What did you do today?

[adsm08 4,712]

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 18,694]

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 4,712]

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 793]

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 ).

 

 

 

 

[Beap52 2,329]

Baby-sat the three yahoos.  Their mom was having surgery, Her husband and his mother-in-law were going to be at the hospital. 

 

The girl grandchild mowed the yard--under my and the youngest boy grandchild's close observation.

 

The oldest did his best to stay out of work.

 

Got smiles and comments at Dairy Queen during lunch from other patrons and had to check out the blacksnake (alive and irritated)  on the parking lot.  I assume fell out of someone's vehicle or bale of hay? 

[peter lena 9,923]

@Beap52  being a grandparent is a very  special  assignment , all of mine now in their 20,s , back and forth  exchanges , are  regularly , very solid , love learning  grandmas  cooking  secrets , always end with a solid hug , grampa , pete   

[Blue Chips 793]

I zinc plated a few more of my Dodge M37 parts yesterday.

 

Before:

 

 

After:

 

 

Set up the bearings for the transfer case idler gear:

 

 

Made an arbor tool on the lathe this morning, which will be used to guide the transfer case idler gear shaft into the case and through the bearings and shims, while keeping the shaft straight relative to the case and preventing the shaft from catching on and damaging the adjustment shims as it passes through the gear.

 

 

 

[adsm08 4,712]

All of yesterday after lunch and three hours of my morning so far today have been spent on a software update recall on a Bronco. 

 

It's not hard, and I can get paid up to 7 hours for it, but it's very boring because I have to update the same three moduels over and over until there are no more updates, and it's very little interaction from me, but I can't ever leave it for more than 10 minutes at a time because if it does require me to do something, which is at least every 10 minutes, it won't move on without me.

[ebinmaine 79,362]

12 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

All of yesterday after lunch and three hours of my morning so far today have been spent on a software update recall on a Bronco. 

 

It's not hard, and I can get paid up to 7 hours for it, but it's very boring because I have to update the same three moduels over and over until there are no more updates, and it's very little interaction from me, but I can't ever leave it for more than 10 minutes at a time because if it does require me to do something, which is at least every 10 minutes, it won't move on without me.

 

 

Several of our Freightliners have been through similar.  

[adsm08 4,712]

2 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

Several of our Freightliners have been through similar.  

 

Ain't technology great?

 

My Ranger never had issues like this.

[cleat 8,992]

16 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

All of yesterday after lunch and three hours of my morning so far today have been spent on a software update recall on a Bronco. 

 

It's not hard, and I can get paid up to 7 hours for it, but it's very boring because I have to update the same three moduels over and over until there are no more updates, and it's very little interaction from me, but I can't ever leave it for more than 10 minutes at a time because if it does require me to do something, which is at least every 10 minutes, it won't move on without me.

 

My 2020 F150 is like that but my wife's 2025 Explorer just does it on it's own overnight.

 

 

[adsm08 4,712]

59 minutes ago, cleat said:

 

My 2020 F150 is like that but my wife's 2025 Explorer just does it on it's own overnight.

 

 

 

This one is not easy to do as an OTA update because it requires multiple rounds (4 so far) of updates to the module that handles the over the air updates. 

[Handy Don 16,817]

2 hours ago, adsm08 said:

Ain't technology great?

My Ranger never had issues like this.

My car just completed an update yesterday. Ninety minutes, but over-the-air and unattended. (It did disable the car for the 90 minutes, though!)

In a past life, my team deployed software to financial transaction terminals globally--always a fraught event!

[Handy Don 16,817]

21 hours ago, Blue Chips said:

Assembly tools are underrated because they are uncommon outside of production lines.

A couple years ago @ri702bill made me a manufacturer-spec tool for pressing in the bearings and seals during my gear mowing deck rebuild. Worked so well I was a bit disappointed at how quickly I finished the job!

[Handy Don 16,817]

3 hours ago, adsm08 said:

This one is not easy to do as an OTA update because it requires multiple rounds (4 so far) of updates to the module that handles the over the air updates. 

Yeah. It’s a different job when the tools themselves need the work, isn’t it? Especially true if a series of upgrades is incremental and prior-state-dependent, which your case seems to be.