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After a day of struggle, it's installed. Your eyes are not deceiving you, this is at a bit of an angle, there was no good place to move those shelves to, and the width was there to make this work. The two lifts don't interfere with each other either, so that's good. I need to get a mobile worktable and get that plastic one out of here, the space needs to be dynamic to suit the needs of my various projects. The air lock-release cylinders are pretty old and busted, but they work well enough until new ones can be sourced.  This is as high as it goes for the time being. The hydraulic power pack hose fell to the floor and pissed fluid all over for a week before I caught it. No matter, just a mess and a need to get some more.  She works pretty well, needs a good wire wheeling in places, some paint, and maybe a couple air fittings. Plus the trolley jacks wheels are 2/3rds siezed and need replacing (seriously, they wore them flat in spots, it's crazy) but I can fix that.  We couldn't move it once assembled, so I asked the installers to sink a concrete anchor in at the back of the shop, then I bent up some 1/2 x 1 barstock and made a big hook, then we used a come along to winch it into position. Now I have an anchor to pull dead cars into the bay, stupid like a fox 
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Here's that anchor in the floor I mentioned before. I might adjust the hook a bit, but that's 1/2" thick 1" flat bar that I punched and bent. Today, it was time to work on the long suffering chev 3/4 ton. This thing's dragged my rear end and stuff all over the country, and it's had a check engine light since I bought it. O2 sensor code (because the catalytic converter on the passenger side was cut out of it and there was no O2 sensor on that side anymore), evap valve solenoid code, and the knock sensor code (first it was just one, but eventually both showed up). The exhaust Y pipe job I farmed out a few months back, I didn't have the lift then (wasn't even on the horizon yet) and there was no way I could get the truck high enough to do the job without sketching myself the gently caress out on the 2 poster. Plus I really didn't want to do that job. So, today was knock sensors. SSSwitch was kind enough to come out and lend some hands. These ones, specifically.  He is disconnecting the wiring harnesses and some of the piping that is in the way of the intake manifold.  Manifold out, dust all over the place under here, gross. No mouse corpses though, that's good.  Pull out those two little plugs and disconnect the wiring pigtails. Replace the harness because they're old and gross and brittle.  Remove the front and rear knock sensors. Front in the middle, rear on the left, and new on the right. I think I see the problem here.  Whole lotta poo poo going on here. It's nice that it's so light, that's a bonus.  I bought a new PCV valve, but it's totally empty?  Anyway, I couldn't see a way to get the old one out of the valve cover, so gently caress it I'm not going to bother.  New intake gaskets. Protip: remember to take the old ones off first you loving moron.  RTV the bungs to keep water out, which is what causes these things to rust out in the first place.  Back together. Bonus manifold bolt torque order sheet under the window wiper, and a new evap solenoid on the manifold right behind the throttle body.  Piping.  I appear to be missing a clamp here. Also a plastic fastener to hold the coolant line to the... plastic air intake tank dealie?  And I used my awesome new rivnut gun to put a threaded hole in this support to hold the rubber hood rest. The old one was collapsed and I had to remove it, as the hood would shake a little in the wind, it seems stable now, so that's loving awesome.  I cleared the code and started it three times, code hasn't come back yet so that's loving fantastic, hopefully I will get more than 450km per 100L tank now that it's not messing with the engine management. This is the first time I've ever delved this far into an engine this large before, I think I'm getting better at this poo poo. Thanks again to SSSwitch for coming by to help for a few hours.
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Neat! Makes me wish I had a space where I could do a teardown on my poor Jeep. Or gently caress, a garage, period. That was one nice thing about renting a house... you can't exactly do routine maintenance on a car in a condo parking lot, outside of oil changes.
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Man, I totally spaced on posting these a couple weeks ago. Got four new air cylinders and new fittings for the locks. poo poo is not cheap. Worth it though.  One of the corners wasn't actuating very well. I wonder why.  Oh.  Ah well, new tubing was cheap and easy to install.So why did I need new cylinders? Some of them looked like this.  The rails the trolley air jacks run on have seen better days. Salt Lyfe.     When I get some free time (lol) I will wire wheel and throw some paint on these, then I'll fix the trolley jacks themselves, making changing truck tires / brakes way easier. Good time to do another oil change on the DD while I'm here.  Forgot to grab a picture of this afterwards, but SSSwitch and I drilled a bunch of holes in this plastic guard, then used zipties to stitch it together. Car is just a touch too low when leaving steep ramps from a parking lot onto the street when the street has a serious drainage 'crown' to it. 
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Faerunner posted:Ikea is Swedish black magic in flat-stack form so don't get too down on yourself. Well, the shop is sitting right where the garden used to, so probably won't do much with vegetables. I am a terrible farmer. However, I will attempt to nurture the fruit trees a little more, it generally takes 5-10 years before fruit trees get established enough to actually produce anything in decent quantity, but I think my soil is pretty poor as I haven't seen much since year 2. When the second lift went in, some last minute "shove everything in the corner" cleaning went on. The poly table in the foreground is pretty awful for doing anything besides piling up poo poo. The welding table is ok, but it really isn't big enough (I think it's 150x50 cm) to do everything that I've needed to do on it, I made it work because what else could I do? But it wasn't easy.  Then with the work SSSwitch and I did on the truck and his car, and my sister's car, things got progressively worse.   Yesterday I found a guy who has a warehouse full of new, used, and scratch & dent industrial furniture. I bought a pretty decent steel workbench (has a plywood insert under the steel so it's reasonably quiet). I need to get some hooks and probably more wall shelving to hold more of this stuff so I have a useful worktop to use. I will also have to drill some bolt holes to secure my vise, and also buy bolts.  I also picked up a swag bolt bin, but I'm not 100% sure where to put this yet. Sorry for the weird perspective.  The workbench didn't have the shelf on the bottom when it was sitting in the warehouse, but he gave me one that was the right size. The bolt holes didn't line up at all, but that is nothing a step drill couldn't fix. I will get some bins / containers for this stuff someday as well.  There was some interesting writing on the rear leg brace. I guess these are characters from the show or something?  So that's decent, but what about all that poo poo on the south wall (on the right) now? Ugh.  Today I got a cheapie hardware store 'workbench'. It's ok I guess, I won't be doing any heavy work on this for certain though. But it's a good place to put the fridge and kettle, probably a bunch of other stuff eventually.. Still some poo poo in the corner though...  Man I have no idea what happened to the fridge, but it looks like its' compressor exploded all over the wall and leaked on the tool stand. Weird thing is, it keeps stuff just as cold as before, so I don't know what the gently caress to think about that.  Now we're getting somewhere.  I have been trying to find another welding machine cart for this plasma cutter for months. Canadian tire finally had one in stock. Goodbye lovely plastic wheeled filing cabinet! Now you can just be storage like I had originally intended.  Aww yeah, get in here baby. Matches the mig welder's cart.  So much better.  Now I need to deal with about 30 kilos of cardboard and the other side of the shop...  Maybe I should get another steel cabinet, or another set of that costco steel shelving?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:We should build the Civic into a forklift.
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Yeah it would be awesome to have a pallet shelving unit, I could strap down the engine blocks and put them up out of the way. I couldn't justify a whole forklift though, they're too pricy here. A pallet stacker would work, but they don't lift high enough to take advantage of the shelf height. It is a nice idea.
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My old neighbour had a system like that, used garage track and some box channel to lift transmissions on to his teardown bench. I went to princess auto tonight to get brakleen because it was on sale for like three bucks a can. Of course they are out, but I ended up spending four hundred loving dollars anyway On the plus side I am getting more organizing stuff. I saw this thing there and was like "poo poo yeah, I have an idea, I need to put drill some holes and put some nutserts in the roller toolbox". I get home, and the guy I bought it from beat me to it, bonus. The ones on the right look pretty even.  I had to mod the caddy a little, but that was nbd. gently caress yeah, that'll save some space on top. 
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Mmmm, garage organization porn. Get some fertilizer (I was told 10-10-10 is acceptable stuff if you can find it) and feed your trees this spring for sure! I got 4 apples off my itty bitty tree last year and expect more this year... not bad for a side yard project.
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We experienced a couple of pleasant-at-the-time but not so great long term thaw/freeze cycles. The thaws never lasted long enough to clear the ditches until just a few weeks ago so the water/ice was getting pretty hairy.   Eventually it got warm enough and the water started to flow. Like a lot.   To ring in spring, I wanted to get some summer tires for the workhorse of the fleet. That meant I needed some wheels for said tires. Found these for ~ 500$ at a tire shop, used, matches the truck's current wheels and actually have the little cosmetic cover caps. Wrong GM brand decal but I don't give a gently caress about that.  They're in better shape than the ones I have now.  Bought tires and got them mounted last week - I'll put them on the truck once I get one of those trolley jacks fixed and on the 4 post lift. loving hell 3/4 ton truck tires are pricey.  Went to the Red Deer swap meet, found a guy who specializes in 1966 coronets, he even had a business card to that effect. I was stunned, this is a sick human being. He had a mint horn ring which I bought for 20 bucks, and 2 more spare tail light lenses just in case I ever need them for the same price I paid for that single out of the US last year.  I am also purchasing more parts that I need to get this thing through an out of province inspection. There's a little fuel leak back near the top of the tank which would cause a problem. This provides an excellent excuse for me to prep for EFI anyway, so I bought this fuel pump and assorted bits.  I also bought a brand new stainless(!) tank with a new level sender, mounting straps, grommets and assorted components but I haven't taken that out of the box yet. Once that's done, I think all I have to do is fill some holes in the body and it's good to go. I hope! Dug the Celica out of winter storage, there's some kind of electrical draw on it because the battery was down to 1.4 volts. Overnight on the old school transformer charger brought it back no problem. Car still runs good, but I will have to get a battery tender if I intend to park it for more than a few weeks I guess. Or unplug the battery, but that loving toyota security radio needs to be reset every time the power goes out on it.   SSSwitch and I are also working on our dirt-cheap dumpster fire Lincoln that my neighbour gave to us for this year's 2 Transmountain 2 Tidewater rally. The off road general grabber tires really make this thing. More details in that link. 
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Faerunner posted:Mmmm, garage organization porn. That's what we used to use on the pair of pear trees we had in the yard at my dad's old place. Got a ton of fruit off of them by year 5. Too bad the people who bought the house from him cut 'em down.
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Astonishing Wang posted:It's crazy that you would run into a guy that hoards parts specifically for the '66 Coronet. WTF are the odds? I was like, "dude, be careful, this is a trap." Then I wandered away and got distracted by turbo parts and completely ignored Slung's plight until he rolled up a few minutes later with a steering wheel and tail lights in hand. So at the very least he didn't butcher and eat Slung in public. e: Dude liked 66 Chargers too. Sick gently caress. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Apr 11, 2017 |
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So I got back from a short vacation a week and a half ago. Sister wanted to spend some time at a cabin that her work friend owns, we convinced our folks to join us in their motorhome. It was a good time, but I had hoped to take the celica, what with it being a very comfortable and fun to drive GT car. It didn't work out that way unfortunately, but allow me to explain why. So the seatbelts have never really worked, and I have no idea why. I don't really want to take this thing to the coast again with dicky seatbelts, especially with my little sister in the car. So I ordered some replacements, and I started tearing into the interior to get at the old ones a few weeks back.  Remove the assembly and you have a huge gaping hole. It might have been a good idea to put the buckets back in, but poo poo, it's all dusty in there anyway, the weatherstripping didn't seem to do much.  The little buckets are pretty neat, there's a lever in the door that actuates this flipper, that seems to engage a retractor. You can see the arm in the picture above on the right hand side.  Now, the fun part. The replacements I got from seatbeltplanet look like this.  The ones I got originally would not pay out when installed in the car. At all. I was so loving frustrated I took one apart to see what the hell was going on, thinking there was a manufacturing problem. Turns out these units are designed to be used in 100% vertical applications and no-tilting-is-allowed, ever. Otherwise this little ball moves out of its' normal spot and engages this little white pawl on a secondary ratchet ring in the housing. This one is still good, but I took the ball out of the other one to show you, it normally sits in the spherical shaped part of the moulding there.  Now, it worked ok-ish with the weight ball removed, but it was still finnicky as all hell, probably because I had been messing with its innards. So I take a break and look at the buckle mechanism.  The one I orginally got is on the top there. gently caress. Yeah, the mounting cable was insanely long, the originals were bolted to the seat frame, allowing it to move with the seat. I think these ones were meant for either a back seat or a bench or something. The proper one is on the bottom. So at this point a few weeks back, I am loving angry. I spent a ton of money on these things and they don't work in my application at all. It's like 9pm five days before I go on vacation and I leave an angry email with the supplier. Well, I am glad I did, they called me back the next day and were absolutely willing to work with me. They sent me a new set of retractors and buckles (you can see the new lower one under the long floppy cable style one above) for no additional charge, not even shipping. The new ones are designed to work at any angle, and they work just as I had hoped. I finished installing them today.  I had to join the driver's buckle switch wiring together so the dash light won't stay on forever, crimped and heat shrinked. I tucked it out of the way after I put heat shrink on it.  Unfortunately they didn't arrive before vacation, but they work as expected now. Thanks to seatbeltplanet for making this right and being good guys to work with. We ended up taking the hyundai on our trip instead, and managed to go 2400 kilometers on 140 litres of gas. And I was loving hammering that little korean box. It was better anyway, it has functional back seats so I could pick up our parents and drive them around Parksville.
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So the second 'annual' rally is complete, and hopefully I can get back to working on some other projects here soon. Writeup is here:  We've got a new daily for SSSwitch after discovering some nearly terminal rust on the rear shock towers of his imprezza.  I am preparing to do battle against a bunch of cows in order to feed my townspeople. I hope to not let them down.
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Slung Blade posted:I am preparing to do battle against a bunch of cows in order to feed my townspeople. I hope to not let them down. Ah that time of year again already. Some "cow" has an appointment with the wicker man huh? Communities require sacrifice to flourish I guess.
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As you may remember from previous posts, several years ago, my grandparents gave me their old truck, a 1990 ford f-150. As these things tend to go, I grew up around this truck during family camping vacations and just hanging out with grandpa and grandma when I was a kid / teen. As of five years ago, grandpa couldn't really reliably drive and they don't camp anymore, so they didn't have much use for the poor old thing. I couldn't bear to see them get rid of it, it was too nice (mostly) and I'm clearly too sentimental about cars, so I asked if I could have it. They seemed happy that I wanted it and were glad to help me out at the time, as I wasn't nearly as financially secure then as I am now. That said, it wasn't perfect. This was a few years ago, the paint on the hood was classic 90s ford single stage and was peeling, cracking, flaking off, and causing the sheet metal to rust. I don't have many pictures of the hood before, I really should have grabbed some.  I kept meaning to fix it, or get it fixed, but I have so many other projects on the go it was always at the bottom of the pile. Partially because it's never really needed anything more than basic maintenance and just keeps going. Last year I spot some rust on the cab corner, and I figure I have to make a decision, do I let it rot slowly (as I keep it in the garage and never winter drive it) or do I get it fixed proper-like? Gramps isn't getting younger, and I'd like them to see the truck back the way it was when they bought it new nearly 30 years ago. About a month ago I take it in for an estimate to a couple body/paint places and they're really looking for work, they give me a pretty decent deal, so I figure why not get it done now? The rust is now gone, and the hood is back to the original paint colour, it's pretty well blended with the rest.   The front fascia was really covered in rock chips, they spot-painted all of them (sorry it's got a little road dirt on it here) so it's not perfect but it's way better than it was before.  This is the corner that was rusting out, they cut out the old and fabricated some new sheet metal and blended the paint quite well.  Stylin'  It's got a few dents here, and few dings there, but a power polish and some paint go a long way to cleaning up a nice old truck like this. If you look closely at the sheet metal on the left hand side just above the rear window you can see a little dent, that's where gramps backed the truck into the hitch of his 5th wheel trailer and broke the window out, I made very specific instructions to the bodyshop that this dent was absolutely not to be touched.  They even detailed the interior as part of the deal (note the hand crocheted seat blanket my grandma made for me).  I had dinner with my grandparents tonight, they seemed delighted to see it fixed up to nearly original condition   I couldn't let this truck fade away, it's got too much personality and way too many of my memories attached to it. It doesn't even have 160 thousand kilometers on the clock yet.
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Slung Blade posted:As you may remember from previous posts, several years ago, my grandparents gave me their old truck, a 1990 ford f-150. As these things tend to go, I grew up around this truck during family camping vacations and just hanging out with grandpa and grandma when I was a kid / teen. As of five years ago, grandpa couldn't really reliably drive and they don't camp anymore, so they didn't have much use for the poor old thing. I couldn't bear to see them get rid of it, it was too nice (mostly) and I'm clearly too sentimental about cars, so I asked if I could have it. They seemed happy that I wanted it and were glad to help me out at the time, as I wasn't nearly as financially secure then as I am now. I got a 87 manual 4x4 extended cab 302 I bought for my garden and what not. Love how roomy it is to work in.
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Slung Blade posted:As you may remember from previous posts, several years ago, my grandparents gave me their old truck, a 1990 ford f-150. My first response was, "1990, that's not old!" Then I actually thought about it. Jesus. You could get antique plates for that in Pennsylvania.
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Slung Blade posted:As you may remember from previous posts, several years ago, my grandparents gave me their old truck, a 1990 ford f-150. As these things tend to go, I grew up around this truck during family camping vacations and just hanging out with grandpa and grandma when I was a kid / teen. As of five years ago, grandpa couldn't really reliably drive and they don't camp anymore, so they didn't have much use for the poor old thing. I couldn't bear to see them get rid of it, it was too nice (mostly) and I'm clearly too sentimental about cars, so I asked if I could have it. They seemed happy that I wanted it and were glad to help me out at the time, as I wasn't nearly as financially secure then as I am now.  that was a great story friend and a great looking truck.
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So yesterday on my way home, I stopped to pick up the mail, and my neighbour (the one who donated the town car for the rally) wanted to show me another new toy he had just acquired. Pretty rad. There was a little storm or something too, idk.   Today I played car jenga again. SSSwitch is hopefully selling his miata, so it needed to be in a spot where it was easy to extract from one of the garages. So I moved the Saab here where the celica's been sitting.  And I moved the tractor / miata here where the Saab was before. I absolutely do not fit in a miata, I can't lift my leg high enough to work the clutch pedal properly. I mean, I managed it, but I couldn't drive any real distance that way.  Then the Bricknose moved back into the house garage where the miata and tractor used to be, and I started working on the 4 post.  I have need of one of the air jacks for a job, but I have not used them yet. They're in pretty rough shape. These wheels do not spin, so I am trying to take them apart to fix them up a little.  You can kind of see the flatspot here. I need new wheels for this thing.  Little easier to see here after I pressed out the studs. Man these are bad.  This thing was designed and built in ontario, where rust was invented, who thought this was a good idea? Anyway, I cleaned them up and greased them as much as I could.  I gave the trolley rails and tire surface a quick wire wheeling and vaccuming, there is a LOT of rust on this thing, I don't think I will bother painting it. I'll use it 5-10 years and replace it, I don't think it's worth restoring proper-like. You can see the wheels sitting on the rails on either side of the ways.  Purpose of tonight's work: change the tires on the white truck, they have never been off, and of course this happens on the last tire I work on. I let my electric impact bang away for about 2 minutes on this rear end in a top hat, nothing, so I got the breaker bar out, swore a couple times, and snap. Which sucks, because all the other lugs came off fairly easy with just a couple BRAPBRAPBRAPBRAPs.  gently caress.  Called it night and had a shower, I think I will pay someone else to take that axle out and press in new studs, that's like a 2 man job, and I don't think my press is big/strong enough to handle it, it could barely do the coronet's.
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I'm really glad you left the 5th wheel dent in that old Ford. Stories like that are too good to erase.
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Splizwarf posted:A press? You can't sledge+punch it out the back, and use a lug nut to pull the new stud in? No it's more that I think I have to take the axle apart to get the studs out. I did it on the coronet, but that was a much simpler setup. I don't have the time.
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Well, in that case...Boaz MacPhereson posted:87.5% of lug nuts ain't bad
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Alright, so I did more research into it, and yeah, it's not easy to take that axle apart. After you take the axle out, which is easy enough, there's a retainer holding the bearing/stud flange in place, and of course it's a proprietary pinned deal that you need to loosen it and retorque it. So, I took it to a place in town and had them do it, got a coolant flush at the same time (was planning to do that as well, but ran out of time). I pulled a buttload of mud off the frame though, especially after I took off the skid plates.  I also broke a baseball bat hitting my tires to knock the mud off. gently caress. Replaced the steering dampener as well, it was toast.  Post script, gently caress tapered bolts forever holy poo poo. I keep mentioning running out of time, I was prepping for a week long camping trip and I needed the 3/4 ton ready to go. The bricknose is capable of towing the trailer, but it's pretty hard on it, so I had a backup if necessary. I had to build a new joining wire for my two 6 volts for the trailer, refill one of the tanks, and sterilize the water tank. So much to do.  Camping trip itself was fun. Had a small snag on the way out. Remember that coolant flush I had done? I was climbing a serious slope in the foothills, and my 80 dollars of brand new dexcool barfed all over my engine bay.  gently caress. Why did this happen? Well, I can't blame anyone, this little fitting going to the heater core popped.  Sheesh.  Well that sucked, but at least there are two lines to the heater core, so I was just able to bypass the break and rerouted the coolant line back to the rad, filled the tanks with some distilled water I had (thankfully, we use it for drinking water out camping) and we were on our way. Camping went great, family all had a good time, slept 9 hours a night, bliss. I replaced that fitting with a metal plumbing component from can tire mid week as well, I cannot even begin to count how many times the Canadian Tire in Fernie BC has saved my rear end, be it mine alone or my family in general - we seem to go there every time we drive through the crowsnest pass, and we've been driving janky shitboxes through there since the late 70s. Today, I took delivery of something I bought before last week for $400!     12v, electric hydraulic lift, on board charger.   Now all I need is some pallet racking so I can store all these drat engines/tires/parts piles off the floor.
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