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All went well today on the safe relocation endeavour. Barely enough lift to get it into the bed of the truck - so when I got to the storage unit, the weight of the safe had pushed it further down into my bed liner a bit so I had to re-tie the straps tighter to get enough lift and that did the trick.

I made a second trip to bring the door using a hand truck for it. Sucker was heavy!

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Big job... congrats

Thanks, Guy! Just glad it's over without any unnecessary "excitement"! :p

Went up the mountain today,(technically fix-it-ing my pathetically weak quads... I only made 3 runs) I'm pretty shot this evening, tomorrow ought to be a real hoot!
Then I came home to put fixtures and trim into the basement bathroom remodel, and ate a BBQ beef rib for lunch.... winning, but exhausted...

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Looks fast and fun, yeah sea level and steps my goal.

I like dawn to clean my windows and hands.
Simple green on the car chassis anything under the painted surfaces.
R3 for all the rubber scuffs on the paint.
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Anyone try this degreaser?
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So fixing up a race car.
New Brodix Heads flow well and were tuned on the Westec dyno.
On the dyno Carb actually was a Holley 750cfm.
Found a cracked ignition pick up magnet in the distributor.
Timing was jumping from 24 to 44, difficult to diagnose when driving, would of just felt down on power on track.
Good torque for getting off corners.
Needed some clutch parts, small rock got jammed in it.
Ordered new slicks.
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So Ted, why American iron over porsches on the track?

well is it iron? ;)
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Nothing off a production car except for the tail lights.
It is a Pancho Weaver tube chassis with a fiberglass body.

This video explains my interest in Trans Am, IMSA GTO and GT1 cars. :)
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Sold...

Refinished a a parking brake lever and flap handle in cerakote. Here's the lever[. I broke it all down an coated it then reassembled it only to discover the pawl doesn't engage the ratchet arc.... welding more material onto the little begger today.



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Turned out the pawl on that lever handle was worn and wouldn't engage the ratchet arc. I removed it and mig'd some weld onto it, and ground it to a suitable profile. Now it makes the most satisfying clicky clacky sound and works like Mr Piper designed it to... also got the trim system installed.


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I think on an airplane, I would want a double spring, like on race cars with carburetors, instead of a single spring.

I know exactly what your talking about... that's the way the plans are drawn, and believe it or not, that's a $70 spring. It's made to engineering drawings and at this point a trim spring failure isn't something I've heard of.
Besides, the mountain of paperwork to get a double spring passed as an stc would be mind numbing.

Nice work, Guy!

Love the race car, Ted!

I replaced a landscape lighting transformer tonight - took all of 5 minutes! ;) Sorry no pics...

Thanks Baz.... had a good day today, I was able to move pretty smoothly from one task to the next. It isn't something that happens very often.

I think we can ALL relate, Guy....and celebrate with you, my brother!

Keep chargin'! SmileWavy

I am planning on using my car tomorrow to go get a train car I bought off C-list yesterday. Since I hadn't driven it in about a month I thought I should start it and drive it a little today.
Well, the best laid plans as they say...it started to crank and then it didn't. 11.46 volts on the VOM.
Tag on the battery says 3/22, 3 year free replacement battery from Wally world. So I spent the morning removing the battery, taking it over to WW and having them test it. Can't hurry the machine, it'll take an hour sir.
I go do some shopping, both there and driving to some other stores too.
Get back, test is just finishing up and................................REPLACE BATTERY in red letters. YES!
They give me a battery with a 1/25 tag on it and tell me its warranty will start on 3/22 since it has been replaced already once before.
I don't care, it'll get me thru the next three years as I'm going to be using it a lot more going down to the SD Zoo to take pics of the animals.
All it cost me today was my time. Didn't even get my hands that dirty either.
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It could have been a lot worse, like if it were raining or I was out and about someplace other than in my garage with nice 75* weather.
Second time it's happened that way to me too. Last time it was the wife's car.

My latest in driveway snow management.
I tried a walk / push behind blower,,NO THANX ever again!
This was cheap enough, just needs lots of atn to the little things.
Belts, hydraulics, electrics, etc etc
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Ok... that's cool.
I wish I could find one

I installed 25 mm wheel spacers on the rear wheels of the 86 911. Looks so much better.

Replaced the door handle cable on the daughter’s 2010 Tahoe. I could not find one locally, so I got one from Amazon the next day/today. Since I had everything apart, it took me about 30 minutes to replace it.

Edit. When I took everything apart, Friday afternoon, I pulled a window track guide(but I didn’t need to in hindsight). I spent an hour trying to get it back into place Friday, to no avail. Today, I said screw it and cut an opening, so I could see what was going on. I was able to get the window track guide installed in 10 minutes.


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I've done some door work on my '02 Silverado. Electric regulators both sides, replaced one outer door handle, door lock stuff. Always an adventure but so far never had to cut a port hole...wow!

Get 'ur dun! :)

It wasn’t ideal, but I was only able to see through the red circled hole and reach it from below… red arrow. It was by feel until I cut the opening.


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Upgraded the look of my 2014 Wrangler with a Gladiator take off bumper from Facebook Marketplace. No cutting or mods necessary - bolts lined up perfectly.

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Got tired of messing with the propane heater in the garage and the odor while using it. Just installed this 10,000 watt 240v unit that is WiFi controlled. Very nice heater!

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Did you install the longer wheel studs?

Damn! You have no excuse to not spend every spare waking hour in the den of solitude now! Suh-weet, buh-lessed warmth cascading over your head and shoulders like a mothers hug!

A very successful day of fixing today. My friends polaris 700 4 wheeler had bad u joints on the front driveshaft. It was a crock getting it out and in because they put the engine in the way of it sliding off the shaft of the trans but with alot of prying and hammering it went. Then I see the rear shock is about to rip off the rusted broken rear swing arm so I welded that all back together. And Replaced the exhaust gaskets.
Then I got my 66 mgb running for the first time ever. The points needed cleaning but it fired up and ran nice. I went around and got a bunch of the bulbs working again. Still need to figure out why the wipers, blower, and radio dont work and see if its charging. Still more to do but happy that it ran as good as it did out the gate.

For now, I’m using bolt on wheel spacers, and I used blue loctite. The car won’t see any super heavy driving or track time.

I have that same Ryobi fan - don't use it that often but when I do it's a real lifesaver!

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[QUOTE=Baz;12403936]I have that same Ryobi fan - don't use it that often but when I do it's a real lifesaver!


And the battery lasts forever. Love it. I have the smaller one too.

Fixed the indoor spin bike with a pair of VG's!

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VG's...the 8th wonder of the world! :D

You can't have too many, ha ha!!

So true. I use one of those smaller ones with the narrow clamp arms to hold the throttle grip open on my Hawk until it warms up enough that I can take it off choke without the engine stalling.

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Replacing siding on the 4th of February wasn't really my plan, but when I was on the roof clearing snow off the solar panels, I realized a clapboard had cracked in a couple of places. So, multiple trips up onto the roof to measure, cut, fit and caulk. At least it was only a degree or so below freezing and I was sheltered from the wind by the upper part of the house.
Today is much colder, so I'm glad that's off of my list.

Best
Les

Way to embrace the suck.

Guy, having completed 7 decades and reflecting on things I have had to do under circumstances far more unpleasant, this job was pretty low on the scale. On the plus side, it was a good workout for my legs.:rolleyes:

Best
Les

I got a text with a link to a Harbor Freight sale for LED shop lites for $12 this morning. Since I was about to go out to mail off one of my cameras, I decided to get one and put it in the garage hooked up to the opener. The single 'decorative' bulb I had in the opener on only one side really didn't light up much at night when no other lights are on.
Got the second to last fixture they had in stock. I left one for some other guy as I really didn't 'need' two of them.
Went to Home Depot and got some adapters and went to work on hanging it up.
Had a heck of a time getting the adapter to work. Finally switched it out with another one I had in use. Already had chains in place as I had wanted to do this for some time but hadn't found a cheap enough fixture to warrant putting it in.
This will be nice to come home to when it's dark out and no other lights are on.
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55 watts and 5000 lumens is nice when it's total darkness out there.

Costco black Friday purchase jacuzzi arrived a month late.
600lb Curbside delivery.
Moving it behind the house.
Takes 3 movers with equipment to do it safely.
It's worth the hassle.
The pad is 120 feet down hill, steps and through the side yard. :)
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Had the same issue here, Scott.....but got these which simple screw right into the existing bulb base. Bought them 4 years ago and still working great......

$26.99 from Amazon:

4 Pack Led Garage Lights, 60W Deformable Garage Ceiling Light