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[Ice Cold]

Had access to a shop w/ a tire machine and a sandblaster yesterday.
Took 3 wheels over, dismounted, sandblasted the rims, primed/painted, then remounted the tires,new valve stems.
It was a real nice day, so later in the, I took the road wheels off the Medallion and put those 3 on.
Have more rims to do when I can get the shop again.

So it took me 35/40 minutes to swap out 3 tires w/ my lil 1.5 ton floor jack and bad CRAPCAR crews could do it in 20 sec or less

[Dippy.org]

[Ice Cold]

Have a little more shop time, so I took over one my snows for a dismount/ sandblasting.
I was shocked when I pulled the tire and it was a 15x5.5 instead of a 7.
Even more SHOCKED when I called a wrecker about one and he said $50

I searched my garage high and low and found only one and it was atleast straight, but super ugly.
Even the sandblaster can't hide that ugly.
Painting it now, see how it looks.
Just have 1st coat of prime so far.

[Diplomatic Immunity]

Had access to a shop w/ a tire machine and a sandblaster yesterday.
Took 3 wheels over, dismounted, sandblasted the rims, primed/painted, then remounted the tires,new valve stems.
It was a real nice day, so later in the, I took the road wheels off the Medallion and put those 3 on.
Have more rims to do when I can get the shop again.

So it took me 35/40 minutes to swap out 3 tires w/ my lil 1.5 ton floor jack and bad CRAPCAR crews could do it in 20 sec or less

I think my personal best is 4 tires mounted and balanced in about ten minutes but that was on a car on a hoist.

[Ice Cold]

A hoist and impact gun is a picnic.
A 1.5 ton floor jack, hand tools and a driveway is another.

Gotta do another 2 wheel swap when I get this one painted and dried a bit.

Cheaping out instead of having a tire shop do the labour.

[Ice Cold]

Another 6 hrs of M puttering
Got that rim painted, mounted, and on the car.
4 gloss black 15x7 reg rims and good tires.
That part is ready for the forseen snow

While i was at it I painted the front licence plate bracket.
Looks much better than the old rusty one.

A certain timekiller is waiting for paint to dry

[Ice Cold]

Got the Medallion plated and insured today.
Since I only can drive one car at a time, having more than
2 cars insured at the same time is a waste of $.

Took out the nice 79 dashbezel to keep it nice and replaced it with
a custom F/A one.
Taped up the inside chrome on the 2 large pods, a strip above
the gear selector and both vents and hit it with silver/grey texured paint.
Added a old steering wheel black penestar, a woodgrain dummy switch, and a 'ejection seat' switch.
Came out pretty good.
I'll have to get pics posted.

[spike]

 

 

[Diplomatic Immunity]

Yeah this week I will also try for some free time  in the shop. got a buttload of winterizing chores to do on the dippy and the WifeyCruiser.
Wife told me the exhaust was rattling in the wind so I took a look while I did the oil change. not the exhaust, the empty spare tire carrier was the culprit, yea I get to go scrounge the junkyard for a wheel with good meat on it.

also got to throw some snow tires on rims for the dippy and fill a couple of old tubes with sand and toss em in the trunk for some rear weight.

[Ice Cold]

 

My HP camera freezes up my computer but my $5.99 camera works fine on the computer.

[spike]

Yeah this week I will also try for some free time  in the shop. got a buttload of winterizing chores to do on the dippy and the WifeyCruiser.
Wife told me the exhaust was rattling in the wind so I took a look while I did the oil change. not the exhaust, the empty spare tire carrier was the culprit, yea I get to go scrounge the junkyard for a wheel with good meat on it.

also got to throw some snow tires on rims for the dippy and fill a couple of old tubes with sand and toss em in the trunk for some rear weight.

just went to menards toay and picked up two 70# tubes of sand for like $7

[Diplomatic Immunity]

Yeah this week I will also try for some free time  in the shop. got a buttload of winterizing chores to do on the dippy and the WifeyCruiser.
Wife told me the exhaust was rattling in the wind so I took a look while I did the oil change. not the exhaust, the empty spare tire carrier was the culprit, yea I get to go scrounge the junkyard for a wheel with good meat on it.

also got to throw some snow tires on rims for the dippy and fill a couple of old tubes with sand and toss em in the trunk for some rear weight.

just went to menards toay and picked up two 70# tubes of sand for like $7

Yeah but I already got the tubes and the county shop is just down the road there's a big mountain of sand there, cost to me $0.00. 
Tried to go without last year but with the dakota leafs in the back she sits a little higher and it kinda lightened it up back there a little too much.

[Ice Cold]

Did a oil change/breather/pcv/air filter on the Medallion.
Started out cheap, oil was 1/2 price, I had the rest of the stuff including new Mopar oil filter.
Then found out my battery was a turd

I had the door open for @ half and hr and I had a flat battery.
Hadda change that out.
Double checked the alternator and it's fine.