Wrapping up the semester

Under the hood of Jake's Dodge Caravan.

Taking apart Jake's Power steering pump and there's the alternator.

New pump and pulley.

We need the housing off the old pump for the new one.

The housing is dented and won't hold a good seal.

Jake got some sealant from NAPA to make sure it wouldn't leak.

Installing the new pulley onto the pump.

Used the hoist to flip a transmission over and move it to its proper place.

Failure Analysis I and II

Here is also the tightening sequence for those 3 trucks along with any relevant technical service bulletins.

Failure analysis and oil change of "Frankentruck".

Someone finally told Ryan to pull up his pants.

Matt is wiping out the oil drain pan before we use it.

Frankentruck has an oil , air, coolant, coalescing, and fuel filter.

Useful message on the air filter housing.

Old filter...yucky.

Engine Oil Change sheet

Here are some pictures of me tapping a few holes that derrick drilled. We needed to have a 3/8" tap done so we could bolt down the casters into this stand for project Frankenstein. Derrick cleaned up the "welds" done by Eric.

Also sharpened a drill bit last week. You want the cutting edge to be higher than the following edge so it bites into the metal. If it isn't then you have a good chance of one only one drill bit edge cutting. You also want your drill bit to be centered and you can tell very quickly whether or not you've sharpened the bit properly. It literally won't cut if you don't. Some pictures of it are coming. 

Tapping a hole for the bolts for a caster. 

Fresh after a weld.

Installing the casters for Frankentruck's stand.

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Lifting Exercise... and no it's not a workout video.

There were a few main points I took away from this exercise. The first one was that we really needed to be able to estimate the weight of something for a "worst case" scenario. "Hope for the best and plan for the worst". Second was the minor details with the rigging gear itself. With chain you need to make sure the weld is facing outward when engaged by the rigging hook. With rope you need to make sure that it's padded where it rubs against what you're lifting. That way there isn't extra stress on that part of the rope. Obviously with any of them you want both sides to be the same length for stability.

Rope is handy for protecting whatever you're lifting from getting scratched. Chain on the other hand is what you use on an ugly POS that you aren't very concerned about scuffing up the paint job on. 

More pictures are coming.

Handy tool for leveling an engine or manipulating it to where you need it to be.

This is the ugly one that chain would be fine to use on.