Today I installed the new flywheel key in my riding mower, Craftsman LT2000. I cleaned up a couple of parts and the sticker on the engine cover had bubbled up a little, I removed it, prepped it and the cover, used some spray adhesive and reinstalled the sticker. Anyhoo, the mower works great now, has lots of power and no more leaking oil.

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Installing Stainless Mesh gutter guards from Home Depot. Nice product and pretty easy install.

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Rehabbing 40+ year old Montgomery Ward extension ladder given to me by my FIL. Aluminum ladder still in good shape but all hardware badly rusted and in need of a refresh. So far I have replaced inop rung locks with a Werner kit and replaced dry rotted stand off bumpers previously held on with electrical tape. I have a new rope and plastic end caps on order and as well as a pair of Werner PK80-2 Automatic Leg Levelers coming that I scored on eBay.

Note the flimsy OEM rung locks

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New rope pulley

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New stand off bumpers

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I replaced the flywheel key in the Yard Machine, got it all back together. It didn't want to fire up right away so I used some starting fluid spray, fired up and ran butni could hear some low rumble like popping, I think the valves need adjusting.
It also had a significant vibration so I pulled the blade and yep, it was missing a bit of material. I got some numbers off the blade and found one at Tractor Supply. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...76bc3f7bf8.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c1c2888d56.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...936de8ef08.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2f995436e2.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9fb5467587.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f5017fe118.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...eda80cae46.jpg

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For the past few months I've been entertained by sudden loud banging which sounded like someone at the door. Mornings and evenings. A couple times there was a thump-screech-thump-thump-screech-screech fight between critters inside the wall. Some birds found my outside shower vent (3-flap plastic type no extra screen which closes normally) and decided they were going to make a nest inside. I'd get on the step ladder, turn on the fan, spray lysol, bang on the walls, and yell. Later that day or next day they'd be back at it.
It was finally warm enough to get up there and put some screen mesh inside. That should do it hopefully.

Replace the brake master cylinder in my E46, 330 this afternoon. I bled the brakes, but I need to use a friends device with the software to activate the ABS pump, to get all of the air out.

Trying to fix Rowenta steamer.

Discovered that I was “That Guy!!!!”

Since the green bomber isn’t my daily anymore and I only use it occasionally to haul stuff……. I neglected to check the brakes regularly. Put new meat under her with all the recent snow and the tire shop said “your brakes are gettin low”. Let’s just say that was the understatement of the year, so far.

So I fixed the issue today.

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A two parter.

Fix-It'ing #1.
Need to get the trailer out from behind the garage. It's been sitting behind the garage for 5 or 6 years. First had to cut all the brush that has grown up around and through it. Second step - air up the tires. Of course one of them won't hold air. I'd deal with that later. Now the big issue. This thing has a clunky hitch mount, and I can't get the damn thing to release. Fought with it about a half hour, finally gave up. I decided to replace it. Need to go to Menards. By now, it's about 5:00pm, and I asked the wife when dinner would be ready. "All I have to do is boil some noodles and warm up the alfredo sauce". Okay, I'll wait. 45 minutes later, dinner. Fine. Mistake #1 - Invite the wife to go along to Menards. We get there, she wants to look at flower pots. We're burning daylight here, but we go look at flower pots. Didn't buy any. I grab the stuff I need, except they don't have a 2" hitch. Plenty of 1 7/8. Fine, I pay for the stuff I got, and head for the other Menards. More daylight gone. Picked up the hitch, headed home. By now it's about 7:30, and it's getting pretty dark out. I got the hitch mounted on the trailer, should have quit there, but no, I wanted to pull the trailer out and over by the gate in the fence. In the dark, I couldn't quite see all of the trailer, and managed to tag the corner of the garage with the spare tire mount on the trailer. It's vinyl siding, so not too horrible.

Fix-It'ing #2. Trailer is out, car is delivered to the shop. On to repairing the siding. Today I learned that I should never be trusted with colors, and neither should the guy who built the garage in the back yard. I have spare siding from the garage and the house, but the house siding was easier to get to, so I pulled out a piece. Found out the house is "Pebble Clay", and the garage is "Natural Clay". Close, but not the same. Put the house siding away, pulled out a piece from the garage. I was able to nail the corner back on using different slots. There's a few nicks in it, but it's the back of the garage. Replaced one piece of siding with the spare piece, and I was able to use part of the larger damaged piece to replace the second damaged piece.

One other trailer fix. Our dog managed to pull the lens off one of the taillights and chewed it up. I replaced the whole light, and both lights worked when I transported the car. I still need to deal with that tire that won't hold air. I should replace it.

I used the software on a tablet to bleed the air out of the ABS system. When I went to drive the car, my DSC light, tire pressure light and brake warning light all came on. Pulled codes and it said the intake camshaft position sensor was bad. Replaced that this morning and changed front brake pads. No change in the lights.

Got to the track, unloaded, and the lights were still on. As I drove to the tech shed, they all turned off. 👍🏽🙌🏽😂

It’s a miracle!

I also had a but of brake woes today. Took the 911 for a spin and had the radio low i hear a squeaking from the rear brake. It goes away with brakes but the ebrake too which i thought was weird. And with the e brake off it returns even louder. I tore into it and no obvious trouble but i cleaned it all up a but and scuffed up the pads and rotor surfaces. Maybe it just got unusually hot and dusty. All seems well now.

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Keeping with the “brake repair theme” [emoji2957]

Worked on the VariEze’s brakes this afternoon that haven’t been touched/rebuilt in decades. Pretty simple and Eze([emoji6] couldn’t help the pun fellers) now just double checking the plans to make sure I connect the lines properly. Yup, a leak started after just touching the calipers.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a68b2674af.jpg
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Oh yeah, got the 95 K1500 Thermostat, gasket and radiator cap replaced as well as a full coolant flush tonight. Now I just need to figure out where to recycle the old coolant.

I’m sore and tired….

Cheers


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Yep, at work we take the vehicles through a roll booth, kinda like a dyno. Sometimes we will have a rerun vehicle with the TPMS light on. In this case, we drive the vehicle into the booth, raise the retainers and once the vehicle settles on the rollers, simply accelerate for a few seconds, less than a minute, and the light will go off.
If performing the complete process the computer system for the roll booth cycles the abs pump, it communicates to the vehicle through blue tooth module that I connect to the obd2 port. Pretty cool stuff.

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Today's project - Under deck ladder storage

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I replaced the blade on the Yard Machine, you can see that the old one had quite a bit of missing material. I also reinstalled the coil after it checked out to be okay, I checked it with a multimeter. I made sure that it had spark, and yep, plenty of spark. I put it all back together and fired it up and it ran really well!!! I think I need to either replace the primer bulb or clean it because it took pushing on it about 10 times for it to want to crank up, but I didn't have to use any starting fluid this time. Yay!!! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...455ed1d322.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bd4a0edb2b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4b805c8ffa.jpg

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Finished installing my el cheapo cool shirt/cooler in my track car. I had the shirt from ages ago but had lost the cooler. I looked on eBay and found a DonJoy cooler along with the correct power cord to plug into the cigarette lighter for $75. Mounted it to the passenger floorboard with a car battery tray. Now I’ll be much cooler driving at the track this summer.

^with the underside so clean, I wonder if an oil application or wax like FluidFilm would prevent rust and clumping

A customer brought over her tractor to replace the belt. I ended up replacing the trailer axle. Long story but I sold her the trailer a year or two ago because her pickup was too high to safely drive up. She is a mexican cleaning lady and wants to expand her income her and her son are mowing the peoples lawns. Anyway its an old boat trailer and the stupid axle hubs are crappy the wheel bearings are shot and theres no way to replace them. So since its here and before the wheels fall off I went ahead and replaced it. I had a spare axle but the wheels that were on it were spindle mount so no 4 bolt hub. They were no good so i put the ones from my log splitter on it. But the bearings were no good in those wheels so i switched everything around. The new axles ended up being an inch too short so I had to cut and extend it. Finally got it all together it only took an afternoon and she'll be good to go. I probably wont even tell her I fixed it. Tomorrow ill cobble some wheels back on my splitter and thatll be that. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1681855502.JPG
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That's very nice of you, she's got a nice looking JD!!!

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Shes so funny. She bought it off some weird auction site got a great deal on it i forget the exact price i think 250 or so. She told me a story about how she drove it off the front of the trailer at a customers house. The ladys security camera wasnt working she said oh no you could have got the video of your life! After that she made a little wall in front with some angle brackets.