What Did You Do In The Garage Today?

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Fieldgrade is an admitted old codger. You on the other hand should be admitted.... LOL
 
Well I changed the oil in the '17 Maxima today. When the easiest way to get to the engine oil filter is to remove the right front tire...........there's a problem.

Not sure it's going to get changed as often as the factory recommends.
 
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Reinstalled fan pulley, fan and serpentine belt on my 14 ram diesel tonight. I feel sorry for the guy at the dealer that has to do it all the time , that thing seems like it goes to the back of the truck and back twice with its routing and having to be hercules to hold the tensioner.
 
Put a 50L Frigidaire dehumidifier in my garage to help keep it from feeling like a rain forest, protect my tools, and aid with high humidity in my safe. Working awesome so far.
 
Jerzsubbie said:
Put a 50L Frigidaire dehumidifier in my garage to help keep it from feeling like a rain forest, protect my tools, and aid with high humidity in my safe. Working awesome so far.
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Its amazing how much better it feels and amount of water that comes out of the air when you have one running and bring the humidity back down. I run one in a basement unfinshed basement.
 
Half-assed a patch on the mower deck.

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Don said:
Well I changed the oil in the '17 Maxima today. When the easiest way to get to the engine oil filter is to remove the right front tire...........there's a problem.

Not sure it's going to get changed as often as the factory recommends.
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Might want to get that Mobil 1 Annual protection oil....The one you just have to change once a year!!

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Gettin' ready to fire up The Terminator in a little bit to head to Cars and Coffee.
If the neighbors aren't awake yet, they will be. :D
 
Jerzsubbie said:
Put a 50L Frigidaire dehumidifier in my garage to help keep it from feeling like a rain forest, protect my tools, and aid with high humidity in my safe. Working awesome so far.
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Did you run a drain? I need one myself.
 
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Half-assed a patch on the mower deck.

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Man, next time I am there I will take a pic of the deck on the old Craftsman at our mountain retreat, looks like something from Mad Max.
 
Have a job this morning and then I plan to stack a cord of oak my BIL brought over. After that I need to weld up a bracket so I can use tractor weights on my aerator. I have used all manner of crap for weight and it always is a hassle. If I do it right, it will be really simple and quick.
 
Jp8819 said:
Its amazing how much better it feels and amount of water that comes out of the air when you have one running and bring the humidity back down. I run one in a basement unfinshed basement.
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Yup, that's where I got the idea. My friend has the same model in his ~1,300sqft unfinished basement and it works great. It should do very well in my 2 car garage.
 
DirtySCREW said:
Might want to get that Mobil 1 Annual protection oil....The one you just have to change once a year!!

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Not sure I'm willing to go that far. Nissan "recommends" changing the oil every 5K miles. I used 7.5K (factory recommended for "non-severe" service) change intervals in the Altima and it was fine. So that's probably what I'm going to do with this one.
 
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Not sure I'm willing to go that far. Nissan "recommends" changing the oil every 5K miles. I used 7.5K (factory recommended for "non-severe" service) change intervals in the Altima and it was fine. So that's probably what I'm going to do with this one.
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Yeah...I change mine every 5k. Just so happens that I've driven a year and just hit 5k..Lol.

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Lawless said:
Have a job this morning and then I plan to stack a cord of oak my BIL brought over. After that I need to weld up a bracket so I can use tractor weights on my aerator. I have used all manner of crap for weight and it always is a hassle. If I do it right, it will be really simple and quick.
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If they are like some of the bigger tractor weights they will hang on a big piece of angle iron turned with one edge up and come on and off easy.
 
DirtyScape got a transmission drain and refill with 5 qts Napa Premium Mercon V!

I'm just a shade tree mechanic at best....Fluid was still quite red....I'd say it was at half its life..But the drain screw was NASTY!!! All kinds of gunk was on the magnet! Glad I did the job just for that!!

Now I may just be psyching myself out..But it does feel like it shifts a little smoother...not that it didn't shift smooth before...But a couple of gears I don't even feel it shifting at all now

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Just finished changing out all the batteries on my fathers golf cart. And sweating. And then changed out the turn signal multi switch on our 2008 Jeep Commander. And sweating. Now sitting in front of a fan to slow the sweating.
 
rdinatal said:
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Lucky you did it this weekend. Last weekend would have darn near killed you.

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I don't take many days off. My work has me out in it all week. And on weekends I'm usually out doing yard work or in the shop working on some project. But you are correct. Today is a bit better than it has been.
 
The PTO switch on my JD265 has frozen in the on position LOL. It's 23 years old so I guess it's due. Had to pull the harness off of it to stop the blades so I could load it on the trailer. I was cutting a customer's lawn when it did it.

Ebay to the rescue.
 
Yesterday I removed the muffler from the ford 6.7 now we are 4 in turbo back. I would not had to have done this if my neighbor would put a new exhaust manifold on hid posted crap jeep. But at 3am when he get home from work and feels the need to clear the "carburetor" on his fuel injected jeep. But since my exhaust site at his bedroom window. Well I win.
 
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Did you run a drain? I need one myself.
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I have the one in my basement sitting up high and draining into a existing drain I had when my washer was downstairs. I tried it not hooked up to a drain with the first I had for years and I quickly got tired of emptying the reservoir daily in the summer months. I would recommend getting one with a drain some even have pumps but I just used gravity since it was less to go wrong. The first I had lasted about 8 years before the coil got a hole in it.
 
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Yesterday I removed the muffler from the ford 6.7 now we are 4 in turbo back. I would not had to have done this if my neighbor would put a new exhaust manifold on hid posted crap jeep. But at 3am when he get home from work and feels the need to clear the "carburetor" on his fuel injected jeep. But since my exhaust site at his bedroom window. Well I win.
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I love warming up my 6L. 5" exhaust with a powermax, thing sounds like a f16 taxiing
 
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Working on some furniture for a rifle and installing a bullet guide on a Saiga
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I used to make the guides from 3/4 pipe and weld them in place. I converted a lot of Saigas. I did one of the 1st 308s back when there was no information on the differences. It was a wood stocked 21" barrel model and was really consistent with an old Leupold.
 
Yesterday. Got my zero turn out and cut my 2 acres and then cut my dad's 5 acres and weedeat. Then took the trash off. Got my new steel targets mounted and tested :) it was a long day
 
I fired up the International Cub I got from @Tailhunter Saturday and mowed some of the trailer plant yard. Tractor runs good but I think I'm going to have to tighten up the belt on the mower deck.
 
Earlier last week I changed the passenger side hub assembly and the front shocks on my work truck (03 Silverado). Middle of the week I changed the rear shocks. End of the week I changed the starter. Hated it due to the small space and having to turn the starter every which way to get it out and back in. Got it doing fine and now the passenger side vents started blowing hot air with the ac on. It's the ac/heater blend door actuator that is the worst one to change. One guy on Youtube was able to change it without taking the top of the dash off by going through the vent and dropping the glove box. Most people on Youtube took the top of the dash off and CUT THE DUCT to get to it. Piss poor design on GM engineers part. Not looking forward to it.
 
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easternnc4me said:
Earlier last week I changed the passenger side hub assembly and the front shocks on my work truck (03 Silverado). Middle of the week I changed the rear shocks. End of the week I changed the starter. Hated it due to the small space and having to turn the starter every which way to get it out and back in. Got it doing fine and now the passenger side vents started blowing hot air with the ac on. It's the ac/heater blend door actuator that is the worse one to change. One guy on Youtube was able to change it without taking the top of the dash off by going through the vent and dropping the glove box. Most people on Youtube took the top of the dash off and CUT THE DUCT to get to it. Piss poor design on GM engineers part. Not looking forward to it.
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Sounds like you need a Ford F150.... Lol

Hope all comes out well. ALL manufacturers have stupid designs on certain things to save them a penny!!!

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