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Just wrapped up the post work project. The Cherokee got new plugs, wires, distributor and rotor and wrapped it up with an oil change. But now my oil pressure is spiking at random times. Ugh, sometimes I hate this car. If it wasn't so drat reliable I'd have sold it by now.
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Just finished a smallish project on the Escort. Pulled a few more parts of the donor car, pulled off the starter from good car and found part of the housing just flapping around so now I know why it hasn't been starting. Took about 2 hours because I stripped a nut on the old starter and had to remove a mounting bracket to get the whole assembly off and then I ran out of daylight before I could put the "new" starter on the good car. Hopefully I can gt it on and all buttoned up tomorrow with no issues.
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Oct 14, 2009 00:33
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Checked and re-checked every ground on the escort trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. On a lark I check the battery cables and swapped out the positive from my parts car and she started right up. Now to do tie-rods and tires and the winter car is ready!
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Oct 20, 2009 22:36
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I just put a new serpentine belt on my Jeep, the old one has raced so badly an entire rib has worn off. After that I finally got around to replacing my dipstick. Back in the spring I bumped the handle and it snapped off and every attempt to yank the dipstick out sent it further down the shaft. I had to remove the dipstick shaft in order to get the old one out. But at least I can check my oil again properly!
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Dec 10, 2009 21:51
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I spent the evening rolling the parts car into the garage and began stripping it. Pulled off the doors, hood and front wheels. One of the lugs was over torqued and I stripped it trying to turn it. Ended up using the "pound an old socket on" method and spun it right of. Tomorrow the goal is to pull the motor out and grab anything useful before I recycle the body.
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Jan 21, 2010 08:31
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Just had a new Uhaul trailer hitch installed. They were offering free installs yesterday but they were booked solid. But the guy was nice enough to float the free install to today. They just made a customer for life.
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Feb 26, 2010 18:33
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Ziploc posted:Which won't be much longer if you keep renting their trucks. I have rented at least 20 Uhaul trucks over the last 15 years and I have never had any issues at all.
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Feb 26, 2010 21:05
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MetaJew posted:Today I was going to drain and replace the gear oils in my transmission and differential but had the worst time trying to drive my car up onto some ramps, and ultimately just burnt up my clutch and got nothing done. I guess I'll do it next weekend. Harbor Freight sells a jck stand topper that would probably work for you.
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Mar 1, 2010 16:54
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Spent 5 hours tearing pieces off the parts car so I can junk it. Nearly done, just need to get the dash and rear suspension out.
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Apr 12, 2010 01:39
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CornHolio posted:Changed the oil in my brother's car. His car takes only the finest motor oils: I have purchased at least 4 sets of funnels from Harbor Freight and I can never find them when I need one. I always end up cutting up a bottle.
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May 9, 2010 01:37
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Podothehobbit posted:Took the Yaris to my first auto-x. A drat fun time! You auto-xed a Yaris? loving Awesome
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May 10, 2010 05:36
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Tore apart the doors from my parts car. I wanted to save every usable part in case of problems in the future. I stripped the trim, window regulators, lock and latch from the drivers side door and pulled the glass out. Took me about an hour because I couldn't fit a ratchet inside to hit a few nuts. When I went to the other side I found that a PO had used loving pop rivets in place of a few bolts so I couldn't get the glass out of that door at the time.
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May 27, 2010 20:55
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Swapped out the bad tires on the Escort for the ones from my parts car that were surprisingly good. It's amazing what decent rubber does for handling.
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Jun 26, 2010 08:10
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How about what I plan to do? Cause I'm gonna roll the loving thing into the street and light the fucker on fire.
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Jul 5, 2010 08:44
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ExtremeODD posted:South Dakota is the same way, ended up getting arrested after being pulled over for the front plate (90 honduh civic, plate fell off not trying to be ricer) South Dakota is where I got pulled over because of not having a front plate. Nevermind I'm from a state that doesn't require one. Bastard was a complete rear end in a top hat about the whole thing, had the ticket all ready when he finally got to my window.
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Jul 19, 2010 02:41
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MATLAB 1988 posted:That is the sexiest ugly car I have ever seen.
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Jul 25, 2010 21:20
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Finally got around to this Click here for the full 1136x852 image.
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Aug 1, 2010 02:56
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Finished destroying it. Click here for the full 1136x852 image.
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Aug 9, 2010 04:10
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rotarybob posted:Looks like a successful weekend? And I only hurt myself twice!
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Aug 9, 2010 04:51
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Sockington posted:Bitchin' Escort GT. Which one? 
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Aug 9, 2010 22:41
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Used a $3 metal strip to re-hang the Jeep's tail pipe. Got a good look at just how rusted the muffler is and holy poo poo it's time for a new exhaust.
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Sep 12, 2010 18:50
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Swapped the alternator to see if that was the cause of my lack of starting and still nothing. Just a dull whirring sound. Starting to get annoyed.
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Sep 20, 2010 02:10
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Decided I didn't need an entire spare interior so I chucked a metric fuckton of plastic parts.
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Oct 2, 2010 18:23
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I just now wrapped up replacing the inner and outer tie rods on my Escort. I used the Harbor Freight Inner Tie Rod Tool which made the job a breeze. It took longer to break the outer arts free than it did to finish he rest of the job on each side. Gonna take it in for an alignment tomorrow, get some new tires and I should be ready for winter.
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Oct 18, 2010 00:15
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Did an oil change on the Jeep last night in the dark with only a small flashlight (somebody made off with my other light) and somehow managed to put too much oil in. Hello high oil pressure this morning! Didn't have time to drain any so I had to drive the wobbly Escort to work.
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Nov 11, 2010 16:52
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Made a handshake deal to sell the Escort. Guy saw me posting about it on another forum and asked if I really wanted to sell it. He seems pretty serious and didn't balk at my asking price so I might be back to one car here pretty soon.
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Jan 17, 2011 04:36
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Podothehobbit posted:I got my car back from the repair shop after my ill fated crash into a SUV. I really love that wing on your car.
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Feb 12, 2011 04:43
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MetaJew posted:Made my car JDM/DTM tyte. I would love to chew your ear about your car.
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Feb 13, 2011 07:56
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Cross posting from the Jeep thread. A few days ago the muffler and exhaust broke and fell off my Cherokee.     So I bought a new muffler, cut the tailpipe off the old one and bolted it all together.    It's now more quite than it's ever been in the seven years I've owned the Jeep. I have the tailpipe strapped up a little too close to the car so I've going to go buy a urethane bushing to go onto the original hanger. I also want to put another hanger near the front of the muffler just to be extra safe. As suggested I used Locktite on all the bolts and I'm not driving it until tomorrow morning.
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Feb 14, 2011 00:02
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Tore the broken bumper off my Escort. Primed the replacement and prepped the car for the new piece. Also treated all the little rust spots. Gonna get it all buttoned up and cleaned and on CL this week.
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Mar 1, 2011 01:06
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Cleaned and primed the new bumper for my Escort. While it was drying I tore the busted parts off the rear end of the car and cleaned up all the rusty spots. Later I shot the bumper with another coat of primer. Since I'm just doing the swap to try and make the car a more enticing buy I didn't sand it. Hoping to have the whole thing buttoned up by Wednesday.
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Mar 1, 2011 06:44
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Installed the "new" bumper on the Escort. Looks great, now I just have to get the broken tail light into place and the rear end of the car will look 1000 times better.
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Mar 3, 2011 03:29
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Bondoed my the bumper I fixed so I can hide the crack a bit better. Really impressed with my work on this so far. Now if only I'd taken pictures.
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Mar 14, 2011 01:51
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Finished the bumper repair. Turned this  Into this  Looks a bazillion times better.
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Mar 22, 2011 00:52
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Toucan Sam posted:That's awesome, been years since i saw an old Escort GT. Yours even has wheel lips that aren't rusted into oblivion. Nice car man. Thanks man! Was a huge pain getting the tail light into place properly. I did a little more work to the rusted wheel lip the other day and if everything works out she'll be out of my hands on monday and into her new owner's.
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Mar 26, 2011 06:15
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Bought it! 2007 Mazdaspeed 6 GT with 26K miles.
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Apr 7, 2011 02:03
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Geirskogul posted:Props on the tilt-shift photography, but it looks like you parked like a douche. In his defense, look how the other two cars are parked.
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Apr 11, 2011 03:42
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Bought a second set of stock wheels to put winter tires on this fall. Really love the look of the stock MS6 wheel and got them at a good price. Now toying with painting/coating the other set gold.
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May 10, 2011 00:34
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KickStand posted:I wrecked it! It's an Alero, no loss at all!
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daslog posted:Just put new Ignition points in my Caddy. Is this supposed to be a haiku?
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