Wrenching?

[TheSilverBuick]

oh ya , those camrys are kick ass

My night is complete

[SpiderGearsMan]

oh ya , those camrys are kick ass

[Brian Lohnes]

I welded some angle iron into the bed of Goliath that will serve as the back of the channel that will hold my tailgate in. I hope to build the tailgate next weekend.

Scott, that blows. hopefully you can get the head off without too much more hassle.

Brian

[dieselgeek]

my day wrenching sucked out loud!!

Started with the greatest of intentions, got all the stuff to do a timing belt swap on my trusty '96 camry. Everything was going good up until 3 of the plugs came out with difficulty and dicked up the threads - then, the 4th plug wouldn't come out at all - SNAP! broke it in half.

So now, instead of wrapping up, I'm tearing off the intake and exhaust manifolds to try and get the head off, and get it to the local machine shop for R&R...

Luckily I have a second beater, 2001 honda cr-v that seems to be running fine (235,000 miles). Still, really pisses me off that previous mechanics on this car didn't seem to use anti-seize on the plugs...

[TC]

no wrenching here-painting the interior of one of our rental houses. I hate painting-hired some kid to do it, then didn't pay him, he only jacke dit up worse-if you want something done right................

I got one coming up next month, the guys been here almost 20 years, he's finally retiring and moving to his place up in SnowFlake which is basically up and around the corner from my place in ShowLow, he said he was putting on an edition to the cabin that he already has up there, moving all his landscaping equipment up there and taking off for a couple of months on his Harley.......Mmmmm, the good life..........

[stage1scott]

no wrenching here-painting the interior of one of our rental houses. I hate painting-hired some kid to do it, then didn't pay him, he only jacke dit up worse-if you want something done right................

[Bob Holmes]

Working on the shop. 100+ in a cinderblock building with no windows and the garage door is pointing the wrong way to get a breeze. Supposed to be 106 tomorrow. I've got an old AC system that I might sit on a table and try blowing in.

I'm trying to rearrange the shop to be...just a shop. I'd like to move the storage into another one of the out buildings. Right now I'm working on upgrading the air system. Then tomorrow I've got to look again at the wiring system in the SVO in order to try to eradicate a gremlin.

[Monk]

Installed new valve cover gaskets on the W motor.......temps
were 96 inside the garage.
Humidity was high with all the rain we've had.

I was a ball of sweat when done.

[Scott Liggett]

I hear them northern skeeters are big enough to carry off children.

[Thumpin455]

Im still welding on the GTO, need to work on my trailer and get a truck drivable so I can go pick up a parts car. The weather here is nice, only 67F so the worst thing about it is billions of mosquitoes the size of F111s. Still need to build a couple more E85 Qjets, and get the stainless sheet for a new boiler, but that can wait till later this fall. Always improving on the Qjets.

Wish I could go racing, but it isnt going to happen this year.

[BOOOGHAR]

before i went to the track yesterday I stopped over at a friends house to lend a helping hand on his harley his building and checked out his other projects ...

[squirrel]

Did you use a kit ?

yeah, dang things are getting expensive for some of the Qjets. $35, float was another 15 or so. And the kit didn't have a complete accel pump....which was a bummer because the plastic part was cracked. I did have another carb to scrounge one from fortunately. And finding it led to the discovery that the parts carb is off an 85 big block truck.

It's been a few years since I did a Qjet, but I did remember how it all works...

[TC]

Did you use a kit ?

We're talking about Jim here, he probably used some chewing gum, a paper clip, and an IBM 5100.........

[SpiderGearsMan]

Did you use a kit ?

[TC]

The forecast here has the temps going under 105 in about a week, this has been one weird summer, we were in the 90's and everything was still feeling ok and then it seemed like in one day we went form 90's to 115 degrees and it's pretty much been 110+ since, hell yesterday the high was 118!!!!! So needless to say I'm not going to be wrenching in heat like that........But then maybe we'll get lucky and have a short summer........