What are you currently working on??

[hamman]

Trying to help out the widowed neighbor fixing her log splitter. Has A Harbor Freight 212 cc Predator engine and the carb is bad. Ordered one from HF 30 days later backordered, still out of stock. Ordered one from Amazon, it arrived and would not allow gas to flow thru the carb. Ordered another one with returning bad one , awaiting its arrival. Has my garage cluttered up.

 

[CRF6179]

Took advantage of some warmer weather and started to refurbish the snow plow.
Got it disassembled and wire brushed. Took stock of my paint and had enough to prime and top coat all but the blade and basic frame. The parts are hanging in the bathroom with the heat turned up.

Will make a run to Menards and get the rest of the paint I need. Finish tomorrow hopefully. I have a nice set of hangers to attach to the rear axle. But I think I’ll fabricate a set and save the good ones.

 

[CRF6179]

Wow!!!!!!.
Drove 6 miles north to next town. Took wife to Mexican restaurant. Next door is a TSC. Figured I would get some paint there instead of driving 20 south of home to Menards. The difference in price had to be less than the cost of fuel to go to Menards.
WRONG!!! The paint I wanted was $15.99 per can.

The same paint at Menards is$6.98 per can. I made the trip to Menards. Cost me about 2 gallons of gas. Bought extra paint while I was there.

 

[CRF6179]

Temperature got into the 50s. Managed to prime and top coat the blade and framework.
Got started on making the brackets for the rear axle hookup.

 

[esbbent]

Took advantage of the warmer weather and replace fuel pump in my daughters 2006 Taurus. The fuel pump was getting weak and would cause multiple miss fires it you tried to acclerate fast. The old pump look to be the original to the car.
After the fuel pump I worked on my MF12H with snowblower, the electric window motor I installed to rotate the chute stopped working under a load. Ordered a new motor hopefully it arrives before a big storm does.

 

[Toomanytoys84]

Wow!!!!!!.
Drove 6 miles north to next town. Took wife to Mexican restaurant. Next door is a TSC. Figured I would get some paint there instead of driving 20 south of home to Menards. The difference in price had to be less than the cost of fuel to go to Menards.
WRONG!!! The paint I wanted was $15.99 per can.

The same paint at Menards is$6.98 per can. I made the trip to Menards. Cost me about 2 gallons of gas. Bought extra paint while I was there.

Our tractor supply is priced high. Once rural king came into the area I’m not sure how TSC stays in business!

Their price on rabbit and chicken feed was almost double rural king.

We have had a Menards for 4 or 5 years. Never went in it. It’s just far enough away to be inconvenient if I have a project going on. It’s easier to haul supplies 15 miles than 35 miles…

 

[4getgto]

Wow!!!!!!.
Drove 6 miles north to next town. Took wife to Mexican restaurant. Next door is a TSC. Figured I would get some paint there instead of driving 20 south of home to Menards. The difference in price had to be less than the cost of fuel to go to Menards.
WRONG!!! The paint I wanted was $15.99 per can.

The same paint at Menards is$6.98 per can. I made the trip to Menards. Cost me about 2 gallons of gas. Bought extra paint while I was there.

Yea TSC is not good / cheap place to buy spray can paint..
I been getting paint lately at Ace. They carry a 15oz paint that's called Rust Stop for $6.99 a can. It actually cheaper than their cheap 12oz store brand. And pretty good too.

 

[TAHOE]

I never buy paint at TSC unless it's a 5 gal bucket of barn or fence paint.


Worked on Liberty today. Borrowed a cooling system pressurizer tester from a coworker. After pulling plugs, I started pumping up system and could immediately hear hissing in cylinder 1. Within 8 to 10 pumps, cylinder was full of water. I spun motor over with no plugs, water sprayed all over intake. Now to decide when I want to tackle this and how deep I want to go.

 

[MFDAC]

Got tired of the cheap fuel shut offs that leak in the on position.
Got on Amazon and ordered some better ones. (Hopefully).
So far have installed three. Not leaking yet.
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I'll be looking for those too, Rick. Those plastic ones crumble if the sun shines on them for more than a few days! Think I replaced 4 on 4 tractors this summer. Had a box full anyway but that's no good having to replace them that often.

Nice work on the blade resto. TSC here seems to be way higher than Runnings, Fleet Farm and Menards. Ace has pretty good pricing but some stuff there can be shocking too. Fortunately, they are all withing 8-10 miles so not much difference in distances.

Fleet Farm is so damm big I don't feel like walking two miles back and forth in there though---LOL!

DAC

 

[MFDAC]

Took advantage of the warmer weather and replace fuel pump in my daughters 2006 Taurus. The fuel pump was getting weak and would cause multiple miss fires it you tried to acclerate fast. The old pump look to be the original to the car.
After the fuel pump I worked on my MF12H with snowblower, the electric window motor I installed to rotate the chute stopped working under a load. Ordered a new motor hopefully it arrives before a big storm does.

You are a good Daddy, Ted! I told both my kids that I'm not working on anything major on their modern vehicles. Daughter moved 330 miles away so that's a done deal anyhow. My son's 1983 C-10 is kind of an exception since it is sitting here, and I haul crap to the dump with it. He buys the plates and insurance. Put new wiper blades on it last week---LOL!

DAC

 

[chieffan]

When you live in rural America, and I mean Rural, not suburb, finding good buys on product can be challenging. Town is 10 miles and have a True Value hardware store and a lumber yard that carries Do It Best brand. Both are expensive as they know they have the market cornered without driving at least 30 miles. 30 miles East have several choices, same owner of the lumber yard, Wally World, TSC, Bomgaars Fram and Home and a large True Value store plus 3 different automotive stores. Local auto parts is the famous click, click, click, be here in the morning store.

 

[Propane1]

Found bearings for my Case 224 mowing deck spindles. Thanks Stew.

Noel

 

[CRF6179]

Got the snow blade reassembled and mounted.

 

[4getgto]

Found bearings for my Case 224 mowing deck spindles. Thanks Stew.

Noel

Where did you end up getting them Noel ?

 

[Propane1]

At Napa Bill.

Noel

 

[MFDAC]

Stew helping out again! Glad you found them Noel!

DAC

 

[dodge trucker]

Not a while lot of anything going on around here lately.
Almost 60*Sunday (2 days ago) and I wasted it away ... Saturday night I finished the plow mounts for the old Dakota.... That'll work out great, if we get a winter like last year...when I wouldn't have even needed it once ...
I think I started the paddle wheel single stage once ..
Just in case though I need to get the truck wired up and pull the dash bezel so I can hook up the heater control cable that's popped off about once a winter the past couple of years... This time it came off on "cold".
Got a little bit of something, doesn't seem serious, just enough that I've had to constantly suck on Hall's to be able to breathe thru my nose ..it's either blocked or running like a faucet.
I blew it in the shower the other morning and it started dripping blood.... Did so again last night while we were finishing eating at Applebee's.
I ran out to the truck while we were waiting for the bill to come, wife had to take care of that. Wife has to work late today, she closes at her work, (farm and fleet) so I gotta get out and figure out W T H to get her for Christmas, she's been absolutely zero help there.

We finally got a new mattress the Saturday of Black Friday weekend and I've slept in it twice.
Otherwise I've been back to the la z boy sleeping sitting up so I can breathe...
Hasn't been bad enough to miss any work yet though.

 

[dodge trucker]

Something about me, over the years I've been switching between messing with small engines/lawn and garden stuff, and older cars/ trucks. Lately I'm on the old truck side, actually been looking. My current 1/2 ton is right on the line for being able to tow the campers my wife has been showing me, I've been wanting a 3/4 ton again for a while anyway just to have a 3/4 ton again. I have been kicking myself for selling my last one ever since I did....
I've been looking for an 80s Dodge 3/4 again, and among other things #1 it has to be is rust free. I've been looking out west to see what's out there and for what cost.... And for what I'm seeing+ what it will cost to get it back here (whether I go get it or have it shipped) I can get a long way towards having my exact old '83 back on the road or at least it's frame.... My son bought it back from my cousin and put it's motor in an old Plymouth wagon he runs around in in good weather, and trailered it to the scrap yard where they plucked the stripped rusty bed and cab , and he brought the bare frame back home.
Between us we have a complete rust free body spread amongst 3 places for that truck... He had another he was gonna redo but got offered more than he paid for that truck 5 years prior.... So that build didn't happen..,.
So I've been talking to painters and dustless sandblast guys to see what that part of a build would cost me....

 

[MFDAC]

Old trucks are cool, DT---even Dodges---LOL! Plus buying a new or even a used one is so unaffordable that it is cheaper to fix up older ones.

DAC

 

[CRF6179]

Discovered the Wheel Horse wasn,t charging.
Voltage from the stator was intermittant and a max of 8 volts. Pulled the flywheel and found the harness had been worn through.
Local mower shop gave me a used stator. Installed it and now have 27 volts ac.