What did YOU do today?

[SenorNoob]

Headlights on mom's 13 Fusion. The owners manual lies. It says H7 low beam and H11 high beam. They are all H7. You have to almost remove the front bumper cover/grille. Not too bad though. Just 7 screws and a handful of clips. I replaced the turn signal bulbs and running light bulbs while I had it apart.

Mowed the yard. I still have run the trimmer. Twice a year is fine, right?

Then took my uncle to get another generator and looked at his old one. It's a Honda 2000watt clone. The exhaust valve guide came out and jammed up the rocker causing the pushrod to make a nice "C" shape. Apparently parts are either not available or you have to buy Honda and hope the clone was good enough. Price for Honda parts is high enough to make replacing it about the same price.

 

[Rick W]

Life ganged up on me. It’s been eating me alive since that young lady smacked into the Road Ranger a month ago, so I did the only thing reasonable for my sanity: I went to the pull-a-part even though I didn’t actually need anything. You have to know it was a sightseeing tour, because all I did was bring one little tote of hand tools and my 18v drill.

WOW, did I get some great stuff!

1. I got a whole set of bed bolts and those heavy duty clip-on-the-frame threaded thingies.
2. Two battery clamps, the kind with the wing nuts on top
3. I got the caps that go over the top of the over the shoulder seatbelts in my interior color gray to replace the tan ones that came from who knows where
4. I got a bunch of the plastic cap push in holders for the interior trim, a bunch of oval head screws, a bunch of pan head & flange head screws, & some bolts,
5. I got one of those rare roughly 3 inch in diameter plug//cap things you stick in the bumper if you don’t have a trailer ball.
6. I got two V6 emblems
7. I got the passenger side AC vent outlet for the 97, and that little tiny vent thing that’s to the right of the radio. My old ones were bad with broken clips so they didn’t sit in the dashboard flat. Now that the cute little brunette sits over there once in a while, I had to make sure the vent kept her cool without messing up her hair
8. I got new windshield washer nozzles for the 97 (needed)
9. I got a replacement speaker for the 97 passenger door, +2 speakers with a flat face grill, +2 speakers with a slightly slanted wedge grill.
10. Three radiator caps (the only other thing I needed, but I ordered a new one from rock auto yesterday)
11. I got a half dozen of those big grommet plug things that go in the floor of the cab or whatever
12. I got a chrome top, black face grill for the 97
13. A small pile of power block, relays and rectifiers
14. I got two big mirror glasses, the “things are closer than you think” side, that I think I can cut down to fit in the 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 (?) passenger side flip out mirrors on the 97
15. Brake fluid reservoir to convert over for the 87 clutch fluid reservoir
16. 50 or 75 fuses

And then I picked up one thing that’s a big experiment and a big surprise if it works right. I can’t give any details on that cause if it doesn’t work out, I don’t want to look like a donkey. Another customization of the Road Ranger.

I did it all in three hours with my hinged knee brace, pulling a two wheel wheelbarrow behind me, in the sun, and I didn’t pass out or die. I was home by noon, sorted it out, put some away, and did some work on the truck.

Great therapy day. Didn’t get in trouble today, didn’t slide backwards.

 

[Blmpkn]

Not today but Friday.. ordered 600$ worth of squarebody parts wish I coulda waited til a bit later in the year but.. I gotta get this thing rolling ASAP so a cement truck can sneak through the part of the yard that it's currently occupying.

52" leaf long travel front spring hanger/body mount combo brackets, 52" long travel shackle hangers, 6" length 1/2" thick HD front shackles, and some leaf bushings. Gonna be looking at 12" of vertical travel up front once it's all together kinda wasted on a truck that's changed direction from a wheeling rig into a tow rig but... Whatever. I suppose I'll be all set if I ever need to tow something through a boulder field lmao.

Also bought the elusive longtube header for the 2.3 lima from @PlumCrazy... Suuuuuper excited about that. Gotta find a local place able to sandblast & ceramic coat it inside and out. If it were stainless id just wrap it but.. an unobtanium mild steel header needs a little different treatment.

 

[Angry Possum]

I took the hardtop off on my 2005 TJ Jeep. I purchased a new soft top cover, and put it on today.

 

[Blmpkn]

I took the hardtop off on my 2005 TJ Jeep. I purchased a new soft top cover, and put it on today.


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