Revive the Texags Autoboard

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Jrod05
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In reply to chimpanzee • 6:13p, 7/24/17
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Yup. I smiled, I knew it was so high. I called 2 other shops they still quoted over 700. Couldn't believe it honestly. That's why shops get bad names they claimed the rotors had huge gauges in them. Nope they didn't even need to be turned.
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7:59p, 7/24/17
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Isn't dream car week coming up on the velocity channel?
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1:02a, 7/25/17
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This place is dead because it's the same 20 of us on here every day. No new blood per se. Its a common delimma with social media sites and chat rooms. Texags has hit its peak methinks.
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5:16a, 7/25/17
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No football season means less traffic. Everything will be ok. Deep breaths.
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In reply to Dill-Ag13 • 7:23a, 7/25/17
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Dill-Ag13 said:
No football season means less traffic. Everything will be ok. Deep breaths.
You serious?

Some of us don't give a crap about Aggie football.....
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In reply to Jrod05 • 7:32a, 7/25/17
Jrod05 said:
Yup. I smiled, I knew it was so high. I called 2 other shops they still quoted over 700. Couldn't believe it honestly. That's why shops get bad names they claimed the rotors had huge gauges in them. Nope they didn't even need to be turned.
It's one of those information asymmetry things. I think most folks had at least a passing understanding of car repair back when nothing held up for very long. Plenty of folks may only see a shop once or twice while owning a car, so they have no frame of reference.

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In reply to dubi • 7:39a, 7/25/17
dubi said:
Dill-Ag13 said:
No football season means less traffic. Everything will be ok. Deep breaths.
You serious?

Some of us don't give a crap about Aggie football.....



Places like this are a Venn diagram intersection of common interests; sort of weeds out (some of) the folks you don't want to hear from. Specific model forums are great for tech questions, but more general stuff ends up being a reflection of the subculture either of the forum itself, or what that brand/model attracts for whatever reason.



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Dill-Ag13
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In reply to dubi • 9:01a, 7/25/17
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dubi said:
Dill-Ag13 said:
No football season means less traffic. Everything will be ok. Deep breaths.
You serious?

Some of us don't give a crap about Aggie football.....


Oh believe me I don't give a crap either. But the hoi polloi gets drawn in like moths to a flame August-January.
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The Fife
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In reply to dubi • 9:18a, 7/25/17
dubi said:
Dill-Ag13 said:
No football season means less traffic. Everything will be ok. Deep breaths.
You serious?

Some of us don't give a crap about Aggie football.....
I try not to care, after all basically each season since 1998 has been disappointing, but every year I get my hopes up anyway.
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9:34a, 7/25/17
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Not this past weekend but over the past couple of weeks I have done the following on the LJ:

replaced the factory OPDA with the Crown unit
replaced the battery with Duralast AGM
removed the front "milk jugs" and installed the Mopar end caps
replaced a faulty truklite LED headlight
replaced the factory carpet with the full Bedrug setup
installed Iggee front and rear seat covers while the seats were out replacing the carpet

in the very near future I plan to:
paint the fender satin black (they're currently faded grey)
install Spiderwebshade (arrives 7/27)

longer term I'd like to:
replace front and rear bumpers (unsure/thinking LOD)
overhaul the audio system
find a factory hard top (had a terrible experience with Wild Boar)

this is the only pic I've got - the seat covers:

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9:37a, 7/25/17
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Replaced battery in wife's Jetta a few weekends ago. Found that whoever did it last time misplaced or tossed the hold-down clamp, so I had to order a replacement, which I installed last weekend. Who knows how many years that car had been driving around with the 75-ish lbs battery basically being restrained by gravity, the cables, and a little bit of plastic shrouds.
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10:02a, 7/25/17
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SO MANY PARTS TO INSTALL!!!!
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In reply to Agmechanic • 10:05a, 7/25/17
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Agmechanic said:
This place is dead because it's the same 20 of us on here every day. No new blood per se. Its a common delimma with social media sites and chat rooms. Texags has hit its peak methinks.
nah, it's because everyone's boosted trucks are running like a top. no weekend maintenance or repairs needed.
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10:27a, 7/25/17
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Facebook page? Ugh.
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12:27p, 7/25/17
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Got the major portion of my rear bumper done. Still need to add reverse lights, back-up sensors, and trim the diamond plate skirts some. A fair amount of welding to do still but I have other projects that are taking priority so I was just getting it to a point to mount it on the truck and forget about it for a while.





Copied Tough Country's design (sorry Brent) and then made a few modifications to keep the factory hitch receiver and carried the diamond plate skirts around the corners.

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In reply to Agmechanic • 12:56p, 7/25/17
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I've been waiting for a whippersnapper to join and hang around so they could be hazed as I was (admittedly I brought it upon myself).

Started posting in 2010 and believe I'm still the youngest, fckin new army doesn't care about making America fast again.
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1:29p, 7/25/17
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Here's the work I've done on the 2000 Miata. Before I bought this car, I had never changed oil or brake pads. I learned a lot from this board and by bothering posters on here at all times of day and night.


Album:
http://imgur.com/a/KP2NS

Beforeish




After


Interior before:



After



Still a few more things to do.


I think this is everything I have done so far:

Exterior:
Tonneau Cover
New Robbins Top
No more locking lug nuts
Raked Shorty Antenna

Interior:
IL Motorsports Pedal Covers
Replaced Bose with DoubleDIN Nav/Bluetooth head unit
Hardwired Escort Radar Detector
IGGEE Seat Covers
New carpet
New floor mats
2005 center arm rest/console (with cup holders!)
Visor delete/blank replacement (can't see with visors down anyway)
Short shifter

Engine/etc:
Changed fluids
New fuel pump/fuel filter
New Brake Pads
PCV Valve+ Grommet
Valve Cover gasket replaced
Mishimoto 2" Dual Core Aluminum Radiator w/ 33% Coolant 66% distilled water
New Radiator hoses
New Thermostat


What I still want to do:
A few trim pieces like new door cards
New window switch
Figure out WTH is wrong with the A/C.
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The Fife
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1:57p, 7/25/17
You bought it with the interior in pieces?
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In reply to locogringo • 3:15p, 7/25/17
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Nice fab work.
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In reply to 1agswitchin4lanes • 3:47p, 7/25/17
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1agswitchin4lanes said:
Found the refrigerant leak in my crown vic.....
You're in a panther again? Funny, I just bought another one last month--2008 MGM GS with 28,000 mi.
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3:54p, 7/25/17
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I spent the weekend trying to fix broken ex. manifold bolts in a 5.3L ('04 Z71). Three of four broken bolts came out or got drilled/tapped. The tap broke off in the last one, and there's no hand-drilling that thing out. Exhaust still leaked. Got fed up and sold it to Texas Direct yesterday.
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In reply to The Fife • 4:05p, 7/25/17
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Top failed in a rainstorm. Didn't take pics when I stripped the interior, but it wasn't pretty
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In reply to Cage_Stage • 4:15p, 7/25/17
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North Dallas Forty oz. said:
1agswitchin4lanes said:
Found the refrigerant leak in my crown vic.....
You're in a panther again? Funny, I just bought another one last month--2008 MGM GS with 28,000 mi.
Once you have one, you can't get away from them.....

2011 P7E with 65K. Guy was trying to sell on CVN forever and then put it on ebay. I lowballed it and won.

Say I'll be in DFW early next week if you or any other DFW area Auto boarders would like to grab dinner one night.

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4:35p, 7/25/17
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Do you like Town Cars, too?
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In reply to 91AggieLawyer • 4:40p, 7/25/17
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91AggieLawyer said:
Do you like Town Cars, too?
I do!
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In reply to Cage_Stage • 6:04p, 7/25/17
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North Dallas Forty oz. said:
I spent the weekend trying to fix broken ex. manifold bolts in a 5.3L ('04 Z71). Three of four broken bolts came out or got drilled/tapped. The tap broke off in the last one, and there's no hand-drilling that thing out. Exhaust still leaked. Got fed up and sold it to Texas Direct yesterday.


Damn, RIP 5.3

That's an easy job with a welder, just stick a nut over the broken bolt, throw some doodoo weld on the bolt/in the threads and then loosen the nut.
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 6:05p, 7/25/17
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MouthBQ98 said:
Facebook page? Ugh.

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6:29p, 7/25/17
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I see what it does to people. No thanks.
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In reply to 1agswitchin4lanes • 8:38p, 7/25/17
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I'll be down for a dallas auto board meetup next week.
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In reply to Silvy • 8:45p, 7/25/17
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silverado_lover said:
North Dallas Forty oz. said:
I spent the weekend trying to fix broken ex. manifold bolts in a 5.3L ('04 Z71). Three of four broken bolts came out or got drilled/tapped. The tap broke off in the last one, and there's no hand-drilling that thing out. Exhaust still leaked. Got fed up and sold it to Texas Direct yesterday.


Damn, RIP 5.3

That's an easy job with a welder, just stick a nut over the broken bolt, throw some doodoo weld on the bolt/in the threads and then loosen the nut.
Tried that repeatedly on the one that I couldn't get out. I don't know if it was my cheap HF welder, my lack of welding ability, or that this particular bolt was just really seized up, but I had no luck. Strange because the Youtube videos I watched made it seem like the heat from welding would free it up to where it would back out with vice grips or channel locks, even if the nut didn't stick well. That was not the case for me, even after putting a molten cherry on the end of the thing at least a dozen times.
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In reply to 1agswitchin4lanes • 8:52p, 7/25/17
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1agswitchin4lanes said:
91AggieLawyer said:
Do you like Town Cars, too?
I do!
Didn't we pickup a town car for you from the credit union?
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In reply to dubi • 10:02p, 7/25/17
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dubi said:
1agswitchin4lanes said:
91AggieLawyer said:
Do you like Town Cars, too?
I do!
Didn't we pickup a town car for you from the credit union?
You did!

I loved that car.
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12:43a, 7/26/17
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Finally adjusted the passenger headlight down on the 335is at 11p tonight. Still need to do the rear brakes on the F150 along with the plugs and fluid replacements and an AC recharge. Then the Suburban needs the EVAP solenoid replaced, the dash pulled apart to fix the electronic display and the AC recharged.

It's just too damn hot.
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In reply to Cage_Stage • 11:25a, 7/26/17
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Shouldn't have been an issue if everything was setup and working correctly.

The first attempt I made on a broken bolt was using solid wire without any shielding gas, I didn't think the weld needed to be that strong. I kept breaking that weld when trying to loosen the nut.

Finally slapped a flux core spool in the machine and then the bolt came out on the first try.
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In reply to Silvy • 11:33a, 7/26/17
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silverado_lover said:
Shouldn't have been an issue if everything was setup and working correctly.

The first attempt I made on a broken bolt was using solid wire without any shielding gas, I didn't think the weld needed to be that strong. I kept breaking that weld when trying to loosen the nut.

Finally slapped a flux core spool in the machine and then the bolt came out on the first try.
Is this like Back to the Future?
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