Looks like the entrance to the dungeon. I like it.
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Came home a little early to replace the two front sway bar links on my son's Jeep and replace his worn out steering stabilizer. The passenger side link is broken as you can tell by the pic. The stabilizer was a little stubborn getting the tapered bolt out, but with a few whacks on the fat side of the drag link bar right where the tapered bolt was with a four lb. sledge, it freed up and came right out.
Myself and a couple of other volunteers have been tasked in getting this 1941 Ford fire engine back on the road. We met tonight at the garage to get a game plan. Going to get the brakes braking and the cooling system cooling first.
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Cursed the guy who designed the PITA little wire spring clip that Mazda puts on every headlight and fog light while replacing fog lights on our Tribute.
Dear Mr Spring Guy,
I threw your clips in the garbage.
Dear Mr Spring Guy,
I threw your clips in the garbage.
Not my garage but... Sunday, a long time family friend invited me over to check out his current project. When I got there, this is what I saw! 
Long story short, it's a retired race car that's been converted to show car. Not sure if it was Top Fuel or Alcohol but it was raced in Canada. My buddy was asked to install a new engine. Nothin' special, I think he said it was a 383 Stroker SBC. Wish I had got a pic, cause the headers musta been 3 feet long!
Cool part is I got to sit in it with the body down and get the "almost full effect". I've been in several different types of race cars but this one, you definitely have to shoe horn to get in. Not designed to be in long and to only go straight...
Long story short, it's a retired race car that's been converted to show car. Not sure if it was Top Fuel or Alcohol but it was raced in Canada. My buddy was asked to install a new engine. Nothin' special, I think he said it was a 383 Stroker SBC. Wish I had got a pic, cause the headers musta been 3 feet long!Cool part is I got to sit in it with the body down and get the "almost full effect". I've been in several different types of race cars but this one, you definitely have to shoe horn to get in. Not designed to be in long and to only go straight...
Some pretty unique features, the car has an air suspension and back up camera so the driver can navigate to the show spot. Also, still has the parachute pulls.
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@DirtySCREW 35s on the way. Wife gets a new car, I get tires....that's how it works 
Ordered my BFG AT-KO2 315-75/16 tires tonight....
Gon look like dis....
Ordered my BFG AT-KO2 315-75/16 tires tonight....
Gon look like dis....
Great tires! I had them on my Dirtyscrew!@DirtySCREW 35s on the way. Wife gets a new car, I get tires....that's how it works
Ordered my BFG AT-KO2 315-75/16 tires tonight....
Gon look like dis....
Not that big but same tires.
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Got restless out in the garage last Saturday and started to tinker.
I had no plan, no design idea, just started going.
At first it was going to be a pen pouch (that's why the plastic tubing in the pic) and it sort of went a different direction a few minutes later.
Ive made a cheap leather sheath before for my Leatherman Wave, but this time I wanted a quality leather one. Nice THICK leather that would age well.
This is the first time using this leather and the first time using the hole punch pictured for getting the holes for threading.
I intended it to be a belt sheath...but then realized that I should have done the belt loop first... oh well ha
Here is what came out at the end
Afterwards I got my leather burning tool out and started trying it out and writing with it.
Thought about gifting this to my father, but dont, honestly, think he'd carry it and it wasnt good enough to gift, I felt.
I had no plan, no design idea, just started going.
At first it was going to be a pen pouch (that's why the plastic tubing in the pic) and it sort of went a different direction a few minutes later.
Ive made a cheap leather sheath before for my Leatherman Wave, but this time I wanted a quality leather one. Nice THICK leather that would age well.
This is the first time using this leather and the first time using the hole punch pictured for getting the holes for threading.
I intended it to be a belt sheath...but then realized that I should have done the belt loop first... oh well ha
Here is what came out at the end
Afterwards I got my leather burning tool out and started trying it out and writing with it.
Thought about gifting this to my father, but dont, honestly, think he'd carry it and it wasnt good enough to gift, I felt.
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Now those dirty bastages at 4WheelHardware are telling me that the tires they showed in stock are actually not, and it'll be 2 weeks or so before they ship
To save the hundred or so that they were cheaper than everyone else, I'll wait....but I don't like it.
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[emoji35] [emoji35] [emoji35] [emoji35] [emoji35]Now those dirty bastages at 4WheelHardware are telling me that the tires they showed in stock are actually not, and it'll be 2 weeks or so before they ship
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Now those dirty bastages at 4WheelHardware are telling me that the tires they showed in stock are actually not, and it'll be 2 weeks or so before they ship
To save the hundred or so that they were cheaper than everyone else, I'll wait....but I don't like it.
I hope you have better luck with them than me I will never run another set on a solid front axle heavy diesel vehicle granted they were on the truck when I bought it so do not know the full history. Great on light trucks and Liked the look and offroad traction but highway vibration drove me nuts 65-70mph and after couple alignments and reblancing I took them off because of cupping and vibration. Plenty of others online reported similar issues so I took them off for a set of Toyo RT's.
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Replaced fuel line spark plug and fuel filter on chainsaw tonight hoping it would solve idling carb loading issue but it did not so back to the drawing board troubleshooting. It runs great top end and had a carb kit put in couple months back for the issue but for some reason it is intermittent and will not idle at times and is frustrating.
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I had a couple AT's on my TJ that were pretty severely out-of-round. IIRC, one had around 1/8" of runout. The replacement had ~1/16".
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Not in the garage, but radically trimmed a large shrub that was encroaching over and into a parking spot I need so I can move a daily driver out of the garage to make way for a fun car in the garage.
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Have you moved yet?
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I have bought these off and on several times, but not for a 3/4 ton diesel. I just did some reading and you are on to something. I just sent them a reply that indicated that they are to cancel the order and refund me today. Most of what I read said Toyo was much more suitable in this style tire. Search goes on....I may just get another set of LTX2 in 285/75 instead. They last a long time but do not look anything similar to "rugged" LOL
Dad and brother ran the ltx and were very pleased with tread wear (50000 + miles on a 3/4 ton diesels out of 3 sets) on them but they do not have the aggressive look or work well off pavement. I was going with the toyo AT this time and was talked into the r/t and been pleased so far. I wanted to like the bfgs but the more I experienced the vibration problem and spending money trying to find its source and more I read the writing was on the wall with the advise of a very experienced alignment guy. Just something about that tread pattern does not play nicely with heavy solid axle front ends when wear starts.
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Well 4WD Hardware refunded me promptly. They did offer to help me pick another tire but the out of stock thing left a bad taste. I read that they are guilty of it quite often. I didn't even have to open a PP resolution, they just refunded. There is honestly nothing wrong with my current LTXs except that they are little 31s....
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I just got off the phone with my best friend from high school. He still has the '67 GTO he bought in 1972.
Plugged a nail hole in one of the tires on my Buick. That'll shut up the tire pressure alarm.
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I just got an email from Carolina Muscle Cars. He's on the way to pick up a red on red '65 GTO , original numbers matching WS code engine (TriPower) with 4 speed.
It will likely be too rich for my blood.
It will likely be too rich for my blood.
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WOW, that's like the holy grail. Do you know the condition?
I am loading a picture of my wife's car, a 1940 Ford. Her dad finished weeks before our wedding(1993) and it was the lead car in our wedding, along with 10 other classics. 2 years ago he gave the car to her, he is currently working on a 40 coupe.
I am loading a picture of my wife's car, a 1940 Ford. Her dad finished weeks before our wedding(1993) and it was the lead car in our wedding, along with 10 other classics. 2 years ago he gave the car to her, he is currently working on a 40 coupe.
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Noticed top garage door wheel out of the track, repositioned it and added small hose clamp to keep it from sliding out again.
Some rod stock got stuck in the track at the top and that forced the wheel out. All ok now.
Some rod stock got stuck in the track at the top and that forced the wheel out. All ok now.
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Frickin schweet Man! I'm in the middle, well, the beginning of a restoration myself. Patience has been the toughest part!
I started making a little cargo rack for my dirtbike out of angle aluminum stock and a rivet gun.
I'll mess with it more today, hopefully have it done this weekend, I know I need to pick up some flat stock for the center, which I dont have right now (not in aluminum)
I'll mess with it more today, hopefully have it done this weekend, I know I need to pick up some flat stock for the center, which I dont have right now (not in aluminum)
It may need replacing. Lowe's or Home Depot have them pretty cheap. If it continues to pop out of the track it's time. Top rollers get a lot of wear with the opener pushing and pulling on the top section.
I've been building a lean to off the side of my main shop. Got around to installing the doors on it today. The big door is on the main shop. New door is just right of it.
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