What did you fix on your daily, today?

[Midnightmoon]

Meanwhile, in Maryland, everyone registers their cars as historic and requires no inspection.

I have my C10 registered as an Antique. PA is very restrictive with those plates (at least on paper). I have all of my other vehicles including my Corvette and Z28 on regular plates just so I can drive them at will.

 

[Grit dog]

I have my C10 registered as an Antique. PA is very restrictive with those plates (at least on paper). I have all of my other vehicles including my Corvette and Z28 on regular plates just so I can drive them at will.

I think all states are similar in their classic car plates.
I’ve never had an issue with driving around wherever with several vehicles in a few states.
I can’t rightly imagine unless you are doing something wrong or pass the same cop every morning that either notices you’re running classic plates on a daily driver junker or is jealous of your rig or knows you and you stole his gf in high school actually giving a ****.
If they did care, I’d be maybe be happy that they didn’t have anything better to do. Would be a nice place to live… lol

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I think all states are similar in their classic car plates.
I’ve never had an issue with driving around wherever with several vehicles in a few states.
I can’t rightly imagine unless you are doing something wrong or pass the same cop every morning that either notices you’re running classic plates on a daily driver junker or is jealous of your rig or knows you and you stole his gf in high school actually giving a ****.
If they did care, I’d be maybe be happy that they didn’t have anything better to do. Would be a nice place to live… lol

In Texas, we've had Antique and Classic plates, for several years (Antique plates actually were started in the early 60s, for Brass Era/Classic/prewar cars). There used to be a 5000 miles per year restrictions on the Antique plates, but that no longer exists. The Classic Truck and Car plates never had a mileage restriction as far as I know...and there is no extra charge for the Classic plates unless you get a personalized inscription.
Classic plates are available for any vehicle 25 years old or older....

 

[Grit dog]

In Texas, we've had Antique and Classic plates, for several years (Antique plates actually were started in the early 60s, for Brass Era/Classic/prewar cars). There used to be a 5000 miles per year restrictions on the Antique plates, but that no longer exists. The Classic Truck and Car plates never had a mileage restriction as far as I know...and there is no extra charge for the Classic plates unless you get a personalized inscription.
Classic plates are available for any vehicle 25 years old or older....

So Texas basically allows unlimited types of use of both Antique and Classic car plates. That’s nice.
The few states I’ve had them have a type of use restriction on the books.
Again, been driving them wherever here in WA. Cops have better things to do and I’d surmise like I said above, the law is there to allow penalties if someone is truly skirting paying for tabs every year by running them on a daily.
And even that would be hard to prove someone was violating it without collecting physical evidence prior to writing a citation.

 

[Sgt Gus]

Lol, not a daily but wanted to post somewhere.
Helped Dad air up tires. It is very difficult for him to do now.
It is hard to give perspective of how huge this thing is and how space shuttle like it is with gadgets. 45' + car they tow behind. He took it to Alaska...

 

[idahovette]

Kudos to your Dad for even getting in that monstrosity.......let alone herding it down the highway!!!

 

[Sgt Gus]

Kudos to your Dad for even getting in that monstrosity.......let alone herding it down the highway!!!

He likes a challenge, Lol. I'll have to write down his Alaska story. On the trip, found out washer/dryer he had installed still had hold down bolts on washer tub (so had to remove and reinstall), replace refrigerator through window, exilary water pump, winshield chips, shower again in Colorado (mouse chewed fitting)...

 

[410 John]

My grandparents ran the gamut on campers. Tiny pop-up to a bigger one. Then a trailer, a huge old Winnie, then a van front camper and ended with a stock width tall van type. Just because it was easy to drive as they got older. Now their both gone.

 

[legopnuematic]

Not on my daily, rather my dads, a 2019 Honda CR-V with a 1.5l turbo engine. About a year ago the dash would go full Christmas tree, warnings that everything has failed. At the time there was two issues, one is my dad had spilled oil when filling it up and soaked and killed the alternator, I replaced it with one he got at Advance Auto, that was junk and failed in a week or so, was able to have a dealer re-replace it with a genuine part under the extended warranty he has for the car. At the time that seemed to satisfy the car enough and did not do the Christmas tree dash again until just a couple weeks ago. Well in my initial research on the Christmas tree dash many forum posts detailing that same issue ended up with the replacement of the fuel injectors. On vehicles only a year or two old, 20-50k miles, not 450k mile beaters. I had mentioned this to dad but he kind of brushed it off and so did I as it was fine until just recently.

So with the scanner hooked up I saw that cylinder 1 and 4 were counting misfires, so I swapped coils 3 and 4, the misfires remained on 4, ruling the coils out, put new plugs in it (it was ready for them anyway, interval is 100K, his is at 107K) that kind of, but not really helped, still counting misfires, but "B misfires" a road test showed them counting up on decel, not under load, the short drive cylinders 1 and 4 had counted over 100 B misfires.

It took some convincing, but I was able to convince dad that it probably, like all the others I've read about, needed injectors. I also had to make clear I was going to only install Honda injectors/parts, and I would not do it with anything else, I just do not trust part stores for that kind of thing, and in reality the cost for the Honda kit was somewhere between $30 more and actually a few hundred potentially less than piecemealing it together using parts stores/rock auto. Got them ordered and received a few days ago and decided to do them today. I also had dad get a 1yr subscription to Mitchell1 diy for the service literature, and I was able to get an intake gasket set in at the Oreilly's by the shop.

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New Honda parts, this part number is one or two revisions from the original numbers the car would have had, there must have been some mfg change/issue or something. 4 new injectors loaded with the seals, 4 new clips, and one new high pressure fuel pipe. The fuel pipe, like the newer LS engines with the DOD/AFM and spider injection lines is a one time use deal, so it needs to be replaced if removed.

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Intake had to come off, throttle body moved aside. This car uses a "low pressure" lift pump in the tank to bring fuel to the high pressure pump that is driven off of the intake cam, sending fuel to the rail, almost like a common rail diesel in a way.

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Took about 3.5hr, the book time was 3, so I guess I did ok for this not being my normal sort of work. Couple of ignorant to get to bolts, but not horrible. Got things buttoned up, codes cleared, fired up and idling good, took it on a road test and no misfires being counted, drives good, no leaks, I'm calling it done and good to go. I sure hope.

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[HotWheelsBurban]

I know Honda in the early 80s, would "revise" the specs on maintenance parts, just often enough for the aftermarket manufacturers to not make them... because the relatively low numbers for each version wouldn't make it cost effective to make them...even on stuff like filters.

 

[goldpack]

Lol, not a daily but wanted to post somewhere.
Helped Dad air up tires. It is very difficult for him to do now.
It is hard to give perspective of how huge this thing is and how space shuttle like it is with gadgets. 45' + car they tow behind. He took it to Alaska...

what do they dingy tow ? ...and that is some garage to put that bus like thing into.

 

[Sgt Gus]

what do they dingy tow ? ...and that is some garage to put that bus like thing into.

Tow a Yukon. Yes the garage is the pad they used with a smaller RV while building the house. Then, sold it to someone who did the same 6 miles down the road. He then build the garage on the slab for new coach. He was a engineer, so everything is planned.

 

[Midnightmoon]

Little more progress

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[84_c10_GMC]

Wasn’t “today” but Sunday, changed radiator, water pump and thermostat on my 2004 Colorado 3.5L i5 I’ve been driving to work. Gauge wouldn’t get up to temp an heat was weak in vehicle. Then radiator popped a seam on top tank. Gauge back to working normal now and good heat inside.

 

[Catbox]

Little more progress

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I do not envy you guys on the east side of the country.
My 1995 Suburban shows zero rust anywhere on it.
The chassis still has black paint on it when I rub the dirt off.
Here is a shot of the rear wheel well a few years ago when we redid the rear end.
I has just repainted the rear and springs for the reinstallation.

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