What did you do today....other than work on your car!?

[QuickBpBp]

Finally warm enough out to throw front brakes AND rotors on my wife’s truck… The dealership said the inner pads were thin…Never went metal to metal but it sure looks like they did at one point. Truck just flipped 40k. I am thinking the dealership that put new front brakes and rotors on it at 12-13k never did just charged for it. Anyway the tech said it just needed pads to pass inspection. Who the F&@k would put pads on these rotors? Glad I did it so I know it’s done right…

 

[T2R9]

Went to a "Sold the garage, everything must go" sale this morning. Got all this for $210. 4 of us in the neighborhood went and filled the back of my friends truck.

 

[YY1]

Those wheel jacks were the last big item I bought at HF, back when they still had 20% off coupons.

I waited until they were on sale and then used the coupon, buying one at a time.

Took a while.

I like them, though.

Worst thing about them is the tire with you use them on is limited, or it interferes with the operation.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Went to a "Sold the garage, everything must go" sale this morning. Got all this for $210. 4 of us in the neighborhood went and filled the back of my friends truck.

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Score!!!!!

 

[T2R9]

Those wheel jacks were the last big item I bought at HF, back when they still had 20% off coupons.

I waited until they were on sale and then used the coupon, buying one at a time.

Took a while.

I like them, though.

Worst thing about them is the tire with you use them on is limited, or it interferes with the operation.

He said $100 for the set and I could not have handed him that Benjamin fast enough. I tried one on the rear 275-60 and it was tight but worked well. Sure beats the suckey cheap ones I was using.

 

[hemi71x]

71 degrees this afternoon, today, around the Sacramento, CA. area.
Did my walks, on the American River trail today, all around, on the bridges, over the American River.

 

[YY1]

He said $100 for the set and I could not have handed him that Benjamin fast enough. I tried one on the rear 275-60 and it was tight but worked well. Sure beats the suckey cheap ones I was using.

I want to say I ended up paying something like $60 each for mine.

They are currently on sale for $99 each from $129 and the rack is $50.

So that's a pretty good deal.

My set was completed just in time to get three cars into two bays.

 

[YY1]

Does Fing up your car count as "not working on it"?

Last time I drove it, there was something stuck on the headliner.
When I went to brush it off with a light finger swipe-

Rotten!

Note that's not so easy to find non-perforated headliner.

 

[YY1]

...and yesterday-

New racing stripe.
Those wide hips got me.
That one hurts.
I've been super careful about backing out of the tight shop door.
Must have barely grazed it as there is no dent, just the paint scraped/flaked.

On a positive note- the car ran GREAT. Not even the mild off-idle stumble I've been getting and learning to feather through because I believe the accelerator pump leather is giving up.

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

@YY1
You went from "SUM-BITCH" to "DAMN IT" to "HELL YEA" kind of day. Sounds like car likes a LITTLE battle scars to run "KICKASS". DRIVEN NOT TRAILERED. Florida heat does take a toll on interiors

 

[kiwigtx]

Took Mrs Kiwi and the kids out for brunch to celebrate her birthday.

 

[Charles Cook]

Took Mrs Kiwi and the kids out for brunch to celebrate her birthday.

I’d like to wish the misses Happy birthday.

 

[Budnicks]

Took Mrs Kiwi and the kids out for brunch to celebrate her birthday.

A belated Happy Birthday to Mrs. Kiwi

 

[Curiousyellow71]

In the process of restoring historic Harmony Country School today...
My Aunt bought it when there were no more kids to attend and the doors closed in 1997. She passed away and my Dad inherited it. My wife got a grant to help restore it, and it's in a non profit now. My ancestors attended since it was erected in 1879. I hope my Aunt is smiling from above knowing we are giving the school new life...(I know she is!)
Getting a new basement and was lifted off it's 145 year old foundation! I took the chimney down brick by brick..so one shot from the roof with a view of the old,old cedar trees!
My Aunt got the School on the national registry of historic places.

 

[YY1]

Nice.

My people in SW Ohio have a country store that was also a rooming house and a school back in the 1040's and hasn't really been used since the 1960's.

It sits right at an S curve on one of the only through roads in the area.

I spent many a night in the upstairs rooms when we visited them as a child in the 70's.

No indoor plumbing other than a bathroom added in the 50's, but a hand pump well on a concrete slab out back.

Slightly creepy but also fun and neat.

About a mile and a half walk to the main house.

 

[SlingLow]

Drove to Bend, OR to pick up this 12' cedar strip canoe built by the gentleman on the right. We (I) will hang it on the great room wall opposite the wife's 6' windmill. Anything is art if you hang it on the wall (Sara vetoed hanging my 85 Kawasaki GPz750 up there - that would've been bitchin'!).

 

[YY1]

That's pretty.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Ready to do another show....

 

[Charles Cook]

Met with my daughter today for lunch at the hospital where she works.

 

[#41]

Pruned all the apple trees and mowed the lawn. Earliest ever post-winter lawn mow by at least 3 weeks.

Still a little cool, but its starting to feel like spring around here!