What did YOU do today?

[pacstud]

Saw the in-laws for a Thanksgiving get together. Pretty nice all around. Used the daughter's Focus, it's not a bad little car. I laugh thinking it has the same 2.3 that many Rangers have.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Saw the in-laws for a Thanksgiving get together. Pretty nice all around. Used the daughter's Focus, it's not a bad little car. I laugh thinking it has the same 2.3 that many Rangers have.

A focus is likely a Duratec not a Lima, the wife rolled her Focus like 10 years ago so I don't remember much about the engine...

 

[scotts90ranger]

Today was a mixed bag... my brother came late morning and we started the mudding process on the drywall, got the first pass done and put a space heater in then took a break to go to a couple stores, nothing really at Lowes but at Harbor Freight I picked up one of the welding tables they had on sale... it's quite the unit and should make fitment much nicer on stuff, assuming I can avoid using it as a generic flat spot like all the rest... also grabbed another purple HVLP spray gun since they were $9... I think I have 5...

Then we got home and the first coat wasn't dry so instead of sanding we used putty knives to take the high spots off which actually worked good... then put on the second coat. After that we brought out the big guns to get it to dry... put the output of the diesel turbo heater toward the door, it was about 115F in there , it dried pretty good in most spots, door's closed right now so it should keep on it...

 

[Bird76Mojo]

damn. 150 bucks just to mount and ballance tires you already bought? what tire shop did you go to that doesnt even kiss you afterwards?

it is a pain to use, but Harbor Freight has a manual tire balancer for about 50 bucks...

AJ

We have the manual tire changer from Harbor Freight. Had it for nearly 20 years. It's saved us thousands. My old tires were too cold and stiff to remove on our contraption without completely maiming the aluminum wheels. I don't always get my tires balanced unless they present a vibration or wobble, but they were already charging me so much, I just decided I might as well have them balanced for not much more money. I even took the old tires with me hoping to save on the tire disposal fee but it wasn't even listed on my receipt.

Neal Tire.