Corgnito

Mini Twiga is amazing, short people in tall people's suits is always funny.

Though Kodo in mine just made my suit look proper corgi sized.

Niece's cat repaired, hopefully it stays that way for a bit, and hopefully my luck with parts improves that's the third thing in like a week with some kind of issue.

To be fair the shipper messed up the exhaust, but the tensioner for the Cheescape and those brake lines....

But you could still be 3 kobolds in a giraffe suit, that's actually far more amusing.

Really cool the new lines don't have a groove for the clip, time for sketchy cutting disc surgery!

YouTube video by Chase Noseworthy - Topic Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat

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Bye bye broken brake lines

Little arsehole is back together and oil changed, that's two "quick" maintenance jobs that spiraled into far more than they should have these days off.

Ever hate your past self? That's where the leak was, behind the AC compressor/power steering bracket, wanna guess why the timing cover was leaking?

Some dummy (it's me) didn't torque the bolts going through the water pump to the timing cover properly. Fixed that and wow, no leaks!

Rule one of working on things, never assume a quick job will be quick.....

Ranger has another coolant leak, looks like the timing cover, which is behind the pump I just changed, it passed a pressure test when I did the pump, but it's a pretty steady leak.

Next up in sky jail.

Just an oil change, but I wanna take a look at some stuff before winter, especially since I'm probably driving this thing until November with the repairs to my daily, good winter tires are important when you drive 4 hours of highway every 4 days

If it's that bad the diag time should be cheap, always loved getting a wheel bearing that sounded like wheel of fortune, made it easy for me XD

Ask Spots about wheel bearings, I've done at least a half dozen for him, 4 on his old Cavalier and 2 on the Cheescape™ (so far).

Definitely sounds like a wheel bearing on yours by the fact it happens when turning, though possible it's also a bent backing plate.

And because it never seems to end, found both front brake lines are starting to look pretty bad, so sourcing parts and will probably be changing those next week.

Put shinies on niece's car, calipers and brackets were rusted to hell and back, most of the work was cleaning that up so things would move again XD

Also did the glow plugs, but that took like 10 minutes so no pics.

Shiny bits installed in the Cheescape™ today, hard to see the water pump behind it's pulley, and I ended up pulling the tensioner out because it made almost as much noise as the faulty one, gonna go with something different, for now the one from my car is back in until then.

One is me!

I got the stupid hanger out of the exhaust I ordered, I really wish other people's lack of ability to think would stop making my life more difficult.

That's a smrt upgrade!

Now I kinda want to bring my RC out again, seeing I can get it running.

Interesting! Proper sized drive shafts don't have that kind of flex, and if they do, you have bigger problems than a u-joint XD

My mechanic brain is curious what it would be like swapping out one of those tiny little u-joints.

The problem one came out easily during diag, if the others fight me I'm not gonna mess with them, she wants to just do them all, but I'm also not interested in a huge fight with it. Probably helps there's a lot of oil in the area, nature's antiseize

Brakes and glow plugs on my niece's Golf, water pump, belt tensioner, right rear diff seal, left front transaxle output seal, and an exhaust clamp on buddies Escape, front cross over pipe, timing cover and oil gaskets on my Escape, and some replacement parts for my car that I used on something else.

Well that was dumb..... Whoever packaged this pipe pushed the hanger in and now it's jammed into the flex pipe, can't see a hole on the outside but not a guarantee it won't leak.

4 cars worth of stuff this time, from 5 warehouses, and I only got 3 magnets

From what I've seen they can become very social and bond with people :3 Problem I have is I'm away from home for days at a time, so keeping an eye on them may be difficult

I have loved jumping spiders since I learned about them, incredibly fascinating little guys! Wish we had them up here, considered buying one as a pet, but not sure how well I could take care of them with my schedule.

When you're just not busy enough already!

I'm glad the day spent on it was not for naught.

Crazy that buddy and I, decades of diagnostic experience, both could not think of anything else that would make the noise, and then it's that.

Got the Cheescape™ back together, still made the noise at the time, and found this..... Yes there were expletives.

Bright side, it now runs better, that old chain was stretched, and I found the leaking water pump this way, silver linings and all that.

It's put everything back time, all shiny and new!

New chain deflects so much less, barely moves down at all.