21Oct2010
Denali Door Handle
I had a buddy (The Incredible Hulk) pull his exterior door handle off of his tow vehicle the other day, so we ordered up a new cheap oem plastic handle assembly and went to work, lol. Interesting thing, is it was in stock at the dealer, so I assume this happens fairly often. It’s been so busy around here, I have resorted to working in the street…..The door panel comes off quite easily, 3 bolts, and a few snap clips. …
18Sep2010
Maytag Man?
Lol, once in awhile I have to put the cars away and do some work around the house. There are certain things I am good at, and certain things I am not good at. Typically home type projects fall into the latter category, and I am usually too stubborn to call someone who knows what the hell they are doing. But I figured, hey a laundrenator can’t be that hard to fix! About 6 years ago, the switch that tells …
09Sep2010
Squeaks is done
New exhaust manifold showed up and I was able to get everything installed and got it back on the road. No more leaks 🙂
02Sep2010
Squeaks Exhaust Leak Revisited…….
Took the time on wednesday to tear apart Squeaks to replace the broken exhaust manifold studs. Only had to cut off one bolt on the down pipe, so I was happy with that. Could have been a lot worse. The downside of working on a vehicle that has seen daily use for the last 11 years in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Kansas year round is dealing with the rust issues on all the fasteners. The exhaust manifold studs luckily came …
02Sep2010
Shrek pays a visit……
Yup, the big Ogre. About as dirty as one too, but after all it is a Jeep 🙂 Had an issue with the front left caliper locking up. Decided it was best to put in new brake lines and new calipers. The brake lines cost more than the calipers, as did the core charge on the calipers, lol. Got to love cherokee parts. Ended up getting everything installed, flushed and bled the brakes, but are still getting an initial lockup …
31Aug2010
Squeaks gets a new window regulator
Tried to accomplish a simple task of changing a brake light bulb the other day, and happened to roll the window down on the driver’s side……and then found out it didn’t want to go back up! Drats. After some diagnosis work with the volt meter, I confirmed it was indeed the window regulator. Ran to oreilly’s and picked up a new regulator and got it changed out. Got to love Jeeps, meant to be fixed in the field. Even the …
31May2010
Back to work
Just got back from a vacation to the grand canyon, quite the trip. Something we have been working on for about a year now, as the journey involved getting there in a 67 cadillac fleetwood. Good times, great friends, and a fairly uneventful trip mechanically. We blogged our journey starting last summer when we picked up the car. It is multiple pages, so you have to click “older posts” at the bottom of the page if you want to start …
19May2010
More and more request for DD work
Been getting a lot of requests for work on the daily drivers, some of it is pretty easy to handle and I don’t have a problem helping out. Had a little civic in the other day for brakes as they were starting to make noise. Swapped in front pads and rotors, and checked the rear drums/shoes which were still good, and the car was on it’s way. Inserting bolts in the rear to pop the drums off for inspection. Here …
19May2010
Audi DE 2010
Some more footage of the Audi club DE last weekend at HPT. Friday was a pretty nice day, Saturday was pretty rainy, and Sunday was a mix of both. Good times were still had by all 🙂 Something seemed to be missing? Even Steve looked puzzled…… Wait a second, this isn’t the Lin Burney Arrive and Drive program….food from a bag? Paper plates? What is this nonsense about…… After lunch, they decided to figure out how to replace a pollen …
12May2010
Nissan Sentra?
Yesterday a good friend (and my shop supervisor babysitter!) called up and said she was having stalling problems in her Nissan. She had taken it to the shop, and they weren’t really sure what was wrong with it, but recommended starting with a tune up (mileage was about 125k). Correct diagnosis and correct plan of attack IMHO. The kicker, was the tune up was going run almost $500 to replace the spark plugs, cap, rotor, and clean the throttle body. …