What did you do to your car this weekend?

"GRawesome" (GRawesome) 03/24/2014 at 08:30 • Filed to: None

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I hear spring is coming in parts of the world. Was the weather good enough for you to get out and do some work on your DD or Project? What did you do to your car this weekend? Hopefully not this:

Jeremy H formerly Kalakaboooom > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 08:32

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New speakers! I actually have enjoyable sound being emitted from my car now!

thebigbossyboss > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 08:34

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Browsed kijiji for new racing seats. Sellers ignored me though. Still too cold to work on cars anyways.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 08:36

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It was fucking snowing and fucking cold. I drank beer while I thought about what I want to be doing to my car.

duurtlang > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 08:44

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I swapped the winter wheels for the summer wheels weeks ago. It went from an extended autumn to an early spring here, as if winter was skipped. What I did do was to make an appointment with a guy I potentially want to buy a car from. In German, which I hardly speak.

Pitchblende > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 08:47

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My car now has new rear tyres. Got a nail in one and it was unrepairable, but they were both cracked and were probably the tyres that came with the car when it was new which makes them 6 years old.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 08:49

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I sold my CLS and bought a Crown! :D

chilango > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 08:50

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New subwoofers! And never ending frustration on wiring that, was satisfied with results though. Take The Box by Amy Winehouse sounds especially good with the added bass. Set up an appointment to buy a Geo. Yeah!

burglar can't heart click anything > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 08:53

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New rear swaybar and lowered the front end a little. First autocross next Sunday, still more to do. Snuck up on me.

Orange Exige > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:03

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I tried to take the diff out of my Miata to sell online as I'm slowly parting it...
Made some progress but couldn't get the axles out of the diff so I gotta wait a few more weeks before I go home again to finish.

Oh and this was yesterday when it was freezing out - I'm stupid and did nothing on Saturday when it was beautiful out -_-

yamahog > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:18

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Good: Cleaned the throttle body on the Jeep, topped off the power steering fluid, and got the back hatch to work for the first time since I've owned it!

Not so good: new jack picked up real cheap on whim during a final sale showed why it was cheap... if it had taken Viagra I would've had to call a doctor after 4 hours. Luckily I tested it before trying to jack up the XJ. Trackbar is going to be a two-person job (get back here plz, CrzRsn), and I still have a mile long list of things to do.

MonkeePuzzle > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:25

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I WAS going to work on my car, but then I couldn't find a tool I needed, and I looked around and just about had an anxiety attack at the mess I saw. So I pulled everything out and swept behind everything and dusted and organized. Then there was no time for working on the car.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:28

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Nothing on my car, but worked on a lot of Land-Rover galvanized trim. Prepping a big batch (majority of trim from 3 Rovers + spares) to get redipped, so had to get all paints/undercoatings/other gunge off them and did an acid dip (couple hundred gallons) to make sure the galvanizer's pickling wouldn't run into any surprises (and could be a lot shorter).

GTI MkVII > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:34

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Picked up a screw in my tire, so got that plugged on Friday. Then had to get the wheel rebalanced on Saturday with sticky weights because my wheels just don't like the hammer-on ones. Washed and waxed it yesterday.

Mattbob > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:36

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Changed front brakes and rotors, an oil change and inspected the rear bushings and flex disk on the e36,. Those are a job for a warmer weekend. When it get warm enough to deal with all the damned rust, I will fix the track bar and sway bar links on the XJ. I can't deal with all that damned rust in this weather. Why do you make cars out of rust Chrysler?

Milky > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:39

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Shop was too busy to get me in and change a bushing that is going out, so I went for a drive in protest.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:43

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Found the Land Rover was leaking oil more than usual in the front so I am going to replace the front engine cover gasket this week and seeing as I have the front off, I'm replacing the oil pump, water pump and front main seal while I'm about it.

Dsscats > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 09:56

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A Shi ton of detailing.

thebigbossyboss > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 03/24/2014 at 10:04

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Same. I also thought about how nice it will be once summer comes. I think we under 4 ft of snow sitting on the ground now, but I am not sure.

thebigbossyboss > duurtlang 03/24/2014 at 10:06

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winter.....skipped??

duurtlang > thebigbossyboss 03/24/2014 at 10:11

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Yes. It was abnormally mild this year. I had to scrape the ice of my wind shield about half a dozen times. We had real snow once, and only about 10 cm or so. Black ice? Only after that snow I mentioned partially melted and re-froze. I guess I don't have to explain to you I don't live in North America where I'm told it was worse than normal.

BKRM3 > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 10:27

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Swapped the winter wheels for summers (and cleaned both sets) and also swapped in the race pads. First track event is 2 weeks from today, so it's a little early but I wasn't sure we'd get another warm/dry Saturday before then. The weather is really all over the place. Also gave the ol girl a wash. SO sick of the salt.

thebigbossyboss > duurtlang 03/24/2014 at 10:31

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Yeah I am guessing you be in one of them European countries. Kinda funny the way that works eh...

Thing about all the North Americans griping is that this winter isn't bad, it's normal in the long run, but over the last couple of years it was abnormally warm. Over here they say over the last 50 winters this one is about number 10 out of 50 for harshness, so in other words well within the range of expected outcomes. Average weather means nothing, it just means half the time it was warmer than this temp and the other half of the time colder.

The media doesn't look at weather in long enough patterns for proper conclusions. Imagine that.

Mattbob > yamahog 03/24/2014 at 10:48

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you have to do a trackbar too???? Seriously that nut on the drivers side ball joint is looking impossible. I tried at it twice this winter. I am not touching it till it's 70 out. Good luck.

yamahog > Mattbob 03/24/2014 at 10:56

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Yea, dumb and/or cheap ass who did the lift left a stock track bar. Was feeling really shitty about my upper body strength and lack of leverage until my downstairs neighbor and fellow XJ owner told me he ended up using an air wrench on his.

Mattbob > yamahog 03/24/2014 at 10:58

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how do you get an air wrench into that pocket where that nut is? You are talking about the castle nut, right?

yamahog > Mattbob 03/24/2014 at 11:00

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I was talking about the passenger side, can't even get that one.

Mattbob > yamahog 03/24/2014 at 11:03

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gotcha. Also, I've found that you should never underestimate a torch with mapp gas.

cazzyodo > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 11:35

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I was entertaining the idea of changing my winter tires off but then I looked at the weather. It was 55 when I thought about it, 20 now, snow on wednesday, then 55 for the weekend. WTF

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 11:47

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I fixed a dead speaker and spent an entire afternoon with a circuit tester tracking down the reason why my power locks were kaput.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 12:30

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Fun: Wore out the shoulders on both front tires at Roebling Road. Also changed the oil on the truck, and am starting the sourcing for the friction modifier for the rear end, because that will need changing soon,

Not so fun: Car is still on the trailer because some fool at work decided taking a 5AM Monday flight anywhere is reasonable.

KAT8503 > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 13:33

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3S-GTE project, removed cylinder head from the block and dismantled.

NaturallyAspirated > GRawesome 03/24/2014 at 13:38

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I replaced the rear brakes on my Subaru. New rotors, pads, calipers, slider pins, brackets, and flexible hoses, then bled a full liter of Pentosin Super DOT 4 through the system.

I did the front brakes in 2012, and I was just waiting for the rears to start making noise before I tackled them. Both sides had horribly uneven wear on the pads, which is why I decided to replaced everything rather than trying to rebuild what I had.

I need to take up a little slack in the parking brake system - it's got a drum brake inside the rotor hat for the parking brake - but other than that, I'm pretty happy with the results. The car stops much flatter now.