What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2020]
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Leveled and laid pavers for pool side fire pit. Wife helped me so that added twice the time. Sprayed herbicide around trees and pond. Fried fish, fries, jalapeno bottle caps and stuffed jalapenos. Made coleslaw with fresh picked cabbage from a buddys farm. All good in SW Georgia
An end to a good day cleaned up some of the yard pressure washed the house fence porch and driveway cooked good food on an open fire. You guys gotta try fresh pineapple sliced dusted with cinnamon and grilled!
And I had the best Burger ever Swiss cheese sauteed garlic and mushrooms venison sausage and grilled cinnamon pineapple with sticky fingers BBQ sauce.
And I had the best Burger ever Swiss cheese sauteed garlic and mushrooms venison sausage and grilled cinnamon pineapple with sticky fingers BBQ sauce.
It's actually a B&M handle, good eye. Its way nicer to use than the little ball that comes with it.
Finished up the long arm lift kit on the Jeep.
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Well it's not exactly a project, but a project that needs to be done. I bought a Chevy Cobalt LS coupe in 05' paid it off in 2013. This car has had a few minor problems since I have owned it, but today I found out something different about it, since I have had the oil changed either by Walmart or someone else, I learn today that the Oil Filter is a Cartridge filter, I had to view a video on where the Filter housing was located and how to change it. So I did the Oil Change for probably the 3rd time in person since I have owned it. Starting to feel alittle better about doing stuff myself, I won't have to wait in a first come first serve situation. Minus the Winter time of course being that I do not have a garage. so I am going to try to change the oil next before the first snow this year. 👍
Got off my *ss and did front brakes on my C5Z the other day. I went with the C6 J55 brakes with Hawk 5.0 pads and rotors. Here's the original rotors with semi metallic parts store pads that have always looked like crap.
Not a huge difference in diameter, but since the front now wears 18" rims why not? I got pads and rotors for free with Hawk Bucks I won racing my Camaro.
Unfortunately they give you 2 left rotors. I could swear GM did this too? This one was even marked as a right.
Looks sooo much nicer than the old, rusty rotors if nothing else. They stop better already and they're nowhere near bedded in.
I hit the track last Friday and shook the car down. Went pretty well aside from getting spun into.
On the way home, I apparently had a blowout. My truck is loud as crap so I never heard it. Whoops.
But I only found this much oil in the catch can. Success.
I had a good 4-5 sessions worth and expected a bit more than that. Water ran 180-190 and oil around 270 even chasing closely.
Not a huge difference in diameter, but since the front now wears 18" rims why not? I got pads and rotors for free with Hawk Bucks I won racing my Camaro.
Unfortunately they give you 2 left rotors. I could swear GM did this too? This one was even marked as a right.
Looks sooo much nicer than the old, rusty rotors if nothing else. They stop better already and they're nowhere near bedded in.
I hit the track last Friday and shook the car down. Went pretty well aside from getting spun into.
On the way home, I apparently had a blowout. My truck is loud as crap so I never heard it. Whoops.
But I only found this much oil in the catch can. Success.
I had a good 4-5 sessions worth and expected a bit more than that. Water ran 180-190 and oil around 270 even chasing closely.
Prepping the replacement rear bumper to go on the '88 Cadillac Brougham. Ordered a bunch of interior care stuff from Griot's Garage for it. Hope to have it on the road next week 
pending any issues. The stainless brake and fuel rails are done.
pending any issues. The stainless brake and fuel rails are done.
New dually tires!
New trailer spare and race car tires!
Not a cheap day. Luckily I won the race tires last year or else today would have been about double the cost that it was. Tech inspection tomorrow and fingers crossed my installation ends its stop movement order so I can race in OK next weekend.
New trailer spare and race car tires!
Not a cheap day. Luckily I won the race tires last year or else today would have been about double the cost that it was. Tech inspection tomorrow and fingers crossed my installation ends its stop movement order so I can race in OK next weekend.
I just spent the worst week of my life on my Daughter's 2012 jeep Liberty. It started out OK with putting a CURT trailer hitch on. Even the wiring wasn't so bad as I ran plastic conduit inside the body for wiring protection. Nothing is outside. Works great. Then I did the brakes. YIKES!!! The fronts were scraping metal-on-metal. I had to re-use some old rotors we had saved. New ones are on order. But the rears. THE REARS!!! Holy Crap what a disaster. Rotors were shot, inside and out. They use drum brakes inside the rotors for the parking brake. It has obviously been ignored the entire 8 years/80,000 miles because the parts just crumbled out on the ground. RUST and misery. OK we had new rotors, pads, shoes, and hardware. But getting the ^%$#@#%^ shoes back on? No special tool, you just clip the springs on both of the the shoes at once and go totally apeshit and crowbar the shoes over the pivot pin. Who the %$#^& designed this obscenity? I blame MOPAR engineering. Why make simple maintenance easy when you can make it 10 times harder?
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