Continuing Thread: What Are You Fix-It'ing Today?

[rsrguy]

So you spend 1.2 amu per Cylinder "kit" that includes rocker shaft, gaskets, piston and rings but it doesn't include a wrist pin... Riddle me that batman. Anyway the pins came in yesterday and we installed jugs today.

[ted]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

I wondered the same thing. I understand the weight distribution part behind the tongue.

To my untrained eye, it looks like a jury rigged system, but there has to be something to it

Agree if it were a single square tube extension that would be very weak.

These https://www.torklift.com/rv/supertruss extensions can be made as long as 60 inches for a truck camper that has a lot of rear over hang.
The longer the extension the more sway you may experience too.
The weight distribution hitch doubles the tongue weight rating of the extension.
Without an extension when jack knifed the rear camper jacks will hit the V nose on the trailer.

Now my next project is rigging the 14 foot tall open beam garage ceiling with a truck shell hoist.
Something like this....But a little more robust to take the weight of the truck shell and tailgate and lift it off the truck to a point 8 feet above the ground.
Once raised it will have safety chains holding the weight, not the cables or winch.
Figured I'll hold onto the truck shell in case I change my mind and decide to to ditch the camper.

[HobieMarty]

Yesterday I changed the brake pads front and rear on the Lexus RX350. They were only about half the thickness of the new ones but they were rusty looking on the back sides where the shims are. Also had an issue with water getting into the driver's side floor, these vehicles have a known issue of rain water intrusion if the drain holes in the rockers get clogged. I took the inner wheel well liner half off and loosened the rocker cover and sure enough, I found a lot of leaves, acorns, and a lot of built up sand in there, cleaned it out, vacuumed out the little bit of water that was in the floor and washed the vehicle and had no water intrusion, I could see the water dripping through the drain holes now.
I also ordered a complete set of new lug nuts for the vehicle. Each wheel had a mix of orginal lug nuts as well as a bigger size that the lug wrench wouldn't fit, had to use a deep well 6 sided socket to get them off, thank goodness I didn't have a flat tire at any time. Good day and got something accomplished!!! Today, I am working on doing Nothing!!!!

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[rsrguy]

Started covering this yesterday. Bellanca scout.

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

Started covering this yesterday. Bellanca scout.

Wow, now that's a cool project!!!

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[HobieMarty]

The lugnuts arrived yesterday so, sometime in the very near future I will be replacing all of those mismatched lugnuts on the RX350.
Looks like a little box of jewelry!!!

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[rsrguy]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

Wow, now that's a cool project!!!

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Right up till I found a crack in the tail post today! Now it'll be here an extra week at least.

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

Started covering this yesterday. Bellanca scout.

That’s Awesome!!!!! I’m getting ready to get back to the VariEze. Need to address a hydraulic leak on a brake line and then get the right main wheel back on.

Today, I started assembly of the winch mod I’m planning on the Honda Pioneer side by side.






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[A930Rocket]

Helped my buddy work on his sons Honda. For some reason, he bought a different set of headlights. This required pulling the front bumper cover off to access them. Fortunately, there was a YouTube video that explained everything and it took us three hours to disassemble and reassemble. The kid is making it a ricer. The good news is, he’s into cars.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Helped my buddy work on his sons Honda. For some reason, he bought a different set of headlights. This required pulling the front bumper cover off to access them. Fortunately, there was a YouTube video that explained everything and it took us three hours to disassemble and reassemble. The kid is making it a ricer. The good news is, he’s into cars.

You Tube is fantastic and has helped me countless times to forge ahead on various projects, including the headlights on my Silverado.

I love my White '02 Silverado 1500 4.8L 2WD with 235K on the clock. Full size 8' bed extended cab! Like a rock, baby!

I need to polish the lenses and will do so in the near future.

In the meantime I replaced all the non-working bulbs in front, including the daytime driving lights and side blinkers. I also put LED's in the rear backup lights.

Not doing LED's in front because I don't want to be "that guy".

I spliced in replacement daytime driving light sockets because the old ones were corroded. Somehow water finds it's way into those. I noticed the new replacement sockets had a very tight gasket-fit so maybe that's an upgrade to address leaking.

I also replaced the front passenger seat cover and cleaned the entire interior in preparation for a headliner replacement on Thursday. I removed most of the handles and hanger hooks and got them cleaned up.

After I get the new headliner, next on the list is re-tinting with ceramic and then body work.

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Helped my buddy work on his sons Honda. For some reason, he bought a different set of headlights. This required pulling the front bumper cover off to access them. Fortunately, there was a YouTube video that explained everything and it took us three hours to disassemble and reassemble. The kid is making it a ricer. The good news is, he’s into cars.

I’m a distinguished graduate of YouTube University…….


Worked on the Varieze’s electrics


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[A930Rocket]

^^^ Sane here unless I already know how to do it, I watch a YouTube video or two to get an idea of what to do.

[rsrguy]

Not alot of real-estate for avionics in those birds you must be an obgyn.

[Baz]

Yesterday was a big day because I got the headliner replaced in the Silverado!

STOKED! The person who did it has a lot of experience and she did a great job!

Here's the old one:

[HobieMarty]

So, Monday and Tuesday I was in Florida helping my sister move a piano and furniture and boxed up a bunch of diecast cars from my Brother-in-law's collection, Sis and Nephew gave them all to me. Returned home and went to work Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, nice short week.
Saturday I drove up to Chelsea, Alabama to level a new LG side by side refrigerator for my Mom and Charlie. Charlie took a pretty big spill last year and really messed him up, he has recovered pretty well but he can't do a lot of things that he used to do so I help when I can. Got the fridge cabinet and doors all leveled, changed some light bulbs for them and then Charlie was having trouble loading some clips for his Glocks so I finished loading them for him. My Mom wanted to "hire" me to do these things, so I told her she could pay me with hugs. They did fix us a nice lunch and she topped off my gas tank which I didn't want her to do but she and Charlie insisted.
Today, I finished up the 1972 Lincoln Continental Town Car wheel cover.
I think I will take a break now.

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[A930Rocket]

I’m not sure if this counts, but I replaced the shoestrings in my Topsiders. The kit comes with a metal needle about 4 inches long. You thread the leather strip into the back of the needle and push it through the brass holes and leather.

[rsrguy]

My ongoing project this winter.
A ridiculous and needed amount of snow this week with more on the way.... another day in the paradise we call northern UT. Pretty heavy for ut powder.

[Evans, Marv]

Since it was a sunny day, I decided to start splitting some wood. I got about half way through the pile of rounds on the left, along with getting some other things done around the place. I found out again I'm not as good at hefting big chunks of wood around as I used to be. I have make a rack to cut the pile on the right into lengths to fit in the fireplace before splitting.

[jyl]

Round stone top came unglued from a friend’s outdoor table base, fell off, and broke. This was at his house in the Bay Area where I was staying.

I took it to another friend’s place. We used clear epoxy and a clamp to glue the pieces back together, filled the cracks and missing bits with more clear epoxy, sanded the epoxy to dull the gloss. Cut a round of 5/8” marine plywood, set T-serts into the wood to bolt the table legs to, used construction cement to glue the wood to the underside of the stone top, applied Varathane to the wood, bolted the table base to the wood, and I brought the repaired table back to friend #1’s house.

When I entered the house, there was a big shout of “Surprise”. My wife had arranged a surprise 60th birthday party for me, and all my Bay Area friends were there! One guy even drove up from Santa Barbara.

I had been happy spending my 60th in friend #2’s workshop doing a project with him, but the party was a nice bonus.



Here’s the table, before the final crack filling and sanding that we did the next day.







Here’s a couple random shots from the party. The weather cooperated, which was good as a rain-free day is hardly a given in the Bay Area this spring!

Here’s the table after the final filling and sanding.



After that I went down to L.A. to see some friends. One of them, who was my surrogate mother in L.A. when my wife and I lived there in the 80s/90s, gave me a couple slides of my wife and I when I was 28 yo and my bride was 31 yo.



Damn that was a long time ago.

[jyl]

My “L.A. mother” is in her 80s and downsizing, which means every time we go down there she gives me stuff. I drove back to Portland with a trunk full of china, copper pans, interesting knick-knacks, and - my best loot this trip - an IBM Correcting Selectric typewriter!

While I was staying at her house, I was bothered by the dim light in her kitchen. She has 10 inset ceiling floodlights which were various mismatched and low-lumen CFL bulbs. I went to Home Depot and found these cool LED floods that are 100w equivalent and have a switch to change the light temperature from 5000K to 2700K, and are dimmable. I bought ten bulbs and a dimmer wall switch. The dimmer can either take the illumination from low to max at the selected temperature (she chose 3000K) OR can take the light from low level at 2000K through max at 3500K and then max at 5000K. She preferred the former so that’s how we set it up. Her kitchen is much brighter now, she likes it better, and I don’t feel like I’m wearing sunglasses indoors.