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tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:51 pm

TwoBobsKJ wrote:

Ha!

Hope I didn't come across as a smart**s - those gaskets aren't much like any gaskets I've ever used :furious:

So tornado warnings, eh? Was just windy over here - no severe weather warnings...yet. Course you guys are in that tabletop flat country so those storms can pop up quick. Did you work on the valve covers? Or waiting for a little more calm weather?

Hart, your box spring description was priceless. "Up, Up and Away...!" If you would've angled it just right you could've landed in my front yard! "What's for dinner, Bob?" :ROTFL:

Bob[/quote]

Finishing another job yesterday, got to start on mine this morning and what a :furious:

I mean just enough room to yank out and thats about it. Oh well all cleaned up waiting for the valve cover to dry and then get it back on.
Should be easier :roll:

tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:53 pm

Valve cover gasket was easy really, after you step back and look at it. Rear lower bolt is a PITB but with a 10 mm rachet wrench made it easy.
I give it a 2.5 on the 1-10 scale

NOW if I only had a torque wrench so I could do the pinion seal
Someday I need to find Scrappy that borrowed mine about 10 years ago :ROTFL:

KJWildman · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:36 pm

Sorry I didn't get by this morning with my torque wrench Tom. It's in the car. Will you be home in the morning? I can drop it by on the way to work. I'd drop it off tonight but I'm working till 2 so would be 3 am. :roll:

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TwoBobsKJ · **Joined:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:03 pm **Posts:** 463

tommudd wrote:

Valve cover gasket was easy really, after you step back and look at it. Rear lower bolt is a PITB but with a 10 mm rachet wrench made it easy.
I give it a 2.5 on the 1-10 scale

NOW if I only had a torque wrench so I could do the pinion seal
Someday I need to find Scrappy that borrowed mine about 10 years ago :ROTFL:

Yea, that's what I meant about it making sense once you've done it. Not a lot of room back there by the firewall but it all goes together once you get the cover angle "just right."

I need to replace the pinion seal on the 4.10 front diff I have in the garage waiting to be swapped in. Is it a tough repair?

Complete change of subject...Just watched the coverage of the Boston bomber who was taken into custody alive. WOW - gotta hand it to the authorities on this one. They ID'd the suspects, had the public help find them and then stayed patient so they could just wear him down.

We live in a different world now, don't we? :furious:

Bob

Ted15 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:36 pm

TwoBobsKJ wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Valve cover gasket was easy really, after you step back and look at it. Rear lower bolt is a PITB but with a 10 mm rachet wrench made it easy.
I give it a 2.5 on the 1-10 scale

NOW if I only had a torque wrench so I could do the pinion seal
Someday I need to find Scrappy that borrowed mine about 10 years ago :ROTFL:

Yea, that's what I meant about it making sense once you've done it. Not a lot of room back there by the firewall but it all goes together once you get the cover angle "just right."

I need to replace the pinion seal on the 4.10 front diff I have in the garage waiting to be swapped in. Is it a tough repair?

Complete change of subject...Just watched the coverage of the Boston bomber who was taken into custody alive. WOW - gotta hand it to the authorities on this one. They ID'd the suspects, had the public help find them and then stayed patient so they could just wear him down.

We live in a different world now, don't we? :furious:

Bob

Yes we do. I'm happy that they fought him, now, off to Cuba with him for some good ol waterboarding. (and whatever else they can think of)
Maybe let the families of the victims have him for awhile first. :twisted:

Marlon_JBT · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:42 pm

Garage roof and door... And paint the walls and I'm done!!

BugginKJ · **Joined:** Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:35 pm **Posts:** 4576

Ted15 wrote:

TwoBobsKJ wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Valve cover gasket was easy really, after you step back and look at it. Rear lower bolt is a PITB but with a 10 mm rachet wrench made it easy.
I give it a 2.5 on the 1-10 scale

NOW if I only had a torque wrench so I could do the pinion seal
Someday I need to find Scrappy that borrowed mine about 10 years ago :ROTFL:

Yea, that's what I meant about it making sense once you've done it. Not a lot of room back there by the firewall but it all goes together once you get the cover angle "just right."

I need to replace the pinion seal on the 4.10 front diff I have in the garage waiting to be swapped in. Is it a tough repair?

Complete change of subject...Just watched the coverage of the Boston bomber who was taken into custody alive. WOW - gotta hand it to the authorities on this one. They ID'd the suspects, had the public help find them and then stayed patient so they could just wear him down.

We live in a different world now, don't we? :furious:

Bob

Yes we do. I'm happy that they fought him, now, off to Cuba with him for some good ol waterboarding. (and whatever else they can think of)
Maybe let the families of the victims have him for awhile first. :twisted:

Why send him there? Give him a sex change operation and then send him to maximum security federal pen with the boys and let them figure out the whole sex change thingy on their own! :twisted:

Marlon_JBT wrote:

Garage roof and door... And paint the walls and I'm done!!

So ya think.................
:rockon:

Marlon_JBT · **Posted:** Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:21 am

Well, by "done", I mean... stuff that I needed to do like YESTERDAY and the sellers should have done like 20 years ago.

Bathroom and Kitchen are getting ripped out in July.

It's gone now!!!!!, but IMO this looked like a fire hazard just waiting to happen.

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:02 am

Marlon_JBT wrote:

Now thats what we call a "rats nest"
at least I don't see a bunch of 30 amp fuses in there which is what a lot of people would do! :wink:

Marlon_JBT · **Posted:** Sat Apr 20, 2013 10:09 am

What I didn't like was the new wires piggybacking on existing circuits. I already threw away the stockpile of fuses they left me with.

Don't need them anymore!

Ted15 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:06 pm

Party's over, sitting in Houston waiting on the connecting flight to Cleveland.

I'd sure like to move back to the other side. The weather started out crappy but was nice after a couple days.

TwoBobsKJ · **Joined:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:03 pm **Posts:** 463

Ted15 wrote:

Party's over, sitting in Houston waiting on the connecting flight to Cleveland.

I'd sure like to move back to the other side. The weather started out crappy but was nice after a couple days.

Awww Ted, you're coming home to beautiful northern Ohio.

On Thursday: 84 degrees
Saturday morning: 36 and snow on the back patio :furious:

But it's never the same like boring, beautiful, sunny Southern California :shock:

Bob

TwoBobsKJ · **Joined:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:03 pm **Posts:** 463

Hey ya'll.

I've got a line on 5, 16 X 8 Moabs in pretty good shape for $300. Is that a good price for them these days?

Bob

501 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:03 pm

tommudd wrote:

Now thats what we call a "rats nest"
at least I don't see a bunch of 30 amp fuses in there which is what a lot of people would do! :wink:

I always loved the pennies behind the fuses because they kept blowing fuses!

When I was an electrician, we went into one house where the insulation was burnt off of the knob & tube wire in the basement and some was glowing red! They had pennies behind the fuses. One lady at another house thought it was neat how the K&T worked for hanging clothes off of with wire hangers. "I just thought it was nice that they installed clothes lines in the basement" she said!

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:50 pm

TwoBobsKJ wrote:

Hey ya'll.

I've got a line on 5, 16 X 8 Moabs in pretty good shape for $300. Is that a good price for them these days?

Bob

YES!!!! now a days its a great price grab em quick

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:55 pm

501 wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Now thats what we call a "rats nest"
at least I don't see a bunch of 30 amp fuses in there which is what a lot of people would do! :wink:

I always loved the pennies behind the fuses because they kept blowing fuses!

When I was an electrician, we went into one house where the insulation was burnt off of the knob & tube wire in the basement and some was glowing red! They had pennies behind the fuses. One lady at another house thought it was neat how the K&T worked for hanging clothes off of with wire hangers. "I just thought it was nice that they installed clothes lines in the basement" she said!

Yes the penny fix, cheap and ah effective ! :banghead:

Or when they would run another breaker box off of one leg of the main one thinking if they split it up then it would be better. Of course the real old houses had two fuses in a box on the porch running everything :roll:

Marlon_JBT · **Posted:** Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:47 pm

Yup. I had a "buddy box" too.

tommudd · **Posted:** Sun Apr 21, 2013 9:03 am

Well
KJ up on jackstands
remove rear driveshaft
have everything ready to do the pinion seal
EXCEPT
where's my 32 mm socket :banghead:

Neither NAPAs that are close by have one, have to order
Put it all back together
Heading to HF this morning
and start all over again
:furious:

Maybe I'll just take the day off and start Monday

Ted15 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:07 am

Looks like I brought some southern California sunshine back with me

Ted15 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:08 am

tommudd wrote:

Well
KJ up on jackstands
remove rear driveshaft
have everything ready to do the pinion seal
EXCEPT
where's my 32 mm socket :banghead:

Neither NAPAs that are close by have one, have to order
Put it all back together
Heading to HF this morning
and start all over again
:furious:

Maybe I'll just take the day off and start Monday

That stinks

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