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N-Smooth

N-Smooth

Smooth Gang Founding Member
Location
UT
UNSTUCK said:
My laundry room started smelling a little funky Sunday afternoon. Thought maybe some wet clothes got left in the washer. I got home from work yesterday and it was much worse. Of course Momma makes me go in after it. Like I would tell her to clean up the garage! :rolleyes: Anyways, rant over. Pulled all the clothes and shoes (mud room too) and bags out and the smell is still there. Inside the washer smells fine. Inside the dryer, not so fine. I pull it away from the wall and remove the vent hose from the dryer side. Stinky. Pull it off the wall. Dead bird.
After waking up from passing out and cleaning all the vomit off my shirt, I threw the vent tube away (with the bird in it), I went outside to inspect the vent outlet. Yeah, there was no vent outlet. Just a wide open hole in the side of my house. Not sure what happened to it. I ran to Lowes and picked up a new vent tube and vent outlet cover. Got it all installed. Smelled much better this morning. I would have never guessed.
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We came home from a vacation a few years back and ran the dryer and it smelled bad. The second I opened up the dryer door I said "something died in here..."

Sure enough, 3 dead starlings were under the drum. That sucked. I have since been inspecting my vent cover quite frequently :rofl:
 
Gravy

Gravy

Ant Anstead of Dirtbikes
Supporting Member
Location
The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
TurboMinivan

TurboMinivan

Still plays with cars
Location
Lehi, UT
Speaking of things I've worked on, here is a photo from Thursday afternoon:

(That's Mike, not me, since I took the photo)
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Progress!
 
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stimmie

Registered User
Location
Roosevelt
Today I started out planning to put the front end parts back on my S10. I replaced all the steering parts, and still needed to tighten down all the castle nuts and put the cotter pins in. Things didn't go as planned... Inner tie rods (7/16-20) castle nuts are too short. By the time you tighten them down the hole for the pin is at the end of the nut. I'm thinking a washer/spacer will solve this problem. Outer tie rods are more of a problem. The nuts for them (M12-1.25) are too tall. So I wandered all over town trying to find shorter castle nuts. No dice... So now I'm searching the web for them, which isn't working well. I may just grind them shorter and make them work. The short nut needs to be tall and the tall nut needs to be short. Very frustrating..

So tonight I decided to install my light bar on my KJ. Since the bumper backer? part is all busted up and my bumper skin is just there.. I decided I needed something to add some support under the bumper cover. I settled on a piece of 1x1 aluminum angle. In order to do this I had to pull the bumper cover. Luckily this is simple on the KJ. After I got done I realized I should have taken more pictures. But it was dark and I'm sure they wouldn't have come out as well. It's a 32" curved bar. I'll add some 4" lights on top near my roof basket another day.
 

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Pike2350

Registered User
Location
Salt Lake City
I ended up having to rewire the entire upstairs unit on the new duplex I bought. The wiring ended up being a bad mixture if knob & tube, tar soaked cloth, aluminium and Romex. I moved the panel as well. There were a few runs I had to junction in the old panel...but only those I couldn't easily run in the attic. Finally finished it yesterday after 4 weeks of nights and weekends. I only had to cut 1) 6" x 36" piece of wall out...and the cut for the new panel....otherwise I fished and ran wire in the lath &plaster walls.

Pic of new panel location. The attic pic is the tats nest of wires I had to fix. They had jumpers for the knob & tube just wire nutted and covered with insulation. Or even worse...a few junctions were uncovered and only electrical taped together. It was a disaster.
 

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4x4_Welder

Well-Known Member
Location
Twin Falls, ID
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Finally got this thing extracted. 200hp/220ft/lbs out of a three liter all aluminum V6, in 1991.
Planning on putting this into a two door Volvo, and making a grand touring style ride out of it. If I can get my wife to stop spending every damn penny that comes in.
Bonus in the background is my 1971 F250, and the Mercedes OM617 and door for my Courier
 
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DSN91

New Member
The other half of the garage has been tiled for over a year now and is awesome. Everything washes off. No hot tire pick up to to worry about. I’ve dropped some heavy items on it and would have sworn it would be damage but not a mark. I’m sitting at about $4 a sq foot in materials with Ditra and epoxy grout.
 
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