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While I had it apart and with the cooling system opened, I opted to replace the thermostats as well as batteries which were getting some age on them. With the batteries removed I noticed the battery trays looked a little worse than I remember so they received the full treatment, bead blasting...

My daily is going back together after a turbo rebuild. Passenger's front tire and inner fender removed for access. Removed the downpipe and prepping to remove both driver's and passenger's up-pipes after allowing to soak with Kroil overnight. Heat shields, downpipe and passengers' up-pipe...

Drove by Saturday and saw it parked out front JJ. Looked pretty clean from the street. Should be another fun project.

I had restored/rebuilt an old Wilton vertical bandsaw about 15 years ago as my first vertical bandsaw that had the same issue, probably why I got such a good deal on it. :thinking: I did the same thing, I machined the gearbox to accept a seal on either side and used 80W-90 gear oil. Never...

You're welcome. While I love seeing people repair, refurbish, restore items rather than replace, I also enjoy seeing them get the satisfaction from a thorough and proper repair so any information I can give to help, I am happy to. I also am here to learn from others just as much as I hope to...

That is a quite common failure point on 2-stage snowblowers and a pretty easy fix. Happy to see you tear into it rather than lay down a couple grand on a new one as this one will be good as new once repaired. If I can make a suggestion, while you are rebuilding the gearbox, make sure to get a...

You are going to love having gone hydraulic on your tube bender. I used mine in manual mode for the first several years but after converting it to hydraulics and building a mobile cart it was a game changer.

Glad you found an alternative Jeff. Sorry I couldn't guarantee your deadline.

Personally you can have the city life. I don't do crowds and love living in the country. We moved to West Point in Davis County back in 1991 because it was mostly farmland with only a few subdivisions. We loved it there but it started getting too congested for me as it was taking us nearly...

Have you seen California Ave. in SLC? Or 12th Street just off I-15 lately? California Avenue is littered with non-running and barely running RV's with tarps and garbage everywhere and there have been a few just off the 12th Street offramp from I-15 over the past year. I've called Ogden City...

Continuing on with the Crosstrek preventive maintenance. Here is the setup required to remove the spark plugs on this FB20D opposing 4 engine. A 14MM deep socket, a 3" 3/8" extension and a thin headed 3/8" drive ratchet. This also comes in handy to remove the spark plug once it is broken...

Then moving on to yesterday we addressed a full service on my DIL's 2018 Subaru Crosstrek. It was due or coming due for several Preventive Maintenance items so we knocked them all out yesterday to enter into the new year with his vehicles fully maintained. We had quite the list of items to...

If anyone is interested in more detail here is a video that I uploaded to my YouTube channel showing the oil cooler upgrade. Thank you. Mike

Before completely buttoning up the bottom of the truck I wanted to pull a vacuum on the cooling system to ensure there were no leaks. After pulling it into a vacuum we could walk away for a few minutes to address the hot pipe. Oil cooler installed so we could fill with oil as well. On these...

Finished up my son's LB7 on Friday night. Wanted to get it done before the end of the year and barely made it. :rolleyes: OEM LB7 oil cooler on the left with I believe 11 plate cooler. The new 2020+ L5P 19-plate oil cooler on the right. Oil coolers with coolant elbows. Significant size...

Nope, that's not normal nor good. Yuck.

Commenced work on my son's LB7 last night. Replacement of hte oil cooler with a larger cooler from a 2020+ L5P Duramax. Truck racked and coolant draining while my son pulled the driver's front tire/wheel, inner fender and hot pipe from the turbo to the intercooler. Oil cooler ready to be...

Thank you. No anodizing, just polished the copper. I like the "patina" look that copper gets over time so I wanted to keep the surface raw copper.

I performed a thorough cleaning of the shop for the Christmas weekend and then took some time to record an updated Shop and Toolbox Tour which I posted to my YouTube channel. Thanks for looking. Mike

I made two more pens last week but used some C110 copper for these. Made a matching set for my son and DIL. Then afterwards I conducted a thorough cleaning of the shop before the Christmas holiday. I then decided to record an updated shot and toolbox tour and post it to my...