Sebring + beer + 10AM = No car work for me!
Sebring + beer + 10AM = No car work for me!
I bought a set of BMW bottlecaps for the kid's car ('08 Accent). We're gonna to a test fit and drive this weekend to make sure all is OK. As long as everything's OK, we'll do a clean-up and fresh coat of paint.
'93 Capri XR2:
Hoped to do front brakes and Rotors, but they sent the wrong ones... :/
Double checked the suspension bolts, mounted and balanced my AutoX wheel/tire combo
Hope to do well again in H-Stock ;)
Already: snow tires off, summer tires on (yeah, that'll make it snow more) fixed a tach, patched a floor, unhung a sticking e-brake and R&R rear axles to verify my rear disc order for monday.
On the list: Sebring, re-install carpet and trimmings, muck out garage? clean something? order parts and clean something? that's the short list.
I MAY hammer the flanges over in the fender well of the datsun replica.....OTOH, I've been screwing around with that car all week. I may just go kayaking.
I'm going to do some rearranging in the garage so I can modify my veggie oil still. I need to add a storage hopper so I can get some of the 130 gallons of it off my floor.
Doing what I can off this list:
Recently did the following: decambered and retoed the Jensenator, moved the noisy 6 port actuator pump, fabricated and installed a 'silenced' tip to shut the thing up for more urban settings. Hung new shocks on the Trooper. So all the gotta do's are done. Saturday: fixin' Toyman's little red wagon at the autocross. 
Sunday morning: wet sand the motorcycle tank and shoot some more clear, maybe without sags. Sunday afternoon: yard work. 
Dammit.
With tomorrow being the first day I will have had off in seventeen days I'll probably do a good detail job on both cars. That is if the boss isn't successful in talking me into working again.
Curmudgeon wrote: Saturday: fixin' Toyman's little red wagon at the autocross.
You so funny. Bring your A game. 
Whoops, double post.
Saturday: Change oil and ATF in daughter's Impreza, pack for Sunday event.
Sunday: SCCA Philly autocross at The Monster Mile.
Timing and balance shaft belts on the 951. If that goes well I may start the shock and strut swap on it too, or start tracking down the raw fuel smell, or figuring why the turbo after run pump isn't running, or... Of course it was 65 yesterday and 53 today, and it's forecast to be 35 tomorrow and 45 on Sunday and I left my portable heater at work - it may be worth the hour round trip to go get it.
i might wash it...
Tomorrow is garden day for me and I have a garage mess to clean up after installing some hardwood flooring last weekend. Then if I can make the time I need to get my cylinder head back on the BMW. I got the head all back together about 2 weeks ago and it's just been sitting on my workbench.
I also need to take a look at the Mini. There was a hot oil smell when I drove it to work Thursday. Maybe there is a new oil leak to fix.
My weekend runs weird (retail work hours) Monday is my weekend
Take the Scirocco in for flex-pipe fix (welding is one of those things I go out for)
New O2 sensor goes in after that, NAPA had a curiously good price on the OE Bosch unit.
Send the new underdrive crank pulley to the machine shop so my serp belt will lineup right.
May or may not try to shovel it out.
I need to fix me. Suffering from Bursitis in my right shoulder...
not a dang thing. going to a home-school conference all day tomorrow, and on sunday i'm helping my brother-in-law work on a condo he's selling. if i've got any time in between, i might do some more cleaning and organizing of my tool chest.
Work tomorrow. 
Got the SE-R through inspection earlier this week. 
There's enough sand off the roads that it's worth getting the motorcycles out of their winter hibernation. That, and my Silverwing has finally emerged from its icy tomb. I'll at least get the battery back in the Savage and have it ready. The Silverwing still needs a float bowl gasket replaced. I didn't get to it before winter - hence, the icy tomb it stayed in (garage under kitchen = gas fumes in house ).
Oh, wait - cars. The Miata needs nothing. It'll still wear its hardtop for a while longer. And the SE-R keeps its studded tires until ice is no longer likely to appear on the roads. The Miata has a set of Mazdaspeed MX-5 springs waiting to go on, but it'll be another week or three before that happens, I think.
Not a freaking thing. After Wednesday night's marathon slave cylinder swap on my buddies Sonoma with tools like this:
I'm spent on wrenching for a good few days.
Then Sunday, travelling to the Redneck Circus in Bristol.
Plus then I have to prepare for new job orientation on Monday at a bright and early 8am.
Saturday finish wiring the car trailer.
Sunday Rally-X (break something?)
Saturday - Getting the SCCA truck/trailer ready for the autox season.
Sunday - RallyX.
I did spend this week swapping the diff on the RallyX RX-7 so I will have an LSD now.
I swapped a shift accumulator piston on my crown vic
I've actually finished all of my spring cleaning type maintenance already. No car still, so its just bike maintenance.
Fresh front and rear tires with new tubes and rim strips, repacked wheel bearings. Had the suspension rebuilt, steering head greased, regreased the suspension, fresh brake fluid and coolant. Did an oil/filter change, cleaned the air filter, and sent my aftermarket taillight out to get the LED board replaced under warranty (it got filled with water several times, last one from a big rain storm and it stopped working). Put the nice quiet stock exhaust back on, sold the aftermarket stuff to put into the travel fund. Replaced the chain and sprockets. Oh and I ended getting a new spark plug when the iridum plug that I had installed last summer in hopes to never have to see it again broke at the porcelain and moved 1/4" in and out of the metal body.
One last project is getting my surfboard rack back on, busticated the threads on one of the bolts earlier tonight and I don't feel like dremeling it out right now. Probably buying my first board tomorrow, and a wetsuit. Then finally off to the beach! 
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