So what did you do in your garage/shed/drive today?

So what did you do in your garage/shed/drive today?

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Perseverant

439 posts

111 months

Wednesday 19th April 2017
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I was aimlessly looking at other posts and came across this set. Very cheerful and varied, so to add to it, I took the wheels off my 190e Mercedes to check the brakes - just boring and routine, and I'm glad to report that all seemed well - brushed off dust and so on, applied some copper grease and put it all back. Basic stuff that's worth doing every three or four months.
A week or so back we came north in the MX5 and the blow in the exhaust got much worse as the middle silencer parted company with the rear one. I checked to see that it couldn't fall off, so we went to a family gathering and had a rather irritating drive home. I bought a new section which arrived next day and fitted it no bother, using an angle grinder to cut the nuts neatly enough to be able to reuse the studs and also worked out how to refit the oxygen sensor by winding its wire connector the other way so that it dekinked when fitted. Thank goodness I have a pit to get underneath. So nothing very interesting, just what car enthusiasts do.

Bdevo3

478 posts

89 months

Wednesday 19th April 2017
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I rebuilt the two front calipers, fitted new pads, replaced oil air and fuel filters, power steering fluid gear oil and diff oils on my evo. moved it out of the shed for first time in 7 months. out with the con saw then cut a 15 ×5 foot rectangle out of the floor dug down over a foot and filled with concrete in preparation for installing my new 4ton lift which should be delivered soon

chryslerben

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1,172 posts

159 months

Thursday 18th May 2017
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Cadillac cts 3.6 v6 timing chains tonight not to bad to do in situ once you get to them.

CarsOrBikes

1,135 posts

184 months

Sunday 28th May 2017
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Pumped up the tyres after three years standing, and a rinse.



sparkythecat

7,902 posts

255 months

Sunday 28th May 2017
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I took the engine out of my ride on mower as it was pissing out oil from the sump gasket.
The gasket turned out to be OK, but the mountkng bolts had inexplicably worked loose.
Cleaned the mating surfaces and reassembled it with a torque wrench and a drop of loctite