What did you do with your truck/shop today

[00Silverado4x4]

Well while driving around yesterday & noticed the truck making some noises I discovered my passenger side hub bearing was toast...well flompy doodle!!!

Another $260 spent, but at least I know both front hubs are new & under warranty. No issues in replacement, used Moog just like the driver's side. Did have to reuse the axle nut until my order comes in. My order was suppose to be here today but a mix up at the warehouse delayed it another day. Hopefully tomorrow...

[doverarjim]

Didn't take pictures again! I had replaced the head lights about 90 days ago when one burned out. I watched a You tube video on how to do it and followed it took a couple of hours to pull the front end Yes I did say front end off the truck to change them! You pull the grill and bumper cover off along with the raditor cover and in the video I watched they pulled the front inter fenderwells down also. I did this on the drivers side and then realized that I did not need to do that at all. Took less than fifteen minutes to put it back together and now I think I can change them out from start to finish in less than an hour. Wish it was like my old 99 took about 15 seconds to change them out on it.

[Jsdirt]

Won't be doing much out there today.

 

Got woke up at 4am by my CO alarm. Friggin stoker was jammed full of wet fines (ground up powdery coal). Had to drag my shop vac up the basement stairs, and outside into -17°F air. That was fun, lemme tell ya! Vacuumed out 120 lbs. of coal from the hopper so I could clean the feed paddle. Pain in the ass ...

 

House is 65° right now - can't get any warmer. Stoker is burning flat-out.

Edited February 14, 2016 by Jsdirt

[SnakeEyeSS]

Won't be doing much out there today.

 

Got woke up at 4am by my CO alarm. Friggin stoker was jammed full of wet fines (ground up powdery coal). Had to drag my shop vac up the basement stairs, and outside into -17°F air. That was fun, lemme tell ya! Vacuumed out 120 lbs. of coal from the hopper so I could clean the feed paddle. Pain in the ass ...

 

House is 65° right now - can't get any warmer. Stoker is burning flat-out.

Good thing you have a CO alarm! Edited February 14, 2016 by SnakeEyes

[Jsdirt]

There's no real danger in this 166 year old drafty barn. So many air leaks, I'd have to huff the chimney directly to get poisoned.

[LongrangeLauber]

Looking at an 04 LB7 Dmax crew cab as a new play truck. Shouldn't have gotten rid of my 02, time to upgrade the play truck I guess lol

Edited February 15, 2016 by rdnckhntr94

[RyanbabZ71]

Won't be doing much out there today.

 

Got woke up at 4am by my CO alarm. Friggin stoker was jammed full of wet fines (ground up powdery coal). Had to drag my shop vac up the basement stairs, and outside into -17°F air. That was fun, lemme tell ya! Vacuumed out 120 lbs. of coal from the hopper so I could clean the feed paddle. Pain in the ass ...

 

House is 65° right now - can't get any warmer. Stoker is burning flat-out.

What's wrong with 65? We keep our house 65-68 in the winter

 

 

Ryan

[Chris]

What's wrong with 65? We keep our house 65-68 in the winter

 

 

Ryan

Mine stays at 67 on the few winter days. In summer i keep it at 78

[Jsdirt]

What's wrong with 65? We keep our house 65-68 in the winter

 

 

Ryan

 

We normally keep it at 72°, since I installed that coal stoker boiler in October of '13. Before that, we spent many winters getting out of bed into a 55° house. Not very pleasant, to say the least. But 65° ain't bad at all, especially considering there was a 82° difference between indoor and outdoor temps - got down to -17°F this morning.

 

We started burning coal in a hand fired stove in '05. Was WAY undersized for the house, so below 30° outside, we froze in here. Lots of temps in the 50's. Bought a bigger unit in '08 just before the big panic hit, and lines of people filled every stove shop in MA. Installed a couple large stainless hot water coils in it and tied it into our oil boiler. That kept us comfortable (except below zero), but it was a hungry beast. Good thing about coal is you only have to mess with it every 24 hours (shake ashes out, and load coal in), but I had alot on my plate at the time ... and then a few tons of coal with rocks in it jamming the grates open pushed me over the edge. Sold that, and installed the stoker boiler. Just like a pellet stove, except it uses fuel that doesn't go bad when wet, and has 30% more BTU's per pound. It's hands off most of the time. I spend 5 minutes putting coal in every 24 hours, and I take the ashes out either every 24 hours, or week and a half, depending on weather extremes. Still cheaper than oil at the current prices here.

 

Chimney pipe install is far from ideal, but gotta run with what you brung. Not quite to code, lol.

[Daryl LBZ]

Anyone know if this will work in my truck?

 

[Chris]

Anyone know if this will work in my truck?

 

Mine

Edited February 15, 2016 by Chris

[Jsdirt]

That looks like the '07 and up new body style to me ... but I'm not 100% sure on that ...

 

Wow fast typers here! Chris beat me to it.

Edited February 15, 2016 by Jsdirt

[Daryl LBZ]

Mine

Awesome!

[Chris]

That looks like the '07 and up new body style to me ... but I'm not 100% sure on that ...

That is the 03-06 Platinum

[Jsdirt]

Ahh 10-4.