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Good Morning All

Gota see Dermatologist for 3 month check up after getting Basil Cell removed. I know what he/she is going say
Sunscreen ----I do
You have alot of brown spots ---I know
Wear a hat --- I do

Have a nice day everyone

 

Used to laugh at my dad for wearing long sleeves, long pants a hat and sunscreen at the beach.

Now I get it

 

I do too.
On the water since I was a kid and worked outside since I was 17.
I see the skin doc yearly and no issues...yet.

 

Once a year for me too! So far so good for me as well.

 

So the taco noise saga continues.
So got the ok to do the needle bearing in the front diff.
190,000 miles.
Yeup this is going to be fun.
So trying to pull the bearing out and the tool explodes.
Sending puller pieces into the diff
Great.
Both fill and drain plugs seized.
More great.
So look inside and the bearing cage has exploded
Even more great.
So no tool
No way to get in the diff.
So a few tricks and I get the diff plugs out.
Partial flush and start pulling the cage and counting needle bearing.
So by working the cage and magnet I'm able to count and recover all the needle bearings
And puller parts.
So now to get the cage housing off.
By using really worn cutting wheels I was able to slice a slot in the housing on the inside to relieve pressure and remove the rest of the bearing.

Flush the diff and install new bearing.

Road test and it's quiet.

Stuff like this the cust will never know but I saved him over 3000 dollars.
Self satisfaction is the only thing that keeps me going and I'm losing the ability to
have that mean anything also.

Im sure he will bitch about something about the job..

 

Nice!sounds like alot of mechanical experience and knowhow.nice post..

 

But we know, care, and appreciate you.

I sure hope not.

 

Tired, catch ya'll laterz.

 

Got back from dermatologist. He did 3 biopsies, one on chest, 2 on top of head. He did tell me I had a nice farmer tan.

Just to let people know to get things checked out before they get serious.

 

I am duly impressed! Good job! Some nights I save the hospital more money than they’ll ever know. My manager manages to never be impressed! Oh well the pay is good and I can pretty much get as much time off as I want (almost).

Somewhere in Illinois. Headed south over 130 miles and quick math says the Taco is getting 13.5 MPG


Ummm Tundra got just under 10 MPG

 

Mike it’s to bad you couldn’t supply photos of all the important steps that were taken to do a Unique job like this one. I bet the customer would then better understand what goes on behind the scenes, and would appreciate the patience’s and your skill set that’s involved in a repair such as this one. Kudos for doing a professional and proper job

 

Takes to much time.
All cust think about is the money he pissed out. Not what I saved him
TY anyway

 

Even UBER ?

 

Dogs and cats come first.

 

I understand,
When flushing the front diff is brake cleaner a good way to go?

 

My deepest sympathy

 

Bk clean, solvent, ( water, pee, gas, Pepsi,,,,, JK) I like using anything that will evaporate
and not have to worry about flushing the stuff I flush it with..

 

Afternoon Everyone !!!

Busy Morning so far and power here going off and on with Nasty T storms rolling thru . We're under a Flash flood watch that was earlier a Flash flood warning . These storms are producing very heavy rainfall

Here's the latest weather alert and the NWS has also been issuing Weather Warnings constantly on the TV since last night


https://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=b679b4d2ad89245e&hl=en&gl=US&source=wweather

 

Do any of them understand that the age of the vehicle has alot to do with it?

 

More Severe weather warnings for my area ...

https://m.accuweather.com/en/us/hesperia-ca/92345/weather-warnings/342422