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Ummm, so what do I do now?



Snapped doing front brakes on the truck- 21mm caliper bracket bolt using 3ft cheaper pipe.

Step two- Fail. Time for new sockets.

That's odd, I've never seen a flex handle break there. You must have had the cheater too close to the end, otherwise it would have broken at the pivot point like I've broken them. In an earlier, poorer era I've been known to weld broken sockets. So that's always an option, but an impact would probably be a better one.

Surprised me too. The pipe was up close to the socket but not all the way up. Now the bolt is rounded so I'm heading out to find something that will hold better.

The bar is from Great Neck and the socket is from Gearhead.

trans service on the 2015 Silverado (63k miles ) typical pain in the butt AT service even on a lift. Then changed the oil in Dad's lawn tractor

change the oil in this bad boy:



225,000 miles and still going strong. also been working on some drawers for the rear of it:

Power window issues on the E36, the cool roll it down half an inch to let the frameless window door close, then roll it back up takes it's toll. Bimmerforums best and brightest assured me it was the regulator. Turned out to be the motor, or part of the drive mechanism inside it which I was able to scavenge from the motor I replaced because it didn't work due to the auto up/down function failing. So a cheap, no cost repair at least. Plus an oil change and tire rotation.

Still needs a vanos rebuild to restore missing MPG and pep, plus a driveshaft before it bangs itself thru the floor. Surprisingly at $.046 a mile for M and R it's just a tick higher than the 00 E39 was. Still, cheap to run either one.

Lined 'em up prepping for TexFest departure.

did some work tot he grandmothers van fixed some of the shades in the back got the tv working again replaced a few bulbs repaired the electric bed and got the vent selector working again.

Finished the prep work and then watched it go from Grundierunggrau back to Gletscherblau Metallic. Should be trucked home on Monday. The bars, skirts, mirrors and bootlid spoiler will be painted early next week. I should also start shopping for a new 'other car' now that this one's too fucking nice to daily .

Das_Prachtstrasse wrote:Finished the prep work and then watched it go from Grundierunggrau back to Gletscherblau Metallic. Should be trucked home on Monday. The bars, skirts, mirrors and bootlid spoiler will be painted early next week. I should also start shopping for a new 'other car' now that this one's too fucking nice to daily .

Oooh, that does look nice. See what happens when you do too good of work?

Mike W. wrote:

Das_Prachtstrasse wrote:Finished the prep work and then watched it go from Grundierunggrau back to Gletscherblau Metallic. Should be trucked home on Monday. The bars, skirts, mirrors and bootlid spoiler will be painted early next week. I should also start shopping for a new 'other car' now that this one's too fucking nice to daily .

Oooh, that does look nice. See what happens when you do too good of work?

You accidently wind up with a garage queen instead of a driver. That's what happens.

You see what happens Larry?!

rmiddendorf wrote:
You accidentally wind up with a garage queen instead of a driver. That's what happens.

That's exactly what I mean. Of course I'm not likely to have that problem.

(Un)fortunately my garage isn't big enough for 3 cars so unless I store the e28 offsite the e34 will be parked on the street and stained with birdshit in no time like the daily driving POS it's meant to be.

1st 5er wrote:Lined 'em up prepping for TexFest departure.

I'll see you and raise you one.

Didn't do too much this weekend. Fixed one of the brake lights on the Samurai, one of the housings (from India) was pinned incorrectly causing the brake light to be illuminated instead of the tail light.

I also received my FLUKE 97/AUTO Scopemeter from eBay, so hopefully this week I can diagnose why my speedometer in inoperable. I have a dakota digital universal speed sensor (http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/ ... prd109.htm SEN-4165) connected to a Dakota Digital SGI-5E (http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/ ... prd126.htm) which is in turn being buffered by some simple logic buffers from me because the SGI-5E box is open collector and the speed input to the Intellitronix dash is not high impedance (~2k into an NPN transitor). The dash is an Intellitronix universal 5 gauge dash (https://intellitronix.com/products/digi ... -panel-kit)

But the SGI-5E doesn't output anything until the input is at a certain speed, so I need to be driving, or have the wheels in the air.



I've been pricing out a new vacuum advance for my distributor as mine is shot and looking for a replacement steering box to take some slop out of it. I should try tightening it first though. Also wouldn't mind finding a replacement transfer case that I can put new gears in to get 5th back on the highway. It would be nice to be able to keep up with people on I5 when it's not clogged with traffic.

Mike W. wrote:

1st 5er wrote:Lined 'em up prepping for TexFest departure.

I'll see you and raise you one.

Nicely played.

was not quite today but over the last few days i bought a new winter car and stripped my old winter car for parts to make the new one live as well as have spare stuff.

old car



new cars engine coming out



old cars engine going in new car



new car running



it took about 4 hours to pull each engine and around 4 hours putting the new one in spent another probably 12 hours after that pulling stuff from the old car such as the transmission the trans computer driveshaft rear diff drivers tone ring both front axles the rear axles were bad so i left those i took the drivers seat belt fuel pump old car had a new filler neck for the tank i took that rear view mirror steering wheel and i swapped over all the interior parts that were in better shape im happy its almost over and ive got a new car that's not about to have the wheel fall off from rust.

Finally gave in and replaced the heater core in the 850 wagon. Ran out of daylight after install but will test and heat cycle tomorrow before buttoning everything back up.

This job is actually not too bad on these cars since the entire dash doesn't have to be removed. And nearly everything on these machines appears to be put together with torx fasteners and is pretty intuitive.

Went camping in it.

not today, but I fixed my speedometer in the Samurai finally. I also installed a narrowband AFR.

Ordered a new carb (Weber 32/36DGAV) which should be here today with any luck so that I can replace the stock one on the Sammi.

it has a problem with the secondary jet... That venturi looks a little blocked lol.



I only discovered this after installing the narrowband AFR and noticing it was leaning out under WOT.

The stock carb also has a problem in that it needs bushings for the throttle shaft and the accelerator pump is leaking so it's time.

After this, I have to replace the vacuum advance on the distributor and re-clock it so that cylinder 1 compression matches cylinder 1 on the distributor cap. not the case currently, but it runs decently at the moment so I haven't needed to touch it.

DJaqzz I have 3 sets of Chinese impact sockets that I abuse. My 1/2 breaker bar and ratchet are Craftsmans . If the nut won't budge, drill a flat up close to the bolt on the face followed by a sharp cold chisel. OR use a grinder if you can get at the nut.

Foamy, is that a 46 Ford rack body in the background?

This crazy winter weather..... Yesterday was 60 and raining here in upper-downstate NY. This washed the salt from the roads...leaving me a very nice day to drive the (piss out of the) M2 to work today.

Chris Harris/Top Gear published a review. It's a scientific assessment of how great the car is. I'd have to agree.

https://youtu.be/YZdGvkPwsqE