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Talk about a room with a view! WOW..

53.. better check the cam!

Originally Posted by 34_40

Talk about a room with a view! WOW..

53.. better check the cam!

Nine floors up facing the beach. Couldn’t ask for a better view to be outside the windows…

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

I've got a 6.0 with 225 k and it was going to slap in and run, makes me think I should go through it, even though I don't want to.

The boy has done some reading and found out that the cams in some of these engines will look like this after 200,000. so I had at least change the cam and lifters…..joe

Ya gotta do Whatsa gotta do when you break a tap off in your engine block. Was finishing up cleaning some of the threads on my six cylinder and as I went to remove the tap and it broke off flush Time to get some washers, a nut along with the welder out and do some magic. Thank God I have some idea of what I am supposed to be doing….joe

ouch.. dang I hate when that happens.. but you got it out in one piece. 8-)

Originally Posted by 34_40

ouch.. dang I hate when that happens.. but you got it out in one piece. 8-)

When it happened I just dropped my tools and walked away from it for about a half hour to 45 minutes before I went back out in the garage and decided to see if I could get this out. I figured that was the best thing to do rather than cuss and take a hammer to the block, lol. Yes I kept my cool….joe

recently my little grip and grab tool broke and i pondered as to whether to get a new one or with my mechanical wizardry come up with a fix for this one ,, the rubber piece that snaps it back closed had broken .. i tried a few glues and none would work ,, today i thought about concocting a spring steel type lever that i could affix to it and keep on trucking .. after fashioning such a thing out of a close hanger i realized that it would not spring back ... spring back i thought .. i scrounged about the garage and found this coil spring from who knows what and attached it to my tool and low and behold we have a good as new grip and grab ,, just in time to as i was getting up to my ankles in pine cones ,, for a lot of years bending over to pick them up was not a problem ..

For some odd reason my son told his wife that he was cooking steak this night while working on the heads from his Ram Truck , lol…joe

Nice... um.. workshop?!?! LOL

Reminds me of the time in the Navy when I stopped by to visit a Navy mech friend at the duplex he shared with two other sailors, and he had the engine out of his MGB in their living room with parts scattered on every horizontal surface!! At least your son put down cardboard on the table!!

The mechanic and his helper at work…joe

I see he got the cylinder heads out of the dishwasher! LOL

i probably will get the before and after pics reversed but you will get the jist .. i have already documented my flat black changes to most of the chrome on this vehicle and to go farther today i added a black side decal .. it is kind of hard to spot .. i am looking for some kind of black wheels also .. i am looking for stock aluminum mags for the corolla also .anf thinking of exterior mods to do to it .. even when not hot rodding one must still be modifying if it`s in the blood ,,

Originally Posted by HOSS429

i probably will get the before and after pics reversed but you will get the jist .. i have already documented my flat black changes to most of the chrome on this vehicle and to go farther today i added a black side decal .. it is kind of hard to spot .. i am looking for some kind of black wheels also .. i am looking for stock aluminum mags for the corolla also .anf thinking of exterior mods to do to it .. even when not hot rodding one must still be modifying if it`s in the blood ,,

You'll be one cool Soccer Mom!!

Originally Posted by rspears

You'll be one cool Soccer Mom!!

HA !! i actually do have a grand daughter but iv`e never seen her .. i drive this way more than i drive the corolla .. i have not even ran out the free tank of gas that it came with .. i had a muffler shop delete the muffler but it only made a very slight difference in loudness and of course no additional power surge that i can feel ..