece

Man that is way cool! SmileWavy

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This is my log splitter. It's a home made affair. The slide rail is a section of upside down railroad rail, and the rest is second hand hydraulics with everything welded together from scrap steel. I got it without an engine, cleaned everything up & out, and put a H.F. 13 hp. engine coupled to the hydraulic pump on it. The hydraulics are very old, and I bought a new pump. ram, and valve that I haven't installed because the old stuff still works great. Now if I could just find a carburetor that works.

Vegas carts makes a tunable carb for that HF engine.

Finally got around to pressure washing my circular driveway in the area where my '83 911SC and landscape trailer sat for so long.

I still have some rust stains to take care of and will with some industrial oxalic acid I bought.

I used the Ryobi hardscape cleaner attachment and my Sun Joe electric p/w and it worked really well. I used KrudKutter in my injection bottle as a pre-soak prior to doing the actual blasting.

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