Again, I have our current coronavirus pandemic to thank for helping me have the time to finally fix the fenders of our resident 2010 Toyota Corolla SE. That single-owner beast has clocked over 192,000 miles. I’ve told its owner that our mission is to get it past 300,000 miles. And, yes, it’s quite doable with…
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Keeping HVAC Pipes Cool
With COVID-19 keeping a lot of us on lock-down, I find myself doing a lot of (ahem) home improvement stuff. Dare I say, it has been interesting reviving skills I haven’t used in decades. Of course, the Internet, makes it a whole lot easier, especially YouTube. A project I had been putting of a while…
Revive All Muscle Memory by Adding More RAM
This is something I’ve been wanting to post for a while, and now here we are. As I’ve written in some past posts, I’m no uber-mechanic, but I do have little projects I take on to get me into the habit of working with my hands to figure out certain technical challenges. The purpose: to…
Home Depot Classic Car Build
Nine…month…later. Finally, the follow-up post about actually building the Home Depot Classic Car with my boys. Check out the original post, Home Depot Classic Car, for more context. It didn’t take the whole nine months to build the car of course, life just got in the way. The actual building was done over a couple…
Tools Of The Trade
A couple of months ago, that lovely WRX I drove back East, made its way Southwest. To show my gratitude, I volunteered my services to help swap the snow tires for the much-preferred performance tires. Despite the skill between the owner (a buddy of mine) and I, and the possession of a proper hydraulic jack,…
Home Depot Classic Cars
Last winter I came home to find two small see-through packages by my door. I’m not sure who left them. I’m guessing one of my neighbors, who knows I have kids and love cars, dropped them off. They are branded Classic Car kits, from Home Depot. This will be the next project. I will do…
Unclogging The Drain To Train
I decided today I would tackle two home projects, after putting them off for at least a month. The first, was carpet cleaning. This was long overdue because I hadn’t decided how I wanted to get this cleaning done. Do I pay for cleaners? Do I buy a machine? Do I just rent a machine?…
Using A Skate To Educate (Myself)
After weeks of planning, and getting parts, I finally got down to some maintenance of my kid’s roller-blades. This is part of a series of my use of small technical projects, to bolster confidence in tackling large automotive ones. YouTube, common-sense, and a bit of courage have been instrumental on this journey. My desire to…
Power Steering Fluid Transfusion
Once again I got the opportunity to assist on an automotive project that I had no experience doing before. I got to help with a power steering fluid transfusion. Power steering is the reason your arms don’t fall of from exhaustion, after doing a three-point turn. Some of you late Gen-Xers and earlier drivers may…
What’s A Serpentine Belt Tool?
That was my response to a question, a fellow MSCAer, posed to me. This was not too long after I committed to assisting her in replacing the serpentine belt on her ride. Now, to know what a serpentine belt tool is, you really need to know what a serpentine belt is. And you don’t really know what a…