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

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

First good snow fall of the season here... 14" on the driveway from yesterday to the start of blowing today. It compacted overnight to 12"... thick but not wet. Had to replace the thrower belt and a shear pin broke right at the end... 6 hours with a break for lunch.... awesome day... The grandkids and I will be skiing after the next storm system moves through !

Yikes! That’s exactly why I’ve been working on the SxS so I can attach a plow. We get that body killing slushy crap that turns into 1/4”-1” of solid ice if driven on. Glad to hear you’ll be skiing soon.

Worked on re-gluing the seat cushion to the molded plastic base plates on the SxS’s seats before work.



Also took delivery of these headlight extension caps for the SxS’s new LED headlights w/fans.
Will install these soon….




Seeing these things 3D printed with a flexible medium seriously reinforces the notion I need to pull the trigger on a 3D printer so I can make stuff like this as it arises.

The Bambu Labs Carbon X-1 keeps teasing me…


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[rsrguy]

I have a 44" blower attachment for my little jd yard tractor... but it's still being oh'd

[brp914]

Installing Lseat leather on boxster seats. These 22 yr old seats had seen better days. Rip in leather and cushion compressed:



New cushions are available from Porsche.




Installed. This is major work. Lseat doesnt offer Porsche colors; this is their closest match. Whoever does this for a living will get massive arthritis. After 20 min of pulling, massaging, and kneading it still looks hopeless. Keep at it for a couple hours I could get a decent result. Still have hours more work for the seat back and bolster.

[rsrguy]

Looking good

[porsche930dude]

The past 3 or 4 days Iv been upgrading the rear brakes of my jeep from 9" to 10" self adjusting ones from a later cj. It was needed anyway one of the cyls was leaking bad and the shoes were pretty worn. I already did 11" ones on the front years ago. Then I made some wheels for my scrap trailer the old ones are 14" and the new ones 16" this will allow for more height and load capacity. I overload the old ones every time I use it they are only rated for 1100lbs each and the new ones are 1600.But the offset was way wrong thats why it took me 5 years to get around to this. I cut the centers out and reversed them it went well.

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by brp914

Installing Lseat leather on boxster seats. These 22 yr old seats had seen better days. Rip in leather and cushion compressed:

Installed. This is major work. Lseat doesnt offer Porsche colors; this is their closest match. Whoever does this for a living will get massive arthritis. After 20 min of pulling, massaging, and kneading it still looks hopeless. Keep at it for a couple hours I could get a decent result. Still have hours more work for the seat back and bolster.

Get a steamer, that's how they are 'fixed' in the factory.

[lin7310948]

spent the last couple of days updating the dash in my 69 bronco. repainted the dash and installed new parts. still have to install new choke cable pull. hope to finish tomorrow!

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Waxed cotton is so cool, but it sucks, but it is so cool!
At the end of the day, these $500 jackets are just cotton weenies coated in a thick wax to make them feel sturdy.
After several years, even with upkeep, they shred.Therefore, I am a reverse Magnus Walker. He fixed up clothes, got rich, and then bought p-cars. I have p-cars and now fix up clothes, and will be poor. Oh well, what the hell! I'm having fun I tried to stitch the cotton with a continuous suture, but it was so weak it tore, so I'm going to contact cement leather patches and have the most bad ass waxed cotton jacket in history!!!

(All the rich kids in c-ville have a barbour- but not as cool as this one!)

It's all about texture folks!

[ramonesfreak]

I have several Barbour jackets. After 30 years still almost perfect but I’ve sent them back for repair. I usually wax them myself but for repairs they do excellent work….not cheap but worth it depending on how much you like your jacket

https://www.barbour.com/us/repair-rewax

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

I have several Barbour jackets. After 30 years still almost perfect but I’ve sent them back for repair. I usually wax them myself but for repairs they do excellent work….not cheap but worth it depending on how much you like your jacket

https://www.barbour.com/us/repair-rewax

I must be doing something wrong LOL!!!! Mine get trashed. Filsons too!
I love them though!

[mtnrat]

Putting in a new well pump tomorrow. 325 ft down. Conjured up a wheel to pull the pipe over when extracting it from the well. Here is the contraption.

[WPOZZZ]

Bought a Bose Wave CD Radio off FB Marketplace for $40. Left channel was blown, so I got a new used speaker off eBay. Wow, now I have bass! Apparently, the left channel is where the bass tubes are, but you need to have the correct side speaker for it to work. Tested to see if the speaker was bad and that was the problem. Gotta love a $9 fix.

Also, fixed the auto headlights on my S4. The original one had a bad gel pad, so I changed that, and it still didn't work. Finding the correct sensor is a giant PITA because Audi/VW used many different iterations of the same part number. Pulled the mirror and got the part#, got a used/tested one off eBay and installed it last night. Voila! I have auto headlights again for $40. Much better than the $300+ for a new part.

[70SATMan]

Over the years I’ve picked up some interesting Navy hardware. Not really a collector per se but, some of it is just too cool to pass up.

So, the new project is supposedly a CDC battle station clock. Bought it with the cut cord. A couple of the hands need the paint touched up and the second hand is wound with wire?? Might be the way that the hands are illuminated, a reactive paint?? Don’t know yet. Need to do a little more research but the clock has a warning to not touch the hands when energized! What could go wrong?

[herr_oberst]

I was asked to help hang some closet doors. $1800 doors, they probably weigh 100# per door, working space is super tight and the "client" (my friend) is REALLY fussy, so this had to be as close to mistake free as I'm capable of.

The trickiest part was plowing a plunged groove into the bottom for the guide. I didn't want the groove to pierce the vertical door edges, so careful stopping and starting was as critical as centering the groove. I set up a test rig at home to figure out the tooling, did a few dry runs on some scrap and moved the whole circus (or 'zarkus'; my friend is a native German from Berlin).

It worked! She's pleased, the doors are hung and roll on their tracks perfectly and I'm happy that I can still actually devise a plan and execute it to a satisfactory result. Not perfect, but I won't point out the flaws.

The home rig

Setting up the jig off site

The first cut is the scariest. Blurry shot. Video screenshot.

[mgp steve]

Reupholstering ’67 GT40 interior.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by mgp steve

Reupholstering ’67 GT40 interior.

Damn!

[porsche930dude]

Working on the axle and swingarm for my Kawasaki 200 3 wheeler im converting to a 2 wheeler. Lots of grinding welding and staring. I think its going to look wide and a little weird on the chain side because of the jackshaft but im trying to slim it down as much as possible. The brake side is looking great though.

[Baz]

Some amazing stuff going on here.......cheers to all who posted on this page (too many to name! )

[mgp steve]

Replacing Civic headlight assemblies. I’ll never buy another (4-wheel) Honda!

[Evans, Marv]

Finally got a burn day to get rid of my six piles of brush and cuttings. I used my tractor to push fresh piles on the burn pile.