Ambitious week
01-19-2010, 12:17 AM
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Ambitious week
My stores are doing inventory starting Sunday, so next week I will be working 4PM-1AM shifts... Which means my days are free to knock off a few projects. Let's see how much I can actually get done!
The tally:
Done
* Install new hood shocks
* Remove injectors & mail to WitchHunter for refurb.
Still to go
* Remove disintegrating hood liner & replace.
* Compression check to make sure head gasket is good.
* Timing & balance belts & pulleys.
* Rub, polish, & wax body.
* Polish & paint wheels.
* Install new iPod friendly stereo.
* Brake pads & rotors, install speedbleeders, flush system, super blue fluid.
* Drain tranny, replace with Redline MTL.
* Pressure bleed cooling system.
* Oil change.
Honestly, if I even manage to get the timing belt done I will be a happy camper - the rest will be easy to pick away at as I drive, but I feel like I'm driving a ticking time bomb with those belts (the car sat in the PO's garage between 2005 and 2009, and had 40k on the belts when he parked it in '05).
Wish me luck!
The tally:
Done
* Install new hood shocks
* Remove injectors & mail to WitchHunter for refurb.
Still to go
* Remove disintegrating hood liner & replace.
* Compression check to make sure head gasket is good.
* Timing & balance belts & pulleys.
* Rub, polish, & wax body.
* Polish & paint wheels.
* Install new iPod friendly stereo.
* Brake pads & rotors, install speedbleeders, flush system, super blue fluid.
* Drain tranny, replace with Redline MTL.
* Pressure bleed cooling system.
* Oil change.
Honestly, if I even manage to get the timing belt done I will be a happy camper - the rest will be easy to pick away at as I drive, but I feel like I'm driving a ticking time bomb with those belts (the car sat in the PO's garage between 2005 and 2009, and had 40k on the belts when he parked it in '05).
Wish me luck!
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01-19-2010, 12:38 AM
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Well then I pull the engine and install it in my Jeep 
But seriously - I hate my current garage-less setup. Means if I wake up at 9, I arrive at my parents' house at 10-10.30, do 3-4hrs of work and then have to be presentable to make sure the people who are supposed to be counting our stock aren't just sticking it in their pockets.
Thus why it's taken me nearly a year to replace some hoses.
But seriously - I hate my current garage-less setup. Means if I wake up at 9, I arrive at my parents' house at 10-10.30, do 3-4hrs of work and then have to be presentable to make sure the people who are supposed to be counting our stock aren't just sticking it in their pockets.
Thus why it's taken me nearly a year to replace some hoses.
01-19-2010, 12:15 PM
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this one happens to be a '80, but they made the fullsize Cherokees pretty much unchanged from '74-'83. The 4-door version (Wagoneer/Grand Wag) went from '63-'91, and the pickup from '63-'87.
Really fun to work on - I can actually climb inside the engine bay while I'm wrenching. I have a grand total of just over $2000 invested including purchase price: http://www.expeditionportal.com/foru...ad.php?t=25897
Really fun to work on - I can actually climb inside the engine bay while I'm wrenching. I have a grand total of just over $2000 invested including purchase price: http://www.expeditionportal.com/foru...ad.php?t=25897
01-19-2010, 02:26 PM
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That's ambitious, but good luck!
I keep my cars and all my tools at my family's farm which is 40 minutes North of the city. It just isn't practical to get up there on a weekday evening, so anything I do has to be on the weekends.
Love the Jeep.
I keep my cars and all my tools at my family's farm which is 40 minutes North of the city. It just isn't practical to get up there on a weekday evening, so anything I do has to be on the weekends.
Love the Jeep.
01-19-2010, 09:49 PM
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Got it here... Injectors are out and on the way to witchhunter and I got my new hood shocks installed. Of course, I made it to Ben lomond just in time for the biggest rain storm of the season, but the Porsche is warm and dry in the garage.
