Author Topic: What did you do to your car today? (Read 3014639 times)

tooscoops · « **Reply #4500 on:** August 13, 2015, 07:26:55 pm »

Added a couple minor things... the shorter antenna and the hood scoop/cowl cover... got bored while at 4 wheel parts looking at bumpers...

Solstice2006 · « **Reply #4501 on:** August 13, 2015, 08:34:01 pm »

Quote from: Snowman on August 13, 2015, 05:14:01 pm

Quote from: neil on August 13, 2015, 03:33:42 pm
Quote from: Snowman on August 13, 2015, 02:45:53 pm
Nice lawn ...oh, and great job. The boy will be happy.
hehe, it was pretty long, and the girl will be happy, two weeks until she gets her licence, hopefully.

Girl!...awesome!. The secret to a healthy lawn is not giving it a brush cut every four days shade the roots.

^ Exactly, I have some clients that don't get this. During the heat wave. A couple of them called, you never came by, I explained I checked the length, and there are several brown spots. Cutting it will make it worse...

Solstice2006 · « **Reply #4502 on:** August 13, 2015, 08:35:29 pm »

Quote from: neil on August 13, 2015, 03:33:42 pm

Quote from: Snowman on August 13, 2015, 02:45:53 pm
Nice lawn ...oh, and great job. The boy will be happy.
hehe, it was pretty long, and the girl will be happy, two weeks until she gets her licence, hopefully.

So I will cut your grass. You can do the two rust spots I have on the Odyssey (rear wheel wells) the size of toonie.

Firm · « **Reply #4503 on:** August 13, 2015, 11:27:25 pm »

Awesome work Neil. That thing was pretty crusty.

neil · « **Reply #4504 on:** August 14, 2015, 12:12:02 pm »

Thanks, it's a $2k car, so not a perfect job, maybe next year ill get bored and touch it up a bit more. maybe not

5 Wheel Drive · « **Reply #4505 on:** August 14, 2015, 05:05:25 pm »

Quote from: neil on August 13, 2015, 01:08:37 pm

Derusted my kid's Miata, on one side so far.

I've never seen an NB with that much rust. Great job, your daughter will be thrilled!

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Bubba · « **Reply #4506 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:30:25 pm »

One of my DRLs had burned out, so I replaced both H8 bulbs today. Also, replaced the gas cap.

rrocket · « **Reply #4507 on:** August 17, 2015, 03:06:55 am »

New front brakes and rotors, amsoil oil and filter, and amsoil synthetic fluid in the diff and tranny.

Great_Big_Abyss · « **Reply #4508 on:** August 17, 2015, 04:18:31 pm »

There has been a 'hissing' noise coming from the rear of the car the last couple of months, and fuel economy was suffering. I took it to the mechanic and he machined the rear rotors to see if that would fix it, but it didn't. Yesterday I took the driver-side rear wheel off, removed the caliper and inspected the slide pins (well lubricated and slid freely). Turns out the parking brake assembly (a little drum brake assembly contained within the rear rotor) somehow became maladjusted and was the culprit. I removed the rotor and backed the parking brake barrel adjustor all the way off, and voila, no more rubbing noise. So the parking brake doesn't work as well, it's not something we really used often anyhow. The right side still grips, and the left side just doesn't grip as much. But I'd rather have a slightly loose parking brake than a constantly rubbing one.

KD · « **Reply #4509 on:** August 17, 2015, 09:19:06 pm »

Where's the red mud?

Firm · « **Reply #4510 on:** August 17, 2015, 11:29:21 pm »

I had a 3 day weekend (took the Monday off) and spent most of it getting caught up on car jobs I've been procrastinating. Nothing went as planned, so I didn't get everything done, but the list got a little smaller none the less.

In somewhat chronological order

First, I'd ordered a new headliner backing board for the 85 T/A to replace the original which had disintegrated, and I got some headliner fabric from a local supplier. My retired dad has gotten pretty good with automotive upholstery work, so I spent Saturday morning with him upholstering the new board.

The rest of Saturday I detailed the Sonoma, including the bed which was nasty, and fixed some loose weather striping. No pics.

Sunday I figured I'd start by replacing a cracked front sway bar on the 96 Firebird. As I recently described in NoTo's thread in the tech section, the ends on some GM bars have a bad habit of getting rusty and splitting. Like this:
(old bar)

I sourced some really low mileage WS-6 Trans Am bars (front and rear) and started in on the front bar. Told Mrs Firm I'd be done in 2 hours, max. 9 hours later I finally put down the tools and called it done. The front most fastener on the driver's side bushing is actually a stud with a nut on it (unlike the others which are bolts). It was incredibly seized; I tried all the usual tricks, torch, impact guns, more heat, breaker bar, etc and ended up just ruing the nut. miraculously I eventually got the entire stud out and replaced it. One of the hottest, sweatiest, swearingest job I've done in recent memory.

The new front bar installed - The rear is going to have to wait, I am not risking that kinda torture again for awhile!

Today (Monday) i decided to do something a little cleaner and install the headliner back into the T/A. Again, easy right. Wrong. The fitment of the aftermarket board sucked (I should have tested fitted before we upholstered) and it took another 3 hours working in the blazing sun to get it all fitted to an acceptable standard. Made a mess too, so I had to detail the interior afterwards.

After that I had the detailing stuff out, so I did the other Firebird and called it a day.

rrocket · « **Reply #4511 on:** August 17, 2015, 11:39:30 pm »

Sounded like a PITA of a weekend...

KD · « **Reply #4512 on:** August 20, 2015, 01:08:21 pm »

Gave the S2000 its first taste of synthetic today with an Amsiol oil and filter change. Also had the old coolant flushed out and changed.

mlin32 · « **Reply #4513 on:** August 20, 2015, 01:34:31 pm »

Got a chance to vacuum the car since I found an electric socket in the carport. I like my cars clean.

My prior Mazda3 still had a bit of the new car smell left after 33.000km.

wing · « **Reply #4514 on:** August 20, 2015, 01:39:51 pm »

Finally finished putting the stohr back together. Compression was 200 on all cylinders that's good.

Sir Osis of Liver · « **Reply #4515 on:** August 20, 2015, 02:05:27 pm »

I checked the oil. Not that I'm concerned or anything.

rrocket · « **Reply #4516 on:** August 20, 2015, 05:19:16 pm »

I did this to the Forester today:

Scaerio · « **Reply #4517 on:** August 20, 2015, 07:03:15 pm »

Quote from: rrocket on August 20, 2015, 05:19:16 pm

I did this to the Forester today:

Firm · « **Reply #4518 on:** August 20, 2015, 11:07:42 pm »

^Nice!

rrocket · « **Reply #4519 on:** August 20, 2015, 11:21:16 pm »

^^Allegedly on the original head gasket which I find hard to believe...If so, this car deserves to be in Subaru's Museum...