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Speakers! Stereo!  Marker lights!   Bench seat!  Heater!  A bed!  Switches (that do many things)!  Last weekend (reference)  
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Feb 16, 2016 05:58
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I replaced my PCV and oil sender units on the XJ. I poked around some more trying to find my goddamned coolant leak. The valve cover gasket is bad, so I plan on replacing that and cleaning the engine up (15 years of oil and poo poo plastered all over it) and that should make new leaks and such a lot easier to hunt down. I'll probably do that in a couple weekends.
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Feb 16, 2016 12:39
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I didn't do nothing, but my card told me that there is too much engine oil. Last oil change was little over a month ago...
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Feb 16, 2016 14:30
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I got this Jeep on 12/31. It's an Overland High Altitude trim, which is basically an Overland with a ton of options thrown at it, monochrome appearance, and Summit bumpers & side skirts. Basically a mix of parts bin pieces. The only thing that I didn't like about it was the "trivalent chrome" (plastic) trim on the front and rear. Depending on the light, it can look black, silver, gold, bronze, copper, etc. I thought it would grow on me, but I ended up hating it more and more. Plus, the window trim is silver chrome, so the whole thing looks like a clusterfuck. So I had the trivalent chrome bumper trim and window trim wrapped in matte dark grey, and had the foglight & taillight bezels wrapped in gloss black. I also had them wrap the whole grille in grey for the hell of it. I wasn't sure if I liked it right away, but I really dig it now, and it's different than the millions of other GC's I see on the road everyday.   
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Feb 18, 2016 16:10
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Cool car but if I saw you on the road I would assume a jerk of some kind is driving it.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:15
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Cage posted:Cool car but if I saw you on the road I would assume a jerk of some kind is driving it. ... why
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Feb 18, 2016 16:18
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DropShadow posted:I got this Jeep on 12/31. Looks great dude
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Feb 18, 2016 16:19
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Had to free up some horsepowers in the kart today. Before:  After:  Forgive the dark "after" picture, it got really cold and I had to shut the garage door.
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Feb 18, 2016 23:18
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Installed mudflaps on my truck. I couldn't bear to drill the sheet metal, so I did weather tek. I hate the look of flaps, but I hate the salt and snow on the running boards more.
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Feb 19, 2016 14:50
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Found the vacuum leak on my International, it was a missing cap that fell off in a spot I couldn't see normally. I also learned how the high and low temperature vacuum switches worked, nothing is hooked up to them now, nor really was anything ever since I've had it. While I was up there I checked out the temperature sender and cleaned up the contact. Then I rewired the taillights since the old wiring was both bad, and had fallen on the exhaust and melted. The wires coming down the rail were the standard GYBW like you'd see for a trailer, but only one of those did the expected thing. Brown was the running lights, yellow was the reverse, white to right signal, green to left signal. Normally yellow is left, green is right, white is ground and brown is running lights. I left myself a set of four stubs so I could add a trailer wiring harness next time I get back there and crimped each wire off dead. I also added a tap to the reverse so I can add a brighter reverse light.
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Feb 20, 2016 05:44
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After taking my sweet time to put the motor back together after a rebuild it is now in the car. 
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Feb 21, 2016 07:02
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The straight six community salutes you for sticking with that motor instead of throwing a V8 into it
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Feb 21, 2016 12:39
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What did I do to my ride today? Considered pushing it off a goddamn bridge. I took it to get aligned last week and the FR corner has way more camber (-3 degrees) than can be adjusted for so the tech said the strut was bent. I replaced it and the other front one today, and the loose tie rod end he also noted. I tried to change the other front tie rod end but it was being a motherfucker and I couldn't get it to spin off the inner rod, so I said "gently caress you" and put the wheels back on. Looked at the front right once it was on the ground and visually the camber is still there (this car has no camber adjustment, only toe) so something else is hosed. I'm going to drop it off at a frame/collision shop and see what they say, I'm too tired of loving with this car to never drive it. Today I have realized that 90% of the time I no longer enjoy working on cars since I'm not modding them or doing fun things with them, I'm just replacing parts on the household fleet and it's nothing interesting. I can afford not to do this poo poo, I might have to start doing that instead.  It always takes a toll on my body as well, poo poo is exhausting and the soreness that lasts for a few days isn't fun either.
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Feb 21, 2016 21:52
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Bought some new wipers and installed them minutes before it started raining. No more random areas not being wiped away  . Last week I had replaced the bushings on the front sway bar, I don't notice a difference at all.
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Feb 22, 2016 00:57
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Bought a turbo D16Y8 setup from some dude, came with a ton of parts. Probably won't slam it in until the summer.
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Feb 22, 2016 01:02
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Bought a turbo D16Y8 setup from some dude, came with a ton of parts. Probably won't slam it in until the summer. That sounds fun.
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Feb 22, 2016 01:16
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Before leaving work Saturday afternoon, I get a no-crank condition that I traced back to one of the main power wires on the positive battery terminal being loose and had begun to arc. It hadn't been touched since I first installed the battery two years ago, and the whole thing was quite filthy with the typical acidic battery filth. Since I was already in there to change the oil, I went ahead and dismantled both of the battery terminals to clean them and the rest of the battery top. I soaked everything with CRC battery cleaner and then scrubbed it all down with a wire brush and rinsed with distilled water in a spray bottle. I even removed the plastic vent caps on the battery and cleaned beneath them as well. There was plenty of hidden poo poo underneath, so I'm glad I did. I blew everything dry with computer duster and put both terminal ends back together onto the battery with new hardware and then gave each one a fresh coat of terminal sealer coating. I also ended up having to remove the A/C compressor drive belt. The bearing in the compressor clutch is on the verge of locking up and refuses to stop making noise. Due to the cost of replacement, It'll be a little while before I'm able to. For now; I'm just happy it's quiet again. 
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Feb 22, 2016 06:12
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Started assembly of the chumpcar I'm helping build.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:46
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    Huge difference in sound noticeable even at the very low volumes I tried in the driveway (it's after 1am so...). New ones are Polk DXi651. They just baaaarely clear the window track. Finally got around to replacing the broken/missing exterior trim piece on the drivers door too. It's been gone for probably a year? Just didn't want to fork over $35-40 for a new one.
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Feb 23, 2016 08:07
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Made up a label for my switches Finished installing the outlet. Yes, it's not inline with the top box. Whoops.  Went thrift shopping and found this badass light in the misc section. Goes from red to white  
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Feb 23, 2016 08:16
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Ries posted:Bought some new wipers and installed them minutes before it started raining. No more random areas not being wiped away Same, on my Crown Vic, but I installed them the evening before it started raining during the night. also installed fresh, brighter headlight bulbs. Geirskogul posted:Went thrift shopping and found this badass light in the misc section. Goes from red to white Looks like a cop car "ticket light". The one in my P71 looks similar, but is white only (1156 taillight bulb), but I've seen others, particularly newer LED ones, that do the red/white thing. Good for not killing your night vision.
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Feb 27, 2016 01:23
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Two NMO dual band antennas for my ham rig in the 540.  Measure eight times, drill once, 1/8" pilot -> 1/4" -> step bit. Easy as pie. i'm never selling it so i don't give a poo poo about resale, the failed debadge arsed it up already and a properly installed antenna works so much better than mag mounts - and ends up loving up the paint less. #yolo see you on the air
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Feb 27, 2016 01:28
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Plates came in for the F150  
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Feb 27, 2016 19:34
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Woke The Hearse from her winter hibernation. Did an oil change, took 20 minutes opening every filter box at Pep Boys to find a 13" air filter (why can't they just write the loving dimensions on the box?), cleaned her off and took her out for a few hours. Feels good, yo. lovely cell phone pictures ahoy!  
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Feb 27, 2016 21:07
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God I love foxbodies. And black cars. Super nice!
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Feb 27, 2016 21:33
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Super Aggro Crag posted:God I love foxbodies. And black cars. Super nice! Much appreciated; thank you!
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Feb 27, 2016 21:39
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Got under my new used ranger and drained the tranny fluid. Black isnt a good sign right? Also drained nice bright red tranny fluid from the 76 duster.
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Feb 28, 2016 00:18
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Feb 28, 2016 03:58
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That's a lot of stickers.
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Feb 28, 2016 04:21
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Rhyno posted:That's a lot of flowers.
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Feb 28, 2016 04:38
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 Swapping intake manifolds because I love love vacuum lines so much.
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Feb 28, 2016 05:26
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Drained the dex 3 I had filled my trans with, thinking it was dex 6. No metal on the magnet in the pan, so I changed the filter and filled it back up with the proper poo poo. Hopefully this is the last time I have to deal with this poo poo before I hit around 175k miles and am actually due for a new filter. At least its one more thing off my ever shrinking list of stuff to put my truck back into well maintained condition. All that is left is replacing 2 sensors that failed due to it sitting for so long, fixing the fuel evap issues (new valve and solenoid), fixing the low speed fan not kicking on problem (Either the coolant temp sensor acting fucky or my pcm has failed in some insanely selective way) and changing the fluid in the diff. I've got parts for half of it, its just having a day to work where I have time and it isn't near freezing at night when I get done running errands. Then its just cosmetic poo poo from there on out.
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Feb 28, 2016 05:38
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Goober Peas posted:That's not enough flowers.
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Feb 28, 2016 05:40
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Tidied up my Ranger for a long drive tomorrow that ends with picking up a senior colleague at Montreal's airport. I dumped 2 quarts of 10W30 into the engine because that slow oil leak I had hasn't gone away and the clattering sound was annoying. And I got the free version of Torque talking to my truck via the second cheap-and-generic OBDII-Bluetooth dongle-thing, so I'll probably buy the full version pretty soon. Even trivial things like what I did today makes me feel like a Responsible Adult. 
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Feb 28, 2016 06:57
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Rhyno posted:That's a lot of stickers. It gives the people stuck behind him on a hill something to look at.
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Feb 28, 2016 09:17
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Whoa, you doubtin' my clutch action on a hill? I'll have you know that I can maintain at least 15mph up the steepest of grades, and I always pull out ( ) for passers.
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Feb 28, 2016 09:54
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Obligatory "what hills" in Phoenix. Steepest one I can think of is 202W to I10W, via the HOV ramp.
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Feb 28, 2016 17:31
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For real the steepest hill is those dangerous I17 onramps by the airport, like at 7th Avenue. Even in a real car, you've got 25 feet up a 12% grade directly into a travel lane that's usually full of semi trucks.
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Feb 28, 2016 17:42
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Shouldn't the curtains be facing the other way? Floral print on the inside, to make the interior look nicer; white to the outside to best reflect sunlight out?
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Feb 28, 2016 21:30
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I still remember dad's name for the VW Kombi - "Solar, not Nuclear" due to the number of them with that sticker in the back window
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Feb 28, 2016 23:03
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