What did you do with your truck/shop today

[Coby7]

I'm having an X GM Oshawa assembly line worker coming over to get his 2003 Z71 cluster repaired. We might have a great discussion when he gets here. His job for 4 years was installing clusters. lol

Edited December 16, 2016 by Coby7

[Daryl LBZ]

Ordered. I wonder what moron thought it would be a good idea to have them plastic to begin with...

 

[Jsdirt]

I've been asking that question since the late 70's ...

[RyanbabZ71]

Weight reduction

 

 

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[Chevor]

Painneeder white......

 

Salty

[Chris]

Driver side tabs here are bent. Have to debate on robbing this one or using persuasion to straighten it out

Had my heater going

 

And my dog on the blanket behind me

 

This is the old driver side one

 

And the bent part of the frame where it mounts

 

My air ratchet is the best $20 harbor freight purchase I have made

[Jsdirt]

I had to laugh at your heater. Different world over there from the Northeast! It was 0.8°F this morning here. Got up to a whopping 18° for a high, briefly. I had my waste oil burner full bore for 7 hours straight just to get the barn up to 58° - that's over ONE MILLION BTU's.

 

I'd get some torches going and persuade the parts back to where they should be. You might have to shim a few pieces here and there to get everything looking straight.

 

I don't envy my buddy, who did that kind of work day in and day out for 15 years. I've done body repair work only 5 times ever, and my neighborhood could hear me cursing 2 miles out each time, LOL.

 

 

 

I finally installed a new pressure regulator on my 15 year old (in a few months) Craftsman air compressor. Took it apart, and aside from being rusty, there was a busted E clip inside. I probably could've fixed it and kept it going another decade or 2. Installed the new one, and threw this one in a ziploc bag with the rest of my junk for spare parts down the road.

 

Got this '60's or 70's Craftsman lawnmower running (thing is in MINT shape - just needs a good cleaning), and finished the Volvo - it needed the power steering belt tightened after the adjuster busted (rust), and I also had to put the 2 caps back on the shrader valves on the fuel line, and stuff the grommet back in place for the fuel pump wiring harness. For the p/s pump belt tension, I just loosened all the pivots, grabbed my 3' prybar and put a little tension on it, then hogged down the bolts. Fixed! Saved the guy $45 for a new adjuster. Also mickey-moused the front air dam so it wasn't dragging on the road anymore. Looks like someone drove through a snowbank at 40 with the thing. To finish it off, I scraped the remnants of a little convex mirror off the driver's side outside rearview mirror, entered the lock code & set some decent presets in the radio, and set the analog clock in the instrument panel to the correct time.

 

Got quite a bit done today, despite the frigid temps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A rainbow for REAL men ...

 

 

[Chris]

I had to laugh at your heater. Different world over there from the Northeast! It was 0.8°F this morning here. Got up to a whopping 18° for a high, briefly. I had my waste oil burner full bore for 7 hours straight just to get the barn up to 58° - that's over ONE MILLION BTU's.

 

I'd get some torches going and persuade the parts back to where they should be. You might have to shim a few pieces here and there to get everything looking straight.

 

I don't envy my buddy, who did that kind of work day in and day out for 15 years. I've done body repair work only 5 times ever, and my neighborhood could hear me cursing 2 miles out each time, LOL.

 

 

 

I finally installed a new pressure regulator on my 15 year old (in a few months) Craftsman air compressor. Took it apart, and aside from being rusty, there was a busted E clip inside. I probably could've fixed it and kept it going another decade or 2. Installed the new one, and threw this one in a ziploc bag with the rest of my junk for spare parts down the road.

 

Got this '60's or 70's Craftsman lawnmower running (thing is in MINT shape - just needs a good cleaning), and finished the Volvo - it needed the power steering belt tightened after the adjuster busted (rust), and I also had to put the 2 caps back on the shrader valves on the fuel line, and stuff the grommet back in place for the fuel pump wiring harness. For the p/s pump belt tension, I just loosened all the pivots, grabbed my 3' prybar and put a little tension on it, then hogged down the bolts. Fixed! Saved the guy $45 for a new adjuster. Also mickey-moused the front air dam so it wasn't dragging on the road anymore. Looks like someone drove through a snowbank at 40 with the thing. To finish it off, I scraped the remnants of a little convex mirror off the driver's side outside rearview mirror, entered the lock code & set some decent presets in the radio, and set the analog clock in the instrument panel to the correct time.

 

Got quite a bit done today, despite the frigid temps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A rainbow for REAL men ...

 

 

I got my body repair experience rebuilding a wrecked 2011 f150. But that was mainly part replacement and alignment of panels. I'm only $760 deep so far. That is frame section, grille, lights, braces, headlight brackets, and bumper reinforcements. I'm piecing it together to find deals. Still need the front fender and all the special Denali bumper cover stuff.

[Jsdirt]

Wow, you did good there.

 

My sapling incident didn't look as bad, but it still cost me $2,200 after all was said and done. A large chunk of that was having to go on the frame machine to straighten the box, and for bodywork & paint. Cost me over $400 in parts, just for the stupid small section of chrome "bumper" (a poor excuse for a bumper) and a bunch of braces, and some plastic. The the GMT900 was only 2 years old then, so parts costs were insane.

[Colossus]

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm I like that John Deere 826 or 1032 Snowblower that looks like didn't get spray painted properly for touch up work.. Let's see that thing.

Edited December 17, 2016 by Colossus

[Chris]

Wow, you did good there.

 

My sapling incident didn't look as bad, but it still cost me $2,200 after all was said and done. A large chunk of that was having to go on the frame machine to straighten the box, and for bodywork & paint. Cost me over $400 in parts, just for the stupid small section of chrome "bumper" (a poor excuse for a bumper) and a bunch of braces, and some plastic. The the GMT900 was only 2 years old then, so parts costs were insane.

I still have to paint, the stupid color I have requires the whole truck to be painted to get it correct. I've parked side by side with an identical truck, if not from the same batch it doesn't look great

[Jsdirt]

One of those hard-to-blend colors - my buddy was telling me about that. Said if you paint one section, it will stand out like a sore thumb to the other sections. That sucks. Paint costs have skyrocketed the past 8 years.

 

 

Hmm I like that John Deere 826 or 1032 Snowblower that looks like didn't get spray painted properly for touch up work.. Let's see that thing.

1032 - not much to see. Got it free - I wouldn't buy something that looked this bad, lol. It didn't run, and now it does - just needed a carb clean / tank flush, like the mower.

 

[Chris]

Grille and bumper bar got delivered today

[NEFisher11]

Drove in the snow today. I have to say my michelen ltx ms2 tires are terrible in the snow. I have about 40k miles on them and really wish it was in the budget to get rid of these things.

[Colossus]

One of those hard-to-blend colors - my buddy was telling me about that. Said if you paint one section, it will stand out like a sore thumb to the other sections. That sucks. Paint costs have skyrocketed the past 8 years.

 

 

1032 - not much to see. Got it free - I wouldn't buy something that looked this bad, lol. It didn't run, and now it does - just needed a carb clean / tank flush, like the mower.

 

They are good machines. That one is an early 80s model. Keep on top of the side skid shoes and the scraper blade. I just parted out my 1032 I purchased last year. Turns out the bottom was rusted out big time because the previous owner didn't replace the scraper blade and it was ground down and yeah. Would have required a lot of welding and what not to fix. Sold it for parts and will get me another one eventually. I've also owned a 826 that I really liked too.

 

Also- What kind of car do you have in background.. Mercury or Lincoln? 86-89 vintage, perhaps?