What did you do to your rig today?

[Adam]

I lost a brake line on the rear end too. Granted mine is 20 years old.

[Nd4SpdSe]

Been friggin' busy....

Been working on my one-man RTT installer since we need it next weekend for a camping-wedding. Just some 2x4's and some hindges. Should do the job, but it's about 70% complete and I can't finish it until next week...

My replacement HID kit came in last week, but no time to install it...

My 2.75 to 3" adapter came in (finally) for my snorkel Friday. That probably wont be touched for a few weeks.

Did take the truck to the drive-in Sunday night, watched How To Train Your Dragon 2 and X-Men; Days of Future Past (in french :S)

Truck got dropped off Monday night (since it was convinient and Tuesday is a Holiday, St-Jean, in Quebec) to get my brush guard and bumper adjusted as I would like it. Also fix my broken sway bar mount and asked to make some small skids for the forward leaf spring hangers. Was always an idea since I found it could of been angled well for a better transition to the frame just in case.

I worked as the guard/duty desk for our bulding at work (rotation between the units since they cut the civy staff for budget reasons), so for a week with no computer and just sitting at a desk, I worked on the designs for my level fold down receiver spare tire carrier. I figured it would be best to get my ideas down on paper since to try to describe it's functionality to the fab guys, and in french, I could see many issues in translation or comprehension. I drew out a scale plan in the up, mid and down position and actually pre-emptively bought a set of crayons (gotta be like 20 years since I've used some) to draw each part and the system in 3D as the best I can. It was fun to get back to doing something so simple, out of pleasure and with no rush... The reason for dropping off the truck Monday night rather the truck like Wednesday early morning and leaving the keys in the box, so I could show them the designs. No rush on to get it done. I'd like to have it by the end of summer, but I figured I could leave the designs with them to look over to make sure it's actually feasible liike design and idea. They were, I would say, impressively speachless with what I had brought them. He like's the universal design of it and will put it in his 3D program to see if it all pans out. So I'm anxious and curious on seeing that idea realised.

I bought the set of Desert Runners from Davcos. I looking at picking them up while passing through this weekend. And hopefully my mountain bike and bike rack

On that note, I'll part of the staff for the Run 1000 Rally. Leaving Quebec Friday morning, with a rest in Cornwall to stop in Toronto for the night. Saturday it's a trip to Cayuya for the Toronto Motorsports Park in the morning than to the Falls in the afternoon, and to rest in London for the evening. Sunday it's leaving London to head to Mont Tremblant for the last stop of the rally. I'll be in the staff Toyota Sienna.

Last week I fixed the drivers side door wiring harness of a co-worker's Saturn. Over a dozen of the wires has to be repaired because of issues where the shielding was dried and cracking; wires corroded and broken. I still need to find some to do his tie rods. Tonight I need to install a brake controller in my cousin's supercharged B16 CRX to be can pull a tent-trailer for his honeymoon trip after the wedding on the 12th...

Ans have a week offthe 3rd week of July, so I plan to come home to Ontario for that week.

[PiDGE]

Not a whole lot. Thought about slammin some skids on though

[Bow_Tied]

Just some little things in recent history.... installed an underhood light, changed sunvisors and add an OE under dash panel that had 2 12V outlets and wired 'em in. Nice to have extra power ports for the electronic devices. Now I can drive and text on 3 different devices while they are charging.

[SlaveX]

Not a whole lot. Thought about slammin some skids on though

Now we're talking!

Although before Greg's post I thought I opened somebody's diary by accident...

[Miner]

Changed the plugs in the Titan last Sunday. Probably the easiest "V" configuration I've worked on for this job. Everything is accessible and you can see what you're doing. Replaced NGK V-Powers with Bosch Iridiums. The V-Powers had a little under 70,000km on them and were visually out of spec from the electrode wearing out, I think the original NGK double platinums were in better shape with 160,000km. I installed the new plugs with a sparing amount of copper high temp never seize, I'm not sure if that is the right thing to do as I've read very polarized opinions on never seize for spark plugs.

After the install that trucks feels and sounds smoother. Also we burned ~2/3rds the fuel hauling the trailer the 100km back from my dad's farm than it normally takes, and the truck felt considerably stronger in the hills on the 401. I might run some Cipher logs this weekend and see if the 0-60 has improved compared to last year.

[Miner]

Replaced the torn exhaust bellows, lubricated and checked out the boat and trailer. Up until today I didn't know keyed anti theft nuts existed for anything but wheels. They have them for out drives too...for f-sakes.

[Morpheus]

Put new shoes on the Rogue today... does that count?

[Scotto]

No.


Sent from my iThingy.

[Morpheus]

No.

but it's got AWD.......

[medic]

sold the X

[Bow_Tied]

Congrats medic. Hopefully the new owner will say hello here.

[medic]

The new owner will get a CNTC decal with the truck.

On another note, I found a handful of SOXC and NTC decals when cleaning the truck. Ahhh the memories.

[Pezzy]

Vintage!

[Jayman]

The new owner will get a CNTC decal with the truck.

On another note, I found a handful of SOXC and NTC decals when cleaning the truck. Ahhh the memories.

I still have my original SOXC stickers on the X. They are actually in better shape then my "Big White Dot" stickers, which are faded CNTC stickers where the red maple leaf is now just a ghosting of it's former self, leaving nothing but a big white circle.

[Nd4SpdSe]

The truck is in the shop for a broken exhaust pipe that split on Sunday, the one coming off the passenger header, which sucks because that the entire system is about 3 years old at most. A local exhaust specialist shop attributes it to the fact that the hangers of rear section of the exhaust/muffer are basically solid, and it's that that's caused it to break/crack, and even if they fix it, it would happen again. It sucks cause too many people have touched my exhaust system over the last few years.....

1) A local exhaust specialist in Niagara did a cat-back 2.5" exhaust about 3.5 years ago. I had a leak, the original muffler was done, so it was all replaced.
2) Over 2 years ago, we installed my headers.
3) Last spring, when they did my suspension, they chopped my exhaust to clear the modified crossmember, and ran it straight, removing the spare tire and it not being able to go back to it's original location.
4) When I went home for my summer vacation, I got my mechanic to fix their modification so I can put my spare back under the truck. He had also pointed out the muffler was split, possible from the modification, so a new muffler was put in. The pretty much solid mounts were put in by him.
5) Now repairing a cracked pipe, and replacing the exhaust mounts with softer ones...

I also seen that the lower rad mount, or the horizontal metal piece that the rad sits on is rusted and cracked through on both sides...

[Adam]

My friend's 03 X has the same problem with the rad support. His is nearly totally gone. I think we are going to weld something in and drill new holes for the rad, as replacing the rad support looks like a big pain with all those spot welds.

[Jayman]

Same thing happened on my Maxima. Lower sub frame rotted right out. Nein gut!

[Jibber]

Replaced rear rotors and pads, removed C10 leafs and installed C30's. Replaced rear shocks. Inspected rear diff and changed fluid.

On to the front end tomorrow...

[PiDGE]

Cleaned the interior after a few long trips. Nice to see the floor again