New shiny thing is in, ran car and no leaks, gonna let it sit over night and make sure nothing drips, then figure out what they did to the skid plate tomorrow, would leave it off for a bit, but this pan has a plastic plug where a level sensor could, would rather have that protected.
Stupid pan is out! The one tried to strip on me and I had to hammer the bit into it, but it's out finally.
This has not helped my opinion of how "wonderful" German engineering is......
Thankfully I'm not actually in any kind of rush, I'm off work until the 23rd, and I lent my niece my vehicle while I have my dad's Ranger, but it's still frustrating because I should be done by now.
I have also broken ball ends, luckily these bolts were out like 3 months ago, coming out easy so far
Tools found, that was a pain in the ass since the proper tool places aren't open Sunday.
Also found, food, so now is lunch.
Well in this case the joke is on them, I don't have enough tools to probably pay off my house if I sold them for no reason.
Which I don't have in metric, so off to look for tools!
I think a more shallow swivel would also work but mine are kinda chonky
And here's why I hate VW, and German cars in general, two bolts you can't go straight at and partially hidden, why?!?!
Good thing I have 1/4 swivels
Fix shit time
I love when people make more work for me!
Some real car stuff, my niece brings me the most interesting things, brand new oil pan like 3 months ago, landlord told her today her car has a leak, yes, yes it does.
Apparently the shop that put the pan on told her they "bent the skid plate up so it wouldn't hit again." Well.....
Some more pics to show off how cool this thing looks!
And it's complete! Some stickers are a bit wonky but that's not the fun of this for me, it was the build itself.
The hood on the back also has a neat little hinge as well that holds it up nicely when you open it!
Bag 5 done, one more to go! More fun moving parts too, I figured that hinge sitting loose on one end had a reason, and it's actually a quite smooth little door hinge!
I did bag 4 because this is how I'm dealing with con crud, this time it's not a lie to say no new moving parts, but it's starting to look like a real car now!
I lied, remembered as soon as I hit post, hood pop mechanism!
Technically on this car it would be the trunk, but whatever x3
Bag 3 of bits has been placed! No new fun moving bits but it did add a bit of livery, also seats!
Finished bag 2 because why not? And now it has steering! Not sure why the mechanism is that high, but as the rest of it comes together I'm sure it will make sense.
It's a lot of fun and it's making me think I need to do more Lego!
Finished bag one, very fun to build since it's not overly simple, especially since this appears to be the engine, stuff like this tickles my brain in all the right ways!
I was very excited to see it considering the GT40 is my all time favourite car, the poor employee at the store asked buddy and I what we thought was the coolest thing we'd seen and then got a lore dump on the history of the car XD
Yes! I very much enjoy building things and don't get to do Lego often, but I couldn't resist my dream car when I saw it at the Lego store.
Many days off left after VF, feel kinda like hell because I ran myself ragged at the con, no real responsibility for the day, so time to chill with this I guess!
I would very much recommend one, great way to get heat on things without possibly lighting stuff on fire like a torch, especially in some tight spaces. They aren't cheap but they also don't require refills of fuel like a torch, maybe replace an element here or there, bit of a trade off.
This is the biggest element I have, so probably about an inch and a half, there is a flexible one as well that can be wrapped around things so could likely do even larger. In my experience it works fast too, have gotten a lot of bolts glowing with it.
I finally have a working inductive heater again! Only been 5 and a half years since the last one melted.....
Can confirm that being a corgi gets your butt stared at
Turns out the right quick strut I put in decided to come loose, guess I shouldn't have overlooked the new parts during diag.....
Gonna put the old one in so I can at least drive it, but damn is that annoying.
Those control arms needed to be done, the left ball joint has a torn boot and the right isn't sitting correctly after I tried to swap them awhile back and the new ones just popped back in by hand, so I had to pop the old one back in.
Sadly that wasn't the clunk I was after....
Not really when you have the "I do all the work myself" discount :3
The work today maybe cost me about 100 bucks, in a shop it would probably be over a grand x3
Sky jail again..... I think this little shit just enjoys riding on the car go up machine.
