What did you do today?

[adsm08 4,696]

Today at work our youngest tech (17yo) called me old. So I picked up a piece of pipe I keep around for various things, bent over, pretended to use is as a cane, put on my best old man voice, told him "In my day we respected our elder", then whacked him in the head.

[kpinnc 18,674]

2 hours ago, adsm08 said:

She's about 8 years late to that party.

 

I typically believe that the designs in service around 2010 were generally the last good ones.

 

Well I was specifically referring to the models we have now. My Tacoma is a 2011, and they were the same until 2015, and the Tundra was good until 2017. 

[adsm08 4,696]

15 minutes ago, kpinnc said:

 

Well I was specifically referring to the models we have now. My Tacoma is a 2011, and they were the same until 2015, and the Tundra was good until 2017. 

Yeah, that's kinda the same basic idea. Like I would buy an Explorer all the way out to 2019, because it's basically an 07 Edge with EPAS and a longer wheel base. 

[Blue Chips 785]

I'm still messing about with a pile of connecting rods, trying to come up with the best possible set of six for the machine shop to rework to what I hope will be better-than-new condition. I have a few more coming soon.

 

Today I finished reassembling two sections of the my M37's transfer case. It took several shim adjustments per the procedure in the manual to come up with the proper preload on the tapered roller bearing sets. With the companion flange nut torqued to 140-160 ft-lb the preload should be between 15 and 30 in-lb (without the seal in place). I managed to adjust them both to exactly 24 in-lbs, figuring that since they are new bearings, I'd go just a bit above the mid-point, but still well within the target range, to allow for some slight break-in (and I corrected an obvious mistake in the manual while I was at it ).