What did you do to your other vehicle today?

Peppergat said:
Is that product pretty easy to work with?
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Mixing is a bit of a pain. It's a lot of mixing the liner itself, the color, and the catalyst. Like 15-20 min of mixing.

Its tough clean up. I had to sacrifice a 5 gal bucket. MEK, acetone, or mineral spirits have a tough time cleaning it. I have several spots on my garage floor. MEK the second it drops though is immediately cleaned.

The mixture is potent. Very potent. Even with my garage wide open I can still smell this stuff on the second floor and on the other side of my home.

But it rolls easy and it's fairly easy to spot high/low spots or lines.

Eager to see how it feels once dried.

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tworley said:
Mixing is a bit of a pain. It's a lot of mixing the liner itself, the color, and the catalyst. Like 15-20 min of mixing.

Its tough clean up. I had to sacrifice a 5 gal bucket. MEK, acetone, or mineral spirits have a tough time cleaning it. I have several spots in my garage floor. MEK the second it drops though is immediately cleaned.

The mixture is potent. Very potent. Even with my garage wide open I can still smell this stuff on the second floor and on the other side of my home.

But it rolls easy and it's fairly easy to spot high/low spots or lines.

Eager to see how it feel once dried.

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It looks really good. I was asking because some did a bum job on the Jeep and, the only way that can think of to get rid of it is to buff it off and reapply something better.
 
Peppergat said:
It looks really good. I was asking because some did a bum job on the Jeep and, the only way that can think of to get rid of it is to buff it off and reapply something better.
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Oof. I can't imagine trying to get any type of bed liner off, I bet that's a ton of work
 
Went to do a simple transmission pan drop and screen/filter replacement on the 4Runner.

Snapped to bolts for the pan……

Not fun. Drilled, went to store and got bolts and tap. New autozone tap is so bad it won’t even thread in the good holes. Had to dig around and found an m6x1.0 tap in my toolbox.

Plus side, it seems it drives a lot better now.
 
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I just ordered a $2600 Vintage Air package for my 1970 Olds 442
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Nice!!! And it probably has the 455 with 11:25 to 1 compression? And you probably get tired of explaining to people there is no such engine as a 442 CID, thats just the body style? Then there's all the speculation on what exactly "442" stands for. BTDT with my 69.:rolleyes:
 
Got a few more things done to the Cadillac. Put new wires, plugs, rotor and cap on. Started it up and noticed it sounded like it was low on power steering fluid so I added some. Got my first leak. LOL

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It all came back out. I replaced the rubber line at the bottom but it didn't help, so I will have to do some more investigating to figure out where the leak is coming from.

Got the headlights hooked up and everything works except the "running" halo's. I need to find a accessory wire to tie into for that. They do blink though. :D
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I wasn't sure why none of my interior lights would come on. I even pulled the fuse panel down to check the back of it. Then I did what normal people would do, I checked the bulbs. LOL Everyone of them were burnt out. Replaced them and now I have lights! :D
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Sometimes it is the little things that can make a person happy! LOL

I also took all the door and interior panels off to lube the window tracks. All of them worked except the driver one, but they all were really slow to move. Once lubed up they worked a lot better. The rear passenger side went down but that is when I noticed it is missing the little wheel to keep it moving correctly. Needless to say, I will have to have help getting that back up. I may try 3D printing a wheel, but not sure how I would keep it in place since the stud it sits on isn't a removable part.

Lastly, I added a much needed badge! LOL :D

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I am getting down to having to wait on the back window rust repair to be done. I can't put anything back in it because they will need to weld the replacement metal in. So I guess I will have to just do fun stuff, like install the radio. LOL I mean you have to have tunes while cruising in the Caddy! :D
 
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My other car(?) is also a Jeep, a 2012 Grand Cherokee, which is our road trip vehicle. With just under 100k on the clock, the transmission went south. Took it to a great shop and they could not find a new or low mileage salvage transmission for days on end. Finally, they found a new one in a warehouse in Detroit. Long story short, we got it back yesterday and it runs great! Best highway cruiser we have ever had and if there is a big traffic jam, we just go off-road.
 
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After putting a cactus thorn through the tire side wall of my teardrop I got 3 new tires online and mounted them tonight. Ended up replacing the bearings and seals because the grease turned to yogurt. It dripped out of the hubs like thin honey. I roller was toast so I’m glad I replaced everything. Should be good to go for my desert trip next week.

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A couple of minor irritations over the last few days. I took the MBZ to the shop last week for a valve adjustment and transmission service. Last time the transmission was serviced, I did it and was reminded of why I hate servicing automatic transmissions! In addition to the usual mess, the drain plug just would NOT stop leaking until I strong armed the plug with Goddess only knows how much torque. So "This time, somebody else can do it". You guessed it! Got it home, drove it to dance class that nite, came home and wife tells me there's an oil slick in the garage... Backed the car out, and sure enough, its puking ATF. So this last Monday, I take it back down there, told the mech about what had happened last time, and walked back home (1.25 miles). They ended up replacing the drain plug, and it was way too fucking HOT on Tuesday to walk down, so wife hops in the Fiat to take me to the shop. Brrrrr... click, click, click.... Are you fucking kidding me?

So - we hop in the Jeep and go down there, I tell "Betty", the gal in the office that I'd be calling her shortly with the group number of the battery I needed. Get home, pull the battery, call it in, battery arrives next day (today). Put it in, the + terminal wouldn't tighten down. Its one of those new-fangled top bolting terminals - I have no idea why it wouldn't tighten. So I go to O'Reilly's and get a "battery shim", put that on, and now wife's car runs again. :D
 
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I had to use one of those battery shims on my wife's Infiniti after AAA installed a new battery while I was out of town. A few days after I got home we went somewhere and it wouldn't start. Seems like some batteries have too small of a post on one side, this was the negative side and whoever installed the battery would have seen how loose it was but they didn't say anything. Bastids. Last year I replaced the battery with a Superstart AGM and didn't need the shim.
 
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I had to use one of those battery shims on my wife's Infiniti after AAA installed a new battery while I was out of town. A few days after I got home we went somewhere and it wouldn't start. Seems like some batteries have too small of a post on one side, this was the negative side and whoever installed the battery would have seen how loose it was but they didn't say anything. Bastids. Last year I replaced the battery with a Superstart AGM and didn't need the shim.
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Yea, that was my thought too - the battery had a post that was too small. Thing is, they were like to like - old and new were both the same model of Interstate. *shrug*
 
New belts and idler and tensioner pulleys on the 2000 Silverado. It normally sits outside but it was 100 so I backed the jeep out and pulled the truck in so I could at least work in the shade. Spent longer than I should have fiddling with the AC belt before realizing it would come off and go on a lot easier if I slipped it off the back of the crank pulley first instead of trying to get it off the front side or the ACC clutch.
 
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