What did YOU do today?

[scotts90ranger]

for 20mm equivalent try a 25/32"
oddly, they are available.

working on a 4cyl Duratec? timing is easy on those.

for the harmonic balancer bolt did you try the breaker bar against the frame while cranking starter method?

Normally I would do that but at this point we had a camshaft loose and the chain loose so that was NOT an option . Yes at this point we know it's easy but I was trying to take shortcuts... turns out what I was fighting was the ratcheting function of the chain tensioner... no shortcuts available for what I was doing...

13/16" is like 20.3mm or something, it fit real nice, we had like 3 extra plans today, after going to look for deer (saw 5, one buck at full sprint 100 yards away that I saw for 20 yards of his chase of 2 doe before they jumped in the bushes) I went home and made an "inertia socket" and that with my Bauer high torque cordless impact got it off easy... Ended up going to town for a new crank bolt and front seal for good measure. It's all back together now but I went too far with the "bucket", should have got a slightly thicker one now there's some clatter (there's around .010" lash, should be fine not sure why it's loud)

 

[Curious Hound]

Is that a manual shift? I need to get an E-shift to put in storage to replace the AWD box in the Ranger.

Yes. It's manual. It will be replacing an AWD box in "something to be announced in a few weeks (hopefully)". There are 5 or 6 electric ones at my closest yard, including one with Torque On Demand. But I would prefer the manual.

 

[scotts90ranger]

It's a nice clear sunny day, annoyingly for the last weekend day of deer season... when it was foggy I was over at my brothers looking for deers and saw one doe, then the fog cleared so I'm home... was going to go up in the woods but then realized I only had like 4.5 hours of daylight left with the time change... Now I'm home and just finished mowing leaves then climbed up on the garage roof and blew the leaves off then swept the moss off then cleaned the gutters. I don't think I know how to do nothing anymore...

 

[racsan]

Was a nice clear sunny day here with no wind, mid 50’s, Drove 22 miles round trip to my parents & back with the 8N. wow are the back roads rough! Im a little sore now & to think that way back in the day I did this quite often. Before I had a vehicle or license its how I got around unless I rode a bike.

 

[Curious Hound]

Was a nice clear sunny day here with no wind, mid 50’s, Drove 22 miles round trip to my parents & back with the 8N. wow are the back roads rough! Im a little sore now & to think that way back in the day I did this quite often. Before I had a vehicle or license its how I got around unless I rode a bike.

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Beautiful picture.

 

[sgtsandman]

Today was a light day. The poly tarps that cover the end rafters of the carport removed. They should have been replaced last year but I was getting ready for a deployment. So, time was not a luxury. As a result, they were in very poor shape. I had ordered a heavy duty vinyl tarp to replace the poly tarps earlier this year. Hopefully, it will be some time before these need replaced. Anyway, one rafter has been re-skinned with one half of the vinyl tarp. The other half will get done tomorrow.

 

[mikkelstuff]

I began to finally clean out the wife's office or whimsy room as she called it. She died back in January, on my birthday, after a five year battle with ovarian cancer and I have just not been up to clearing out that office.

While doing so today I found two sealed envelopes addressed to me. One was a birthday card and one a valentine's day card. She wrote those knowing full well that she would not live long enough to share those days with me. She touched me deeply yet one more time. I remain the luckiest man in the world to have known her.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Didn't do much after my last post, a headache came on likely from some cold (turns out my brother had the same symptoms yesterday) so I tried powering through but was too annoying, I stripped some 1x6's off of a radiator pallet, smashed a fingernail with the prybar and pretty much called it...

 

[Rick W]

@Peter_'86_2.9L_Auto came over yesterday after lunch. I used some quarter inch threaded rod to make some battery hold down hooks, and I had one of the pieces that goes across the top in the shed of miracles. It wasn’t a perfect fit, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the zip ties I put on when we were scrambling on the fuel system.

We also took his tailgate apart to find out why it was so hard to open and close. He’s going to order the nylon fastener kit, and we adjusted the loops that the side latches latch into.

Then Peter continued to help me a little bit with some digging I need to do around here to fix my drainage. You guys on your properties would use a backhoe, but I only have to dig about an 8 inch ditch about 30 inches long, and I’m embarrassed to say that that would take me a day. I hope he likes what we’re doing with his truck, and he has been a godsend to me helping with some house stuff. We got rained out.

Then he called me about 8 PM, one of the rain gutters on his hundred year plus-old house was coming loose. A new adventure, more to follow.

 

[sgtsandman]

I finished the other rafter end and built a shelf to store overlanding gear in the shed. There is enough scrap left over that I can build a kind of bench if it turns out I need make more room.

 

[JoshT]

Then Peter continued to help me a little bit with some digging I need to do around here to fix my drainage. You guys on your properties would use a backhoe, but I only have to dig about an 8 inch ditch about 30 inches long, and I’m embarrassed to say that that would take me a day.

One would have to have a backhoe to use a backhoe. I doubt many of us have backhoes. Maybe fronthoes, or sidehoes, but not backhoes. Hell, I got no hoes. I'd be right there with you spending all day digging that 8"x30" trench.


Today I... Took a nap at work? Long boring day. Ran around town after work getting some odds and ends. Stopped for dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. Got home and dumped a bag of deer corn and a gallon of cherry koolaid in the back yard. Got the F-250 started (barely) and move it up to the house to plug in the battery charger, remove it from potential line of fire, and possibly use it as a makeshift blind. Weather is right, I'm not feeling very motivated to make the 1.5 hour drive to the hunting lease, and I know that they are moving around my house. I've got nothing but woods and farmland behind my house. About 600 yards of dense woods with farmland behind that, a mile to the nearest road, and near 1.5 miles to the nearest structure. Might as well see if I can get one here.

Possibly during lunch tomorrow I'll see about picking up another bag or two of corn and maybe some burlap or camo netting to string between the trucks and sit behind. Biggest decision I'm need to make is 30-30 or 44 magnum lever action. I've never taken a deer with the 30-30, but do know it was sighted in last time shot and hasn't been tampered with since. Haven't taken one with the 44 either, but I know that dad took a couple with it and I verified it was sighted in a few weeks ago. Realistically I'll only get a 40 to 50 shot max, and either one will work well at that range. Was thinking about using the "new" 6.8 SPC Pistol/SBR upper with a suppressor to keep noise down, but haven't gotten a chance to sight it in yet and don't want to mess up a potential hunt by trying to do it tomorrow. Note to self, if you go to the hunting club this weekend, take stuff to sight it in.