What did YOU do today?

[superj]

Another 400 miles to san antonio and another little town in central texas, than home.

Picked up a new soft top for one of the jeeps that a dude had on market place and a ford modular bed liner for my son's 24 ranger. He doesn't want spray in and wants a plastic drop in so 100 bucks and its still in the box.

I also put my ranger R on the front and found out youtube works on my wife's 2019 wrangler. She watched videos when we were driving to town after i got home from san antonio

 

[scotts90ranger]

Got the boat out of the shop and pressure washed the hull. Also cut the top off an oil drum and put some more scrap in that... jumped on the mower and took care of some areas that I skipped last time and redid more since it's grass growing season, which blew one belt but I had a spare so I put it on. Here after I finish mowing I'll get the boat back in the shop to get ready to start welding tomorrow.

 

[racsan]

Got the chicken house cleaned yesterday, today we got the raised garden beds done, added a electric fence to try & keep critters out.

 

[Rick W]

I’ve been working off a short list of things I wanna get done before I take the Road Ranger up to Ford nationals atCarlisle next weekend. There’s not much to do, but progress has been slow from the surgery on my arm and my hand. Well, last week was when they gave me the green light to carefully do whatever I wanted.

The top priority is getting a better spare tire for the truck, and according to my Excel sheet inventory, I have two that might work. But the tire pile is under tarps, and the tarps are under about 4 inches of leaves in pine straw. On the stack where there was no wheel, water getting on the tarp sink down into the tires like a bucket, so I had to take the water out of a half a dozen of them to get the tarps off.

I took the weed whacker to knock down the tall grass and vines by the tire pile. I had to put a new string in the Weedwhacker first. Then I got my shop vac to suck the water out of the deep pockets. I had to empty it first and clean the filter. I ran an extension cord out for my vac and leaf blower to blow the rest of everything else off, but the extension cord wasn’t working, it would cut in and out. So I took the end of the extension cord off, wiggled around the brass tabs with a small pair of needle nose, and put it back together and then it worked fine. then I got the electric chainsaw and I was cutting the vines from around the tire pile to the back of the garage and the whole length of the back of the garage. Some of these things were the size of my wrist. Of course, I had to put oil in the chainsaw and fiddle with the chain, and then fiddle with the plug and the extension cord again, but I got it done. Before I pulled the tarps, I went on the garage roof and blew all the pine straw off, two years overdue. Then I had to cut the wisteria vines away from the lightning rod, and away from the CB antenna. The vines had the CB antenna bent over a 90° angle. I also cut a half dozen pretty good size branches from the trees around the back of the garage so the roof would be clear. When I got Back on the ground, I took the big branches over to the soon to be burned pile which I can burn as soon as I fix the bottom pan in my chimania. By the time I got all that done, which took me better part of 10 hours, it was too late to pull the tarp and actually get the tire. I wanted to get in the first place. So that will be tomorrow.

The good news is, I was able to do it all without any great pain or limitation in my arm. My body is a little sore from the lack of exercise, but it’s that good sore you get when you do exercise, so I’m not complaining.

I do long for a time when I can go do two or three things without having to fix or modify every one of the tools and things I used to do it, whatever it is, but even that was OK. I have a lot of catching up to do now that my health is coming back

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I’ve been working off a short list of things I wanna get done before I take the Road Ranger up to Ford nationals atCarlisle next weekend. There’s not much to do, but progress has been slow from the surgery on my arm and my hand. Well, last week was when they gave me the green light to carefully do whatever I wanted.

The top priority is getting a better spare tire for the truck, and according to my Excel sheet inventory, I have two that might work. But the tire pile is under tarps, and the tarps are under about 4 inches of leaves in pine straw. On the stack where there was no wheel, water getting on the tarp sink down into the tires like a bucket, so I had to take the water out of a half a dozen of them to get the tarps off.

I took the weed whacker to knock down the tall grass and vines by the tire pile. I had to put a new string in the Weedwhacker first. Then I got my shop vac to suck the water out of the deep pockets. I had to empty it first and clean the filter. I ran an extension cord out for my vac and leaf blower to blow the rest of everything else off, but the extension cord wasn’t working, it would cut in and out. So I took the end of the extension cord off, wiggled around the brass tabs with a small pair of needle nose, and put it back together and then it worked fine. then I got the electric chainsaw and I was cutting the vines from around the tire pile to the back of the garage and the whole length of the back of the garage. Some of these things were the size of my wrist. Of course, I had to put oil in the chainsaw and fiddle with the chain, and then fiddle with the plug and the extension cord again, but I got it done. Before I pulled the tarps, I went on the garage roof and blew all the pine straw off, two years overdue. Then I had to cut the wisteria vines away from the lightning rod, and away from the CB antenna. The vines had the CB antenna bent over a 90° angle. I also cut a half dozen pretty good size branches from the trees around the back of the garage so the roof would be clear. When I got Back on the ground, I took the big branches over to the soon to be burned pile which I can burn as soon as I fix the bottom pan in my chimania. By the time I got all that done, which took me better part of 10 hours, it was too late to pull the tarp and actually get the tire. I wanted to get in the first place. So that will be tomorrow.

The good news is, I was able to do it all without any great pain or limitation in my arm. My body is a little sore from the lack of exercise, but it’s that good sore you get when you do exercise, so I’m not complaining.

I do long for a time when I can go do two or three things without having to fix or modify every one of the tools and things I used to do it, whatever it is, but even that was OK. I have a lot of catching up to do now that my health is coming back

I feel ya, on both the body pain from lack of exercise, and the fixing 4 or more things so I can do the one thing I wanted...

 

[scotts90ranger]

Went through the bins of metal on the trailer and pulled out the usable stuff I wanted (not much) then got the F350 and trailer out of the way of the front of the shop so the explorer could pull the boat to the pump house so I could pressure wash that. That went decent, while it was drying I decided to mow which went well for an hour or so until I blew one of the deck belts, had a spare though so changed that quick then 20 minutes later hit a rock and broke an ear on the center spindle so that blade scalped a line for the last hour of mowing . Before dark I got the boat back in the shop but by then I didn't have it in me to start welding, we'll see how today goes, might get some grinding and fitment started since there's a lot of that to do...

 

[scotts90ranger]

Oh and I spent a couple hours removing avian pests from my cherry trees... that's a good time, shotgun would be more fun but PCP pellet gun is way cheaper and easier on the shoulder... I bet I spent a solid $0.40 on the pellets I used yesterday...

 

[sgtsandman]

Here are the pictures as promised.

RTT rework. You can you can see the 2" X 2" aluminum tubing in a couple of the pictures. They will get painted black at some point. I still need to get some more slides that hold the bolts in the channel on the RTT so I can permanently bolt the tubing to the RTT. Lining everything up with the tubing able to move around is a bit of a monkey and a football situation but I figured it was more important to bolt the RTT to the rack than the tubing to the RTT.

I also had to move the RTT more towards the passenger side to make room for the original brackets I was going to use for the awning. So, the spacers for the shower tent are going to be even bigger so the brackets for it will clear the RTT. 3' X 6" rectangular tubing now. I'll just face them so the opening heads into the wind to reduce drag.

Since the solar shower needs to go on the cab roof rack, as well as a future solar panel, I can't move the RTT anymore forward. The shower is going to be over hanging in the front more than I'd like as it is.

More pictures in the build thread.

And the storage rack to hold the carport rafters until late fall. I just need to order a vinyl tarp for it. I'll have to cut and stitch it together so that it will fit and look decent. I've done a good bit of work with vinyl and canvas tarps in the past. So, this one shouldn't be too big of a deal to do. The one end with the removable support slats will have a flap that opens up to get to the rafters. Oh, the bottom is covered in 1/8" 1/8" mesh to keep nesting insects out. You can see where it wraps around the side to cover the gaps in the slats. I may yet put another board on the side that covers that mesh so it doesn't get chewed up by the string trimmer. The drive way needs to be dug out and new gravel laid down really bad. So many layers of gravel haven been just thrown down over top over the years that it sits higher than the rest of the dirt around it. It just needs to be redone.

 

[sgtsandman]

Another 400 miles to san antonio and another little town in central texas, than home.

Picked up a new soft top for one of the jeeps that a dude had on market place and a ford modular bed liner for my son's 24 ranger. He doesn't want spray in and wants a plastic drop in so 100 bucks and its still in the box.

I also put my ranger R on the front and found out youtube works on my wife's 2019 wrangler. She watched videos when we were driving to town after i got home from san antonioView attachment 128551View attachment 128552View attachment 128553View attachment 128554

Isn't the red R an Toyota or Nissan thing? I seem to remember one of them using a red R for their Type R sporty trim line.

 

[Blmpkn]

Isn't the red R an Toyota or Nissan thing? I seem to remember one of them using a red R for their Type R sporty trim line.

That one's the raptor R.

It's Honda/Acura that has the type r line.

 

[superj]

Yeah, a few companies have atype r or r line or something with an r but the raptor high performance version is a raptor r. Since my teuck is just a ranger with a tune, its a ranger r

 

[Project88]

Went to a baseball game with my nephew and his family, then came home and diagnosed my fueling issues with my 88 bronco2 found proof of concept when it comes to install of a Gen 2 fuel pump in the tank and found one of my return fuel lines is leaking... So gotta ask the forum about swapping 2.9 fuel rail to an fittings and lines front to back

 

[scotts90ranger]

Went to a baseball game with my nephew and his family, then came home and diagnosed my fueling issues with my 88 bronco2 found proof of concept when it comes to install of a Gen 2 fuel pump in the tank and found one of my return fuel lines is leaking... So gotta ask the forum about swapping 2.9 fuel rail to an fittings and lines front to back

Although I'm sure it's possible I think AN is over rated and not my thing... I think you'd be better off getting a set like THIS, I think the stock stuff is 5/16" but I'm sure someone will know... that whole kit costs about what 1.5 AN fittings costs...

Anywho, not much for me today, decided on a location of my new to me sliding barn door on the back shed which isn't where I was originally going to put it. I also picked up what has to have been at least a hundred pounds of rocks to try to avoid breaking the mower again later (the almost baseball size rock that did it last, found that guy...). Also fixed the tailgate linkage on the '97, it was just the plastic clip broken, found one of the spares I have (there's a pack floating around somewhere that I didn't find), then went to a wedding for a friend of my wife's, then went and did a couple things for my mom then over to my brothers for a bit...

 

[Project88]

Although I'm sure it's possible I think AN is over rated and not my thing... I think you'd be better off getting a set like THIS, I think the stock stuff is 5/16" but I'm sure someone will know... that whole kit costs about what 1.5 AN fittings costs...

Anywho, not much for me today, decided on a location of my new to me sliding barn door on the back shed which isn't where I was originally going to put it. I also picked up what has to have been at least a hundred pounds of rocks to try to avoid breaking the mower again later (the almost baseball size rock that did it last, found that guy...). Also fixed the tailgate linkage on the '97, it was just the plastic clip broken, found one of the spares I have (there's a pack floating around somewhere that I didn't find), then went to a wedding for a friend of my wife's, then went and did a couple things for my mom then over to my brothers for a bit...

Yeah only problem is I want something better than what I have on it that will be protected better cause where the fuel line ruptured it was behind the high pressure fuel pump where the line had rubbed on the bracket and so I'm either going to make steel lines for it or do the AN hoses idk yet I'm just getting options together cause either way I have the tools and skills needed to fix it either way.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Although I'm sure it's possible I think AN is over rated and not my thing... I think you'd be better off getting a set like THIS, I think the stock stuff is 5/16" but I'm sure someone will know... that whole kit costs about what 1.5 AN fittings costs...

Anywho, not much for me today, decided on a location of my new to me sliding barn door on the back shed which isn't where I was originally going to put it. I also picked up what has to have been at least a hundred pounds of rocks to try to avoid breaking the mower again later (the almost baseball size rock that did it last, found that guy...). Also fixed the tailgate linkage on the '97, it was just the plastic clip broken, found one of the spares I have (there's a pack floating around somewhere that I didn't find), then went to a wedding for a friend of my wife's, then went and did a couple things for my mom then over to my brothers for a bit...

Yeah, I thought about the Dorman stuff, @Uncle Gump did that route. I went to AN because I wanted to use it for more than just fuel. JIC matches AN and is cheaper, but not all of the adapters and stuff are available in anything but AN. So I guess it all depends on what you’re trying to achieve.

I’ve been meaning to do it and haven’t, but I thought about rigging up something to carry some fiberglass driveway markers or a can of upside-down paint to mark where stuff sticks up in my yard so I can go back after mowing and deal with rocks, stumps and roots. Seems like no matter how hard I try searching for that stuff after mowing, I have trouble finding it all