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

[WS23RT]

Played in our cornhole (bags) league. Won four out of six.

 

[GrabberOrange69]

Hung my prop over the family room fireplace, and hung my military patch collage near the bar I’m upgrading in the basement.

 

[Cranky]

Folded and put up some clothes that I washed and dried yesterday then hello Crock-Pot my old friend. Then wash the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen a little. Also took a good long nap early this afternoon with one of my prairie dogs that wasn't feeling too good. She seems to be doing much better now thank goodness after sleeping off and on for most of the day.

 

[493 Mike]

Went to town to pick up my eye drops and run errands, checked on body shop progress (none), had a visit from an old friend, installed 450' of plastic Critter Fence, ate supper (roast pork, baked beans, and fresh kale), and crashed.
Mike

 

[Slap Stick]

Ill be sitting here with the HVAC guys replacing the system in the house.

 

[68Moparmaniac]

...I worked on my sister's car instead....

As submitted to the Australian Ford Forums.....

2004 Ford Territory bonnet release.
First of all....I replaced one today for my sister - her car...my problem. That's what families do I guess.

Brother-in-law helped. Just under 3 hours to replace the cable and put the car back together.

What sort of demented brain-dead custard-eating porch-monkey designs this crap???? I mean, how the hell are you supposed to actually get that body grommet back in place without dismantling the entire dash assembly?

No problem, I used my cable snake and a roll of electrical tape. But what a frigging drama, and totally unnecessary to design (I use that word loosely) something so simple into a maintenance nightmare of extraordinary proportions.

After removing the front wheel,, and undoing all those stupid Christmas Tree clips, you can actually see how carefully FORD laid that cable in a twisted fashion around the front end wiring loom. Undoing the bonnet release catch was fun....idiot on the production line must have used a scaffold pole on the end of his torque wrench to set that bastard up. Unnecessary again.

Pulling the fuse box and body panels are challenging enough with all the interfering items, like the mile and a half of cable for the added on Bluetooth power supply that some local Auto-Sparky thought he was clever in doing had done. Probably charged way too much given that it was such a mess.

So finally after 3 attempts to pull the new cable in, managed to fluke it through the double-skin into the interior of the car. I am still concerned at the tight curves the cable must take in it's very limited space for a route...but the bonnet releases easily and smoothly...so I'll take that as a win.

This all started when a "Service Technician" at a local agents garage pulled too hard on the release and broke the plastic handle. No admission of liability or guilt...even though the handle was dangling around the floor upon collection. Typical punkawallers.

Anyway, it's all fixed up now, and all together again, even if it does need a body screw in it now to prevent the release handle from pushing forward under spring tension....try as I might, it was impossible to get all that springiness out.

Thanks for reading.




For the benefit of readers here - bonnet = hood

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LOL
Put that steering wheel back where it belongs...

 

[GrabberOrange69]

...checked on body shop progress (none)...Mike

This is universal, no matter where you live, lol.

 

[Slap Stick]

Tidied up my shed a bit so I have access to working on the moorsickles.

 

[67 Mopar]

I followed their lead...

 

[Thrashingcows]

Helped my daughter's boyfriend do a bunch of work on his 92 Jeep Cherokee, which I also helped him purchase and transport home....21 hour round trip a couple weeks ago.

We replaced axle and pinion seal, new brake shoes since they were completely covered in gear oil, flushed the coolant, replaced the transfer case fluid, and bled all the brakes to get the horribly contaminated black brake fluid out of the system and replaced the fuel filter. Fuel filter was still the original and the gas that poured out of it on the inlet side looked like muddy water, outlet side was murky brownish.

 

[67 Mopar]

Hey... Nice days work from a fellow DC Diesel brother!

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Mostly finished up the rebuild of the head for my new to me mill.... New bearings through out, cleaned & de-greased & new paint....

After I get it tested I'll break down the ram, table, cross slide & knee so I can get all the old gummed up oil out of the ways...

This thing had been sitting for fifteen years so all the lubricants basically turned to sticky gooey mess...

But when I'm done I'll have a nice machine with very little wear so hopefully it's worth it...

 

[Builderguy]

Unloaded the 66 charger from the trailer and winched it into the last storage space I have left. Figure I will let it age a little longer before starting any work on it. It will probably be having it's 70th birthday before it is finally finished. Too many projects and not enough time! Really need to retire.

 

[dadsbee]

Put the magic smoke back into my Jukebox and then brought back the 80's listening to some Teenage Head. Loved partying with Frankie and the boys back stage between sets during my post secondary "education" nights.

 

[mightymopar]

Mowed Ma's lawn.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Mostly finished up the rebuild of the head for my new to me mill.... New bearings through out, cleaned & de-greased & new paint....

After I get it tested I'll break down the ram, table, cross slide & knee so I can get all the old gummed up oil out of the ways...

This thing had been sitting for fifteen years so all the lubricants basically turned to sticky gooey mess...

But when I'm done I'll have a nice machine with very little wear so hopefully it's worth it...

Update, fired it up today for the first time.... I'd tested the three power feeds & the DRO but never ran the motor before today since I don't have three phase power & when I took the head apart I hadn't gotten a variable frequency drive yet....

Got the VFD parameters setup today & everything wired up.... Time to test.... And everything seems good, very quiet, high & low, back gears, quill feed, it all works... I must be living right.... LOL...

Couple photos, the first is the overall picture... The second shows the condition of the ways on the Y & Z axis'

 

[beanhead]

Did some more "errands" (excuses to get some more break-in miles on the new engine lol) and lots of yardwork. Funny how willing a guy can be to go to the drugstore for 'feminine products' for his wife, when there's a Mopar needing road time out in the garage

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

Worked at my rental property, then helped wife clean her garage

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

Went for a 75 mile cruise this evening in my R/T.

 

[Skytrooper]

Canned 27 quarts of tomatoes, and finished stripping the old paint off the deck. New paint today !