What did you do to your projects today?

Working 12 hour shifts Saturday and Sunday so no worky on projects. I did manage to pull the rear shocks and springs on the S197 last Friday. Slow progress, but it is progress.

Put about 400 miles on the Mini going to Carlisle and back.

Cleaned and waxed Midlana in preparation of having dinner with a buddy who taught me "TeX", a rather obtuse editing program for creating text book manuscripts, but which served well for writing the Midlana construction manual.

Oh, and I added a touch of brake fluid :)

This weekend, I did my first Saab convertible top replacement. Thankfully, I had a donor car with a good top, so I didn't have the stretch the fabric. I just swapped the entire assembly. I also replaced the rear view mirror, antenna assembly, treated some surface rust, installed the rear side panels, fixed all of the trunk lining, then put another 30 miles or so on it.

Drove to Hearst Castle in IS300 Friday, got pulled over for tinted front windows Saturday, changed oil in said IS300, installed rebuilt steering rack on car, attempted to install new tie rod end, seized up partway on. Other side, the nut wouldn't even thread on. So I spent my Saturday afternoon busting knuckles only to end up exactly where I started, with the old rack back on, spilling some ATF with a ruined new tie rod end.

I've been having awful luck with rebuilt parts lately.

Sunday, used the Saturn SL2 to take 2 kayaks to the marina and putz around, then hit the Costco car wash and gave it a polish with my porter cable and some meguiars ultimate polish. Burped the cooling system and filled the washer fluid resevoir. I now probably own the best kept Saturn SL in the county.

replaced cruise control button lights on the si

Saturday and Sunday I took the !NEW AND IMPROVED BOOSTIFICATED! Jensenator to CMP and beat it like it owes me money.

kb58 wrote: Cleaned and waxed Midlana in preparation of having dinner with a buddy who taught me "TeX", a rather obtuse editing program for creating text book manuscripts, but which served well for writing the Midlana construction manual. Oh, and I added a touch of brake fluid :)

TeX and LaTeX are awesome. They are only obtuse for a little while and then they are the standard you will judge all other publishing software by. Especially if you need mathematical or musical notation in your output.

Knuth was a god.

Finished assembly of the Suspension of this

And moved it into the new garage.

Yay

Maybe now I will start making progress again on this silly 6 year project

Heading outside to do a valve cover gasket, oil change, and a few other odds and ends on the new-to-me family buggy ('03 CR-V). Nothing too exciting, unfortunately.

Whelp... the shifter in my race car was all soggy. I could have purchased OE parts and tightened it up. I could have swapped to bronze bushings. I could also have purchased any number of aftermarket solutions to solve the problem. But I didn't... because I can't race Mid-Ohio this weekend I have some free time... and because lathe...

Tonight, I'll make the adjustable rod and base plate for the tunnel. Maybe tomorrow I'll go to a bar and steal the 5 ball for a knob.

Installed Eibach LCA's on the S197.

Squished some tent caterpillars rolling around under the car. Damn these things are slow but they seem to get where ya least expect 'em before ya know it and then... splat. I hate these berkeleyers.

A bunch of landscaping/gardening the past few days. no car work

I've been mentally preparing myself for a weekend thrash session to get my Trans Am running again. The starter quit on me last year and I've been too busy to even look at it. I have a new mini starter for it, but it doesn't play nice with my headers, so I have to figure something out. Once it's up and running again, I'll post a build thread for it.

stared at it a bit, then remembered i have to spend some more money on the daily before i can even bother with it. The even sadder part is im thinking about buying a spare long block for the daily so i can turn the boost up. i seem to fall in love with the car im driving and leave the wagon unloved

I had a special package make it's way from Europe today.

European Hella H4 headlight housings for my saab. Soon it will look like this:

iNSTALLED WINDSHIELD FROM team evil ! Checkin fluids .. first legal run in car in 20 yeaRS

I drove my project over to another guy's house to help him with his project.

Finished gathering all of the components for the MRAP tail light swap for the Jeep. All I have to do is solder the harness together, paint the light housings black and assemble all the pieces. It should be pretty unique when I'm done

I drove my car-that-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-project and made a depressingly long list of what I need to do to it.

i worked on the daily i purchased because i wanted a car i wouldnt turn into another project. i just cant leave E36 M3 alone

Sat in a chair drinking beer, while removing the decals and vinyl from the rx7.

Then, I sat in a chair drinking beer, and once again stared at the wall in the shop that needs to be a hole.

After doing that for awhile, I shifted my attention to a different wall, where I need to build some tire racks.

does chasing down a short that took out the Living room and half the kitchen count as working on a project?

Stupid thing was a lose wire at an outlet. Somebody previous to myself never tightened the screws that held the wires in place. As it was a metal box, I am surprised there was no damage to anything

Rebuilt my Camaro's LS1 with help from a friend. I had never built an engine before today, and he had done a ton of old Chevy stuff, but never an LS engine. We got it more or less figured out and it's now complete from throttle body to oil pan. I'm actually kind of shocked with how smoothly it went together--aside from me breaking the oil pressure sensor, we didn't have a single problem.

Cleaned shop. Oh, and changed the rear u-joints on the samurai.