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Offline bridgecity

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2380 on: April 27, 2014, 03:20:32 pm »
Swapped the tires on the truck.  The wide 18s are a lot more to handle than the narrow 17s on the CRV.  One tire was down to 15psi after sitting all winter.  I'll have to keep an eye on it.
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Re: Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2381 on: April 27, 2014, 03:51:46 pm »
Quote from: Snowman on April 26, 2014, 11:05:04 pm
Its official....the TT-RS achieves 255 with relative ease.

I am giving you the biggest digital high five imaginable.  Hats off....

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Re: Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2382 on: April 27, 2014, 04:54:23 pm »
Quote from: Fobroader on April 27, 2014, 03:51:46 pm
Quote from: Snowman on April 26, 2014, 11:05:04 pm
Its official....the TT-RS achieves 255 with relative ease.

I am giving you the biggest digital high five imaginable.  Hats off....

Sent from my Galaxy S3

Thanks. I have been down here 4 years and never had an opportunity on a 400 series highway to open it up. Its like someone parted the sea and said here ya go. Eastbound QEW from Trafalgar Road to the 403 split. Thank you!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2383 on: April 27, 2014, 05:16:11 pm »
Swapped out the winter tires at last.   Neighbor's 4 years-old was fascinated with the tire change process. 

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2384 on: April 27, 2014, 05:45:43 pm »
Swapped the winters for summers on the gti. Drives a lot better.

I really like the Blizzak WS70's on the Miata. Not so much the Blizzak LM-32's on the GTI (the cheaper WS70's were not available). Hmm.... It might just be the cars, wheel size, etc. At any rate, I'm downsizing once I get my hands on some nice OEM take-off rims (and these Blizzak's wear out), and will get other tires next time.

Funny how 19" inch winters on the M3 felt great (LM-60's) but 18" winters on the GTI felt pretty bad (LM-32's, the replacement for LM-60's)...
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2385 on: April 27, 2014, 07:20:13 pm »
Vacuumed and cleaned the carpets and mats.

Vinegar and warm water, took a while but got most of the gunk out of it.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2386 on: April 27, 2014, 07:31:17 pm »
After Friday I realized I needed to get my headrest forward instead of trying to hold my neck up.

So I found some threaded rod in the garage, rethreaded it to be metric.  Found a steel tube painted it black and voila.  Headrest moved forward about 3-4 inches but looks factory.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2387 on: April 27, 2014, 07:42:09 pm »
Swapped the Firebird to summers, washed and waxed the winters for storage.

Spent another 3 hours drilling away at the broken exhaust stud on the Sonoma...another 1/2 hour with the torch and big ass hamer. No dice, so I gave up on it, I can't afford anymore time on it. I had plans to bring it into the shop to have a new steering box installed in a couple weeks, I guess I'll get this taken care of then too.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2388 on: April 27, 2014, 07:45:13 pm »
Quote from: Blunderwriter on April 27, 2014, 05:23:16 pm
Quote from: normancw on April 26, 2014, 11:23:42 pm
Quote from: Snowman on April 26, 2014, 11:05:04 pm
Its official....the TT-RS achieves 255 with relative ease.

 :o  :o  :fall:

@ norman - fearful of a little speed?  :think:

Just very impressed! 

Quote from: Snowman on April 27, 2014, 04:54:23 pm
I have been down here 4 years and never had an opportunity on a 400 series highway to open it up. Its like someone parted the sea and said here ya go. Eastbound QEW from Trafalgar Road to the 403 split. Thank you!

I just found out about the Run the Runway event in Smith Falls in August, but it was sold out 22 hours after registrations were opened.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2389 on: April 27, 2014, 07:46:51 pm »
Quote from: Blunderwriter on April 27, 2014, 05:23:16 pm
Quote from: normancw on April 26, 2014, 11:23:42 pm
Quote from: Snowman on April 26, 2014, 11:05:04 pm
Its official....the TT-RS achieves 255 with relative ease.

 :o  :o  :fall:

@ norman - fearful of a little speed?  :think:   Huh, all that power and only 56 kmh faster than my Sonic... ;D  We were chatting the other day at work and no biggie, yeah, I've done 250+ kmh...and one of the girls is like, "Holy..." To me it's, "yeah so?" ...to her it's "I've never gone faster than 130" (really? I do that passing with a camper in tow...sheesh...) I only don't know how fast the Fusion is as it only reads 200 and I'm sure it'll go past it.

I'm not sure the speed would scare me (not in a car like that, been up to 220 in a F30 328i MSport), but the Fantino would.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2390 on: April 28, 2014, 12:20:54 am »
Sold off my spare Volvo 240 steering rack.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2391 on: April 28, 2014, 09:33:38 am »
Saturday:  Swapped out the old headlight bulbs (one popped that morning).  Cursed as I had to do it in a light misting rain.  :(

Sunday:  Cursed even more as I realized that I could have done them today as the predicted rain did not materialize.  >:( :surrend:

Monday (Today):  Dropped off my car for servicing and tire swap.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2392 on: April 28, 2014, 11:11:26 am »
I finally got around to taking a few bits apart.
Looks like the replacement engine from Hotch's Auto parts has seized up solid, two days after the warranty ran out.



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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2393 on: April 28, 2014, 11:42:22 am »
That does not look like a good time...
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2394 on: April 28, 2014, 11:52:43 am »
Very odd that an engine that new would seize solid.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2395 on: April 28, 2014, 11:56:07 am »
Quote from: Firm on April 28, 2014, 11:42:22 am
That does not look like a good time...


Can't figure out how I'm going to get out the 3 remaining screws holding the torque converter on.  Engine won't budge, no room behind the flex plate to work.
Had to drop everything out the bottom as I couldn't separate engine from tranny in place.  By everything I mean engine/tranny, exhaust,  sub-frame, steering, suspension.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2396 on: April 28, 2014, 12:02:42 pm »
Quote from: Arthur Dent on April 28, 2014, 11:52:43 am
Very odd that an engine that new would seize solid.

We had it put in at a garage as we were time-contstrained.  There was a tiny squeak present that I thought was a bearing on a belt idler or alternator, but the engine ran fine for 8000km, then the squeak got louder one day and I had to get towed back home, engine running like crap with no power.  I restarted it at home, bad noises came out.   I removed accessory belt to see if it was something being turned by it, again suspecting alternator.  It finally seized up when I was just turning it on the starter, came to a clank and can't be turned in either direction.

Bought it from Hotch's, supposedly only had 140k on it or so.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2397 on: April 28, 2014, 01:33:58 pm »
I gotta give you credit, that's a much bigger job than I would have tackled.
Not sure what kinda clearane (if any) you've got for those torque converter bolts, but can you get the edge of a cut-off wheel in there? Just cut the heads off so you can at least get the converter off - probably not enough access, I am just trying to be helpful :)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2398 on: April 28, 2014, 01:50:27 pm »
Quote from: blur911 on April 28, 2014, 12:02:42 pm
Quote from: Arthur Dent on April 28, 2014, 11:52:43 am
Very odd that an engine that new would seize solid.

We had it put in at a garage as we were time-contstrained.  There was a tiny squeak present that I thought was a bearing on a belt idler or alternator, but the engine ran fine for 8000km, then the squeak got louder one day and I had to get towed back home, engine running like crap with no power.  I restarted it at home, bad noises came out.   I removed accessory belt to see if it was something being turned by it, again suspecting alternator.  It finally seized up when I was just turning it on the starter, came to a clank and can't be turned in either direction.

Bought it from Hotch's, supposedly only had 140k on it or so.

ah I see - I thought it seized from sitting. That stinks however.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2399 on: April 28, 2014, 07:34:52 pm »
Sucked tree seeds out of my air intake.



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