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    Re: What did you do in the Garage today?

    Quote Originally Posted by onecrazydog View Post
    Yes, and a good degreaser!! This is what i use,

    Attachment 30306
    After I'm all done cleaning ours, I put this in a garden sprayer (dilute it about 2-1) and just give a quick spray...shines things up a bit.

    https://www.amazon.com/Superior-Prod...066162414&th=1
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    Quote Originally Posted by onecrazydog View Post
    When I was an auto tech in the mid '80s, I changed about 3 of those a week...got really good at it. In the beginning we would rebuild the CV joint, but after a few years of the FWD companies started making entire replacement shafts like you show...and they were only about $99 at that time....I'd swap one out in less than an hour. The hardest part was separating the lower ball joint on some, and there were a few cars that had a tricky snap ring inside the transaxle that you'd have to take out...real PIA. Rebuilding a CV joint is a tricky piece of work, getting all balls back in properly and all. And I have (still have it) a special tool for crimping the metal bands around the CV joint housing after the boot was replaced. We used to tease the new technicians by telling them that the grease inside CV joints was special...came from sperm whale oil and was very rare...lol.
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    Changed the ground battery cable on the Camaro...the wire was coming out of the molded end terminal. Easy fix...the hardest part was figuring out how to route the new cable to make it look all neat and tidy, as it was about 5" longer than the old cable. No pics.
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    Re: What did you do in the Garage today?

    Quote Originally Posted by Alloy Dave View Post
    When I was an auto tech in the mid '80s, I changed about 3 of those a week...got really good at it. In the beginning we would rebuild the CV joint, but after a few years of the FWD companies started making entire replacement shafts like you show...and they were only about $99 at that time....I'd swap one out in less than an hour. The hardest part was separating the lower ball joint on some, and there were a few cars that had a tricky snap ring inside the transaxle that you'd have to take out...real PIA. Rebuilding a CV joint is a tricky piece of work, getting all balls back in properly and all. And I have (still have it) a special tool for crimping the metal bands around the CV joint housing after the boot was replaced. We used to tease the new technicians by telling them that the grease inside CV joints was special...came from sperm whale oil and was very rare...lol.
    The snap ring is on the drivers side, her's what had to come off for the passenger side,

    thumbnail_20220625_212146.jpg

    I have one of those crimping tools,

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    Re: What did you do in the Garage today?

    Quote Originally Posted by Highwayman View Post
    In Pittsburgh, moved the Harley from the basement to the garage only it wouldn't turn over well. I keep it on a Battery Tender and I never have this issue. So I decided to look more into it and the first thing I saw was the date on the battery, 07/2016, well it was time to get a new battery. Now it runs great.

    6 years sounds like a good life if it’s a standard motorcycle/power sports battery.


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    Cha Ching.


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