General Tech What did you work on Today?

[zmotorsports]

It’s not as fancy as anything Rick or mike can do.. but I finished another room in our house... just so i can start on another.

View attachment 111959

Looks great. I'm envious of those with carpentry skills. I can fumble my way through it and I take forever but most importantly I HATE doing carpentry work. I would much rather have a wrench in my hand than a hammer.

Mike

 

[zmotorsports]

Looks good. My house is screaming for attention and all I want to do is go jeeping.

This was me last year. I wanted to go Jeeping so damn bad but ended up building a new shop and putting a yard in that took most of the year.

This year I intend to do much more Jeeping and RVing and only having to mow my lawn vs. put a yard in.

Mike

 

[RogueJeepr]

My house repair list.
1.) Dishwasher drain hose needs replacing.
2.) Upstairs tub faucet leaks.
3.) Would like to paint front living room.
4.) Gophers invaded the backyard, ongoing battle.
5.) Driveway concrete slab needs to be leveled.
6.) Need new roof.

Ahhh, the joys of homeownership.

 

[Homefryy]

My house repair list.
1.) Dishwasher drain hose needs replacing.
2.) Upstairs tub faucet leaks.
3.) Would like to paint front living room.
4.) Gophers invaded the backyard, ongoing battle.
5.) Driveway concrete slab needs to be leveled.
6.) Need new roof.

Ahhh, the joys of homeownership.

I will paint your living room for XJ parts. I seriously enjoy painting.

Also, I picked up some previously installed but not actually used rock sliders for $200. I'm pretty sure they are JCR ones. Gonna be installing those soon.

 

[BlueWolfFab]

•Stacked and backfilled a little precast block retaining wall (background of photo)

•cut subgrade on a 1,500 sq ft concrete pad (for small basketball court)



•Also cut a 16' diameter hole for an in-ground trampoline



Also loaded and hauled off 13 loads of dirt (just around the corner, short haul).

All of this was for my former employer's personal home, which was interesting because he knows I'm working towards becoming a competitor. Even still, he was happy with my work (all of which took ~7 hours to do). He helped labor with stacking the precast retaining wall blocks, but all the rest I did all myself. Productive day for a little side cash

 

[zmotorsports]

I picked up my coolant surge tank from the polisher yesterday and installed it into our coach last night, filled it, connected the sending unit and the ole' girl is ready to go for the upcoming RV season.

A few pictures of the polish job prior to adding fittings and sight glass.

All fittings, coolant level sensor and sight glass installed ready for installation.

I traced the wire back in preparation to solder the pigtail onto the OEM harness and noticed they had a butt connector about 8” from the eyelet. That’s not too impressive so I opted to cut back further and solder & heat shrink the connections.

It is kind of hard to see but the Weatherpack connector is plugged into the coolant level sensor and routed up along the wire loom blending in with the OEM harness.

Completed pictures.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

 

[Tonkaman]

I picked up my coolant surge tank from the polisher yesterday and installed it into our coach last night, filled it, connected the sending unit and the ole' girl is ready to go for the upcoming RV season.

A few pictures of the polish job prior to adding fittings and sight glass.

All fittings, coolant level sensor and sight glass installed ready for installation.

I traced the wire back in preparation to solder the pigtail onto the OEM harness and noticed they had a butt connector about 8” from the eyelet. That’s not too impressive so I opted to cut back further and solder & heat shrink the connections.

It is kind of hard to see but the Weatherpack connector is plugged into the coolant level sensor and routed up along the wire loom blending in with the OEM harness.

Completed pictures.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

Wow, that shines like a mirror!!

 

[Homefryy]

Long day in the garage but I got the following done on the XJ.
Front tow hooks installed.
Front skid plate installed.
Storage pins for sway bar disconnects mounted on skid plate. No more zip ties when I disconnect.
Rock Sliders installed.

 

[RogueJeepr]

Those look great. Thanks for the pic on disconnects. Now I know what to do with mine.

 

[Homefryy]

Those look great. Thanks for the pic on disconnects. Now I know what to do with mine.

I can take more if you want but it's basically just a sleeve with a shoulder in it and an alien head bolt that goes through and sits against the shoulder.

 

[RogueJeepr]

That'll do. I just need to see if my tires rub near there before I move my existing tabs.
Sure beats bungy cords.

 

[N8RB8R]

Centerforce clutch and stepped up to 40’s.

 

[nnnnnate]

We signed a contract for a new construction house a week ago. This just means I join the fine company of Brian and Dave with a bunch of house projects which I want to finish before listing the house. They'll start digging the hole for the new place likely beginning of March so I'm wanting to try and have the house stuff wrapped up about the same time. (Not that we'll list then, but I want to be done with them.) This is a steep deadline that I realistically won't meet but I'm trying to get there.

This week I painted the ceiling and started painting the baseboards both on our main floor, and replaced three window sills that had been chewed up by a former pup. I also topped off the trailer with crap from my failed vegetable garden and emptied it at the landfill.

 

[BlueWolfFab]

@xj_nate says I'm a bad neighbor

 

[N-Smooth]

Lol it’s true.

Good guy. Bad neighbor.

 

[ricsrx]

 

[Greg]

Worked on my '48 CJ2A... made this meme.

 

[smfulle]

This is the coolest meme ever!!

 

[zmotorsports]

Wow, that shines like a mirror!!

Thanks. Now comes the fun part of keeping it that way.

Mike

 

[Greg]

This is the coolest meme ever!!

Thought you'd get a kick out of it!