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So I have found the usual searching for lug keys….living where I do its not at all uncommon to find fire arms and ammo. We usually just shuffle around it and dont give it a second thought. Truck beds are usually covered in blood during last few months of the year…vehicles come in like that all the time no one bats an eye. Even at the school when people pull in vehicles with guns, no one even says anything.
But condoms, magazines, toys, KKK gear. Literally white robes and that pointy hat and a the whole get up in the back of a bus….
My top favorite was a new toyota tacoma…like 600 miles. Car went to the dealership twice for a noise during accel and decel. They had no idea what the problem was. Car came to the school as a last ditch attempt. Made a zip noise when you gassed it…zipped when you slowed down and stopped….All speeds….Finally our toyota master tech too the torch and cut the back end of the frame…toyota tacoma pickup rolls out. Not even joking. It was put in at the factory….
I am about to graduate with my AA(Associates of Applied Science) with Auto Tech…They try to teach for an hour or so and then we spend the next 7 hours in the shop actually working on vehicles and doing the work. We have a parts department for replacing parts…
And its going to get me placed into a shop or garage that is highering. The school gets job offers from pretty much all over the state and surrounding states..
Now the first thing I am going to do if I get a job at a dealership…is going to training classes and get certified on their vehicles.
After a year of working at a dealership, I can get my ASE certification(seeing as two years of approved tech schooling is worth 1 year of expereience).
Any idiot can replace parts, but unless you know how it works, you wont be able to fix it right the first time, every time.
I am about to graduate with my AA(Associates of Applied Science) with Auto Tech…They try to teach for an hour or so and then we spend the next 7 hours in the shop actually working on vehicles and doing the work. We have a parts department for replacing parts…
And its going to get me placed into a shop or garage that is highering. The school gets job offers from pretty much all over the state and surrounding states..
Now the first thing I am going to do if I get a job at a dealership…is going to training classes and get certified on their vehicles.
After a year of working at a dealership, I can get my ASE certification(seeing as two years of approved tech schooling is worth 1 year of expereience).
Any idiot can replace parts, but unless you know how it works, you wont be able to fix it right the first time, every time.
banana:
34 degrees today with minor wind. Got in a couple free hours to replace the left side ball joints. Man that was a lot of not fun….two bottle jacks in a parking lot with all hand tools…busted up a few knuckles. Took about two and a half hours to take it all apart and put in new ones.
Not going to do the other side. Its too late and starting to cool off…and every tool I touched became instantly covered in grease. Maybe tomorrow….
banana:
34 degrees today with minor wind. Got in a couple free hours to replace the left side ball joints. Man that was a lot of not fun….two bottle jacks in a parking lot with all hand tools…busted up a few knuckles. Took about two and a half hours to take it all apart and put in new ones.
Not going to do the other side. Its too late and starting to cool off…and every tool I touched became instantly covered in grease. Maybe tomorrow….
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Havent had a lot of time to spray….got a couple sessions in. Just need to do some pushing and more pulling and maybe a couple more hours and I will be done. Then im going to spray a blue pearl over the whole thing and clear it. Still leaking brake fluid with the park break applied only….pretty heavy too… and i just replaced both wheel cylinders…no idea whats up…
Most of the suspension stuff is sitting in my living room. No garage to work and its usually -20 F plus windchill here….-55 on monday…need a nice day to get the work done
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Havent had a lot of time to spray….got a couple sessions in. Just need to do some pushing and more pulling and maybe a couple more hours and I will be done. Then im going to spray a blue pearl over the whole thing and clear it. Still leaking brake fluid with the park break applied only….pretty heavy too… and i just replaced both wheel cylinders…no idea whats up…
Most of the suspension stuff is sitting in my living room. No garage to work and its usually -20 F plus windchill here….-55 on monday…need a nice day to get the work done
Yup, diamond star motors liked this design because it allowed them to have discs all the way around with a quality parking brake.
They are a major PITA without propper tools. They have to be turned and compressed at the same time to move them using a socket and a brake cube or other brake service tool to do it.
Yup, diamond star motors liked this design because it allowed them to have discs all the way around with a quality parking brake.
They are a major PITA without propper tools. They have to be turned and compressed at the same time to move them using a socket and a brake cube or other brake service tool to do it.
That is just one pe of drum brake system. There are 3 types of parking brakes: Drum w/ cable, Top Hat design, and Spiral piston.
From there, only the drum and top hat design use drum parking brakes.
And it narrows farther to Non Servo where each brake is applied individually and have a self energizing action to improve braking….these have double trailing and leading trailing brake designs. And Dual Servo which has the force multiplier and allows the drum to hold well in both directions and is one of the more common drum designs.
Few cars, if any, have non servo drum brakes in the rear. Most have dual servo or integrated or top hat design parking brakes.
That is just one pe of drum brake system. There are 3 types of parking brakes: Drum w/ cable, Top Hat design, and Spiral piston.
From there, only the drum and top hat design use drum parking brakes.
And it narrows farther to Non Servo where each brake is applied individually and have a self energizing action to improve braking….these have double trailing and leading trailing brake designs. And Dual Servo which has the force multiplier and allows the drum to hold well in both directions and is one of the more common drum designs.
Few cars, if any, have non servo drum brakes in the rear. Most have dual servo or integrated or top hat design parking brakes.
Worked at a weld shop that did some style of bed liner. I had no idea what brand it was, but it was great and guaranteed for life. It was a 2k that showed up in 55 gallon drums. Stuff was thick(half an inch is pretty extreme thats a 500 MIL build….) but it was around 8 mil a coat. Rattlecan bed liner is maybe 1 mil dry coat and not nearly as durable or UV resistant.
For comparison, top of the line clear coats from PPG are about 1.5 – 2.0 mil a coat, and thats two coats. So one coat of this liner was four times the thickness of automotive clear coat.
And with masking and correct spray patterns(and looking at the products dry film on Tech page) will allow you to refit trim and make sure doors open and close fully.
Worked at a weld shop that did some style of bed liner. I had no idea what brand it was, but it was great and guaranteed for life. It was a 2k that showed up in 55 gallon drums. Stuff was thick(half an inch is pretty extreme thats a 500 MIL build….) but it was around 8 mil a coat. Rattlecan bed liner is maybe 1 mil dry coat and not nearly as durable or UV resistant.
For comparison, top of the line clear coats from PPG are about 1.5 – 2.0 mil a coat, and thats two coats. So one coat of this liner was four times the thickness of automotive clear coat.
And with masking and correct spray patterns(and looking at the products dry film on Tech page) will allow you to refit trim and make sure doors open and close fully.
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Got one side primed and sealed. Still lookin for ideas on what to do.
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And the inside portion is bedlined…
Ordered some moog ball joints today. They were the top quality that Oreillys was selling, but got them online for half the price….Hopefully I can do that next weekend. Its about -40 outside with windchill right now and I dont have a garage to work in, so gotta find one to do the ball joints. We got a lot of snow recently and I canreally feel how loose the steering is now.
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Got one side primed and sealed. Still lookin for ideas on what to do.
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And the inside portion is bedlined…
Ordered some moog ball joints today. They were the top quality that Oreillys was selling, but got them online for half the price….Hopefully I can do that next weekend. Its about -40 outside with windchill right now and I dont have a garage to work in, so gotta find one to do the ball joints. We got a lot of snow recently and I canreally feel how loose the steering is now.